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Back to SearchShopping and snacking: a social history of the high street
Episode 2110
Daring department store stunts. Warming cups of cocoa. Argumentative bartering with butchers. What can revisiting high streets gone by reveal about British social history? Historian Annie Gray takes …
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
1066: the battle for England | 3. Three kings and three battles
Episode 2109
The year 1066 is the most famous in English history. It was marked by not just one, but three major battles, and saw three different men ruling as king of England. Marc Morris, in conversation with D…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
The race to identify all living creatures
Episode 2108
In the 18th century, two men – Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon – both independently took on a mammoth task. They set out to identify, describe and categorise all life on Earth. Speaking to …
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
King John: life of the week
Episode 2107
King John has a terrible reputation. He's best known as the monarch who broke the terms of Magna Carta, lost Normandy to the French and committed numerous acts of unspeakable cruelty. Here, in conver…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Ordinary Vikings: hidden histories of the Nordic world
Episode 2106
We know the Vikings best as brutal, seafaring, pagan raiders – and that’s an important part of their lives and histories. But it’s only one aspect: what about their love lives, experiences of travels…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Tea history: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2105
Chances are, like most of us, you probably enjoy a good cup of tea. But how did the world come to be so obsessed with this now-ubiquitous hot beverage? Where did it originate? How did trading it trig…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Victorian women detectives
Episode 2104
Apprehending thieves in the street. Disguising as housemaids to spy on adulterous husbands. Investigating and exposing child abuse. The exploits of women detectives in the Victorian era were dramatic…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
1066: the battle for England | 2. The power behind the Anglo-Saxon throne
Episode 2103
Harold II – best known as the defeated king who reportedly got an arrow through the eye at the Battle of Hastings – was part of the Godwin family. In this episode, Marc Morris reveals how the Godwins…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
A hidden history of black civil rights
Episode 2102
When we think of American civil rights, we tend to focus on the mid 20th-century and the likes of Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, who fought for the rights of black people in an era of segregat…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Eleanor Roosevelt: life of the week
Episode 2101
Historian and biographer Susan Ware joins Elinor Evans to discuss the life of Eleanor Roosevelt, from her transformative role as First Lady of the United States during her husband Franklin Delano Roo…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago