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In Our Time: History

Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.

Episodes

Total: 223

Paul von Hindenburg

2025/6/19

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and role of one of the most significant figures in early 20

The Korean Empire

2025/5/29

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Korea's brief but significant period as an empire as it moved from t

The Battle of Clontarf

2025/5/8

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the best known events and figures in Irish history. In 1014

The Gracchi

2025/5/1

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus whose names are entwined wi

Cyrus the Great

2025/4/10

Melvyn Bragg and guests explore the history and reputation of the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great. Cyr

Catherine of Aragon

2025/3/13

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536), the youngest child of the newly dom

The Battle of Valmy

2025/2/13

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most consequential battles of recent centuries. On 20th S

Plutarch's Parallel Lives

2025/1/16

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek biographer Plutarch (c46 AD-c120 AD) and especially his wo

The Hanoverian Succession

2024/12/26

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the intense political activity at the turn of the 18th Century, when

The Antikythera Mechanism

2024/12/12

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understanding of astr

The Venetian Empire

2024/11/28

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the remarkable rise of Venice in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike o

The Haymarket Affair

2024/10/31

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the notorious attack of 4th of May 1886 at a workers rally in Chicag

Benjamin Disraeli

2024/10/17

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the major figures in Victorian British politics. Disraeli (18

The Orkneyinga Saga

2024/7/4

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney, as told in the 13th Century by an u

Marsilius of Padua

2024/6/27

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the canonical figures from the history of political thought.

Empress Dowager Cixi

2024/6/20

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who, for almost fifty years, was the most powerful figure

Napoleon's Hundred Days

2024/5/16

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's temporary return to power in France in 1815, fo

Julian the Apostate

2024/4/18

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years after Constan

The Mokrani Revolt

2024/4/4

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolt that broke out in 1871 in Algeria against French rule, sp

The Sack of Rome 1527

2024/3/21

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous assault of an army of the Holy Roman Emperor on the cit