Category: political history AudioPortillo’s State SecretsFriday 29 May 2015Researcher Tommy Norton introduces some of the 30 documents featured in the BBC 2...AudioVanishing for the Vote: diverse suffragettes boycott the 1911 censusFriday 6 March 2015Vanishing for the Vote tells the story of what happened on census night, 2...AudioWriter of the month: The Spanish ambassador’s suitcaseFriday 23 January 2015Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson discuss their new book, The Spanish ambassador’s suitcase. Matthew...AudioNewly released files from 1985 and 1986Tuesday 30 December 2014Contemporary records specialists Mark Dunton and Simon Demissie discuss the latest batch of government...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...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....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...AudioSecurity Service file release October 2014Friday 24 October 2014Professor Christopher Andrew, formerly official historian of MI5 and author of ‘The Defence of...Audio‘A World of Their Design’: The men who shaped Tudor diplomacyMonday 15 September 2014In a time of shifting politics and world changing events, three men would emerge... « 1 2 3 4 … 11 »