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Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore historical connections to today's big issues. Recent political convulsions have revealed a rift betwee...

With this year's Oscars imminent, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence meet the cineasts who help us understand history and the history of cinema....

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines. As the first electric commercial airc...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues. As fascination with genealogy...

After the feast of the festive season comes the pain of the January fast. Well, to help us better understand our relationship with the food...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence present the show that explores the historical connections behind today's issues. In this New Year's Eve progra...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence continue to explore the historical connections behind today's headlines. Today - with a resurgence in national...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence are back to explore the historical connections behind today's issues. In this programme - The First Draft? Aft...

In the last of this series Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence look at the stories around another line in history - battle lines. From the fable o...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s story-laden lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week - Supply Lines Wi...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence explore the stories revealed by history's lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. Th...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. This week, with the imminen...

With Donald Trump’s Mexican wall back in the news, Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to discover how Britain...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence follow history’s lines and linkages to uncover connections and compelling stories. As the new HS2 rail link be...

Tom Holland and Iszi Lawrence consider fascinating and multi-faceted aspects of history. The new series of this long-running programme focus...

Tom Holland is joined by the history podcaster and stand-up comedian Iszi Lawrence. In Britain's recent past, a long hot summer has often co...

Helen Castor is joined by Flora Samuel, Professor of Architecture in the Built Environment at the University of Reading. Tom Holland and Dr...

Tom Holland presents the history programme which connects the past with today. Enthusiasts for Victorian church architecture are furious tha...

Helen Castor is joined by Professor Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex. A new exhibition at the Barbican in London features the pho...

Tom Holland is joined in the studio by Dr Marion Bowman from the Open University. As more and more people become interested in making a pilg...

Helen Castor is joined in the studio by the historian of witchcraft, Professor Owen Davies. Historian Tom Charlton travels to Manningtree in...

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Matthew Green for a programme that's all at sea. Helen Castor is in Great Yarmouth where local people voted over...

Helen Castor presents the popular history magazine. She's joined by Dr Jane Hamlett from Royal Holloway University of London. It's 140 years...

Helen Castor is joined in the studio by Professor Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex. As concerns grow about fixed-odds betting mac...

Tom Holland and guests highlight histories that help us understand more about the background to some of today's important issues. Helen Cast...

Helen Castor and her guests take us back to moments in the past when social and economic change conspired to produce the historical forerunn...

Tom Holland and his guests showcase the stories that are making history. Helen Castor heads for Wales and new scientific research telling us...

Helen Castor is in the chair for this edition of the long-running history magazine programme. Today, she's joined by the historian of Victor...

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Alice Taylor from King's College in London and the historian of pop culture, Travis Elborough. Helen Castor char...

Helen Castor is in the chair for a festive edition of the popular history magazine programme. She's joined by Professor Miri Rubin from Quee...

Tom Holland with the last in the series, exploring new historical research and resonances. We travel to Durham to examine the world's oldest...

Helen Castor takes the hot seat for the programme which shows why history matters. Today, testimony about coming out before the decriminalis...

Tom Holland travels north to mark the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian becoming Emperor, by examining the impact of his biggest legacy in Brita...

Helen Castor is joined by Dr Sam Willis to discuss food shortages in the First World War, Silk Roads, the history of the duffle coat and Fra...

Helen Castor and her guests discuss the history stories that are alive today. Seventy five years on from the first American bomber raid taki...

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Dan Todman from Queen Mary University, London and Professor Lucy Robinson at the University of Sussex. Britain's...

Tom Holland goes behind the headlines to look at the stories making history. Helen Castor travels to Salisbury Plain to hear more about a gr...

Helen Castor presents the programme that goes behind the history headlines. Scottish medievalist Fiona Watson and landscape historian Franci...

Tom Holland returns with the history magazine that showcases the latest research and demonstrates the relevance of the past in the present d...

Helen Castor is joined by Professor Mark Bailey from the University of East Anglia and Dr Eloise Moss from the University of Manchester to d...

Tom Holland is joined by Rebecca Rideal and Dr Tom Lorman to discuss armed revolt, fire and a secret war. Helen Castor meets up with a witne...

Tom Holland and guests discuss the stories that are Making History. Helen Castor is joined by Stephen Chalke and former Sussex cricket capta...

Helen Castor is joined by Professor Ted Vallance from the University of Roehampton and Dr Alex Woolf from the University of St Andrews. On t...

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Lucy Robinson from the University of Sussex to consider jazz in the trenches, woad and the women behind the Nott...

Helen Castor is joined by the architectural writer and cultural commentator Travis Elborough and garden historian Deborah Trentham. Tom Holl...

Tom Holland considers historical revelations with a resonance today. He's joined by two archaeologists - Professor Carenza Lewis from the Un...

In the first in a new series of the topical history programme Helen Castor is joined by the historian of women in medieval Ireland, Dr Gilli...

Helen is joined in the studio by BBC New Generation Thinker Danielle Thom from the V&A in London and Dr Gillian Kenny from Trinity College i...

Tom Holland is joined by Dr Nick Beech from Queen Mary University of London and Professor Emma Griffin from the University of East Anglia. W...