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Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes
Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.
Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history
A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?
Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside
Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.
Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library
Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.
Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking
Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.
The fight to eradicate polio
Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.
Rage Against The Machine
Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.
Tasting the Past
Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.
Acid Attacks
Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.
1968
The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.
