Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss what is often called one of the most significant battles in history.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Seneca the Younger, who was one of the first great writers to live h
In a programme first broadcast in 2017, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of Mary, Queen o
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630). Although he is
In a programme first broadcast in December 2016, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the craze for gin i
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Harriet Martineau who, from a non-conformist background in Norwich,
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento. According to the hi
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Baltic Crusades, the name given to a series of overlapping attem
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas brought together under Justinian I, Byzantine emperor in t
This image: Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1839 (c) The National Gallery, Lo
"He who saw the Deep" are the first words of the standard version of The Epic of Gilgamesh, the subj
The scientist John Dalton was born in North England in 1766. Although he came from a relatively poor
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the changes in the intellectual world of Western Europe in the 12th
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the name given by many historians to what a
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the English mystic Margery Kempe (1373-1438) whose extraordinary lif
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, ten sentences long, delivered
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates (1649-1705) who, with Israel Tonge, spread rumours of a
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of the eruption of Mt Tambora, in 1815, on the Indonesian
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the rise of the Sikh Empire at the end of the 18th Century under Ran
Agrippina the Younger was one of the most notorious and influential of the Roman empresses in the 1s
