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In Our Time is now first on BBC Sounds
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Peter Kropotkin
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The Gold Standard
Jan. 20, 2022
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The Hittites
Dec. 23, 2021
52:19
The May Fourth Movement
Dec. 9, 2021
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The Battle of Trafalgar
Dec. 2, 2021
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The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Oct. 14, 2021
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The Manhattan Project
Oct. 7, 2021
48:20
Herodotus
Sept. 23, 2021
52:18
Edward Gibbon
June 17, 2021
52:22
Booth's Life and Labour Survey
June 10, 2021
48:47
The Interregnum
May 27, 2021
52:24
The Second Barons' War
May 6, 2021
56:32
Ovid
April 29, 2021
49:31
The Franco-American Alliance 1778
April 22, 2021
50:51
Pierre-Simon Laplace
April 8, 2021
48:10
The Russo-Japanese War
April 1, 2021
48:51
David Ricardo
March 25, 2021
49:51
Marcus Aurelius
Feb. 25, 2021
52:36
The Plague of Justinian
Jan. 21, 2021
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The Cultural Revolution
Dec. 17, 2020
48:09
The Zong Massacre
Nov. 26, 2020
52:04
Maria Theresa
Oct. 22, 2020
50:37
Cave Art
Sept. 24, 2020
48:01
Pericles
Sept. 17, 2020
48:55
The Covenanters
March 12, 2020
53:49
The Valladolid Debate
Feb. 20, 2020
53:00
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Feb. 13, 2020
51:10
Alcuin
Jan. 30, 2020
56:03
The Siege of Paris 1870-71
Jan. 16, 2020
52:05
Tutankhamun
Dec. 26, 2019
53:14
Coffee
Dec. 12, 2019
55:11
Lawrence of Arabia
Dec. 5, 2019
51:46
Li Shizhen
Nov. 28, 2019
Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem
Nov. 21, 2019
52:59
The Treaty of Limerick
Nov. 7, 2019
52:40
Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow
Sept. 19, 2019
54:00
Doggerland
June 27, 2019
54:02
The Mytilenaean Debate
June 20, 2019
The Inca
June 13, 2019
52:49
President Ulysses S Grant
May 30, 2019
55:12
The Gordon Riots
May 2, 2019
50:19
Nero
April 25, 2019
51:24
The Great Irish Famine
April 4, 2019
57:19
The Danelaw
March 28, 2019
50:06
William Cecil
March 7, 2019
51:23
Antarah ibn Shaddad
Feb. 28, 2019
49:59
Owain Glyndwr
Jan. 31, 2019
The Poor Laws
Dec. 20, 2018
50:18
The Thirty Years War
Dec. 6, 2018
50:35
The Long March
Nov. 29, 2018
50:05
Horace
Nov. 15, 2018
48:57
Marie Antoinette
Nov. 8, 2018
49:07
The Fable of the Bees
Oct. 25, 2018
50:42
Is Shakespeare History? The Romans
Oct. 18, 2018
48:17
Is Shakespeare History? The Plantagenets
Oct. 11, 2018
51:27
The Mexican-American War
June 28, 2018
49:06
Montesquieu
June 14, 2018
Persepolis
June 7, 2018
51:14
Margaret of Anjou
May 24, 2018
50:39
The Emancipation of the Serfs
May 17, 2018
49:54
The Almoravid Empire
May 3, 2018
49:26
Roman Slavery
April 5, 2018
50:40
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
March 22, 2018
The Highland Clearances
March 8, 2018
51:08
Sun Tzu and The Art of War
March 1, 2018
48:23
Frederick Douglass
Feb. 8, 2018
The Siege of Malta, 1565
Jan. 11, 2018
49:52
Thomas Becket
Dec. 14, 2017
52:52
Thebes
Nov. 23, 2017
46:49
The Picts
Nov. 9, 2017
56:45
Picasso's Guernica
Nov. 2, 2017
54:17
The Congress of Vienna
Oct. 19, 2017
Constantine the Great
Oct. 5, 2017
48:24
The American Populists
June 15, 2017
The Battle of Lincoln 1217
May 4, 2017
53:10
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
April 27, 2017
46:34
Roger Bacon
April 20, 2017
50:33
Rosa Luxemburg
April 13, 2017
50:10
The Battle of Salamis
March 23, 2017
50:23
Seneca the Younger
Feb. 23, 2017
51:25
Mary, Queen of Scots
Jan. 19, 2017
Johannes Kepler
Dec. 29, 2016
48:42
The Gin Craze
Dec. 15, 2016
52:06
Harriet Martineau
Dec. 8, 2016
51:01
Garibaldi and the Risorgimento
Dec. 1, 2016
49:32
Baltic Crusades
Nov. 24, 2016
46:51
