Category: Featured AudioSecurity Service file release September 2016Wednesday 28 September 2016Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of ‘The Defence of...AudioBlindness in Victorian BritainWednesday 21 September 2016This talk traces how blind and visually-impaired people in the Victorian era became increasingly...AudioA tourist’s guide to Shakespeare’s LondonTuesday 13 September 2016Discover what it was like to wander the streets of Shakespeare’s London. Though large...AudioMagna Carta: Law, Liberty and LegacyTuesday 6 September 2016In this podcast, Julian Harrison discusses Magna Carta’s fascinating history and legacy, focusing on...AudioPrisoners of war in the Far EastWednesday 31 August 2016Prisoners of war in the Far East experienced some of the most horrifying and...AudioEngland’s Immigrants between 1330 and 1550Tuesday 23 August 2016This talk explores a new research database which provides an insight into immigration in...AudioWorn out by war: Disabled soldiers and their pensionsWednesday 10 August 2016How can military records help us to reconstruct and understand the lives of disabled...AudioFirst Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine ChurchillWednesday 3 August 2016Sonia Purnell presents the inspiring but often ignored story of one of the most...AudioWriter of the month: Mike Pitts on ‘Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found the King’Wednesday 27 July 2016To accompany the publication of his book ‘Digging for Richard III: How Archaeology Found...AudioBig Data and the gendering of Parliamentary languageFriday 22 July 2016Luke Blaxill discusses the ways in which Big Data techniques can introduce quantification into...AudioEngland ’66: The best of times?Wednesday 13 July 2016It was a year when England won the World Cup and led the world in all...Audio100 years of the WI: The acceptable face of feminismThursday 7 July 2016Professor Maggie Andrews discusses some of the key campaigns and concerns of the Women’s... « 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 … 26 »