Women and Witchcraft - the Horrifying History of Female Sourcery
Coming soon: The story of witchcraft. From the ancient witches of Wales, to the medieval Witch of Eye. From the cruel torture of the...
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- Oct 21
Halloween Special - The Lancashire Witches
The Pendle Witches podcast tells the terrible story of a group of Lancashire women.
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- Sep 5
Dead Fascinating – The Strange History of Death and Burial
Our Death and Burial history podcast investigates stange stories of death and dying.
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- Jun 25
The River Lea - London's East End River
The first in our walks British history podcasts features the River Lea in East London. Marc Z and Mr Londoner walk the lower section of...
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- May 30
A Hampstead Murder
A story from our Women and Crime history podcast. It’s nearly seven decades since Ruth Ellis shot her lover outside the Magdala pub in...
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- May 13
Women and Crime – Britain’s Bad Girls
Six true crime stories featuring notorious women criminals. From a celebrity pickpocket who performed on the London stage, to an...
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- Mar 28
Women and Protest - How they Fought for Justice
In this Women and Protest podcast we tell eight stories of women who fought for liberty, justice and human rights. Mary Overton was a...
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- Mar 1
The dead poet's heart that was kept in a drawer
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned when his boat was caught in storm off the Italian coast in 1822. His decayed body washed ashore ten...
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- Feb 10
Men's Fashion Podcast Part 2. From Teddy Boys to Tudors
In part two of this history podcast we look at men’s fashion from the 1500s to the 1970s. If you are interested in men's fashion, and the...
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- Feb 6
Get Ahead. Get a Hat
Mr Londoner lifts the lid on headwear Look at images of early 20th century London and almost everybody’s wearing a hat. People look...
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- Feb 5
What connects Snakes’ Eggs, Sharks’ Teeth and Chocolate?
So what did Sir Hans Sloane do for us? Sloane, was an 18th century physician, collector, naturalist, antiquarian, astronomer.....the...
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- Jan 21
Talking Heads - What Happened to Executed Heads
This podcast explores extraordinary stories about heads without bodies. Discover the gruesome truth about Anglo-Saxon border markers....
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- Jan 20
Women and Writing – Their Words Made History
Seven stories of women whose books changed English literature We meet an anchorite who became the “mother of English prose”. A...
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- Jan 20
History of Men‘s Fashion - From the Codpiece to the Three Piece
This podcast is part one of our story of men's fashion. In this British history podcast Marc and Antony investigate 800 years of menswear...
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- Jan 20
Women in Science - How They Changed the World
Seven stories of women determined to bring their discoveries to the world. In our latest British history podcast, you will find out...
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- Jan 20
Sick Notes - A History of Gory Medicine
In this podcast, we hear about a disease cured by frogs. Where can you find the skeleton of an “Irish Giant” Why the Queen's doctor...
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- Jan 20
Women and War - Stories of Women in Conflict
This history podcast tells the story of of women in war. Hear about British woman warrior Boudica, the queen leader of the Celtic Iceni...
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