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Back to SearchBlack Death: everything you wanted to know
Earlier this week, new comedy drama The Decameron dropped on Netflix. Based on a set of 14th-century tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, it follows the rauc…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Decameron: sex, plague, and a medieval Love Island
Episode 2044
What would you do if your home town was ravaged by plague? Would you lock your doors and hide? Run for the hills? Or accept that the end was nigh and…
1 year, 8 months ago
Toilets through time | 1. Roman latrines
Episode 2043
What was it like to do your business in a Roman communal toilet? In the first episode of our new mini-series, Toilets Through Time, David Musgrove be…
1 year, 8 months ago
Assassinations that shaped US history
Episode 2042
Following the attempted assassination of Donald Trump earlier in July, historian Adam Smith speak to Matt Elton about previous attempts to kill polit…
1 year, 8 months ago
Is democracy doomed? History behind the headlines
Episode 2041
In the latest episode of our monthly series exploring the past behind the present, Hannah Skoda and Rana Mitter are joined by Professor Paul Cartledg…
1 year, 8 months ago
Catherine of Braganza: the Merrie Monarch's forgotten queen
Episode 2040
Picture Charles II's court and you'll probably imagine a riot of excess, filled with drinking, games, and of course, mistresses. The queen by Charles…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Spanish Inquisition: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2039
The era of the Spanish Inquisition is most commonly remembered as a period of widespread fear and paranoia, where communities turned on each other an…
1 year, 8 months ago
1217: the year that (almost) changed English history
Episode 2038
1217 is not one of the most famous years in English history. But with a major French invasion looming and a brutal war that wracked both towns and th…
1 year, 8 months ago
Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished?
Episode 2037
After an escalating campaign of bombing and arson attacks, the suffragette movement was brought to a sudden halt on the outbreak of war in 1914. In t…
1 year, 8 months ago
Kindness & hostility: refugees in wartime Britain
Episode 2036
Before and during the Second World War, Britain provided a safe haven for thousands of people fleeing Nazi persecution. But, as the author Paul Dowsw…
1 year, 8 months ago