Cracking the code
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How common was it for a pirates to walk the plank? Was there a lot of rum? And were relationships allowed on ships? Kate is joined by Rebecca Simon, author of 'The Pirate's Code' to find out about the codes that pirates had to live by. Produced by Charlotte ...
Nicholaa de la Haye’s strength and tenacity saved England at one of the lowest points in its history. She remained loyal to King John to the very end, even after most of his knights and barons had deserted him. She stood firm during a siege at Lincoln Castle - w ...
How much did Britain and its allies know about the Holocaust? Could the Bengal Famine of 1943 have been helped? And was Elizabeth I really the Virgin Queen? Lynsey Calver is a history teacher, and in this episode, she helps us to fill in some of the ga ...
From the notorious thief Mary Frith in the seventeenth century to industrialist and LGBT trailblazer Anne Lister in the nineteenth, these heroines redefined what a woman could be and what she could do in pre-twentieth-century Britain. Holly Kyte, author and literary ...