Books mentioned on The Rest Is History

Mentioned in 479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5), 477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3) +4 more.

Sleepwalkers

Christopher Clarke

8 mentions · 8 episodes

Events:The Murder of Franz Ferdinand The Road to The Great War

Mentioned in 474. The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6), 472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4) +6 more.

1984

George Orwell

7 mentions · 7 episodes

Mentioned in 600. Chatham High Street, 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6) +5 more.

Agatha Christie

7 mentions · 7 episodes

Events:JFK Titanic

Mentioned in 429. Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (Part 3), 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1) +5 more.

Fifth Son

Camilla Townsend

7 mentions · 7 episodes

Events:Days The Fall of the Aztecs

Mentioned in 391. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (Part 8), 390. The Fall of the Aztecs: War to the Death (Part 7) +5 more.

Herodotus

7 mentions · 7 episodes

Events:Ancient Carthage

Mentioned in 422. Ancient Carthage: Rise of a Superpower (Part 2), 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1) +5 more.

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

7 mentions · 7 episodes

A book by Fernando Cervantes

Mentioned in 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5), 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3) +5 more.

Who Dares Wins

7 mentions · 7 episodes

Events:The Falklands War The Golden Age of Japan

Mentioned in 560. The Golden Age of Japan: Lady Murasaki and the Shining Prince (Part 1), 416. The Canterbury Tales (Part 4) +5 more.

Fernando Cervantes

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Events:Days The Fall of the Aztecs

Mentioned in 391. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (Part 8), 387. The Fall of the Aztecs: Prisoners of Montezuma (Part 4) +4 more.

A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Edward Gibbon

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Adventures in Time, Fury of the Vikings

Mentioned in 522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3), 403. The Mystery of the Pregnant Pope +4 more.

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Events:The French Revolution Trafalgar

Mentioned in 478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4), 477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3) +4 more.

Dominic

6 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Alfred the Great The Last Viking+1 more

Mentioned in 553. The Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome (Part 2), 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1) +3 more.

Book of Revelation

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Mentioned in 460. The Empress of the Apocalypse, 145. Babylon +4 more.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Dee Brown

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Events:Custer's Last Stand Custer vs. Crazy Horse+2 more

Mentioned in 456. Fall of the Sioux: The Massacre at Wounded Knee (Part 3), 455. Fall of the Sioux: The Ghost Dance (Part 2) +4 more.

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Mentioned in 543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo +4 more.

Iliad

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Events:Alexander the Great Ancient Carthage+2 more

Mentioned in 641. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Hannibal’s Nemesis (Part 2), 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2) +4 more.

Northumbrians

Dan Jackson

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Mentioned in 338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3), 140. The Birth of the Railways +4 more.

1066 and All That

Sellars and Yeatman

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:The Road to 1066 The Roman Conquest of Britain

Mentioned in 548. The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1), 499. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar’s Invasion (Part 1) +3 more.

Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Statues

Mentioned in 416. The Canterbury Tales (Part 4), 415. The Murder of Richard II (Part 3) +3 more.

Dune

Frank Herbert

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Mentioned in 600. Chatham High Street, 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6) +3 more.

Five

Hallie Rubenhold

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4), 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3) +3 more.

Persian Fire

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Mentioned in 334: Athens and the Birth of Democracy, 185. Agatha Christie +3 more.

The Bible

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Ancient Carthage Revolution in Iran

Mentioned in 639. Revolution in Iran: Death in the Desert (Part 4), 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1) +3 more.

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Your Wish is Your Command

Mentioned in 520. Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1), 402. Christmas: Pagan or Christian? +3 more.

Titanic Lives

Richard Davenport Hines

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 432. Titanic: The Survivors (Part 6), 431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5) +3 more.

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I Mary, Queen of Scots+1 more

Mentioned in 619. Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen (Part 4), 585. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (Part 2) +3 more.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:1066 Alfred the Great+1 more

Mentioned in 555. 1066: Slaughter at Stamford Bridge (Part 2), 551. The Road to 1066: Countdown to Conquest (Part 4) +2 more.

Bulldog Drummond

H.C. McNeill

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:1922

Mentioned in 373. Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader, 372. The Birth of British Fascism +2 more.

Catastrophe

Max Hastings

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Child Harold's Pilgrimage

Mentioned in 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6), 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5) +2 more.

Lord Byron

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4), 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3) +2 more.

Dynasty

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Extract), PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age (Extract) +2 more.

Flashman

George McDonnell Fraser

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2), 317: African Amazons +2 more.

Fox's Book of Martyrs

John Fox

4 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 618. Elizabeth I: The Shadow of the Tower (Part 3), 542. Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe +1 more.

Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Mentioned in 448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3), 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies +2 more.

Henry V

William Shakespeare

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Hundred Years' War Nelson+1 more

Mentioned in 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1), 490. Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4) +2 more.

Iliad

Homer

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Greek Myths Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 602. Greek Myths: Zeus, King of the Gods (Part 1), 457. Helen of Troy: Queen of the Greek Myths (Part 1) +2 more.

Nelson, Hero of the Seas

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 611. Nelson: Bonaparte Prepares to Strike (Part 4), 516. Nelson: God of War (Part 3) +2 more.

Nelson, Hero of the Seas

Dominic Sandbrook

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 610. Nelson: The Battle of Copenhagen (Part 3), 609. Nelson: The Gathering Storm (Part 2) +2 more.

The 39 Steps

John Buchan

4 mentions · 4 episodes

A Most Holy War, The Albigensian Crusade and the Battle for Christendom

Mentioned in 594. The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1), 372. The Birth of British Fascism +2 more.

The Aeneid

Virgil

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Greek Myths Rome's Greatest Enemy

Mentioned in 643. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Carthage Destroyed (Part 4), 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4) +2 more.

the book of daniel

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in 156. When did the Roman Empire fall?, 145. Babylon +2 more.

The Guns of August

Barbara Tuchman

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:The First World War The Road to The Great War

Mentioned in 595. The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2), 474. The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6) +2 more.

The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:The Irish Civil War The Irish War of Independence

Mentioned in 581. The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2), 579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4) +2 more.

The Third Reich

Richard Evans

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Hitler's War on Poland The Nazis at War+1 more

Mentioned in 623. The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (Part 4), 622. The Nazis at War: The Fall of France (Part 3) +2 more.

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 133. Christmas churches, 132. A Christmas Carol +1 more.

A Distant Mirror

Barbara Tuchman

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 320: Hundred Years' War: The Black Prince (Part 3), 318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1) +1 more.

Mark Gregory Pegg

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 303: The Bloodiest Crusade, 302: The Mystery of the Cathars +1 more.

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4), 190. Jubilees +1 more.

An American Melodrama

three Sunday Times journalists

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4), 510. America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3) +1 more.

An Officer and a Spy

Robert Harris

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Days Horror in the Congo

Mentioned in 540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3), 242. French History on Film +1 more.

Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth

Tracy Borman

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 617. Elizabeth I: Anne Boleyn's Bastard (Part 2), 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (Part 1) +1 more.

Arabian Nights

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Baghdad JFK

Mentioned in 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1), 379. Baghdad: The Arabian Nights (Part 4) +1 more.

