Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes
Episode 1661
Look at a Tudor family portrait, and you’ll often find children depicted like miniature adults, standing confidently alongside their parents in their doublets and dresses. But how far is this an accu…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
What can Richard I tell us about medieval masculinity?
Episode 1660
Was Richard I homosexual, and would it matter if he was? Although he was known to have shared a bed with the King of France, according to Dr Gabrielle Storey, that was part and parcel of being a king…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Britain in the 1990s: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1659
It was the decade that saw the fall of the Soviet Union, the rise of Tony Blair and the landmark Good Friday Agreement. But what was behind the landslide victory of New Labour? How did the death of P…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Everyday life in East Germany
Episode 1658
The story of East Germany has been largely told in the context of Cold War geopolitics. But while the country may have been an ideological battleground, ordinary life there still carried on regardles…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Six wives | 4. Anne of Cleves
Episode 1657
Anne of Cleves is remembered as a comedy anecdote, a figure of mockery who repulsed King Henry VIII on first sight. But her reputation deserves to be rescued from this myth. In episode four of our ne…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Why revolution engulfed 19th-century Europe
Episode 1656
In 1848, a tidal wave of revolution swept across Europe – from Sicily to Paris, Berlin to Vienna. But what sparked this cascade of unrest, and how can we explain its apparent synchronicity? Speaking …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Keeping time: a watchmaker’s history
Episode 1655
Today we take it for granted that we can meet friends at an agreed time, work a set amount of paid hours, or catch a train before it leaves. But so much of the fabric of our modern lives is entirely …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Native Americans: a new history
Episode 1654
For too long, argues Professor Ned Blackhawk, Indigenous people have been marginalised or viewed merely as passive participants in the history of the United States. Speaking to Matt Elton, Ned discus…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
Goths: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1653
What’s the difference between the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths? Why did the Goths have whole settlements devoted to the production of combs? And were these Germanic tribes really responsible for the …
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago
How (and how not) to stage a coronation
Episode 1652
The British monarchy is known for its pomp and pageantry, and a coronation is a big chance to show off. But with so much pressure to get time-honoured traditions right, down the centuries things have…
Published on 2 years, 7 months ago