Shipwrecked in the Arctic: a 16th-century survival story
Journalist Andrea Pitzer discusses her latest book Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, which...
The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know
Shushma Malik discusses some of the most admired and reviled Roman emperors, and considers whether the legends...
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Adventure and archaeology in the golden age of Egyptology
Toby Wilkinson, author of A World Beneath the Sands, gives a lecture on the men and women whose obsession...
Crafting historical weapons for Wolf Hall and The Witcher
From Roman catapults to medieval daggers, Tod of Tod’s Workshop has made it all. The historical weapon-maker...
Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh
Following the discovery of her striking bust in 1912, Nefertiti has become one of the best-known women of ancient...
The women who fought back against Hollywood
Film critic Helen O’Hara talks about her new book Women vs...
Rivalries and romances: couples that shook up history
When it comes to making a mark in the history books, sometimes two heads are better than one. Broadcaster and author...
The Vikings’ global connections
Dr Cat Jarman explores the far-reaching trading networks of the Vikings, from the Baltic sea to Asia Dr Cat...
The space race: everything you wanted to know
Tom Ellis responds to listener questions on the great Cold War rivalry that saw the US and the Soviet Union battle...
Sathnam Sanghera on how modern Britain is shaped by empire
Sathnam Sanghera discusses where we can see the legacy of imperialism in Britain today – from politics and...
The big questions of LGBTQ history
We mark LGBT+ History Month with a panel discussion tackling some of the biggest themes in LGBTQ history ...
Chaos & communism: China’s 1949 revolution
Historian and journalist Graham Hutchings discusses his new book China 1949, which explores the events of a...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway
Fiona Sampson, author of a new biography, Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett...
Ahead of their new BBC One documentary, Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley, historian and broadcaster Lucy...
Fatal accidents and violent injuries in the Middle Ages
Dr Jenna Dittmar, who has been studying medieval skeletons, reveals what her findings can tell us about injuries and...
The Dissolution: everything you wanted to know
Dr Hugh Willmott responds to listener questions on Henry VIII’s suppression of the monasteries in the...
The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders
Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin are often remembered as change-makers who came into the world with...
Sex, romance and rights: women's lives since 1950
Historian Carol Dyhouse talks about her new book, Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen, which explores how...
Victorian pet cemeteries: animals in the afterlife
In the 19th century, devoted pet-owners established Britain’s first pet cemeteries. Dr Eric Tourigny explains...
How slavery fuelled the British empire
Padraic X Scanlan discusses his book Slave Empire: How Slavery Built modern Britain, which examines how slavery...
