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Back to SearchCatherine de' Medici: life of the week
Episode 2035
Catherine de' Medici has gone down in history as the sinister 'serpent queen', who had a troop of female spies in her court and may have instigated t…
1 year, 8 months ago
The suffragettes who fell in love
Episode 2034
Evelina Haverfield and Vera Holme, known as Jack, were in love. Not only were they in love, but they also worked together – as suffragette protestors…
1 year, 8 months ago
Servants: 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 weari…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 s…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 increasin…
1 year, 8 months ago
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, uprisi…
1 year, 8 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…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 …
1 year, 8 months ago
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 t…
1 year, 8 months ago
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 subse…
1 year, 8 months ago