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Back to SearchTelling the story of modern Jerusalem
Episode 2128
First published in 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore's book Jerusalem: The Biography charts life in the city across the course of centuries. Now he's retu…
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The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Henry IV: usurper
Episode 2127
Henry Bolingbroke has gone down in history as the usurper that stole the English crown from the tyrant Richard II – and was later plagued by rebellio…
1 year, 4 months ago
Satan & the sabbath: witchhunting in the Basque Country
Episode 2126
Satanic sabbaths, magic potions and demonic toads – in the early 17th century, the Basque Country was convulsed by strange accusations of supernatura…
1 year, 4 months ago
Florence Nightingale: life of the week
Episode 2125
From her groundbreaking work in nursing and public health reform to her battles against societal expectations and love of animals, Melissa Pritchard …
1 year, 4 months ago
Introducing History's Greatest Conspiracy Theories
Was the moon landing faked? Did Shakespeare actually pen the works he’s credited with? And were the pyramids really built by aliens? In History's Gre…
1 year, 5 months ago
Cocaine: a Victorian sensation
Episode 2124
In a much-publicised race in the 1870s, the most celebrated athlete of his day, the long-distance pedestrian Edward P Weston, admitted that he had ch…
1 year, 5 months ago
Medieval science: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2123
Was the medieval Church really anti-science? Why did one monk hurl himself from an the roof of his abbey tower in the name of experimentation? And wh…
1 year, 5 months ago
Halloween traditions: everything you wanted to know
How did a Catholic religious celebration transform into a spooky, supernatural festivity? Why were turnips and swedes replaced by pumpkins? And what …
1 year, 5 months ago
Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle
Episode 2122
Marie de France, Julian of Norwich, Christine de Pizan and Margery Kempe: what can these four extraordinary female writers reveal about the everyday …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Tyrant, the usurper and the hero | Richard II: tyrant
Episode 2121
Richard II lacked all the qualities a medieval monarch needed, bar one: birthright. Born believing he was God's representative on Earth, the narcissi…
1 year, 5 months ago