Making History
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Making History
Popular history series where the past connects with the present.
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London versus the Rest?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues.
Recent political convulsions have revealed a rift between th...
Film
With this year's Oscars imminent, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema.
Hann...
High Flyers
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines.
As the first electric commercial aircraf...
Keeping It In The Family
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues.
As fascination with genea...
Food
After the feast of the festive season comes the pain of the January fast. Well, to help us better understand our relationship with the food we eat, Ma...
Back to the Future
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues.
In this New Year's Eve programme,...
Nationalism
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines.
Today - with a resurgence in nationalism...
The First Draft?
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore the historical connections behind today's issues.
In this programme - The First Draft? After...
Battle Lines
In the last of this series Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the stories around another line in history - battle lines. From the fable of the Nazi...
Bread Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s story-laden lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with food ban...
Supply Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.
This week - Supply Lines
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Power Lines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history's lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.
This...
Bloodlines
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with the imminent arrival...
Borders
With Donald Trump’s Mexican wall back in the news, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to discover how Britain’s borders...
HS2
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories.
As the new HS2 rail link betwee...
01/01/2019
Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating and multi-faceted aspects of history.
The new series of this long-running programme focuses o...
The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement
Tom Holland is joined by the history podcaster and stand-up comedian Iszi Lawrence.
In Britain's recent past, a long hot summer has often coinci...
The Clockwork Orange Town
Helen Castor is joined by Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the University of Reading.
Tom Holland and Dr Matt...
Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast
Tom Holland presents the history programme which connects the past with today.
Enthusiasts for Victorian church architecture are furious that th...
The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14
Helen Castor is joined by Professor Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex.
A new exhibition at the Barbican in London features the photogr...
Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes
Tom Holland is joined in the studio by Dr Marion Bowman from the Open University.
As more and more people become interested in making a pilgrima...
Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history
Helen Castor is joined in the studio by the historian of witchcraft, Professor Owen Davies.
Historian Tom Charlton travels to Manningtree in Nor...
Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside
Tom Holland is joined by Dr Matthew Green for a programme that's all at sea.
Helen Castor is in Great Yarmouth where local people voted overwhel...
Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library
Helen Castor presents the popular history magazine. She's joined by Dr Jane Hamlett from Royal Holloway University of London.
It's 140 years sin...
Gambling, Homelessness, Human trafficking
Helen Castor is joined in the studio by Professor Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex.
As concerns grow about fixed-odds betting machine...
The fight to eradicate polio
Tom Holland and guests highlight histories that help us understand more about the background to some of today's important issues.
Helen Castor v...
Rage Against The Machine
Helen Castor and her guests take us back to moments in the past when social and economic change conspired to produce the historical forerunners of two...
Tasting the Past
Tom Holland and his guests showcase the stories that are making history.
Helen Castor heads for Wales and new scientific research telling us muc...
Acid Attacks
Helen Castor is in the chair for this edition of the long-running history magazine programme. Today, she's joined by the historian of Victorian sex, s...
1968
Tom Holland is joined by Dr Alice Taylor from King's College in London and the historian of pop culture, Travis Elborough.
Helen Castor charts...
Who was Saint Stephen?
Helen Castor is in the chair for a festive edition of the popular history magazine programme. She's joined by Professor Miri Rubin from Queen Mary, Un...
The Charter of the Forest
Tom Holland with the last in the series, exploring new historical research and resonances.
We travel to Durham to examine the world's oldest pie...
Being Gay Before Gay Lib
Helen Castor takes the hot seat for the programme which shows why history matters.
Today, testimony about coming out before the decriminalisatio...
Hadrian's Wall
Tom Holland travels north to mark the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian becoming Emperor, by examining the impact of his biggest legacy in Britain - Hadri...
Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War
Helen Castor is joined by Dr Sam Willis to discuss food shortages in the First World War, Silk Roads, the history of the duffle coat and Franklin's in...
Segregation in wartime Britain
Helen Castor and her guests discuss the history stories that are alive today.
Seventy five years on from the first American bomber raid taking o...
The Dunkirk Spirit
Tom Holland is joined by Dr Dan Todman from Queen Mary University, London and Professor Lucy Robinson at the University of Sussex.
Britain's ret...
The Stonehenge Tunnel
Tom Holland goes behind the headlines to look at the stories making history.
Helen Castor travels to Salisbury Plain to hear more about a growin...
Zombies in Yorkshire?
Helen Castor presents the programme that goes behind the history headlines. Scottish medievalist Fiona Watson and landscape historian Francis Pryor jo...
The English Pearl Harbour
Tom Holland returns with the history magazine that showcases the latest research and demonstrates the relevance of the past in the present day.
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