The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know
Who founded the Mali empire? What impact did Islam have on its trajectory? What were its...
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The BBC at 100: political tensions in the 1970s and 80s
In the latest instalment of our monthly series marking the centenary of the BBC, media historian...
37:09
The end of Roman Britain | 3. a militarised state?
In the third episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove looks at...
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Simon Jenkins considers the enigmatic story of the Celts, and asks whether any such people ever...
32:26
Pioneering women pilots: from ballooning spectacles to flying escapades
Sally Smith considers the contributions made and significant firsts achieved by British women in...
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Discovering a lost royal battleship
Claire Jowitt discusses the discovery of a 17th-century shipwreck off the coast of Norfolk ...
35:44
The Edwardians: everything you wanted to know
In our latest everything you wanted to know episode, Dr John Jacob Woolf answers listener...
35:11
Watergate at 50: the making of an American scandal
Half a century on from the Watergate scandal, Clifford Williamson explores its twists and turns,...
37:33
The end of Roman Britain | 2. life in the late imperial age
In the second episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove...
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In the first episode in our series of conversations with winners of the 2022 Dan David Prize, Dr...
31:57
Reconstructing the body of God
Francesca Stavrakopoulou, author of the Wolfson History Prize shortlisted book God: An Anatomy,...
25:21
Midway: why America won the WW2 naval battle
In June 1942, the US and Japanese navies went head to head over a small atoll in the middle of...
35:19
Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know
Who maintained law and order before the police? When did Britain ban capital punishment –...
01:03:49
Has Britain always looked backwards?
From the “Blitz spirit” invoked in the Covid-19 pandemic, to the 16th-century sense...
27:57
The end of Roman Britain | 1. introduction, and a mystery mosaic
What really happened in Britain as Roman influence waned? Recent research is shaking up our view...
39:05
How the Persians were written out of history
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells Spencer Mizen why Eurocentric depictions of the...
35:16
Shady deals & rigged elections: the changing face of corruption
Professor Mark Knights discusses how ideas about corruption were transformed in Britain and its...
36:29
Plastic surgery: transformed by WW1
The First World War unleashed an unprecedented wave of violence, and medicine struggled to keep...
37:50
Britain’s transformation during the Queen’s lifetime
This week sees Queen Elizabeth II make history as the first ever British monarch to celebrate...
33:49
Professor Caroline Elkins explains how the British empire was sustained by violence for more than...
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