Making History Podcast
Popular history series where the past connects with the present.
Episodes to download
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London versus the Rest?
Tue 4 Feb 2020
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.
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Film
Tue 28 Jan 2020
Tom and Iszi meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.
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High Flyers
Tue 21 Jan 2020
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at major milestones in flight in the past millennium.
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Keeping It In The Family
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.
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Back to the Future
Tue 31 Dec 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the historical connections to today's big issues.
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Nationalism
Tue 17 Dec 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the roots of nationalism and how it shaped history.
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The First Draft?
Tue 10 Dec 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore more historical connections.
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Battle Lines
Tue 19 Feb 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages.
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Bread Lines
Tue 12 Feb 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at historical aspects of living on the breadline.
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Supply Lines
Tue 5 Feb 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages.
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Power Lines
Tue 29 Jan 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history's lines and linkages.
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Bloodlines
Tue 22 Jan 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages
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Borders
Tue 15 Jan 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages.
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HS2
Tue 8 Jan 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages.
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01/01/2019
New Year's Day 2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating aspects of history.
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The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement
Tue 24 Jul 2018
Tom Holland asks if St Edmund is under a tennis court and hears about the end of steam.
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The Clockwork Orange Town
Tue 17 Jul 2018
Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.
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Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast
Tue 10 Jul 2018
Tom Holland takes a back-side view of church architecture.
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The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14
Tue 3 Jul 2018
Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.
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Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.
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Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history
Tue 19 Jun 2018
A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?
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Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside
Tue 12 Jun 2018
Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.
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Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library
Tue 5 Jun 2018
Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.
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Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking
Tue 6 Feb 2018
Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.
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The fight to eradicate polio
Tue 30 Jan 2018
Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.
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Rage Against The Machine
Tue 23 Jan 2018
Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.
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Tasting the Past
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.
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Acid Attacks
Tue 9 Jan 2018
Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.
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