Justinian's Legal Code
Nov. 17, 2016
47:05
The Fighting Temeraire
Nov. 10, 2016
45:58
Epic of Gilgamesh
Nov. 3, 2016
46:52
John Dalton
Oct. 27, 2016
45:40
The 12th Century Renaissance
Oct. 20, 2016
49:23
The Bronze Age Collapse
June 16, 2016
47:12
Margery Kempe and English Mysticism
June 2, 2016
44:45
The Gettysburg Address
May 26, 2016
Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
May 12, 2016
49:05
1816, the Year Without a Summer
April 21, 2016
45:32
The Sikh Empire
April 7, 2016
44:57
Agrippina the Younger
March 31, 2016
46:09
Bedlam
March 17, 2016
46:57
The Maya Civilization
March 10, 2016
46:33
The Dutch East India Company
March 3, 2016
46:12
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Jan. 28, 2016
44:49
Thomas Paine's Common Sense
Jan. 21, 2016
The Salem Witch Trials
Nov. 26, 2015
45:28
The Battle of Lepanto
Nov. 12, 2015
48:18
The Empire of Mali
Oct. 29, 2015
47:47
Holbein at the Tudor Court
Oct. 15, 2015
46:30
Alexander the Great
Oct. 1, 2015
47:13
Frederick the Great
July 2, 2015
48:19
Prester John
June 4, 2015
44:41
Josephus
May 21, 2015
45:36
The Lancashire Cotton Famine
May 14, 2015
45:12
Tagore
May 7, 2015
46:36
Matteo Ricci and the Ming Dynasty
April 16, 2015
45:24
The California Gold Rush
April 2, 2015
45:52
The Curies
March 26, 2015
47:22
The Eunuch
Feb. 26, 2015
46:41
The Wealth of Nations
Feb. 19, 2015
46:05
Ashoka the Great
Feb. 5, 2015
Thucydides
Jan. 29, 2015
45:39
Brunel
Nov. 13, 2014
44:44
Hatshepsut
Nov. 6, 2014
45:42
The Haitian Revolution
Oct. 23, 2014
The Battle of Talas
Oct. 9, 2014
Julius Caesar
Oct. 2, 2014
Hildegard of Bingen
June 26, 2014
44:33
The Bluestockings
June 5, 2014
46:32
The Sino-Japanese War
May 8, 2014
The Domesday Book
April 17, 2014
47:44
Strabo's Geographica
April 10, 2014
Weber's The Protestant Ethic
March 27, 2014
Spartacus
March 6, 2014
41:59
Chivalry
Feb. 13, 2014
42:15
The Phoenicians
Feb. 6, 2014
Sources of Early Chinese History
Jan. 23, 2014
42:19
The Battle of Tours
Jan. 16, 2014
42:05
Plato's Symposium
Jan. 2, 2014
42:11
The Medici
Dec. 26, 2013
42:03
Pliny the Younger
Dec. 12, 2013
41:46
Pocahontas
Nov. 21, 2013
41:50
The Berlin Conference
Oct. 31, 2013
The Corn Laws
Oct. 24, 2013
41:52
The Mamluks
Sept. 26, 2013
The Physiocrats
June 20, 2013
42:01
Queen Zenobia
May 30, 2013
42:00
The Putney Debates
April 18, 2013
41:56
Alfred Russel Wallace
March 21, 2013
42:09
Ice Ages
Feb. 14, 2013
42:10
The War of 1812
Jan. 31, 2013
The South Sea Bubble
Dec. 20, 2012
The Borgias
Nov. 22, 2012
41:58
Hannibal
Oct. 11, 2012
Gerald of Wales
Oct. 4, 2012
42:06
The Druids
Sept. 20, 2012
Hadrian's Wall
July 12, 2012
Annie Besant
June 21, 2012
The An Lushan Rebellion
Feb. 16, 2012
1848: Year of Revolution
Jan. 19, 2012
41:57
The Ming Voyages
Oct. 13, 2011
The Minoan Civilisation
July 7, 2011
The Battle of Stamford Bridge
June 2, 2011
Xenophon
May 26, 2011
Custer's Last Stand
May 19, 2011
Octavia Hill
April 7, 2011
42:23
The Iron Age
March 24, 2011
The Medieval University
March 17, 2011
41:42
The Taiping Rebellion
Feb. 24, 2011
The Battle of Bannockburn
Feb. 2, 2011
The Mexican Revolution
Jan. 20, 2011
Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Dec. 30, 2010
42:16
The Industrial Revolution
Dec. 22, 2010
Cleopatra
Dec. 2, 2010
The Volga Vikings
Nov. 11, 2010
The Spanish Armada
Oct. 7, 2010
The Delphic Oracle
Sept. 30, 2010
Pliny's Natural History
July 8, 2010
42:17
Athelstan
July 1, 2010
42:07
The Neanderthals
June 17, 2010
42:13
Edmund Burke
June 3, 2010
The Great Wall of China
April 29, 2010
The Zulu Nation's Rise and Fall
April 15, 2010
The City - a history, part 2
April 1, 2010
42:14
The City - a history, part 1
March 25, 2010
Boudica
March 11, 2010
42:08
The Indian Mutiny
Feb. 18, 2010
Ibn Khaldun
Feb. 4, 2010
The Glencoe Massacre
Jan. 21, 2010
Mary Wollstonecraft
Dec. 31, 2009
The Samurai
Dec. 24, 2009
The Silk Road
Dec. 3, 2009
