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The French Revolution: Everything you need to know
The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know
Stalin: the real victor of WW2
Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of Japan, but were afraid to ask
Everything you ever wanted to know about Nazi Germany, but were afraid to ask
The Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to know
Britain goes to war, part 1
The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know
Everything you ever wanted to know about medieval daily life, but were afraid to ask
Tutankhamun | 1. Unearthing the boy king’s lost tomb
Mao’s Cultural Revolution: everything you wanted to know
The golden age of piracy: everything you wanted to know
The pretenders who threatened Henry VII’s crown
Naked statues, naughty gods & bad wine
Prohibition: everything you wanted to know
Cold war mind games
Ukraine: the WW2 roots of today's conflict
The Persian empire: everything you wanted to know
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Spanish Civil War, but were afraid to ask
1962: London’s big freeze
The Ottoman empire: everything you wanted to know
Bizarre books and macabre manuscripts
Medieval masterclass 1: Imperium 410-750
Fascism in Britain
The Cold War: everything you wanted to know
The dispossession of Native Americans
Medieval myths
Sex lives of medieval people
The Jacobites: everything you wanted to know
The Danelaw: a Viking kingdom in England?
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: everything you wanted to know
How the Persians were written out of history
The Normans: beyond 1066
Food history: everything you wanted to know
Building utopia after WW1
The Crimean War: everything you wanted to know
Suleyman the Magnificent: the 16th-century’s most powerful ruler?
The Jagiellonians: the dynasty that shaped central Europe
Coronavirus: a historical perspective
Why treason was so unforgivable in the Middle Ages
The end of Roman Britain | 1. introduction, and a mystery mosaic
Extinct animals of medieval Britain
The Medici: everything you wanted to know
Magna Carta and the Holocaust
Old English: a quick guide
The Roman emperors: everything you wanted to know
Monarchs, fascists & communists: Romania’s modern history
Formidable dynasties of the Italian Renaissance
The Regency era: everything you wanted to know
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Neanderthals, but were afraid to ask
The Knights Templar: everything you wanted to know
Hitler and Stalin: tyrants at war
The Great Fire of London: everything you wanted to know
Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 1)
Viking genes unravelled
Everything you ever wanted to know about Roman Britain, but were afraid to ask
How the Greeks changed the world
What happened to the Franklin Expedition? The real mystery behind The Terror
Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble
Britain goes to war, part 2
A 1930s ghost hunt
The KGB’s secret war on the west
History’s greatest mysteries: what happened to the Roman Ninth Legion?
The Black Death | 1. Introduction
A guide to the Norse gods
Cary Grant: from humble beginnings to Hollywood icon
Okinawa: the battle and the bomb
Medieval dynasties: how to stay on the throne
The history of atheism: everything you wanted to know
Medieval childhood: everything you wanted to know
The Gothic: from Dracula to The Shining
Shining new light on medieval Europe
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The Dark Ages: a ‘black hole’ in Britain’s history
The CIA: everything you wanted to know
Medieval masterclass 2: Domination 750-1215
Back in the USSR: the Soviet Sixties
Killers of the Flower Moon: The real history
The amazing history of Egypt
Are period dramas damaging history?
How nomads changed the world
Women in black: the surprising history of widows
Censorship: waging war on free speech
The American Revolutionary War: everything you wanted to know
Aboriginal Australians: a modern history
How Hindustan became India
Greek myths: everything you wanted to know
Extraordinary hoaxes of the 18th century
Maoism
At sea with the Vikings
Love in Georgian times
Russian tsars: everything you wanted to know
​​Children of the Norman Conquest
William Blake: “artist or genius, or mystic, or madman”
The quest to find Alexander’s lost city
Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Lord Salisbury
The Highland Clearances: everything you wanted to know
The race for vaccines: lessons from history
Ghosts of Viking London
Medieval Stalingrad: The siege of Calais
WW2 the big questions: final stages of the conflict
Britain’s WW2 home front: everything you wanted to know
At home with the Mongols
Vikings: Valhalla’s real inspirations
Vichy France: everything you wanted to know
Berlin’s tumultuous history
Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj
An ‘ordinary’ Nazi
Victory in the east
An Anglo-Saxon warlord
Searching for freedom after the Holocaust
Hitler’s vengeance
Simon de Montfort and England’s First Revolution
The rise of Hitler
The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know
The Mongols: everything you wanted to know
Paganism: everything you wanted to know
Six wives | 2. Anne Boleyn
Our Winston Churchill obsession
Bloody Sunday: 50 years on
Medieval masterclass 4: Revolution 1348-1527
Stitching together the history of fabric
Unearthing Britain’s prehistoric secrets
Aztecs in their own words
The woman who gave birth to rabbits
Chernobyl: the story of a tragedy
Viking women
Simon Schama on the Romantics
The Princes in the Tower: History’s Greatest Mysteries
Russia’s musical journeys
Rethinking the crusades
Secrets of Lindisfarne
