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Back to SearchKate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees
Episode 1710
Writer Kate Mosse shares the historical inspirations behind her latest novel, The Ghost Ship, which takes readers across the high seas from 17th-century France and Amsterdam to the Canary Islands. Sp…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
How did medieval people tell the time?
Episode 1709
It would be easy to assume that before the invention of the modern clock, people didn’t have a very sophisticated sense of time – they rose with the sun, and went to bed when it got dark. But, accord…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Lost civilisations of the Mediterranean
Episode 1708
The Mediterranean coastline is strewn with the remnants of lost civilisations. From Tyre and Carthage, to Ravenna, Syracuse and Antioch, Katherine Pangonis revisits the lengthy, and sometimes legenda…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
1980s Britain: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1707
The Mediterranean coastline is strewn with the remnants of lost civilisations. From Tyre and Carthage, to Ravenna, Syracuse and Antioch, Katherine Pangonis revisits the lengthy, and sometimes legenda…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Tom Holland on Rome’s golden age
Episode 1706
As history shows, ruling a vast empire is no mean feat. But in the second century AD the Romans seemed to be able to manage it with relative ease. This was the golden age of Ancient Rome, or “Pax Rom…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Big questions of the Crimean War: into the Valley of Death
Episode 1705
You may be familiar with Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, which famously – though not entirely accurately – describes the events of the 1854 battle of Balaclava, a key clas…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
Why Britain fell in love with the NHS
Episode 1704
July 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of Britain’s National Health Service: an institution which has come to occupy a unique place in British life since its founding in 1948. Speaking to Matt Elton, A…
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From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing
Episode 1703
How do you begin to recreate clothing from the past? What are the most tricky historical fashions to get right? And how important is accuracy in all this? Jane Malcolm-Davies busts some popular myths…
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Life on Britain’s WW1 home front
Episode 1702
What was it like to be a child on Britain’s First World War home front? Just how effective was Britain in producing the mammoth amount of materials required for the war effort? And how exactly did th…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago
The Franco-Prussian war: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1701
The Franco-Prussian War was a short, if bitter conflict. Prussia would emerge as a clear winner in a matter of months – but the consequences of the conflict would play out across the wider world over…
Published on 2 years, 5 months ago