Podcast Episodes

Spitfires, Wellingtons and Anything in Between: Pauline Gower and the Barnstorming Women of the ATA | Episode 18

Season 3 Episode 3

The Battle of Britain is at its height. Spitfires and Hurricanes urgently need to get from the factories to the airfields and into the hands of ‘the Few’. Step forward Pauline Gower, a pioneering pil…

Published on 2 years ago

Hall of Fame: The Shepherd Cannot Run

Season 3

Every episode, we ask our guest to nominate someone for the Trapped History Hall of Fame: someone we haven't heard of but really should have.

As it's the holiday season, today we have a twofer for you…

Published on 2 years ago

The Steamship Hajj: How Empire, Fear and Greed Took on Religion | Episode 17

Season 3 Episode 2

In 1880, the SS Jeddah was steaming across the Indian Ocean when her captain abandoned ship. He told his rescuers the 1,000 passengers had mutinied and that the ship had sunk. But this was a lie and …

Published on 2 years ago

Hall of Fame: The Phoenix of America

Season 3

Every episode, we ask our guest to nominate someone for the Trapped History Hall of Fame: someone we haven't heard of but really should have.

Tune in this week to hear Jeremy Corbyn's nomination – the…

Published on 2 years ago

The Radical’s Radical: Charlotte Despard and the Age of Protest | Episode 16

Season 3 Episode 1

She was a super-rich romantic novelist, sister to one of the most famous men in late-Victorian England. And then, out of nowhere, Charlotte Despard suddenly finds her true calling. Over the next 40 y…

Published on 2 years ago

A Delicate and Dangerous Job: Evelyn Dunbar and Female War Art | Episode 15

Season 2 Episode 5

Evelyn Dunbar was the only full-time female war artist in World War II. She recorded an almost exclusively female experience of war, painting Land Girls and members of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Ben Ferencz and the Quest for World Peace | Episode 14

Season 2 Episode 4

He was a war hero but never felt that he was. Ben Ferencz was sickened to the core by his experience of battling through Europe in 1945 – and of uncovering horrific evidence of war crimes, atrocities…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

John La Rose: Black British Identity and the Problem of Black Boy Lane | Episode 13

Season 2 Episode 3

John La Rose is one of the most important – and most overlooked – cultural icons of the last 60 years. Helping to forge a Black British identity, he set up dozens of political, cultural and community…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

The Women who ran The Resistance | Episode 12

Season 2 Episode 2

You're falling through the sky above Belgium after your bomber has been hit. It's August 1941 and you're an RAF front gunner. Who will save you when you land? Who will look after you, hide you, keep …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

The Indian Imperialist | Episode 11

Season 2 Episode 1

Meet Cornelia Sorabji, an Indian woman who broke through barriers – the first woman at an Indian university, the first woman to study law anywhere, the first woman to plead a criminal case in a Briti…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago