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Women's history podcast episodes

Micheal Rosen and Émile Zola

My history heroMichael Rosen chooses Émile Zola. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Railway history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An environmental history of big business. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of figures holding hand

The long fight over abortion rights in the United States. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The floating hell of prison hulks. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Postal workers at a rally outside the houses of parliament, December 2022 and (right) ambulance staff march through London, 1979

Britain’s century of strikes: the history behind today's industrial action

The cover of Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895, showing the "degradation" of Alfred Dreyfus during which his sword was snapped over a warrant officer’s knee (Photo by Leemage / Corbis via Getty Images)

The Dreyfus Affair: how France was divided over a miscarriage of justice

Dandies, fops & macaronis: fashionable men through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Devonshire squab pie on a tray (Picture by 'We Make Magazines')

Historical recipeDevonshire squab pie

Desk killers: the psychology of committing crimes against humanity. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

World Cup history: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Argentinian midfielder Mario Kempes celebrates a goal in the 1978 football World Cup final between hosts Argentina and Netherlands

Sportswashing: a historical perspective on a current trend

Britain’s harsh winter of 1880–81 depicted as the start of a new ice age, by contemporary cartoonist George du Maurier (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Out of the cold: the slow beginnings of climate change science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

British royal family podcast episodes

History & science: the big questions. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Egyptologist Howard Carter crouches near the golden sarcophagus of Tutankhamun's remains

Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamun: was the tomb really cursed?

Scene of the 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' at the Disney World in Orlando, Florida, 1971

Why we should remember...The day Walt Disney World Resort in Florida welcomed its first guests

A missionary preaches to the Native Americans of Massachusetts, c1650. By now, colonists were imposing their values on the indigenous population, encouraging them to dress like the English – and worship the English God. (Photo by Ian Tyas/Keystone/Getty Images)

Britain's nuclear fearsHow has the UK prepared for Armageddon?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The USSR showcases its military might at the 1961 annual May Day parade in Red Square, Moscow. (Photo by Sovfoto/UIG via Getty Images)

Nuclear fall-out: how the USA & USSR became bitter enemies

Herbert Rowse ArmstrongInnocent solicitor or guilty murderer?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The CIA: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds line the streets to watch the funeral cortege of Queen Victoria in February 1901. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Tracy BormanA guide to royal funerals through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Digital downloadThe Queen: A guide to her life and times from the makers of BBC History Magazine

Queen Elizabeth wearing a hat against a blue background

In picturesQueen Elizabeth II through the decades

Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958

Queen Elizabeth II50+ facts about her life and reign

Russia’s national past: unpicking history from propaganda. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Front door of No 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the British prime minister

From Walpole to TrussLessons from the 300-year history of the British prime minister. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

East German leader Willi Stoph greets West German chancellor Willy Brandt at Erfurt. (Getty images)

Cold War summits: how USA & USSR leaders worked to end the conflict. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev together

What brought a thaw in the Cold War?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.