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Back to SearchSalon Kitty: sex & spying in Nazi Germany
Episode 1696
Salon Kitty was the most notorious brothel in 1930s Berlin. Yet little did its clientele – foreign diplomats and high-ranking army officers among the…
3 years ago
The Luddites: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1695
The Luddites are best remembered for smashing up machinery during the Industrial Revolution. But what did these 19th-century activists actually want …
3 years ago
Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers
Episode 1694
Military history is generally assumed to be a male domain. But according to Sarah Percy, author of Forgotten Warriors, this popular perception ignore…
3 years ago
Before Windrush: Britain’s long relationship with the Caribbean
Episode 1693
Seventy-five years ago, on 22 June 1948, HMT Empire Windrush landed at Tilbury docks. The arrival of the ship is rightly remembered as a landmark mom…
3 years, 1 month ago
Cornwall: a brief history
Episode 1692
What makes Cornwall different from the rest of England? Is it history or geography that sets the area apart? And how have the industries of fishing, …
3 years, 1 month ago
Franco’s Spain: paranoia, conspiracy & antisemitism
Episode 1691
What are the consequences when conspiracy theories, lies, and paranoia are combined with military might? Speaking with Danny Bird, Paul Preston discu…
3 years, 1 month ago
The myth and memory of Waterloo
Episode 1690
Why is Waterloo still a fixture in the story Britain tells about its national history, more than two centuries on from the battle itself? Speaking to…
3 years, 1 month ago
Coffee history: everything you wanted to know
Episode 1689
From Sufi mystics in 16th-century Yemen to hipster baristas in cities across the world today, the history of this caffeinated beverage is a long and …
3 years, 1 month ago
Caesar: Death of a Dictator Trailer
On the Ides of March, 44 BC, the most famous Roman in history was murdered. Julius Caesar’s killers hoped to save the Republic, but in the end they d…
3 years, 1 month ago
Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes
Episode 1688
From the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the global turmoil of 2008, financial crises have wrecked countless lives, businesses and economies. But have l…
3 years, 1 month ago