Popular history series where the past connects with the present.
Radio 4,·198 episodes
Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.
26 Dec 2017,·28 mins
Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.
01 Aug 2017,·28 mins
Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.
25 Jul 2017,·28 mins
Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.
18 Jul 2017,·28 mins
Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.
11 Jul 2017,·28 mins
Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.
04 Jul 2017,·28 mins
Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.
27 Jun 2017,·28 mins
Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.
20 Jun 2017,·28 mins
Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.
13 Jun 2017,·28 mins
Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.
06 Jun 2017,·28 mins
Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.
20 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.
13 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.
06 Sep 2016,·28 mins
Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.
30 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
23 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.
16 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.
09 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.
02 Aug 2016,·28 mins
Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.
29 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.
22 Mar 2016,·28 mins
Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.
15 Mar 2016,·28 mins
How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914
08 Mar 2016,·28 mins
The latest historical and archaeological research.
01 Mar 2016,·28 mins
The rise and fall of Syria's largest city, Aleppo, and how the Wild West was tamed.
23 Feb 2016,·28 mins
A date with Dan Snow, mummies in Wiltshire, and why the Cold War is hotting up.
16 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Mary Beard's big date, Dad's Army debunked, Black Birmingham on film and library revival.
09 Feb 2016,·28 mins
Helen Castor chairs a Historians' Question Time from the Chalke Valley History Festival.
25 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Tom Holland and guests discuss 1920s shanty towns, radical Warrington and Roman beards.
18 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Helen Castor and guests discuss medieval theatre and Cromwell's navy.
11 Aug 2015,·28 mins
Tom Holland and guests discuss Aethelwold, Edmund and Catholic martyrs.
04 Aug 2015,·28 mins
