Browse the 19th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the great Dutch painter of Sunflowers and Starry Nights.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 19th-century campaign for greater democracy.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1858 crisis from the flow of sewage into the Thames.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Austen's last complete novel, published after her death.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the events in Jamaica in 1865 and their consequences.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the innovative artist at the heart of French impressionism
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hegel's ideas on the consciousness of freedom.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the prominent Russian anarchist and his idea of Mutual Aid
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the enthusiasm in Britain for abstaining from alcohol.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what happened when world currencies were tied to gold
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hardy's goal of being a great poet and how he succeeded.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Dickens' celebrated story of Scrooge's redemption.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nelson's famous victory and death on 21 October 1805.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Beardsley, Wilde and art for art's sake in the 1890s.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Anne Bronte's novel of a woman's fight for independence.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Charles Booth's landmark survey of London's poor and rich.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Ricardo's argument on free trade after the Napoleonic wars
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss George and Robert Stephenson and the birth of railways.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the celebrated French novelist, her life and work.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Paris under Prussian siege and then under the Commune
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Dostoevsky's novel. The hero thinks he's above the law....
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the science and ideas in HG Wells' story of time travel.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the idea that believers will vanish from the world.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why Napoleon's apparent victory turned to defeat in 1812.
