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Making History Episodes

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    The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14

    Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.

  2. Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes

    Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.

  3. Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history

    A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?

  4. Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside

    Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.

  5. Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library

    Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.

  6. Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking

    Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.

  7. The fight to eradicate polio

    Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.

  8. Rage Against The Machine

    Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.

  9. Tasting the Past

    Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.

  10. Acid Attacks

    Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.

  11. 1968

    The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.

  12. Who was Saint Stephen?

    Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.

  13. The Charter of the Forest

    Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.

  14. Being Gay Before Gay Lib

    Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.

  15. Hadrian's Wall

    Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.

  16. Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War

    Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.

  17. Segregation in wartime Britain

    Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.

  18. The Dunkirk Spirit

    Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.

  19. The Stonehenge Tunnel

    Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.

  20. Zombies in Yorkshire?

    Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.

  21. The English Pearl Harbour

    Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.

  22. 20/09/2016

    Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.

  23. 13/09/2016

    Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.

  24. 06/09/2016

    Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.

  25. 30/08/2016

    Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.

  26. Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival

    Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.

  27. 16/08/2016

    Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.

  28. 09/08/2016

    Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.

  29. 02/08/2016

    Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.

  30. 29/03/2016

    Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.

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