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On the Spot: Matthew Sweet
‘What’s the most important lesson history has taught me? It’s not about you.’
Longman-History Today Awards 2019: The Winners
All the winners from this year's awards ceremony.
The Death of Caesar
A vivid portrait of one of history’s most momentous conspiracies.
Travels Through Time #14 – Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853
This episode takes us back to 1853 and the arrival of Commodore Matthew Perry’s fleet of ships into Edo Bay.
Juno and the Milky Way
A deceived god has a creative outburst.
On the Spot: Niall Ferguson
‘What will future generations judge us most harshly for? Losing the Second Cold War to China.’
Travels Through Time #13 – Peter Caddick-Adams, 1944
In this episode we travel to the south coast of England where we witness the final preparations for D-Day, before joining the Allied forces on the beaches of Normandy.
Travels Through Time #12 – Daisy Dunn, AD 79
This episode takes us back to AD 79, where we join Pliny the Younger as he witnesses one of the ancient world's most shocking events: the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Has democracy had its day?
The worst kind of government – apart from all the others – faces increasingly tough challenges. Four leading historians consider its future.