Living Through the Dresden Firebombing with Victor Gregg
Victor Gregg is a veteran of World War Two and the Dresden Bombings, and travelled with Dan to visit Dresden a couple of years ago for a documentary. In this episode, taken from our archive, Victor ta...
13 Feb 202144min
Lockdown Learning: The Rise of USA
For Lockdown Learning this week I am joined by Dr Fabian Hilfrich, head of American History at Edinburgh University. He takes us through from the late 19th Century to the beginning of the 20th century...
12 Feb 202131min
The 18th Century Precedent for Trump's Impeachment
As the impeachment trial of Donald Trump got underway in the USA the 18th-century case of Warren Hastings, the former Governor-General of Bengal was cited as a precedent for someone being impeached af...
11 Feb 202130min
Empire with Sathnam Sanghera
Journalist and author Sathnam Sanghera joins me on the podcast to talk about his latest book Empireland which examines how much of what we think of as Britain and British is owed to our imperial past....
10 Feb 202126min
Historical Novels with Ken Follett
Today, I am joined by best-selling author Ken Follett to discuss his latest book The Evening and the Morning. We also talk about his love of history and the historical research involved with writing o...
9 Feb 202121min
China 1949: Year of Revolution
In 1949 Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party to victory in the long and bloody Chinese Civil War. The impact of this victory was felt not just within China itself, but globally throughout the Co...
8 Feb 202133min
Sutton Hoo
The release of The Dig has brought the story of the Sutton Hoo dig to the forefront of people’s minds of late. The real hero of that story though is not the people involved but rather the stunning arc...
7 Feb 202134min
Emily Davison with Kate Willoughby
In this episode, originally released in 2018, Dan talks to actor, activist, and "part-time suffragette" Kate Willoughby about Emily Davison, the centenary of the Representation of the People Act, and ...
6 Feb 202128min