Athelstan

null

3 mentions · 3 episodes

China's War with Japan, 1937 to 1945, The Struggle for Survival

Mentioned in 124. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 2, 122. Athelstan: England's Greatest Monarch +1 more.

Bernard Cornwell's books

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Alfred the Great Warlords of the West

Mentioned in 522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3), 250. Alfred the Great: Fury of the Vikings (Part 1) +1 more.

Beyond a Boundary

CLR James

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:London

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies, 211. London: People (Part 3) +1 more.

Brilliant book

Fogel-McGarry

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4), 285: Canada: Beaver Wars +1 more.

Buddenbrooks

Thomas Mann

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:1922

Mentioned in 296: The Nazis: The Beer Hall Putsch (Part 2), 222. Victorian Holidays +1 more.

Rana Mitter

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 366. The Architect of Modern China, 236. China and World War II (Part 2) +1 more.

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:The Great Northern War The Murder of Franz Ferdinand

Mentioned in 567. The Great Northern War: Murder in Moscow (Part 4), 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1) +1 more.

Custer

Ian Fraser

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Custer's Last Stand Custer vs. Crazy Horse

Mentioned in 451. Custer's Last Stand: The Charge of the 7th Cavalry (Part 6), 447. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (Part 2) +1 more.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Lord Byron The First World War

Mentioned in 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5), 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3) +1 more.

Echolands

Duncan McKay

3 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 501. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3), 500. The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2).

Elizabeth Apprenticeship

David Starkey

3 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 617. Elizabeth I: Anne Boleyn's Bastard (Part 2), 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (Part 1).

Emma

Jane Austen

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 612. Nelson: The Final Showdown (Part 5), 608. Nelson: Slaughter in Naples (Part 1) +1 more.

Empire of the Deep

Ben Wilson

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Nelson Trafalgar

Mentioned in 610. Nelson: The Battle of Copenhagen (Part 3), 245. Trafalgar: Victory (Part 3) +1 more.

Fatal Path

Ronald Fanning

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Forgotten Victory, the First World War, Myths and Realities

Mentioned in 579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4), 578. The Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday (Part 3) +1 more.

Gary Sheffield

3 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Statues

Mentioned in 90. The Western Front, 77. Statues: Whitehall.

Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 461. Dragons, PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age (Extract) +1 more.

Global Crisis

Geoffrey Parker

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 313: Climate Apocalypse, 89. Climate & Weather +1 more.

Hurrah for the Black Shirts

Martin Pugh

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 374. The Battle of Cable Street: Fascism Defeated, 373. Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader +1 more.

I, Claudius

Robert Graves

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Emperors of Rome The Roman Conquest of Britain

Mentioned in 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1), 500. The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2) +1 more.

July Crisis

Thomas Otte

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5), 470. The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (Part 2) +1 more.

Justine

Marquis de Sade

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Lord Byron The French Revolution

Mentioned in 476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2), 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3) +1 more.

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo, 540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3) +1 more.

Lady Bird book

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Custer's Last Stand Days

Mentioned in 453. Custer's Last Stand: The Final Showdown (Part 8), 452. Custer's Last Stand: The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Part 7) +1 more.

Lives of the Caesars

Suetonius

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 537. Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4), 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1) +1 more.

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2), 12 Days: Massacre of the Innocents and the Tay Bridge disaster +1 more.

Millennium

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:1066 The Road to 1066

Mentioned in 556. 1066: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3), 555. 1066: Slaughter at Stamford Bridge (Part 2) +1 more.

Munich

Robert Harris

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 529. The Nazis' Road to War: Showdown in Munich (Part 2), 528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1) +1 more.

My Early Life

Winston Churchill

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 241. Young Churchill: Prisoner and Fugitive (Part 3), 240. Young Churchill: Soldier of Empire (Part 2) +1 more.

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 624. Jack The Ripper: History’s Darkest Mystery (Part 1), 212. Haunted London (Part 4) +1 more.

Pax

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age (Extract), 340: Hadrian and Antinous +1 more.

Plutarch

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Evita Young Napoleon

Mentioned in 498. Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5), 495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2) +1 more.

Revelation

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 461. Dragons, 435. Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3) +1 more.

Rubicon

Tom Holland

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Crossing the Rubicon

Mentioned in 198. Cleopatra's Downfall (Part 4), 197. Antony & Cleopatra (Part 3) +1 more.

Sherlock Holmes

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Jack The Ripper The Murder of Franz Ferdinand

Mentioned in 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3), 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1) +1 more.

Sir Nigel

Arthur Conan Doyle

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 321: Hundred Years' War: A Storm of Swords (Part 4), 320: Hundred Years' War: The Black Prince (Part 3) +1 more.

State of Emergency

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 418. Britain in 1974: The Crisis Election (Part 2), 120. The Oil Weapon +1 more.

Suetonius

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 535. Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (Part 2), 224. Roman Holidays +1 more.

The Coming of the Terror

Timothy Tackett

3 mentions · 3 episodes

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Mentioned in 506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4), 504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2) +1 more.

Philip Sugden

3 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5), 625. Jack The Ripper: Horror in Whitechapel (Part 2).

The Fall of the Aztecs

3 mentions · 3 episodes

The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail

Mentioned in 390. The Fall of the Aztecs: War to the Death (Part 7), 387. The Fall of the Aztecs: Prisoners of Montezuma (Part 4) +1 more.

3 mentions · 3 episodes

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mentioned in 520. Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1), 302: The Mystery of the Cathars +1 more.

Oscar Wilde

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Lord Byron The Murder of Franz Ferdinand

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1), 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1) +1 more.

The Restless Republic

Anna Kay

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 336: Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Part 1), 333: The Republic of Britain: Life under Cromwell +1 more.

The Tale of Genji

Murasaki Shikibu

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 561. The Golden Age of Japan: Secrets of the Imperial Court (Part 2), 560. The Golden Age of Japan: Lady Murasaki and the Shining Prince (Part 1) +1 more.

The Twelve Caesars

Suetonius

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis, 305: The Fall of the Roman Republic +1 more.

The Viking Way

Neil Price

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:The Last Viking The World Cup of Gods

Mentioned in 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1), 358: Viking Sorcery +1 more.

The Wasteland

T.S. Eliot

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:1922 Queen Elizabeth II

Mentioned in 346: The Mystery of the Holy Grail (Part 2), 231. Queen Elizabeth II (Part 1) +1 more.

The World Crisis

Winston Churchill

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:JFK The Road to The Great War

Mentioned in 472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4), 393. JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (Part 2) +1 more.

Utopia

Thomas More

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2), 82. Sparta +1 more.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 497. Evita: Death of a Martyr (Part 4), 495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2) +1 more.

1914

Philip Larkin

2 mentions · 2 episodes

A Bitter Revolution, China's Struggle with the Modern World

Mentioned in 597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4), 222. Victorian Holidays.

Rana Mitter

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 366. The Architect of Modern China, 173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution.

A Night to Remember

Walter Lord

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 432. Titanic: The Survivors (Part 6), 431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5).

A Place of Greater Safety

Henry Mantel

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1), 479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5).

Aberystwyth, mon amour

Malcolm Price

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Adventures in Time, Nelson, a Hero of the Seas

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony, 172. The Falklands War: Afterlife (Part 4).

Achtung Panzer!

2 mentions · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 621. The Nazis at War: Blitzkrieg (Part 2).

