-
Sep 1, 2025
Historian Eleanor Barraclough reveals the brutal challenges faced by Norse settlers in Greenland – a Viking world of fragile farms and endless winters
-
Aug 25, 2025
Historian Richard Overy explains how the US firebombing of Japanese cities in 1945 killed more civilians than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined – and why it has been largely...
-
Aug 13, 2025
Physicist Frank Close traces how British science – and fear of a Nazi bomb – lit the fuse for the nuclear age
-
Aug 1, 2025
When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous peoples shows how cultural collisions could end in chaos....
-
Jul 28, 2025
Historian Tom Holland uncovers how politics, myth and maternal ambition collided in the scandalous reign of the Roman emperor Nero
-
Jul 25, 2025
Journalist Caroline Alexander uncovers the stories of those who flew ‘the Hump’ – a little-known Allied supply mission that sent young pilots into uncharted skies – and...
-
Jul 21, 2025
Historian Helen Carr explores the disastrous 14th century, a time when famine, war, pestilence and rebellion took medieval England to the brink of collapse
-
Jul 16, 2025
From tail-wagging agents of battle to divine deities, ancient Mesopotamia’s civilisations saw dogs as more than just pets. Discussing the civilisations’ attitude to their...
-
Jun 25, 2025
Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia blended brutality with statecraft to dominate...
-
Jun 23, 2025
From peaches and lentils to your favourite herb, ancient Mediterranean doctors had strong opinions about what you should (and shouldn’t) eat – and their verdict on some of...
-
Jun 20, 2025
In 1943, Australia tried to send a live platypus across U-boat-infested waters to Britain as a diplomatic gift. The mission, part zoological experiment, part geopolitical theatre,...
-
May 30, 2025
Amazons, werewolves and unnamed traders: historian Owen Rees uncovers the lives hidden at the edges of ancient empires – and explains why they were written out of history
-
May 23, 2025
Explore the story of Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who prevented a potential nuclear catastrophe during the height of the Cold War…
-
Apr 30, 2025
Gordon Cummins was a seemingly ordinary RAF airman. But amid the darkness of blackout-era London he became one of the city’s most vicious killers
-
Apr 9, 2025
A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own kingdom.
