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Back to SearchBig questions of the Crimean War: aftermath and legacy
Episode 1711
From advances in weaponry and warships to the use of telegraphs and photography, the Crimean War produced a whole host of innovations. In the final e…
2 years, 8 months ago
Kate 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-cent…
2 years, 8 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 …
2 years, 8 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 Pa…
2 years, 8 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 Pa…
2 years, 8 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. Th…
2 years, 8 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 …
2 years, 8 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 sin…
2 years, 8 months ago
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 …
2 years, 8 months ago
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 r…
2 years, 8 months ago