In Our Time: History

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek biographer Plutarch (c46 AD-c120 AD) and especia... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the intense political activity at the turn of the 18th Cen... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2000-year-old device which transformed our understandi... more

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

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

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the major figures in Victorian British politics. Di... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney, as told in the 13th Centu... more

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

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who, for almost fifty years, was the most powerf... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Napoleon Bonaparte's temporary return to power in France i... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the last pagan ruler of the Roman Empire. Fifty years afte... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revolt that broke out in 1871 in Algeria against Frenc... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the infamous assault of an army of the Holy Roman Emperor ... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Hanseatic League or Hansa which dominated North Europe... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the woman who inspired one of the best known artefacts fro... more

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Roman emperor Tiberius. When he was born in 42BC, ther... more