Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTariffs and trade wars: a history of economic warfare
Episode 2249
Trade wars and tariffs have once again been making headlines in recent weeks, as US president Donald Trump's government adopts combative economic pol…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Funding cuts and culture wars: history behind the headlines
Episode 2248
In the latest episode of our monthly series, Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter discuss recent headlines about funding cuts to history departments in the U…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Why we shouldn't see museum artefacts as 'stolen'
Episode 2247
Debates about whether museum artefacts should be returned to the cultures that made them have made headlines several times in recent years. But histo…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Belle Époque: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2246
Paris's Belle Époque – or 'Beautiful Era' – conjures up images of cafés, can-can dancers and sunny walks along the River Seine. But was life in the F…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Body in the basement: Dr Crippen and the 'crime of the century'
Episode 2245
In 1910, music hall performer Belle Elmore went missing. Her husband Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen claimed Belle had gone to America to visit a dying rela…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Philadelphia gun-runners who supplied the IRA
Episode 2244
In the 1970s, as the Troubles divided Northern Ireland, hundreds of armalite guns were sent to the IRA from across the Atlantic. Reporter Ali Watkins…
1 year ago
Thomas Becket: life of week
Episode 2243
Thomas Becket is probably medieval England's most famous martyr and saint – yet the circumstances of his life are overshadowed by his infamous feud w…
1 year ago
Why Africa's history is more than just the slave trade
Episode 2242
Has our focus on the impact of the transatlantic slave trade blinded us to the diversity and complexity of Africa's past? That's one of the arguments…
1 year ago
The Great Stink: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2241
Why, in the 1850s, was the excrement of thousands of people being deposited straight into the Thames? How lethal were Victorian London's cholera outb…
1 year ago
Handel's Messiah: the scandalous birth of a classical masterpiece
Episode 2240
Even if you're not a fan of classical music, chances are you will have heard Handel's Messiah. Going behind the scenes of its creation, Charles King …
1 year ago