Dominic Sandbrook

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 612. Nelson: The Final Showdown (Part 5), 518. Nelson: The Battle of the Nile (Part 5).

Aftermath

Harold Yeener

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The World Cup

Mentioned in 253. The World Cup: Post-war reconciliation, Brazilian dictatorship, and North Koreans in Middlesbrough (Part 2), 102. Germany from Adenauer to Angela.

Agincourt

Anne Currie

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 489. Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (Part 3), 487. Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1).

Agricola

Tacitus

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4), 105. Classics.

Alexander the Great

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 70. Children’s History, 6. Troy.

American Prometheus

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 344: Oppenheimer: The Witch Hunt (Part 2), 343: Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1).

Animal Farm

George Orwell

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 208. George Orwell, 125. The CIA.

Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5), 429. Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (Part 3).

Beowulf

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 461. Dragons, 71. England v Denmark.

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 400. Victorian Britain's Maddest Mystery, 85. Sherlock Holmes.

Blood Feud

Rosemary Sutcliffe

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 148. The Vikings Go East, 44. 1066.

Blood Meridian

Cormac McCarthy

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 455. Fall of the Sioux: The Ghost Dance (Part 2), 42. The Wild West.

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5), 69. England v Ukraine.

Book of Common Prayer

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 336: Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Part 1), 61. California.

Book of Kings

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Ancient Carthage

Mentioned in 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1), 41. Persia.

Brazil, a Biography

Eloisa Starling and Lilia Moritz-Schwartz

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 268: Brazil: The Last Emperor, 229. Portugal: Gold, Earthquakes, and Brazil (Part 3).

Brothers York

Thomas Penn

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

Mentioned in 139. The Princes in the Tower Part 2, 138. The Princes in the Tower Part 1.

Byron

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1), 207. Historical Love Island: THE WINNER.

Byron Life and Legend

Fiona McCarthy

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3), 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1).

Checkpoint Charlie

Ian McGregor

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 214. The Battle of Stalingrad (Part 1), 83. The Berlin Wall.

Children of Ash and Elm

Neil Price

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The World Cup of Gods

Mentioned in 358: Viking Sorcery, 59. The World Cup of Gods - Part 2.

Tom Holland

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 198. Cleopatra's Downfall (Part 4), 196. Julius Caesar & Cleopatra (Part 2).

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 349: The Birth of the United States (Part 3), 348: The Boston Tea Party (Part 2).

Confessions

St. Augustine

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 369. The Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death, 256. Germany: The White Rose.

Conquerors

Roger Crowley

2 mentions · 1 episode

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 228. Portugal: The Golden Age of Discovery (Part 2).

Conquest

Hugh Thomas

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3), 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2).

Constellation of Genius

Kevin Jackson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:1922

Mentioned in 137. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 2, 136. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1.

Countryman

Bo Lidegaard

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 284: Denmark: The Great Escape.

Dangerous Liaisons

Le Clos

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Delizia, the epic history of Italians and their food

Mentioned in 476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2), 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

David Turner's book

David Turner

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 368. The History Behind Hogwarts: Ancient Schools and Revolting Students.

John Dickey

2 mentions · 1 episode

Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century

Dickens

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Statues Titanic

Mentioned in 429. Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (Part 3), 77. Statues: Whitehall.

Discworld

Terry Pratchett

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies, 113. Hallowe'en and modern paganism.

Helen Thompson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Oil

Mentioned in 168. Oil: Conflict, Chaos and Climate Change, 167. Oil: The Making of the Modern World.

Don Juan

Lord Byron

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4), 441. Lord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (Part 2).

Dostoevsky

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 237. Marilyn Monroe, 128. Rasputin.

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen

Hilary Davidson

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 238. The Regency Revolution.

Eagle of the Ninth

Rosemary Sutcliffe

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Exterminate All the Brutes

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4), 14. Historical Fiction.

Embarrassment of Riches

Simon Schama

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 351: Amsterdam: Miracles, Money, and Mud (Part 1), 276: Netherlands: The Maid of Holland.

Empire of Booze

Henry Jeffreys

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 289: Drink.

End of History

Francis Fukuyama

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 23. The 90s, 21. The History of the Future.

Sven Linkvist

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo, 282: Morocco: The Rif War.

Fifth Sun

Camilla Townsend

2 mentions · 2 episodes

George MacDonald Fraser's novel

Mentioned in 387. The Fall of the Aztecs: Prisoners of Montezuma (Part 4), 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2).

Five Days in London

John Lukacs

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 43. 1940.

Flashman at the Charge

George McDonnell Fraser

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2), 69. England v Ukraine.

Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 398. JFK: The Mystery is Solved (Part 7), 12. Conspiracy Theories.

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 412. Romans in Space: Star Wars, Dune and Beyond..., 7. The Lessons of History.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3), 89. Climate & Weather.

From Ritual to Romance

Jesse Weston

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 346: The Mystery of the Holy Grail (Part 2), 19. King Arthur.

George MacDonald Fraser

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 323: History's Greatest Dogs, 68. The British Empire.

Gilgamesh

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City, 361. The Lost Library of Alexandria.

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 204. Gone with the Wind.

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 600. Chatham High Street, 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1).

Great Hatred

Ronan McGreevy

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Irish Civil War

Mentioned in 581. The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2), 580. The Irish Civil War: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson (Part 1).

Greek Religion

Volta Burkert

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 604. Greek Myths: Sex, Drugs & Tragedy (Part 3), 602. Greek Myths: Zeus, King of the Gods (Part 1).

Hannibal and Scipio

Simon Hornblower

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Hannibal Rome's Greatest Enemy

Mentioned in 642. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Bloodbath in Africa (Part 3), 569. Hannibal: Elephants Cross the Alps (Part 2).

Heimskringla

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Last Viking

Mentioned in 553. The Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome (Part 2), 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1).

Henry IV

William Shakespeare

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 487. Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1), 289: Drink.

Histories

Herodotus

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 330: Herodotus: The Birth of History, 156. When did the Roman Empire fall?.

Hitler

Ian Kershaw

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Nazis at War The Nazis in Power

Mentioned in 623. The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (Part 4), 406. The Nazis in Power: Hitler’s Road to War (Part 3).

I Claudius

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1), 369. The Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death.

Ian Kershaw

2 mentions · 2 episodes

In The Shadow of the Sword

Mentioned in 404. The Nazis in Power: The Night of the Long Knives (Part 1), 295: The Rise of the Nazis (Part 1).

Ilium

Dan Simmons

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 457. Helen of Troy: Queen of the Greek Myths (Part 1), 13. Stephen Fry and Troy.

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 265: Saudi Arabia: The Mystery of the Kaaba, 218. Theodora: Empress of Byzantium (Part 1).

Ivanhoe

Walter Scott

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1), 204. Gone with the Wind.

Jane Austen

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Britain in 1974 Lord Byron

Mentioned in 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1), 419. Britain in 1974: Countdown to a Coup (Part 3).

July Crisis

Thomas Otty

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Last Tango in Aberystwyth

Mentioned in 474. The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6), 472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4).

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 615. Disneyland: The Modern American Utopia, 109. Dinosaurs.

Ladybird books

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Days The Roman Conquest of Britain

Mentioned in 501. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3), 12 Days: The Battle of Wakefield and Emperor Karl I.