The Habsburgs: everything you wanted to know
Crusader states: everything you wanted to know
Medieval women: everything you wanted to know
Conspiracy: Hitler’s escape to South America
Sabotage, cyberwar & assassination: a history of covert action
Oxford: from wild student parties to the shadow of war
Corruption in the ancient world
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Mexico’s ill-fated Austrian emperor
Ernest Bevin: working-class warrior
MI9’s secret escape missions
Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Stanley Baldwin
Rebuilding Europe after WW2
Victorian pet cemeteries: animals in the afterlife
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Aztecs, but were afraid to ask
Marie Antoinette
Rich vs poor in Regency Britain
The extraordinary life of Sultan Selim I
Saladin: life of the week
Berlin’s turbulent 20th century
The West's attempt to crush Bolshevik Russia
Early Medieval Britain: everything you wanted to know
Pompeii: everything you wanted to know
Medieval masterclass 3: Rebirth 1216-1347
Hadrian’s Wall: everything you wanted to know
In defence of Neville Chamberlain
Medieval popes: everything you wanted to know
WW2 the big questions: the ‘Big Three’
Everything you ever wanted to know about the East India Company, but were afraid to ask
The Congo-Océan railroad’s deadly history
Spain’s tumultuous story
Wiretapping: a secret history
Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history
Assassinations: from the ancient world to JFK
Crime & punishment in Britain: everything you wanted to know
Eugenics: a toxic history
The Viking Great Army: the latest discoveries
The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers
Medieval eels and Englishness
African and Caribbean people in Britain: a 2,000-year history
Westminster Abbey: everything you wanted to know
Ellis Island: everything you wanted to know
The history of Christmas: everything you wanted to know
Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution
Robin Hood: everything you wanted to know
The BBC at 100: political tensions in the 1970s and 80s
Britain’s century of political nightmares
The Sahara: a green and pleasant land
The failings of emancipation
History’s greatest mysteries: was the Trojan War fact or fiction?
Samurai: everything you wanted to know
The Maya: everything you wanted to know
Voices of China
The women killed by Jack the Ripper
Six wives | 5. Catherine Howard
The Great Depression: everything you wanted to know
Roman women: everything you wanted to know
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Hundred Years’ War, but were afraid to ask
How the Allies plucked victory from the jaws of defeat
Clash of cultures: how interpreters bridged the gap between Britain and China
Stalin’s library: inside the mind of a dictator
Yugoslavia: the beginning of the end
Queen Victoria’s spy network
America’s “Roaring Twenties”: everything you wanted to know
Medieval emotions: were they like our own?
Everything you ever wanted to know about the legends of King Arthur, but were afraid to ask
World history in 100 moments
Afghanistan: a history of instability
Madness & misery in Antarctica
Everything you ever wanted to know about Ancient Greece, but were afraid to ask (part 2)
Women fighters of the Jewish resistance
A new take on India’s history
Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo
Revisiting the Kindertransport
The Mayflower
Moving, medieval-style
A history of celebrity
Surviving the Great Plague
The bombing of Dresden
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Scottish Wars of Independence, but were afraid to ask
Rudyard Kipling: life of the week
How spies shaped the modern world
British parliament: everything you wanted to know
Astronomy history: everything you wanted to know
Druids: everything you wanted to know
Life of the Week: Stalin
The dangerous road to the Bastille
WW2 the big questions: the Holocaust
Everyday life in East Germany
Six wives | 1. Catherine of Aragon
Trade unions: everything you wanted to know
Nixon in China: the trip that changed the Cold War
The first Vietnam War
Medieval universities and an unlikely friendship
The Restoration: everything you wanted to know
15 minutes of fame: Kleisthenes, father of Athenian democracy
Measurement: an unexpected history
Witchcraft: everything you wanted to know
The gunpowder plot: everything you wanted to know
Robespierre’s brutal downfall
Mongols vs Mamluks
Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history
Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know
Despatches on dictators: US reporters in 1930s Europe
Who were the Celts?
The Mali empire: everything you wanted to know
A legacy of inequality: the economic impact of empire
The BBC at 100: establishment values in the 1930s
Dracula at 125: what can a vampire tell us about Victorian Britain?
The end of Roman Britain | 2. life in the late imperial age
The end of Roman Britain | 3. a militarised state?
Royal rivals? Medieval England and France’s tempestuous relationship
The Falklands War: everything you wanted to know
Elizabeth I’s greatest rival?
Libraries: a book lover’s history
The Black Death | 6. how the pandemic transformed societies
Fascism: everything you wanted to know
Ancient Greek scientific thinking
Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel
The Age of Sail: everything you wanted to know
Madness, property and power: the strange case of Mary Davies
Sex work: a brief history
Colour: a human history
The Titanic: everything you wanted to know
Women prisoners in 19th-century Ireland
The glamour & danger of Cairo’s 1920s nightlife scene
Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey
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