Category: Featured AudioA game for Christmas: Football on the Western Front, December 1914?Tuesday 23 December 2014Any mention of football and the First World War will evoke the Christmas Truce...AudioWriter of the month: Tracy Borman on Thomas CromwellThursday 18 December 2014Dr Tracy Borman, author, historian and broadcaster, discusses her biography of Thomas Cromwell. The National...AudioBig Ideas: The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Value ProjectFriday 12 December 2014The Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Cultural Value Project was set up late in...AudioWriter of the month: Stories from behind the Berlin WallFriday 5 December 2014Hester Vaizey discusses her latest book, Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow...AudioPaddy Ashdown: The Cruel VictoryFriday 28 November 2014Paddy Ashdown discusses his new book, The Cruel Victory, which tells the long-neglected D-Day...AudioThe Chevalier d’Eon: Transgender Diplomat at the Court of George III, 1763-1777Friday 21 November 2014In 1763 peace broke out between France and Britain, ending the Seven Years War....AudioPutting it all together: using archives to discover your community’s involvement in the First World WarTuesday 18 November 2014The names of the First World War dead are there for all to see,...AudioThe civil service in the First World WarFriday 14 November 2014The First World War affected every sector of society, as the nation’s resources were...VideoInventions that didn’t change the world: a history of Victorian curiositiesTuesday 11 November 2014In an era when Britain led the world in technological innovation, a host of...AudioInventions that didn’t change the world: a history of Victorian curiosities – audioThursday 6 November 2014In an era when Britain led the world in technological innovation, a host of...Audio1974: forty years onFriday 31 October 2014Mark Dunton looks back at UK National events in 1974 in this illustrated podcast....AudioWriter of the month: Philippa GregoryFriday 24 October 2014Philippa Gregory in conversation with Caroline Kimbell, discussing how she uses original records and... « 1 … 8 9 10 11 12 … 26 »