Stand Up and Be Counted
Mark Steel, stand-up comedian and presenter of history on television and radio, describes how punk rock helped politicise a generation, and whet his own appetite for enquiring about the past.
Mark Steel, stand-up comedian and presenter of history on television and radio, describes how punk rock helped politicise a generation, and whet his own appetite for enquiring about the past.
Gabriel Fawcett investigates how the Germans commemorate the losses they sustained in the First and Second World Wars.
Jeremy Black calls for a more wide-ranging, inclusive approach to the history of warfare.
Juliet Gardiner investigates two new books on wartime society in Britain during the Second World War.
Samantha Mattila reports on the discovery of valuable new additions to Sydney’s rock art.
Nicholas J. Saunders explores the ways in which humans make art from objects of death, in conflicts spanning the Napoleonic to Bosnian Wars.
Russell Chamberlin examines the origins and development of Europe’s persistent vision of unity from the birth of the Holy Roman Empire to its fall.
Peter Furtado introduces the series.
Corinne Atkins examines the events in Iraq in the 7th century AD, which precipitated the first and only great division of Islam, the ramifications of which are seen today in Iraq and more widely.
The week-long hurricane that struck the south of England and the English Channel on November 24th, 1703, was beyond anything in living memory.