Malcolm Price

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 290: 2022: A History, 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

Laughing Till I Die

Tom Shippey

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Last Viking

Mentioned in 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1), 148. The Vikings Go East.

Libra

Don DeLillo

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 398. JFK: The Mystery is Solved (Part 7), 397. JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6).

Lincoln

Michael Burlingame

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 591. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (Part 2), 590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1).

Livy

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Hannibal Rome's Greatest Enemy

Mentioned in 641. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Hannibal’s Nemesis (Part 2), 569. Hannibal: Elephants Cross the Alps (Part 2).

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 226. The Lord of the Rings, 127. Neanderthals.

Lost Hearts

M.R. James

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 582. The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery, 66. Ghosts.

Magic in Merlin's Realm, A History of Occult Politics in Britain

2 mentions · 1 episode

Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Magicians of the Gods

Graham Hancock

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2), 314: Atlantis: The Legend (Part 1).

Roberto Colasso

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Helen of Troy The World Cup of Gods

Mentioned in 457. Helen of Troy: Queen of the Greek Myths (Part 1), 59. The World Cup of Gods - Part 2.

Martin Chuzzlewit

Charles Dickens

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 263: USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry, 132. A Christmas Carol.

Mary Queen of Scots

Jenny Wormald

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 586. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Battle for Scotland (Part 3), 584. Mary, Queen of Scots: Birth of a Legend (Part 1).

Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brien

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 608. Nelson: Slaughter in Naples (Part 1), 290: 2022: A History.

Max Hastings

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The First World War The Murder of Franz Ferdinand

Mentioned in 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3), 466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2).

Max Hastings' book

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The First World War The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 622. The Nazis at War: The Fall of France (Part 3), 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3).

Metamorphoses

Ovid

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4), 105. Classics.

Millennium

Tom Holland

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Road to 1066

Mentioned in 549. The Road to 1066: Revenge of the Vikings (Part 2), 460. The Empress of the Apocalypse.

Natural History

Pliny the Elder

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 216. Pigeons, 175. Crucifixion (Part 1).

Neuromancer

William Gibson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Silicon Valley

Mentioned in 93. Silicon Valley Part 1, 23. The 90s.

Never Had It So Good

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 559. The Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties of Sixties Rebellion (Part 2), 464. Modern British Elections (Part 2).

Odyssey

Homer

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2), 602. Greek Myths: Zeus, King of the Gods (Part 1).

Orientalism

Edward Said

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo, 126. Napoleon in Egypt.

Oscar Wilde

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1), 340: Hadrian and Antinous.

Our Man in Havana

Graham Greene

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre, 12. Conspiracy Theories.

Pagan Britain

Ronald Hutton

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4), 500. The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2).

Pamela

Samuel Richardson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:London

Mentioned in 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence, 211. London: People (Part 3).

Parkland

Vincent Bugliosi

2 mentions · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 394. JFK: Death in Dallas (Part 3).

Patrick O'Brien

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Captain Cook

Mentioned in 380. Captain Cook: History’s Greatest Explorer (Part 1), 258. Costa Rica: Civil War.

Pax

Tom Holland

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 369. The Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death, 340: Hadrian and Antinous.

Persian Fire

Tom Holland

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 145. Babylon, 99. Thermopylae & Salamis Episode 2.

Peter the Great

Robert K. Massey

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Peter the Great

Mentioned in 562. Peter the Great: The Rise of Russia (Part 1), 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

Pompeii

Robert Harris

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4), 355: Roman Apocalypse: Pompeii 79 AD.

Protestants

Alec Ryrie

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 433. Luther: The Man Who Changed the World (Part 1), 425. The History Of Chocolate.

Reclaiming History

Vincent Bugliosi

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 397. JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6), 394. JFK: Death in Dallas (Part 3).

Edmund Burke

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6), 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

Return of the King

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 88. The First Anglo-Afghan War, 75. The East India Company.

Richard Evans

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 298: The Nazis: Total Power (Part 4), 295: The Rise of the Nazis (Part 1).

Ring of Steel

Alexander Watson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The First World War The Road to The Great War

Mentioned in 594. The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1), 474. The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6).

Salambo

Gustave Flaubert

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Carthage vs. Rome

Mentioned in 424. Carthage vs. Rome: Total War (Part 4), 194. The First Fascist.

Savonarola

Donald Weinstein

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 575. The Medici: The Bonfire of the Vanities (Part 4), 574. The Medici: Curse of the Mad Monk (Part 3).

Secret History

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 220. Justinian & Theodora: The Secret History (Part 3), 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

Servants

Lucy Lethbridge

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey, 290: 2022: A History.

Shakespeare

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Henry IV Titanic

Mentioned in 486. Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2), 429. Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (Part 3).

Shooting an Elephant

George Orwell

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 208. George Orwell, 68. The British Empire.

Simon Sharma

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The English and Their History

Mentioned in 503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1), 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

Sir Nigel

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 319: Hundred Years' War: Triumph of the Longbow (Part 2), 318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1).

Spycatcher

Peter Wright

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 419. Britain in 1974: Countdown to a Coup (Part 3), 35. The Prime Ministers’ World Cup.

Stalingrad

Anthony Beaver

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 215. Stalingrad and the Red Army (Part 2), 214. The Battle of Stalingrad (Part 1).

Stations of the Sun

Ronald Hutton

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 402. Christmas: Pagan or Christian?, 113. Hallowe'en and modern paganism.

Tarker the Otter

Henry Williamson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 629. WWI: The Christmas Truce, 372. The Birth of British Fascism.

The Decameron

Boccaccio

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 416. The Canterbury Tales (Part 4), 73. England v Italy.

The Descent of Man

Charles Darwin

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man, 426. History's Greatest Monkeys.

The Difference Engine

William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3), 32. What if?.

The Dragon in the West

Daniel Ogden

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 462. St George: Dragon-Slayer, 461. Dragons.

Robert Toombs

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 46. Culture Wars, 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

The Escape Artist

Jonathan Friedland

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 292: The Shadow of the Holocaust, 291: The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz.

The Gardener

Rudyard Kipling

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex, 118. End of the First World War & Remembrance.

The Great British Dream Factory

Dominic Sandbrook

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 186. The New Elizabethan Age, 185. Agatha Christie.

The Great War

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Evita The First World War

Mentioned in 597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4), 495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2).

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Mentioned in 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5), 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3).

Edward Gibbon

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 240. Young Churchill: Soldier of Empire (Part 2), 111. Golden Ages.

The Intellectual Life of the English Working Classes

Jonathan Rose

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies, 50. Teenagers.

The Interpretation of Dreams

Sigmund Freud

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2), 583. The Lion, the Priest and the Parlourmaids: A 1930s Sex Scandal.

The Last English King

Julian Rathbone

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:1066

Mentioned in 557. 1066: The Norman Conquest (Part 4), 44. 1066.

The Marriage of Figaro

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 526. Mozart: History's Greatest Prodigy LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall, 478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4).

The Moonstone

Wilkie Collins

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 601. Scandal in the White House, 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 615. Disneyland: The Modern American Utopia, 403. The Mystery of the Pregnant Pope.

The Name of the Rose

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 361. The Lost Library of Alexandria, 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

The Odyssey

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Ancient Carthage Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4), 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1).

The Perfect King

Ian Mortimer

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 319: Hundred Years' War: Triumph of the Longbow (Part 2), 318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1).

The Pike

Lucy Hughes Hallett

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 194. The First Fascist, 17. Fascism.

The Pillow Book

Seishonagon

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The Realness of Things Past

Mentioned in 561. The Golden Age of Japan: Secrets of the Imperial Court (Part 2), 277: Japan: Samurai and Shoguns.

Greg Anderson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 604. Greek Myths: Sex, Drugs & Tragedy (Part 3), 334: Athens and the Birth of Democracy.

The Republic

Charles Townsend

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Irish Civil War The Irish War of Independence

Mentioned in 581. The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2), 577. The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (Part 2).

The Rest Is History

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 542. Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe, 7. The Lessons of History.

The Revolutionary Temper

Robert Danton

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The Selling of the President

Mentioned in 477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3), 476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2).

Joe McGuinness

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 513. America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeback (Part 6), 464. Modern British Elections (Part 2).

The Silk Roads

Peter Frankopan

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo, 313: Climate Apocalypse.

The Tailor of Panama

John le Carré

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre, 12. Conspiracy Theories.

The Third World War

General Sir John Hackett

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin

Mentioned in 184. History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin (Part 2), 21. The History of the Future.

The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 411. The Man in the Iron Mask, 242. French History on Film.

The Trigger

Tim Butcher

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The War at the End of the World

Mentioned in 466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2), 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

Mario Vargas Llosa

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 268: Brazil: The Last Emperor, 22. Weird Wars.

The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:1922 Days

Mentioned in 136. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1, 12 Days: The Murder of Thomas Becket and the Wounded Knee Massacre.

The Wasteland

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in 290: 2022: A History, 12 Days: Jean-Bédel Bokassa and the memory of pandemics.

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1), 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The World of Yesterday

Stefan Zweig

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Murder of Franz Ferdinand The Road to The Great War

Mentioned in 469. The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1), 468. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4).

The Wretched of the Earth

Frantz Fanon

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The Year That Broke Politics

Mentioned in 637. Revolution in Iran: Rise of the Ayatollah (Part 2), 100. Decolonising Africa.

Luke A. Nictor

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4), 508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1).

The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Michael Chabon

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 410. The Nazis in Power: The Night of Broken Glass (Part 7), 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

The Young Elizabeth

Nicola Tallis

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 618. Elizabeth I: The Shadow of the Tower (Part 3), 617. Elizabeth I: Anne Boleyn's Bastard (Part 2).

Thucydides

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Ancient Carthage

Mentioned in 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1), 7. The Lessons of History.

Thunder at Twilight

Frederick Morton

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 468. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4), 466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2).

Titanic Lies

Richard Davenport Hines

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 432. Titanic: The Survivors (Part 6), 430. Titanic: The Iceberg Strikes (Part 4).

Tolkien

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Martin Luther and J.R.R. Tolkien, 53. Game of Thrones.

Tom Brown's School Days

Thomas Hughes

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 430. Titanic: The Iceberg Strikes (Part 4), 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

Tom Brown's School Days

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Modern Olympics Nelson

Mentioned in 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1), 80. Modern Olympics - Part 1.

Tom Jones

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:London

Mentioned in 211. London: People (Part 3), 24. Sex in the City.

Tourists

Lucy Lethbridge

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex, 222. Victorian Holidays.

Trafalgar

Adam Nicholson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 612. Nelson: The Final Showdown (Part 5), 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1).

Tudor England

Lucy Wooding

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 619. Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen (Part 4), 618. Elizabeth I: The Shadow of the Tower (Part 3).

Turn of the Screw

Henry James

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 582. The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery, 66. Ghosts.

Ulysses

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 290: 2022: A History, 237. Marilyn Monroe.

Virgil

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 198. Cleopatra's Downfall (Part 4), 13. Stephen Fry and Troy.

Voltaire

2 mentions · 2 episodes

112 Lessons in How Democracies Die

Mentioned in 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6), 411. The Man in the Iron Mask.

War and Peace

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1), 88. The First Anglo-Afghan War.

War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 68. The British Empire, 9. Causes of the First World War.

Wind in the Willows

Kenneth Graham

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 205. The Last Days of Boris Johnson, 113. Hallowe'en and modern paganism.

Wolf Hall

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (Part 1), 74. The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 7. The Lessons of History.

12 Years a Slave

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Solomon Northup and Albert Camus.

120 Days of Sodom

Marquis de Sade

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence.

1421, the year China discovered the world

Gavin Menzies

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 121. Australia Before Cook.

1491

Charles C. Mann

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 644. The Fall of the Incas: Empire of Gold (Part 1).

1606: The Year of King Lear

James Shapiro

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 104. Macbeth.

1922

Kevin Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 290: 2022: A History.

1983

Taylor Downing

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 92. Nuclear Weapons.

1983 the world at the brink

taylor

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 92. Nuclear Weapons.

19th Century London

Jerry White

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 625. Jack The Ripper: Horror in Whitechapel (Part 2).

450 at Paddington

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

a biography

Ian Mortimer

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1).

A Bit of Revolution

1 mention · 1 episode

A book by Matthew Restle

Matthew Restle

1 mention · 1 episode

a book on the Battle of Trafalgar

Mentioned in 391. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (Part 8).

Tim Clayton and Phil Craig

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 245. Trafalgar: Victory (Part 3).

a brilliant book

James Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 623. The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (Part 4).

A Brilliant Book on the Iranian Revolution

Michael Axworthy

1 mention · 1 episode

A Discourse of Bath and the Hot Waters There

Mentioned in 636. Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (Part 1).

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 263: USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 221. Holidays: Byron's Grand Tour.

A Discovery of Witches

Deborah Harkness

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 542. Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe.

a fantastic new history of the Aztecs

Camilla Townsend

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 32. What if?.

A Gambling Man

Jenny Oglo

1 mention · 1 episode

A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind

Mentioned in 124. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 2.

A Hanging

George Orwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 208. George Orwell.

A History of Celebrity

Greg Jenner

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3).

Michael Axworthy

1 mention · 1 episode

A History of Magic Witchcraft

Mentioned in 637. Revolution in Iran: Rise of the Ayatollah (Part 2).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 26. Witches.

A Jest of Robin Hood

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

A Man of Iron

Troy Sinek

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 601. Scandal in the White House.

A Man on the Moon, The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts

Andrew Chaikin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 438. The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks.

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

Gareth Williams

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 233. The Loch Ness Monster.

A Murder is Announced

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

A Natural History of Ghosts

Roger Clark

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 436. Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4).

A Naval History of England

Thomas Ledyard

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1).

A New World Begins

Jeremy Popkin

1 mention · 1 episode

a poem by the Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas

Mentioned in 477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3).

R.S. Thomas

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 359: Martin Luther King's Dream.

A Radical History of Britain

Ted Vallance

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 62. Magna Carta.

A Rumor of War

Philip Caputo

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 324: Fall of Saigon: The Nightmare Begins (Part 1).

A Secret Life, The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland

Charles Lackman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 601. Scandal in the White House.

A Short History of Japan

Chris Harding

1 mention · 1 episode

A Short History of the Barclay Match

Mentioned in 560. The Golden Age of Japan: Lady Murasaki and the Shining Prince (Part 1).

Derek Martin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 592. Mad Victorian Sport.

A Sign of Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

A Social History of the Third Reich

Richard Grunberger

1 mention · 1 episode

a study of the IRA in Cork during the war of independence

Mentioned in 405. The Nazis in Power: The Nuremberg Rallies (Part 2).

Peter Hart

1 mention · 1 episode

A Tale of Two Aberystwyths

Mentioned in 577. The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (Part 2).

Malcolm Price

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Daniel Defoe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 600. Chatham High Street.

A Treatise on the One Humped Camel in Health and Disease

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 372. The Birth of British Fascism.

A two-volume biography of him

Frederick Whittaker

1 mention · 1 episode

a very good history of the Second World War

Mentioned in 452. Custer's Last Stand: The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Part 7).

A Very British Coup

Chris Mullen

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The 1973 Chilean Coup

Mentioned in 370. The 1973 Chilean Coup: Allende, Nixon and the CIA (Part 1).

Alan Allport

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 7. The Lessons of History.

A Vignette

M.R. James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 133. Christmas churches.

A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

A Wonderful Book About the Shoal Family

Annette Dumback and Judd Newborn

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 256. Germany: The White Rose.

ABC Murders

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 257. Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man.

Absolute Beginners

Colin McGuinness

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 363. Sixties Fashion: The Teenage Revolution (Part 1).

Acts of the Apostles

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 435. Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3).

Adam Tooze

1 mention · 1 episode

Adonis Shelley's elegy on the death of Keats

Mentioned in 406. The Nazis in Power: Hitler’s Road to War (Part 3).

1 mention · 1 episode

Adventure in Time, The Fall of the Aztecs

Mentioned in 559. The Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties of Sixties Rebellion (Part 2).

Adrienne Mayer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 109. Dinosaurs.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 425. The History Of Chocolate.

Adventures in Time, Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 304: The Murder of Julius Caesar.

Adventures in Time, the First World War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 467. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3).

Aeschylus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 458. Helen of Troy: A Family of Blood (Part 2).

After Tamerlane

John Darwin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 25. Empires.

After the Ice

Stephen Mithin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City.

Agatha Christie's books

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Agent Sonia

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre.

Agent Zigzag

Ben McIntyre

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre.

Al-Ghazi

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City.

Alan Quatermain

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 332: King Solomon's Mines.

Albion Seed

David Hackett Fisher

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 18. The North South Divide.

Alec Ryrie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 316: The First Abolitionist.

Alex Renton's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 68. The British Empire.

Alexander

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 195. Young Cleopatra (Part 1).

Alexander Watson's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons

Mentioned in 594. The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1).

Michael Wood

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 119. World Cup of Kings & Queens preview.

Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5).

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 158. Killer Fashion.

All Played Out

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 33. The Beautiful Game.

All Slave Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage Apostates

Benjamin Lay

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 316: The First Abolitionist.

All the Devils Are Here

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 150. Smuggling.

All the New Roman Empire

Antony Caldellus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 460. The Empress of the Apocalypse.

All the President's Men

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Watergate

Mentioned in 107. Watergate: Part 2.

Almagest

Ptolemy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 112. Medieval Science.

Almayer's Folly

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo.

Altered Paths

Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 32. What if?.

Ambre Solaire

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex.

American Brutus

Michael Kaufman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 591. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (Part 2).

American Kompromat

Craig Unger

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 639. Revolution in Iran: Death in the Desert (Part 4).

American Notes

Charles Dickens

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 263: USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry.

American Tabloid

James Elroy

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 397. JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6).

An American Uprising

Kate Werron

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 263: USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry.

An Imperial Possession

David Mattingly

1 mention · 1 episode

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4).

Ian Pears

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 333: The Republic of Britain: Life under Cromwell.

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization

Guillermo Algarze

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City.

Anderson's Constitutions

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 335: The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory.

Andrew Lambert

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 611. Nelson: Bonaparte Prepares to Strike (Part 4).

Andrew Roberts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 190. Jubilees.

Angels with Dirty Faces

Jonathan Wilson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The World Cup

Mentioned in 252. The World Cup: British Imperialism, South American rivalries, and Mussolini (Part 1).

Anna Kaye's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 336: Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Part 1).

Anne Frank's diary

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 292: The Shadow of the Holocaust.

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Wilfred Owen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 90. The Western Front.

Anti-Semitism in Britain

Anthony Julius

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 12. Conspiracy Theories.

Antigone

Sophocles

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2).

Antonia Fraser's account of Mary's tender heart

Antonia Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

Antonia Fraser's book about the Knights of the Round Table

Mentioned in 588. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Mystery of the Exploding Mansion (Part 5).

Antonia Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 19. King Arthur.

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shiaism

Apocalypse Now

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 325: Fall of Saigon: Apocalypse Now (Part 2).

Abbas Aminat

1 mention · 1 episode

Archaeology, History, and Custer's Life

Mentioned in 636. Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (Part 1).

Appointment with Death

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Aradia

Charles Godfrey Leland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 113. Hallowe'en and modern paganism.

Richard Fox

1 mention · 1 episode

Archimedes fulcrum of science

Mentioned in 453. Custer's Last Stand: The Final Showdown (Part 8).

Archangel

Robert Harris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 161. Yeltsin, Economic Chaos and President Putin.

Nicholas the Castro

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Rome's Greatest Enemy

Mentioned in 640. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Carthage at the Gates (Part 1).

Argonautica

Apollonius

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4).

Aristotle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 112. Medieval Science.

Aristotle's Ethics

Aristotle

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 240. Young Churchill: Soldier of Empire (Part 2).

Arthur and George

Julian Barnes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

Arthur Young

1 mention · 1 episode

Atlantis, the Antediluvian World

Mentioned in 478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4).

Ascension of Isaiah

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 56. Nero.

Atlantis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

Ignatius Donnelly

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

Aurora Lee

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 140. The Birth of the Railways.

Auschwitz and the Allies

Martin Gilbert

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 292: The Shadow of the Holocaust.

Austerity Britain

David Kynaston

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 464. Modern British Elections (Part 2).

Austerlitz

W.G. Sebald

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 180. England & Englishness.

Authors Take Sides on the Falklands

1 mention · 1 episode

autobiography of the executioner of Paris

Mentioned in 170. The Falklands War: The Task Force Sails (Part 2).

Charles-Henri Samson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 445. The Habsburgs: Secrets of a Dynasty.

Baghdad during the Abbasid Caliphate

Guy Lestrange

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 378. Baghdad: The Golden Age (Part 3).

Baghdad, City of Peace, City of Blood

Justin Marozzi

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 377. Baghdad: Crossroads of the Universe (Part 2).

Bart Van Loo's book

Bart Van Loo

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 138. The Princes in the Tower Part 1.

Beatrix Potter

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex.

Beau Brummel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 238. The Regency Revolution.

Beef and Liberty

Ben Rogers

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 286: England: Beef and Liberty.

Belisarius

Robert Graves

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 219. Justinian: Making Rome Great Again (Part 2).

Bernal Diaz

1 mention · 1 episode

Betjeman did his best British churches

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3).

Bernard Cornwall

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 104. Macbeth.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 96. The UK’s Best Churches.

Beyond the Boundary

C.L.R. James

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:London

Mentioned in 211. London: People (Part 3).

Beyond the Northlands

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 103. The Norse Sagas.

Beyond the Wall

Katja

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain.

Beyond the Wall, East Germany, 1949 to 1990

Katja

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 322: East Germany: Life Behind the Iron Curtain.

Bhagavad Gita

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 343: Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1).

biography of Augustus

Suetonius

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1).

Biography of Darwin

Adrian Desmond and James Moore

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Port wine and Darwin sets sail.

biography of Nelson

John Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4).

biography of Nelson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 97. Top Ten Mistresses.

Black Elk Speaks

1 mention · 1 episode

Bond, The Man Who Saved Britain

Mentioned in 455. Fall of the Sioux: The Ghost Dance (Part 2).

Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Solomon Northup and Albert Camus.

Black Spartacus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 48. The French Revolution.

Blackwood's magazine

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 88. The First Anglo-Afghan War.

Blonde

Joyce Carol Oates

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 237. Marilyn Monroe.

Blood and Iron

Katja Heuer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 31. The Second Reich.

Bob Spitz's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 312: Reagan, Iran-Contra and the Cold War (Part 3).

Boccaccio

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 293: Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days' Queen (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 360. Fear City: New York in the 1970s.

Book of Exodus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 42. The Wild West.

Book of Lord Shang

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 20. China.

book on aqueducts

Frontinus

1 mention · 1 episode

book on military stratagems

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4).

Frontinus

1 mention · 1 episode

book on the Norman conquest

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4).

Mark Morris

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 556. 1066: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3).

book on the Persians

Pierre Briand

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin

Mentioned in 184. History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin (Part 2).

book on the Reformation

Dierman McCulloch

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 433. Luther: The Man Who Changed the World (Part 1).

book on this whole case

EM Rose

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 582. The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery.

books about Nelson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1).

books by Peter Hopkirk

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 87. Afghanistan - Part 1.

Bosworth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 74. The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

Bourneville

Jonathan Coe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 425. The History Of Chocolate.

Brand Luther

Andrew Pettigree

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 436. Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4).

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 21. The History of the Future.

Brazilian Adventure

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

Brideshead Revisited

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

Brighton Rock

Graham Greene

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 264: Mexico: Day of the Dead.

brilliant biography

Matthew Sturgis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 342: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Downfall and Prison (Part 2).

Brilliant Orange

David Winner

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The World Cup

Mentioned in 253. The World Cup: Post-war reconciliation, Brazilian dictatorship, and North Koreans in Middlesbrough (Part 2).

brilliant paired biography

Helen Castor

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1).

Britain Against Itself

Samuel Beer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 263: USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry.

Britain and the Napoleonic Wars

Jenny Uglow

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4).

Britain's War Machine

David Edgerton

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 623. The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (Part 4).

Britannia Unchained

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 246. The Fall of Liz Truss.

Britannia, Failed State

Stuart Laycock

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4).

Broken Spears

Miguel León Portillo

1 mention · 1 episode

Building Anglo-Saxon England

Mentioned in 391. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (Part 8).

John Blair

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Alfred the Great

Mentioned in 251. Alfred the Great: Return of the King (Part 2).

Bullfinch's Mythology

Thomas Bullfinch

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 13. Stephen Fry and Troy.

Bullock

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hitler, with Ian Kershaw

Mentioned in 63. Hitler, with Ian Kershaw - part 1.

Bureau of Military History

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4).

Byron

Thomas More

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 441. Lord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (Part 2).

Byron and Greek Love

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1).

Calvin Coolidge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 438. The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks.

Camilla Townsend

1 mention · 1 episode

Cannae, the experience of battle in the Second Punic War

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3).

Candide

Voltaire

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1).

Cannae

Adrian Goldsworthy

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hannibal

Mentioned in 571. Hannibal: Roman Bloodbath at Cannae (Part 4).

Greg Daly

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hannibal

Mentioned in 571. Hannibal: Roman Bloodbath at Cannae (Part 4).

Canso de la Cruzada

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 302: The Mystery of the Cathars.

Carmen

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 556. 1066: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3).

Casabianca

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 518. Nelson: The Battle of the Nile (Part 5).

Casanova's memoirs

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 24. Sex in the City.

Casino 44, Five Months of Hell in Italy

James Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis.

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

Catherine Mansfield

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

Cervantes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 258. Costa Rica: Civil War.

Chantal Thomas in her wonderful book about the American Revolution

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2).

Chapman's Homer

John Keats

1 mention · 1 episode

Charles Dickens biography

Mentioned in 384. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Adventure Begins (Part 1).

Charlemagne

Rosamund McKittrick

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Charlemagne

Mentioned in 525. Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3).

Claire Tomlin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 133. Christmas churches.

Charles Martel

Patrick Geary

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Charlemagne

Mentioned in 523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1).

Chaucer, a European life

Marian Turner

1 mention · 1 episode

children's history of Alexander the Great

Chevalier d'Eon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 335: The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory.

Chicago '68

David Farber

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 512. America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 117. Alexander the Great part 2.

China at War

Hans van der Veen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 236. China and World War II (Part 2).

China's Good War

1 mention · 1 episode

China's War with Japan, 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival

Rana Mitter

1 mention · 1 episode

Chocolate y Tobacco, Ayuno Eclesiástico y Natural

Mentioned in 236. China and World War II (Part 2).

Tomás de Leon Pinelo

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 425. The History Of Chocolate.

Choosing War

Fred Logevill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 72. The Vietnam War.

Christine de Pizan

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 632. Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1).

Christopher Hibbert writes about him

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 572. The Medici: Masters of Florence (Part 1).

Churchill

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 240. Young Churchill: Soldier of Empire (Part 2).

Cicero

1 mention · 1 episode

CJ Sansom's brilliant counterfactual novel

Mentioned in 478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4).

City Close Up

Jeremy Seabrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 606. Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 32. What if?.

Clash of Civilizations

Samuel P. Huntington

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 21. The History of the Future.

Classes and Cultures

Ross McKibben

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 18. The North South Divide.

Claudius the God

Robert Graves

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1).

Cleopatra and Mark Antony

Tom Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 195. Young Cleopatra (Part 1).

Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 195. Young Cleopatra (Part 1).

Code of the Worcesters

P.G. Wodehouse

1 mention · 1 episode

Coleridge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex.

Collapse

Vladislav Zubok

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 159. Young Putin, the KGB and the Soviet Union.

Collapse

Zuboff

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 160. The Fall of the Soviet Union.

Colosseum

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Spartacus and Gladiators, with Mary Beard.

Command

1 mention · 1 episode

Command, How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War

Al Murray

1 mention · 1 episode

Commentaries on the Civil War

Julius Caesar

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Crossing the Rubicon

Mentioned in 135. Crossing the Rubicon: The die is cast.

Commentaries on the War in Gaul

Julius Caesar

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Julius Caesar, with Mary Beard.

Concerning Beards

Alan Withey

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

Concerning Heretics and Whether They're to be Persecuted

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 274: Switzerland: Calvin's Cancel Culture.

Congo

David van Rijbroek

1 mention · 1 episode

Coronation, A History of Kingship in the British Monarchy

Mentioned in 539. Horror in the Congo: The Crimes of Empire (Part 2).

