Tutankhamun. That one word is enough to conjure up enticing images of Ancient Egypt: dashing chariots, mighty temples, little skiffs sailing on the Ni...
Today we speak to the archeologist and broadcaster Neil Oliver, a figure familiar to millions in the UK. While Oliver's television work has taken him ...
In the sixteenth-century there was nowhere quite like Antwerp. Tolerant, energetic, independent, vibrant; Antwerp sat at the heart of a busy and growi...
Today’s exhilarating episode takes us on a trip to the fifteenth-century, to see one of the greatest of all technological inventions at the moment of ...
One of the world’s great historical novelists takes us back to one of the most dramatic and consequential moments in European history. Bernard Cornwel...
Welcome to Season Five! In this first episode we sit down with one of the world’s great historians. Stephen Greenblatt takes us back to the late sixte...
Hello to one and all! Almost two months has whizzed by since we rounded off our fourth season with Maximilien Robespierre’s execution in Revolutionary...
227 years to the day since Maximilien Robespierre went to the guillotine we investigate the circumstances of his downfall. In this brilliantly analyti...
How does a person reckon with a disturbing episode in their family’s past? For the journalist and historian Alex Renton, this question became acute fi...
According to one critic, the world the novelist Ellen Alpsten conjures in her book The Tsarina's Daughter makes Game of Thrones 'look like a nursery r...