Eating with Dickens
Food historian and author Pen Vogler explores the Victorian diet and recipes through the life and works of 19th-century Britain’s best-known writer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
11 Dec 201732min
Animals that changed us
The academic, author and broadcaster Alice Roberts talks to us about her new book Tamed, which explores some of the most important relationships people have forged with different species over our hist...
7 Dec 201733min
Britain on the edge
The historian and journalist Simon Heffer ranges over class, empire, politics. scandals and suffrage in an exploration of Britain in the years leading up to the First World War Hosted on Acast. See ac...
4 Dec 201748min
Black Tudors
Historian Miranda Kaufmann, author of Black Tudors: The Unknown Story, explores the lives of several Africans who resided in 16th-century England Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inform...
30 Nov 201738min
Victorian medicine
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris, author of The Butchering Art, delves into the terrifying world of 19th-century hospitals and shows how scientific advances eventually led to dramatic improvements Hosted on Acas...
27 Nov 201735min
The history of sleep
Historian Sasha Handley explores the bedtime routines of the early modern period and considers what lessons today’s sleepers can draw from past centuries Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mor...
23 Nov 201730min
Charles II on the run
We join historian and author Charles Spencer on location at Boscobel House to discuss Charles II’s desperate flight from parliamentarian forces at the end of the Civil War. Boscobel was famously a hid...
20 Nov 20171h
Demons and shipwrecks
To accompany their upcoming events in the UK-wide Being Human festival, Kasia Szpakowska discusses her research into Ancient Egyptian demonology, while Dan Pascoe reveals some of the insights that hav...
16 Nov 201748min
