Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.
Published on Tuesday, 4th February 2020.
Tom and Iszi meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.
Published on Tuesday, 28th January 2020.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at major milestones in flight in the past millennium.
Published on Tuesday, 21st January 2020.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.
Published on Tuesday, 14th January 2020.
Iszi Lawrence and Tom Holland with the latest research that's Making History.
Published on Tuesday, 7th January 2020.
Published on Tuesday, 31st December 2019.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the roots of nationalism and how it shaped history.
Published on Tuesday, 17th December 2019.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore more historical connections.
Published on Tuesday, 10th December 2019.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages.
Published on Tuesday, 19th February 2019.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at historical aspects of living on the breadline.
Published on Tuesday, 12th February 2019.
Published on Tuesday, 5th February 2019.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history's lines and linkages.
Published on Tuesday, 29th January 2019.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history’s lines and linkages
Published on Tuesday, 22nd January 2019.
Published on Wednesday, 16th January 2019.
Published on Tuesday, 8th January 2019.
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating aspects of history.
Published on Tuesday, 1st January 2019.
Tom Holland asks if St Edmund is under a tennis court and hears about the end of steam.
Published on Tuesday, 24th July 2018.
Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.
Published on Tuesday, 17th July 2018.
Tom Holland takes a back-side view of church architecture.
Published on Tuesday, 10th July 2018.
Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.
Published on Tuesday, 3rd July 2018.
Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.
Published on Tuesday, 26th June 2018.
A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?
Published on Tuesday, 19th June 2018.
Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.
Published on Tuesday, 12th June 2018.
Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.
Published on Tuesday, 5th June 2018.
Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.
Published on Tuesday, 6th February 2018.
Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.
Published on Tuesday, 30th January 2018.
Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd January 2018.
Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.
Published on Tuesday, 16th January 2018.
Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.
Published on Tuesday, 9th January 2018.
The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd January 2018.
Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.
Published on Tuesday, 26th December 2017.
Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.
Published on Tuesday, 1st August 2017.
Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.
Published on Tuesday, 25th July 2017.
Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.
Published on Tuesday, 18th July 2017.
Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.
Published on Tuesday, 11th July 2017.
Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.
Published on Tuesday, 4th July 2017.
Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.
Published on Tuesday, 27th June 2017.
Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.
Published on Tuesday, 20th June 2017.
Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.
Published on Tuesday, 13th June 2017.
Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.
Published on Tuesday, 6th June 2017.
Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2016.
Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.
Published on Tuesday, 13th September 2016.
Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.
Published on Tuesday, 6th September 2016.
Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.
Published on Tuesday, 30th August 2016.
Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
Published on Tuesday, 23rd August 2016.
Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.
Published on Tuesday, 16th August 2016.
Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.
Published on Tuesday, 9th August 2016.
Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.
Published on Tuesday, 2nd August 2016.
Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.
Published on Tuesday, 29th March 2016.
Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.
Published on Tuesday, 22nd March 2016.
Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.
Published on Tuesday, 15th March 2016.
How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914
Published on Tuesday, 8th March 2016.
The latest historical and archaeological research.
Published on Tuesday, 1st March 2016.