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Back to SearchWhat your hands say about you – according to history
Episode 2474
What do your hands reveal about you? Historian Alison Bashford joins Elinor Evans to explore the extraordinary history of how people have interpreted…
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Thomas More: life of the week
Episode 2473
Thomas More is best remembered as a martyr and a saint, but the circumstances of his death were just one facet of his controversial life. Historian a…
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Going on strike in ancient Rome
Episode 2472
Strikes and unions may seem like modern inventions, but they’ve existed for much longer than many of us realise. Historian Sarah E Bond talks to Jon …
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Magna Carta: king v barons
Episode 2471
In the early 13th century, England was a kingdom under pressure, as the challenges posed by King John’s reign had left the realm restless. By 1215, t…
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Untold LGBTQ stories of the National Trust
Episode 2470
In 1895, when the National Trust was founded, homosexual acts of ‘gross indecency’ were still illegal in Britain. And yet, as Michael Hall reveals in…
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Why Greenwich is the home of time
Episode 2469
Why is a small observatory in south east London so important to the story of how we tell the time? Speaking to Elinor Evans, Emily Akkermans, Curator…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
James Gillray: life of the week
Episode 2468
James Gillray was one of Georgian Britain’s most ruthless satirists, using his prints to mock kings, politicians and generals, turning politics into …
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Churchill and de Gaulle: a strange relationship
Episode 2467
After France fell in 1940, it was Charles de Gaulle who led the Free French forces against Nazi Germany and Vichy France. From the moment he assumed …
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Why Pompeii's tragedy still captivates us today
Episode 2466
When the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by ash spewed out of Vesuvius in AD 79, so too were their inhabitants, frozen in the moment of…
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The United States and Latin America: a turbulent history
Episode 2465
Has the United States always seen Latin America as its ‘backyard’? And when did influence tip into intervention? In this episode, Danny Bird is joine…
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