Pushing the boundaries of public history with the rigour of an academic and the craft of a storyteller.
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For twenty years after 1945, British cinema made war films for an audience that had lived through the real thing, and that audience knew when it was being lied to.
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There is something magnificently English about the patron saint of England being a man who was almost certainly Cappadocian Greek, who never visited England.
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The flagship: the history of Britain in engaging, powerful and interesting ways.
The darker parts of Britain’s past, across the whole of British history.
Britain’s myths and legends: who we are and where we’ve come from.
The great scandals of history, with Zac and Lucy going back to the evidence.
From the archive: Wicked Women with Grace Beattie. Browse the episodes · Or browse every story.
