How Slavery Built Modern Britain
Padraic Scanlan joined me on the podcast to talk about how Britain rose to global power on the backs of enslaved workers. Modern Britain has inherited the legacies and contradictions of a liberal empi...
12 Dec 202022min
Disinformation and the White Helmets in Syria
Chloe Hadjimatheou joined me on the podcast to talk about the death of James Le Mesurier, the man who co-founded the White Helmets, a Syrian civil defence force who filmed themselves pulling survivors...
11 Dec 202019min
Spartacus: Life or Legend?
‘I’m Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’, is legendary. Directed by Stanley Kibrick, adapted from the Howard Fast novel by Red Scare blacklisted screenw...
10 Dec 202047min
Big Data and History
Dan Hoyer and Peter Turchin joined me on the podcast to talk about the new transdisciplinary field of Cliodynamics, which uses the tools of complexity science and cultural evolution to study the dynam...
9 Dec 202028min
Mary Queen of Scots with Kate Williams
Dan Snow and Kate Williams talk about the rise and fall of Mary Queen of Scots.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to hundreds of history documentaries, as well as every single episode of t...
8 Dec 202056min
Diary of an MP's Wife
Sasha Swire joined me on the podcast to talk about her diary, written during the Cameron years. Her husband was an MP and junior minister at the time.Subscribe to History Hit and you'll get access to ...
7 Dec 202011min
Charles Dickens
In today's episode, I was joined by John Mullan, Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London. He has published extensively on eighteenth- and nineteenth-centur...
6 Dec 202037min
Ghost Hunter!
Kate Summerscale has written one of the Sunday Time books of the year exploring the world of poltergeists and ghosts in the build up to the Second World War. She came on the podcast to tell us all abo...
4 Dec 202015min
