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What Could Labour Learn From Harold Wilson?
In the week of the Labour Party when polls indicate that the party is likely to form the next government, it seems an opportune moment to examine wha…
3 years, 5 months ago
A Short History of the Bank of England
As the UK's bond market has suffered its biggest fall in decades and the pound has reached its lowest ever price against the US dollar, Dan talks to …
3 years, 5 months ago
Agatha Christie with Lucy Worsley
Agatha Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time and her many detective novels, short stories and plays have gripped and entertained mi…
3 years, 5 months ago
Eleanor of Aquitaine
From an age in which women’s lives were obscured and poorly recorded, one shines brightly from the darkness. Eleanor of Aquitaine - born 900 years ag…
3 years, 6 months ago
Suleyman the Magnificent
The Lion House is a riveting new book from journalist and historian Christopher De Bellaigue, written like a novel that tells the dramatic story of S…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Man Wrongfully Hanged at Cardiff Prison
In September 1952 Mahmood Hussein Mattan became the last to be executed at Cardiff Prison, but Mahmood had in fact been framed by the police and 70 y…
3 years, 6 months ago
Scottish Clans
It is believed clans started to emerge in Scotland around 1100AD and were originally the descendants of kings – if not of demigods from Irish mytholo…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Mayflower Sets Sail
On the 16th of September 1620, The Mayflower set sail from Southampton to the New World. Aboard were 102 passengers determined to reach a new land, e…
3 years, 6 months ago
Queen Victoria's Funeral
The Queen's body has been taken to Westminster Hall in London, where she will lie in state for the public to visit and pay their respects. Over the p…
3 years, 6 months ago
9/11: New York City in the Aftermath
Ray Victor is a lifelong New Yorker and tour guide from Queens. He remembers 11th of September 2001 vividly, when hijacked planes were flown into the…
3 years, 6 months ago