In Our Time: History
History

In Our Time: History

by BBC Radio 4

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

101 episodes
EN language
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1
The Columbian Exchange
52:40 Mar 26, 2026
2
The Code of Hammurabi
49:49 Mar 12, 2026
3
The Roman Arena
50:03 Feb 26, 2026
4
Paul von Hindenburg
52:09 Jun 19, 2025
5
The Korean Empire
47:40 May 29, 2025
6
The Battle of Clontarf
51:40 May 8, 2025
7
The Gracchi
49:09 May 1, 2025
8
Cyrus the Great
50:59 Apr 10, 2025
9
Catherine of Aragon
52:38 Mar 13, 2025
10
The Battle of Valmy
47:43 Feb 13, 2025
11
Plutarch's Parallel Lives
56:33 Jan 16, 2025
12
The Hanoverian Succession
50:54 Dec 26, 2024
13
The Antikythera Mechanism
50:35 Dec 12, 2024
14
The Venetian Empire
51:24 Nov 28, 2024
15
The Haymarket Affair
51:39 Oct 31, 2024
16
Benjamin Disraeli
51:21 Oct 17, 2024
17
Introducing History's Secret Heroes - Series 2
12:05 Jul 30, 2024
18
The Orkneyinga Saga
51:02 Jul 4, 2024
19
Marsilius of Padua
56:44 Jun 27, 2024
20
Empress Dowager Cixi
50:02 Jun 20, 2024
21
Napoleon's Hundred Days
58:56 May 16, 2024
22
Julian the Apostate
50:14 Apr 18, 2024
23
The Mokrani Revolt
57:32 Apr 4, 2024
24
The Sack of Rome 1527
46:32 Mar 21, 2024
25
The Hanseatic League
49:01 Feb 29, 2024
26
Nefertiti
49:50 Feb 15, 2024
27
Tiberius
53:10 Jan 11, 2024
28
Marguerite de Navarre
46:12 Dec 21, 2023
29
The Theory of the Leisure Class
55:32 Dec 14, 2023
30
The Barbary Corsairs
52:59 Dec 7, 2023
31
The Federalist Papers
50:41 Nov 9, 2023
32
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
1:06:09 Oct 26, 2023
33
Louis XIV: The Sun King
47:25 Jun 22, 2023
34
The Shimabara Rebellion
48:03 Jun 8, 2023
35
The Battle of Crécy
50:49 May 11, 2023
36
Cnut
51:10 May 4, 2023
37
Solon the Lawgiver
51:20 Apr 20, 2023
38
Mercantilism
57:33 Apr 13, 2023
39
Megaliths
50:26 Mar 30, 2023
40
Chartism
51:01 Mar 9, 2023
41
Tycho Brahe
53:35 Mar 2, 2023
42
The Great Stink
50:12 Jan 26, 2023
43
The Irish Rebellion of 1798
55:25 Jan 5, 2023
44
Demosthenes' Philippics
56:56 Dec 15, 2022
45
The Morant Bay Rebellion
53:42 Dec 1, 2022
46
The Knights Templar
49:59 Nov 3, 2022
47
Angkor Wat
49:18 Jul 21, 2022
48
Comenius
56:32 Jun 16, 2022
49
The Davidian Revolution
50:16 Jun 2, 2022
50
Olympe de Gouges
49:10 May 19, 2022
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