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Back to SearchDeeds 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…
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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 f…
1 year, 8 months ago
Boudica: life of the week
Episode 2023
How much do we really know about the Iceni warrior leader who rose up against Rome? How close did she come to success? And can we know what she looke…
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How Stalin ran rings round the west
Episode 2022
The wartime alliance between Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt was arguably the most important of the 20th century – and among…
1 year, 8 months ago
British general elections: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2021
While it might seem unimaginable today, there was a time when who you voted for in a general election was a matter of public record - and if you were…
1 year, 8 months ago
Medieval keep fit
Episode 2020
You might think that people in the Middle Ages did not exercise for fun. But that's not so, according to Professor Carole Rawcliffe of the University…
1 year, 9 months ago
Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement
Episode 2019
From eye-catching merchandise and punchy logos to memorable colour-schemes and trouble-making stunts, the suffragettes mastered the art of making a s…
1 year, 9 months ago
A 21st-century Holocaust trial
Episode 2018
In October 2019 Bruno Dey went on trial in Hamburg for his involvement in a horrific crime – 75 years after that crime had been committed. Dey was no…
1 year, 9 months ago
Catherine Parr: life of the week
Episode 2017
She was the most-married wife of England's most-married king, but there was so much more to Catherine Parr. Speaking to Kev Lochun, Tudor historian E…
1 year, 9 months ago
Invisible ink & toad poison: tools of Elizabethan spycraft
Episode 2016
How did spies plot and plant information in Elizabethan England? How easy was it to break open a confidential sealed letter and, if necessary, forge …
1 year, 9 months ago