Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchServants: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2033
What was it like to be a servant in one of Britain's grand stately homes? How much were domestic staff paid? And what made maids revolt against wearing mopcaps? From daily drudgery to stories of scan…
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Anxieties of the Edwardian age
Episode 2032
The Edwardian era is sometimes regarded as an uneventful stopgap between the cultural and technological innovations of the Victorian period and the seismic shifts brought about by the First World War…
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Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house
Episode 2031
Smashing windows, burning down politicians’ homes and planting bombs in public places. As the suffragette movement progressed, it turned to increasingly extreme methods to further its cause. In episo…
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How the Plantagenets forged the English state
Episode 2030
Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was packed full of high drama, as the Plantagenet monarchs reacted - and adapted - to plague, warfare, uprisings and economic crises. But, according to medieva…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Justinian: life of the week
Episode 2029
Justinian stands tall among the Byzantine rulers, as the 'sleepless emperor' whose religious fervour and legislative zeal saw him rebuild the eastern Roman empire from the ground up... until the 'fou…
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The woman who saved the children
Episode 2028
Eglantyne Jebb was a woman who had no real love of children – but nevertheless worked tirelessly to campaign for their rights. Clare Mulley joins us to discuss the life and work of a pioneering fundr…
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Victorian crime and punishment: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2027
Could children be hanged in Victorian Britain? Were the streets of Dickensian London haunted by organised gangs, or opportunistic pickpockets? What tricks and tools did Victorian police have at their…
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How the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart
Episode 2026
In 1894, French artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of passing military secrets to Germany. These swirling accusations and the subsequent degradation and humiliation suffered by Drey…
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Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse
Episode 2025
The suffragettes’ relationship with the British establishment was fractious to say the least. As well as experiencing police brutality on the streets, the activists were subjected to violent force-fe…
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The surprising lives of ancient women
Episode 2024
Did you know that while Mark Antony was having an affair with Cleopatra, his wife, Fulvia, was fighting a battle on his behalf in Rome? Or that the first named author was a woman? What about the fact…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago