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20/09/2016

Helen Castor and guests discuss the Black Death and Victorian tabloids.

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The English Pearl Harbour

Tom Holland on the 350th anniversary of the Medway Raid and Domesday uncovered.

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Zombies in Yorkshire?

Medieval mutilation, whisky smuggling and whether humans are getting older.

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The Stonehenge Tunnel

Digging under Stonehenge, the archaeology of a 1960s estate and China's Belt and Road.

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The Dunkirk Spirit

Dunkirk, Churchill, hermits and the archaeology of play.

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Segregation in wartime Britain

Helen Castor on race in wartime, China's Belt and Road and what makes a good museum.

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Jack Monroe and Rationing in the First World War

Rationing in 1917, Silk Roads, Franklin's last voyage and the history of the duffle coat.

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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall, Iron Age origins of Heathrow Airport and a Saxon Burial mound in Slough.

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Being Gay Before Gay Lib

Helen Castor on homosexuality in Victoria's Britain and the history of the 'gig' economy.

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The Charter of the Forest

Tom Holland on the world's oldest environmental charter and Iron Age Heathrow.

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Who was Saint Stephen?

Saint Stephen, martyrdom and an Edwardian feast of festive football.

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1968

The Prague Spring, a French take on our island story, and historical hangovers.

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Acid Attacks

Actor murdering mania, suffragettes and the martial arts, and Top Town History.

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Tasting the Past

Tom Holland on how Romans fed their legions, and the history of street food.

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Rage Against The Machine

Helen Castor on history's forerunners of today's concerns about housing and technology.

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The fight to eradicate polio

Tom Holland on the Coventry polio epidemic, and when Parliament left Westminster.

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Gambling, 麻豆约拍lessness, Human trafficking

Helen Castor looks back at the gambling crisis of the 18th century.

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Dark tourism, World Cup 1938, The mobile library

Helen Castor presents stories from the past with a bearing on issues today.

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Coastal change: Overfishing and the death of the seaside

Tom Holland discovers when East Coast fishermen were very much a part of Europe.

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Witches, poison and why the hedgehog was unloved in history

A #metoo moment for 17th-century witches?

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Pilgrimage, Overseas cricketers, How the ancients helped build Milton Keynes

Tom Holland presents the programme where the past meets the present.

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The Radio Ballads, Dorothea Lange, Archaeology of the A14

Helen Castor on the photography of Dorothea Lange and the radio ballads of Charles Parker.

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Church Pews and the Medieval Weather Forecast

Tom Holland takes a back-side view of church architecture.

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The Clockwork Orange Town

Helen Castor discusses dystopia in Thamesmead and Trappist ale from Leicestershire.

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The End of Steam. St Edmund. Southall Youth Movement

Tom Holland asks if St Edmund is under a tennis court and hears about the end of steam.

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01/01/2019

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating aspects of history.

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HS2

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages.

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Borders

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages.

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Bloodlines

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history鈥檚 lines and linkages

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Power Lines

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore stories revealed by history's lines and linkages.

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