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03/03/2015
How politics was played out through drama at the court of Elizabeth.
10/03/2015
A great knight, the man behind Magna Carta.
17/03/2015
Pirates, wolves and Manchester, the city that shaped world politics.
24/03/2015
Why was Robert Bruce writing letters to Edward II? Plus Europe's first Enigma machine.
07/07/2015
Tom Holland and guests discuss Emperor Carausius, Henry II and Historians for Britain.
14/07/2015
Helen Castor and guests discuss new research on the French Resistance.
21/07/2015
Andrea Wulf and Paul Warde discuss Humboldt, John Muir and the history of sustainability.
28/07/2015
Helen Castor and guests discuss the impact spending cuts have on archaeology.
04/08/2015
Tom Holland and guests discuss Aethelwold, Edmund and Catholic martyrs.
11/08/2015
Helen Castor and guests discuss medieval theatre and Cromwell's navy.
18/08/2015
Tom Holland and guests discuss 1920s shanty towns, radical Warrington and Roman beards.
25/08/2015
Helen Castor chairs a Historians' Question Time from the Chalke Valley History Festival.
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.
16/02/2016
A date with Dan Snow, mummies in Wiltshire, and why the Cold War is hotting up.
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.
01/03/2016
The latest historical and archaeological research.
08/03/2016
How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914
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.
22/03/2016
Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.
29/03/2016
Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.
02/08/2016
Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.
09/08/2016
Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.
16/08/2016
Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.
Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival
Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
30/08/2016
Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.
06/09/2016
Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.
13/09/2016
Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.
20/09/2016
Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.
The English Pearl Harbour
Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.
Zombies in Yorkshire?
Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.
The Stonehenge Tunnel
Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.