Travels Through Time: Women at War
The First World War allowed women to distinguish themselves in professions previously closed to them.
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Travels Through Time: The Blackshirts vs. Lyons
This podcast looks at how Isidore Salmon, the force behind J Lyons & Co., threatened to withdraw advertising from the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror in 1934.
Travels Through Time: The Crusades
In our latest podcast, Dan Jones discusses the year 1147, when the Second Crusade was launched.
Is There Still Value in ‘Great Man’ History?
How important is the study of the powerful, epoch-defining individual?
History Today Quiz: September
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On the Spot: Roger Moorhouse
Which moment would I most like to go back to? Berlin at the end of the First World War.
Oedipus the King
A pitiless, profound and influential Greek myth.
History Today Quiz: August
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Orpheus and Eurydice
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a myth of enduring love that has inspired artists, writers and composers for centuries.
Travels Through Time #17 – Radicalism, Madness and Laughing Gas in 1799
What links Colonel Despard, the Royal Bethlem Hospital and the inventor Humphry Davy?