Sparta
Nov. 19, 2009
The Siege of Munster
Nov. 5, 2009
41:54
The Death of Elizabeth I
Oct. 15, 2009
41:09
The Dreyfus Affair
Oct. 8, 2009
42:21
Akhenaten
Oct. 1, 2009
42:12
The Augustan Age
June 11, 2009
The Trial of Charles I
June 4, 2009
The Siege of Vienna
May 14, 2009
The Magna Carta
May 7, 2009
42:04
The Building of St Petersburg
April 23, 2009
Suffragism
April 16, 2009
41:40
The Boxer Rebellion
March 19, 2009
The Library of Alexandria
March 12, 2009
Carthage's Destruction
Feb. 12, 2009
History of History
Jan. 22, 2009
Thoreau and the American Idyll
Jan. 15, 2009
The Great Reform Act
Nov. 27, 2008
The Fire of London
Nov. 11, 2008
Bolivar
Oct. 30, 2008
Tacitus and the Decadence of Rome
July 10, 2008
41:48
The Arab Conquests
June 26, 2008
The Riddle of the Sands
June 12, 2008
42:02
The Black Death
May 22, 2008
The Enclosures of the 18th Century
May 1, 2008
42:20
The Norman Yoke
April 10, 2008
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
March 27, 2008
The Statue of Liberty
Feb. 14, 2008
Rudolph II
Jan. 31, 2008
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Jan. 10, 2008
The Sassanid Empire
Dec. 13, 2007
The Divine Right of Kings
Oct. 11, 2007
41:36
The Pilgrim Fathers
July 5, 2007
The Siege of Orléans
May 24, 2007
The Opium Wars
April 12, 2007
41:23
Bismarck
March 22, 2007
28:15
Genghis Khan
Feb. 1, 2007
28:10
Constantinople Siege and Fall
Dec. 28, 2006
The Peasants’ Revolt
Nov. 16, 2006
The Needham Question
Oct. 19, 2006
The Diet of Worms
Oct. 12, 2006
The Spanish Inquisition
June 22, 2006
Astronomy and Empire
May 4, 2006
The Great Exhibition of 1851
April 27, 2006
The Carolingian Renaissance
March 30, 2006
Catherine the Great
Feb. 23, 2006
28:09
The Abbasid Caliphs
Feb. 2, 2006
The Oath
Jan. 5, 2006
The Peterloo Massacre
Dec. 15, 2005
Greyfriars and Blackfriars
Nov. 10, 2005
The Field of the Cloth of Gold
Oct. 6, 2005
The French Revolution's reign of terror
May 26, 2005
41:55
Archaeology and Imperialism
April 14, 2005
28:21
Alfred and the Battle of Edington
April 7, 2005
Tsar Alexander II's assassination
Jan. 6, 2005
The Roman Republic
Dec. 30, 2004
Machiavelli and the Italian City States
Dec. 9, 2004
Agincourt
Sept. 16, 2004
Washington and the American Revolution
June 24, 2004
28:19
Babylon
June 3, 2004
Heroism
May 6, 2004
Tea
April 29, 2004
28:13
China's Warring States period
April 1, 2004
The Norse Gods
March 11, 2004
The Mughal Empire
Feb. 25, 2004
27:46
Thermopylae
Feb. 5, 2004
The Alphabet
Dec. 18, 2003
St Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Nov. 27, 2003
Robin Hood
Oct. 30, 2003
28:24
The Schism
Oct. 16, 2003
The East India Company
June 23, 2003
The Aristocracy
June 19, 2003
The Art of War
June 12, 2003
The Jacobite Rebellion
May 8, 2003
Roman Britain
May 1, 2003
28:27
The Spanish Civil War
April 3, 2003
The Aztecs
Feb. 27, 2003
The Enlightenment in Scotland
Dec. 5, 2002
27:56
Architecture and Power
Oct. 31, 2002
Slavery and Empire
Oct. 17, 2002
Heritage
July 18, 2002
41:45
Psychoanalysis and Democracy
July 11, 2002
28:40
Cultural Imperialism
June 27, 2002
27:53
The American West
June 13, 2002
27:57
Bohemia
April 11, 2002
Marriage
March 21, 2002
The Celts
Feb. 21, 2002
Food
Dec. 27, 2001
Rome and European Civilization
Dec. 20, 2001
28:12
Third Crusade
Nov. 29, 2001
28:03
The British Empire
Nov. 8, 2001
28:16
Confucius
Nov. 1, 2001
Napoleon and Wellington
Oct. 25, 2001
Democracy
Oct. 18, 2001
28:14
Byzantium
July 19, 2001
The French Revolution's Legacy
June 14, 2001
The Glorious Revolution
April 19, 2001
The Roman Empire's Collapse in the 5th century
April 5, 2001
28:11
Money
March 1, 2001
The Restoration
Feb. 15, 2001
28:07
Humanism
Feb. 8, 2001
The Enlightenment in Britain
Jan. 18, 2001
The Tudor State
Oct. 26, 2000
Hitler in History
Oct. 5, 2000
London
Sept. 28, 2000
41:34
Biography
June 22, 2000
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