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Hall of Fame: The Master of Memorials
Season 1
Sculptor Ian Wolter accompanied us on a cold and windy day to the mesmerising Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice. The insights of a practising artist …
18 hours ago
Hall of Fame: The First Black Fighter Pilot
Season 1
The RAF pilot Trevor Edwards joined us to marvel at the life and times of Johnny Smythe. But here, he goes back to the very beginning and nominates R…
1 day, 18 hours ago
Hall of Fame: The Singer's Singer
Season 1
Join us as Stephen Bourne unveils his Hall of fame nominee. You may remember, Stephen was our guest on our episode about the forgotten singer who was…
2 days, 18 hours ago
Hall of Fame: The Tenacious Traveller
Season 1
At last, Trapped History's inaugural Hall of Fame nomination is here: Rosemary Brown's nominee from our very first episode.
You may remember that Rose…
3 days, 18 hours ago
The Road to Vinh Linh: The Vietnam War and the Saving Rice Jar
Season 6 Episode 6
Picture a woman of the French Resistance, printing underground papers in her cellar, making bombs at her kitchen table, cycling across her country wi…
1 week, 3 days ago
A Touch of Genius: The Queer Poetry of Amy Levy
Season 6
In today's Hall of Fame, Fiona Keating nominates a queer, Jewish poet and novelist who slipped through the cracks nearly 140 years ago. But late last…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Smoke and Silk: Re-imagining London’s Very First Chinatown
Season 6 Episode 5
As we head into spring, Trapped History takes a brisk wintery walk through the streets of London’s Docklands to seek out the Limehouse Chinatown of t…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Hall of Fame: Beer, Bailiffs and Balls
Season 6
Here's a great Hall of Fame nominee from Christina Wade – and it's another oldie. In 1275, Gillian Pykard told the sheriff's bailiffs in Exeter preci…
1 month ago
Kiss and Tell: The Fabulous Lives of Peg Plunkett, Dublin’s Courtesan Extraordinaire
Season 6 Episode 4
With a name and a story Dickens would have killed for, Peg Plunkett owned Dublin in the 1780s. Surviving a horrific childhood, she escaped to the big…
1 month, 1 week ago
Hall of Fame: Ireland's Pirate Queen
Season 6
Sathnam Sanghera blows the doors off the Hall of Fame today alongside his nominee, the Pirate Queen of Ireland, Grainne – or Grace – O'Malley.
Born in…
1 month, 2 weeks ago