Espiar a la española, de los Íberos a Villare...

Decía Johann Strauss que el vals era «la música del alma y el baile es la expresión de la alegría». El vals fue una revolución no solo musical, encerraba el contenido de la revolución burguesa que quería acabar con las formas de la aristocracia y diferenciarse. Los bailes anterio ...  Show more

Como si del Hollywood clásico se tratase, esta historia contiene música, pasiones, fama, dinero, amores y desamores. ¡Con ustedes, la familia Strauss! Johann Strauss padre (1804-1849), su primera esposa, María Anna Streim (1801-1870), y sus tres hijos varones: Johann (1825-1899), ...  Show more

Part 2/4. At their most powerful, the Inca had the largest empire in the world. Lasting just one century from the mid-15th century, it stretched across the South American continent from the Amazon to the Pacific. The Inca developed ingenious ways to grow food in some of the wo ...

For many, the word Inca conjures up images of an ancient civilisation in South America, swiftly conquered by the Spanish in their quest for gold and Christian converts.

In this episode of Not Just the Tudors, Professor Suzannah Lipscomb sets out to find ...

It’s October 31st. This day in 1938, hundreds of thousands gather in Barcelona, Spain, to say thanks and bid farewell to the thousands of foreign volunteers who had come to join the fight in the Spanish Civil War.

Jody, NIki, and Kellie are joined by author Adam Hochsc ...

From the end of the 15th century, the Conquistadors changed the face of the Americas. Invading first the Caribbean and Mexico, they then plunged on into the rest of the continent and plundered the Pacific seaboard. So what do we know of these Europeans and their quest to expand a ...  Show more