History Today

Which moment would I most like to go back to? Berlin at the end of the First World War.

A pitiless, profound and influential Greek myth.

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The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a myth of enduring love that has inspired artists, writers and composers for centuries.

What links Colonel Despard, the Royal Bethlem Hospital and the inventor Humphry Davy?

What will future generations judge us most harshly for? Complacency.

What did the violence in the bloodiest conflict in US history yield in the postwar era?

A plot, a rebellion and a triumph from the life of Thomas Cromwell.

Empires have been part of human history for millennia. Are they, of necessity, a bad thing?

This episode examines the Nazi genocide through human interactions with three crime scenes.