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01/03/2016
The latest historical and archaeological research.
08/03/2016
How sex trafficking and moral panic led to the start of the Women's Police Service in 1914
Helen Castor and guests discuss the stories that are Making History
Was English spoken centuries earlier than people thought? Plus a look at Victorian jokes.
22/03/2016
Terraced houses, the fame of the Flying Scotsman, and why Easter is a moveable feast.
29/03/2016
Nazi memorials, the real Darby and Joan, and the story of the Bolsheviks in Dublin 1916.
02/08/2016
Helen Castor and guests with a new series of the topical history programme.
09/08/2016
Tom Holland and guests with the history that matters to us today.
16/08/2016
Helen Castor discusses Brighton's latest seaside attraction and its links to the past.
Jazz in the Trenches, Woad, Notting Hill Carnival
Tom Holland considers jazz in the trenches and the women behind the Notting Hill Carnival.
30/08/2016
Helen Castor considers if Wren could have helped destroy St Paul's Cathedral.
06/09/2016
Tom Holland discusses divorce and betrayal in 1st-century Yorkshire.
13/09/2016
Tom Holland discusses revolution, fire and a secret war.
20/09/2016
Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.
The English Pearl Harbour
Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.
Zombies in Yorkshire?
Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.
The Stonehenge Tunnel
Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.
The Dunkirk Spirit
Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.
Segregation in wartime Britain
Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.
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.
Hadrian's Wall
Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.
Being Gay Before Gay Lib
Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.
The Charter of the Forest
Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.
Who was Saint Stephen?
Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.
1968
The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.
Acid Attacks
Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.
Tasting the Past
Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.
Rage Against The Machine
Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.
The fight to eradicate polio
Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.
Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking
Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.
Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library
Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.
Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside
Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.