A tourist's guide to Shakespeare's London
Discover what it was like to wander the streets of Shakespeare's London. Though large portions of...
A tourist's guide to Shakespeare's London
Discover what it was like to wander the streets of Shakespeare's London. Though large portions of...
Magna Carta: Law, Liberty and Legacy
In this podcast, Julian Harrison discusses Magna Carta's fascinating history and legacy, focusing...
Prisoners of war in the Far East
Prisoners of war in the Far East experienced some of the most horrifying and traumatic conditions...
England's Immigrants between 1330 and 1550
This talk explores a new research database which provides an insight into immigration in England...
Simply a Jacobite woman? The life experience of Lady Nairne
Lady Nairne was a noted Jacobite who played an important part in rousing support for the risings...
Worn out by war: Disabled soldiers and their pensions
How can military records help us to reconstruct and understand the lives of disabled people and...
First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill
Sonia Purnell presents the inspiring but often ignored story of one of the most important women...
Writer of the month: Mike Pitts on 'Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King'
To accompany the publication of his book 'Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the...
Big Data and the gendering of Parliamentary language
Luke Blaxill discusses the ways in which Big Data techniques can introduce quantification into...
England '66: The best of times?
It was a year when England won the World Cup and led the world in all aspects of popular culture,...
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100 years of the WI: The acceptable face of feminism
Professor Maggie Andrews discusses some of the key campaigns and concerns of the Women's...
Writer of the Month: Richard Barnett on Crucial Interventions
In this talk medical historian Richard Barnett explores surgery during the 19th century, from the...
Amiable Warriors: A History of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality
The Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE) is the oldest surviving LGBT organisation in the UK....
Big Ideas: The Future of the Past
This presentation discusses the role that the material and intellectual heritage of a community...
Stalin's Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess
Guy Burgess was a brilliant young Englishman who rose through the ranks of MI5 and MI6 during the...
Shell-Shocked Britain: Understanding the lasting trauma of the First World War
Millions of soldiers were scarred by their experiences in the First World War trenches, but how...
Heidi Thomas: Researching Call the Midwife
Screenwriter Heidi Thomas shares the process of transforming Jennifer Worth's memoirs into the...
Materiality matters: new approaches to medieval wax seal studies
Wax seals have been widely studied in terms of how they look, what they depict and what they...
Magna Carta – what's so 'great' about the charter?
We apologise for the variable sound quality of this podcast.This year is the 800th anniversary of...
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Using the 1939 Register: Recording the UK population before the war
The preparations had been made well in advance. Now Britain was at war, and as the uniformed army...
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