Elizabeth II: The Making of the Queen
Queen Elizabeth II has died after 70 years on the British throne. Born in April 1926, Elizabeth Windsor became heir apparent, aged 10, when her uncle Edward VIII abdicated and her father George VI bec...
8 Sep 202228min
Not Just the Tudors Lates: Elizabeth I on Screen - The Historians’ Verdict
What do you get when you bring together five top historians in a room with bottles of Prosecco to debate Elizabeth I on screen? History with the gloves off - our first Not Just the Tudors Lates! Takin...
7 Sep 202258min
A Short History of Humans
Why are humans the only species to have escaped – only very recently – the subsistence trap, allowing us to enjoy a standard of living that vastly exceeds all others? And why have we progressed so une...
6 Sep 202233min
Atoms and X-rays: Experiments That Changed History
For millennia, people have obsessed over questions about the nature of matter in our universe. Then, by the turn of the twentieth century, we believed we had answered everything. Our understanding of ...
5 Sep 202226min
The Man Who Rebuilt the Faces of WW1
The mechanised warfare of the First World War brought unprecedented new levels of firepower and destruction to the battlefield and with it horrific new injuries. Advances in medicine also meant that s...
4 Sep 202228min
Taiwan: China's Ukraine?
Located just 100 miles off the coast of mainland China, the nation of Taiwan sits in the so-called 'first island chain' - a group of US-friendly territories deemed crucial to American foreign policy.Y...
31 Aug 202239min
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is one of the most famous legends of British history, but did he exist and if so who was he? Gareth Morgan, Learning Development Officer at Nottingham Castle, is just the man to help separa...
30 Aug 202219min
The March on Washington
On August 28, 1963, some 200,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to protest the continuing inequalities faced by African Americans. The final speaker of the day wa...
29 Aug 202232min
