29/07/2014

Tom Holland and his guests discuss honour among 18th century street fighters.

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05/08/2014

Tom Holland and his guests discuss an early example of political image management.

• 28 mins

12/08/2014

Helen Castor chairs Historians' Question Time at the Chalke Valley History Festival.

• 28 mins

03/02/2015

Tom Holland returns with a new series of the programme with a passion for the past.

• 28 mins

10/02/2015

How did the devastation of Dresden 70 years ago create changing and contested histories?

• 28 mins

17/02/2015

Archaeologists and planners do battle over an Iron Age stronghold.

• 28 mins

18th-Century Flying Men

Helen Castor with the programme in which history and historians meet.

• 28 mins

03/03/2015

How politics was played out through drama at the court of Elizabeth.

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10/03/2015

A great knight, the man behind Magna Carta.

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17/03/2015

Pirates, wolves and Manchester, the city that shaped world politics.

• 28 mins

24/03/2015

Why was Robert Bruce writing letters to Edward II? Plus Europe's first Enigma machine.

• 28 mins

07/07/2015

Tom Holland and guests discuss Emperor Carausius, Henry II and Historians for Britain.

• 28 mins

14/07/2015

Helen Castor and guests discuss new research on the French Resistance.

• 28 mins

21/07/2015

Andrea Wulf and Paul Warde discuss Humboldt, John Muir and the history of sustainability.

• 28 mins

28/07/2015

Helen Castor and guests discuss the impact spending cuts have on archaeology.

• 28 mins

04/08/2015

Tom Holland and guests discuss Aethelwold, Edmund and Catholic martyrs.

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11/08/2015

Helen Castor and guests discuss medieval theatre and Cromwell's navy.

• 28 mins

18/08/2015

Tom Holland and guests discuss 1920s shanty towns, radical Warrington and Roman beards.

• 28 mins

25/08/2015

Helen Castor chairs a Historians' Question Time from the Chalke Valley History Festival.

• 28 mins

Tom Holland shares the stories that light up our past

Mary Beard's big date, Dad's Army debunked, Black Birmingham on film and library revival.

• 28 mins

16/02/2016

A date with Dan Snow, mummies in Wiltshire, and why the Cold War is hotting up.

• 28 mins

Tom Holland and guests discuss the stories that are Making History

The rise and fall of Syria's largest city, Aleppo, and how the Wild West was tamed.

• 28 mins

01/03/2016

The latest historical and archaeological research.

• 28 mins

08/03/2016

How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914

• 28 mins

Helen Castor and guests discuss the stories that are Making History

Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.

• 28 mins

22/03/2016

Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.

• 28 mins

29/03/2016

Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.

• 28 mins

02/08/2016

Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.

• 28 mins

09/08/2016

Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.

• 28 mins

16/08/2016

Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.

• 28 mins

Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival

Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.

• 28 mins

30/08/2016

Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.

• 28 mins

06/09/2016

Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.

• 28 mins

13/09/2016

Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.

• 28 mins

20/09/2016

Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.

• 28 mins

The English Pearl Harbour

Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.

• 28 mins

Zombies in Yorkshire?

Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.

• 28 mins

The Stonehenge Tunnel

Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.

• 28 mins

The Dunkirk Spirit

Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.

• 28 mins

Segregation in wartime Britain

Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.

• 28 mins

Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War

Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.

• 28 mins

Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.

• 28 mins

Being Gay Before Gay Lib

Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.

• 28 mins

The Charter of the Forest

Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.

• 28 mins

Who was Saint Stephen?

Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.

• 28 mins

1968

The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.

• 28 mins

Acid Attacks

Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.

• 28 mins

Tasting the Past

Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.

• 28 mins

Rage Against The Machine

Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.

• 28 mins

The fight to eradicate polio

Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.

• 28 mins

Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking

Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.

• 28 mins

Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library

Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.

• 28 mins

Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside

Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.

• 28 mins

Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history

A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?

• 28 mins

Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes

Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.

• 28 mins

The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14

Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.

• 28 mins

Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast

Tom Holland takes a back-side view of church architecture.

• 28 mins

The Clockwork Orange Town

Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.

• 28 mins

The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement

Tom Holland asks if St Edmund is under a tennis court and hears about the end of steam.

• 28 mins

01/01/2019

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating aspects of history.

• 28 mins

HS2

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.

• 28 mins

Borders

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.

• 28 mins

Bloodlines

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages

• 28 mins

Power Lines

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history's lines and linkages.

• 28 mins

Supply Lines

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.

• 28 mins

Bread Lines

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at historical aspects of living on the breadline.

• 28 mins

Battle Lines

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.

• 28 mins

The First Draft?

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore more historical connections.

• 28 mins

Nationalism

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the roots of nationalism and how it shaped history.

• 28 mins

Back to the Future

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.

• 28 mins

Food

Iszi Lawrence and Tom Holland with the latest research that's Making History.

• 28 mins

Keeping It In The Family

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.

• 28 mins

High Flyers

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at major milestones in flight in the past millennium.

• 28 mins

Film

Tom and Iszi meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.

• 28 mins

London versus the Rest?

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.

• 28 mins