History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 17th-century Czech educator committed to toleration.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the lasting impact of David I, King of Scotland c1084-1153

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of The Declaration of the Rights of Woman, 1791

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the two-million-year span of our most adaptable ancestor.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ancient Indian Sanskrit text the Arthashastra.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great powers of the Late Bronze Age.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and protests in 1919 that shaped modern China.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Europe's largest republic, before its partition in 1772.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the race to build an atom bomb before anyone else in WW2

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of history.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the author of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the upheavals of 1649-60 in the British Isles

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Simon de Montfort's fatal struggle with Henry III's forces

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most influential poets of Rome's Augustan Age.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the French fight against Britain in America and its impact

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great French mathematician behind metrication.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1904-5 clash of Japanese and Russian empires.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars