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Back to SearchThe German Peasants' War: a summer of fire and blood
Episode 2377
The German Peasants' War of 1524-5 was the largest popular uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution. Thousands flocked to its cause as…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Art Deco: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2376
In the interwar period, a movement emerged that brought together architecture, fashion, and even typography that echoed the hopes, anxieties and ambi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
America in Korea: a failed occupation?
Episode 2375
For three quarters of a century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two very different regimes that are bitterly opposed to each other. Bu…
6 months ago
The real Miss Moneypennys: the secret history of Britain's female spies
Episode 2374
From cleaners to codebreakers, women’s contributions to the history of British intelligence have often gone unrecognised and forgotten. But in actual…
6 months ago
Andrew Carnegie: life of the week
Episode 2373
How did a man who crushed unions in Gilded Age America come to see himself as humanity’s benefactor? Speaking to Elinor Evans, historian and biograph…
6 months ago
Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles
Episode 2372
In the 1970s, a global group of feminist activists banded together with one demand: 'wages for housework'. Emily Callaci explores this campaign in he…
6 months ago
Ancient Roman theatre: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2371
Who went to the theatre in ancient Rome – and what kind of spectacle would they have expected to see? And did the drama performed on stage reflect th…
6 months ago
Haiti's first and only king
Episode 2370
Born to an enslaved mother in the British Caribbean in the tumultuous, brutal world of the late 18th century, Henry Christoph's role in the Haitian R…
6 months, 1 week ago
How the Cold War made the modern world
Episode 2369
For most of the latter half of the 20th century, the world was frozen in a standoff. The Cold War era was defined by the ideological fissure between …
6 months, 1 week ago
Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week
Episode 2368
Climbing to the top of Gilded Age society in 19th-century America, socialite Alva Vanderbilt made headlines for being one of the first elite women to…
6 months, 1 week ago