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- The rise and fall of Britain’s motor city

Mon, 17 May 2021
1032
- Samurai: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 16 May 2021
1031
- The quest to find Alexander’s lost city

Sat, 15 May 2021
1030
- Katharine Parr: secrets of a Tudor survivor

Fri, 14 May 2021
1029
- Blackface: a brief history

Wed, 12 May 2021
1028
- Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Harold Wilson

Tue, 11 May 2021
1027
- Madness, property and power: the strange case of Mary Davies

Mon, 10 May 2021
1026
- The Vietnam War: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 09 May 2021
1025
- Medieval Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions

Sat, 08 May 2021
1024
- Uncovering the truth about WW2’s Katyn massacre

Thu, 06 May 2021
1023
- The changing shape of slimming clubs

Wed, 05 May 2021
1022
- Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Clement Attlee

Tue, 04 May 2021
1021
- How close to nuclear war did the Cuban Missile Crisis get?

Mon, 03 May 2021
1020
- Prohibition: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 02 May 2021
1019
- The Danelaw: a Viking kingdom in England?

Sat, 01 May 2021
1018
- Britain’s great postwar party

Fri, 30 Apr 2021
1017
- The Peasants’ Revolt: who were the rebels of 1381?

Wed, 28 Apr 2021
1016
- Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Stanley Baldwin

Tue, 27 Apr 2021
1015
- Women fighters of the Jewish resistance

Mon, 26 Apr 2021
1014
- Life in the workhouse: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 25 Apr 2021
1013
- How constitutions changed the world

Sat, 24 Apr 2021
1012
- The pretenders who threatened Henry VII’s crown

Fri, 23 Apr 2021
1011
- Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’?

Wed, 21 Apr 2021
1010
- Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Robert Walpole

Tue, 20 Apr 2021
1009
- Barbarossa: Hitler’s greatest gamble

Mon, 19 Apr 2021
1008
- The Suez Crisis: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 18 Apr 2021
1007
- Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré

Sat, 17 Apr 2021
1006
- Leonardo da Vinci’s private life

Fri, 16 Apr 2021
1005
- The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian England

Wed, 14 Apr 2021
1004
- Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep5: What now?

Tue, 13 Apr 2021
1003
- Dan Jones on 1,000 years of British history

Mon, 12 Apr 2021
1002
- The Maya: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 11 Apr 2021
1001
- Women prisoners in 19th-century Ireland

Sat, 10 Apr 2021
1000
- Stalin: the real victor of WW2

Fri, 09 Apr 2021
999
- Sending the first man into space

Wed, 07 Apr 2021
998
- Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep4: What’s missing?

Tue, 06 Apr 2021
997
- The feminist who waged war on smallpox

Mon, 05 Apr 2021
996
- The Great Fire of London: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 04 Apr 2021
995
- Cleopatra: unpicking myth from reality

Sat, 03 Apr 2021
994
- Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey

Fri, 02 Apr 2021
993
- Bog bodies: what can they teach us?

Wed, 31 Mar 2021
992
- Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep3: What story does the Tapestry tell?

Tue, 30 Mar 2021
991
- 500 years of women’s self-portraits

Mon, 29 Mar 2021
990
- The Byzantine empire: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 28 Mar 2021
989
- Ammonite & the real fossil hunter Mary Anning

Sat, 27 Mar 2021
988
- Tales of Irish emigration

Fri, 26 Mar 2021
987
- The mystery of the vanishing lighthouse keepers

Wed, 24 Mar 2021
986
- Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry ep2: How was the Tapestry created?

Tue, 23 Mar 2021
985
- Hate mail & mutilated horses: Conan Doyle investigates

Mon, 22 Mar 2021
984
- The Elizabethans: everything you wanted to know

Sun, 21 Mar 2021

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