Cornish Wrecking

Catherine J. Pierce

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 150. Smuggling.

Roy Strong

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 329: Coronations: Chaos, Ceremony and Empire (Part 3).

Cortez and Moctezuma

1 mention · 1 episode

Cricket Beyond a Boundary

Mentioned in 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2).

Counterfactuals

Jeffrey Parker and Philip Tetlock

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 32. What if?.

C.L.R. James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 25. Empires.

Cromwell and Ireland, New Perspectives

Martin Bennett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 54. Cromwell and the Protectorate.

Crown and Scepter: A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II

Tracy Borman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 119. World Cup of Kings & Queens preview.

Culture Wars

James Davison Hunter

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 46. Culture Wars.

Cursed Kings

Jonathan Sumption

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 487. Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1).

Custer and Crazy Horse

Stephen Ambrose

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 447. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (Part 2).

Custer's Last Stand

1 mention · 1 episode

Daily Life in Ancient Rome

Mentioned in 448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3).

D.H. Lawrence

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex.

D'Annunzio

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 194. The First Fascist.

France Dupont

1 mention · 1 episode

Daisy Miller

Henry James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

Dan Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

Declaration of Independence

Mentioned in 576. The Irish War of Independence: Rise of the IRA (Part 1).

Dance of the Fury

Mike Nyberg

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 90. The Western Front.

Darwin

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5).

Das Kapital

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 343: Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1).

David Aronovich's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 38. Communism.

David Douglas

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Road to 1066

Mentioned in 551. The Road to 1066: Countdown to Conquest (Part 4).

David Goldblatt's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Modern Olympics

Mentioned in 81. Modern Olympics - Part 2.

De Chocolates Potu

Cardinal Francesco Maria Brancaccio

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 425. The History Of Chocolate.

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 342: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Downfall and Prison (Part 2).

De revolutionibus

Nicolaus Copernicus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 112. Medieval Science.

Death Comes as the End

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 299: The Greatest Female Pharaoh.

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 237. Marilyn Monroe.

Death on the Nile

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Death or Victory?

Dan Snow

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 47. The Seven Years' War.

Thomas Jefferson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 349: The Birth of the United States (Part 3).

Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

1 mention · 1 episode

definitive book on the battle

Mentioned in 479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5).

Decline of the West

Oswald Spengler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 21. The History of the Future.

Michael Lawson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 556. 1066: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3).

Demonology

James VI of Scotland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 26. Witches.

Demonology

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 104. Macbeth.

Desolation Island

Patrick O'Brien

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 610. Nelson: The Battle of Copenhagen (Part 3).

Diaries

Victor Klemperer

1 mention · 1 episode

Dictionary of the Khazars

Mentioned in 409. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's War on the Jews (Part 6).

Diary of a Nobody

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 459. The Suit, Savile Row, and Smartly Dressed Men.

Diary of Samuel Pepys

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

Dibben McCulloch

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 434. Luther: The Revolution Begins (Part 2).

Milorad Pavic

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 148. The Vikings Go East.

Digging Up Britain, A New History in Ten Extraordinary Discoveries

Mike Pitts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 199. Stonehenge.

Dilettio

1 mention · 1 episode

Discoveries, The Voyages of Captain Cook

Discipline and Punish

Michel Foucault

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 354: Paris 1968: The Return of De Gaulle (Part 2).

Discoveries

Nicholas Thomas

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Captain Cook

Mentioned in 381. Captain Cook: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 2).

Nicholas Thomas

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Captain Cook

Mentioned in 380. Captain Cook: History’s Greatest Explorer (Part 1).

Does Chocolate Break an Ecclesiastical Fast?

Antonio de Leon Pinelo

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 425. The History Of Chocolate.

Dominic's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Dominic's book on Cleopatra

Mentioned in 169. The Falklands War: Countdown to Invasion (Part 1).

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Dominic's book on Henry VIII

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 70. Children’s History.

Dominic's new book on Nelson

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4).

Don Quixote

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greatest Paintings

Mentioned in Greatest Paintings: The Ghost of Spain – Velázquez’s Las Meninas.

Donald Weinstein on his book on this period

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 572. The Medici: Masters of Florence (Part 1).

Donald Weinstein's book

Donald Weinstein

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 575. The Medici: The Bonfire of the Vanities (Part 4).

Doomsday Book

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 557. 1066: The Norman Conquest (Part 4).

Dorothea O'Sears

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 257. Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man.

Dorset as it was long, long ago

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 109. Dinosaurs.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3).

Dr. No

Ian Fleming

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

Dracula

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 332: King Solomon's Mines.

Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World

Rob Sheffield

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 91. The Beatles.

E.P. Sanders

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 288: Jesus Christ: The History (Part 2).

Early Carolingian Warfare

Bernard S. Bachrach

1 mention · 1 episode

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Mentioned in 522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3).

East West Street

Philippe Sands

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 155. Ukraine and Russia.

Easter 1916

William Butler Yeats

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4).

Venerable Bede

1 mention · 1 episode

Eight Days in May, How Germany's War Ended

Mentioned in 522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3).

Edward Hall

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 486. Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2).

Eichmann and Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 284: Denmark: The Great Escape.

Volker Ulrich

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 102. Germany from Adenauer to Angela.

Einhard

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Charlemagne

Mentioned in 525. Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3).

El túnel

Ernesto Sabato

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 498. Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5).

Embers of the Hands

Eleanor Barracliffe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 491. History's Greatest Beards: From Egyptian Queens to Medieval Conquerors (Part 1).

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 141. General Gordon: The Ultimate Victorian Hero.

Empire Land

Satnam Sanghera

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 68. The British Empire.

Empireland

Satnam Sanghera

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 68. The British Empire.

Endeavour

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Captain Cook

Mentioned in 380. Captain Cook: History’s Greatest Explorer (Part 1).

England Arise

Judith Barker

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Peasants' Revolt

Mentioned in 413. The Peasants' Revolt: England Erupts (Part 1).

England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton

Kate Williams

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 607. Nelson’s Lover: The Scandalous Lady Hamilton.

English Journey

J.B. Priestley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 374. The Battle of Cable Street: Fascism Defeated.

Enough of the Dead

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 118. End of the First World War & Remembrance.

Ernest and the Wild West

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 42. The Wild West.

Ernie O'Malley's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Irish Civil War

Mentioned in 581. The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2).

Escape from Rome

Walter Scheidel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 32. What if?.

Eternal Victory

Michael McCormack

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 219. Justinian: Making Rome Great Again (Part 2).

Eurasia

Bruno Massange

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 30. A Royal Row.

Euripides and Dionysus

R.P. Winnington Ingram

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 604. Greek Myths: Sex, Drugs & Tragedy (Part 3).

Europe's First Revolution

R.I. Moore

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 302: The Mystery of the Cathars.

Evgeny Onegin

Alexander Pushkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 279: Cameroon: The Slave General of Peter the Great.

Evil Under the Sun

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Face of Battle

John Keegan

1 mention · 1 episode

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

Mentioned in 489. Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (Part 3).

Dr. Eleanor Rycroft

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

Fake History

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 166. Genghis Khan: Lord of the Mongols.

Falklands soldiers memoirs

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 171. The Falklands War: Battle for the Islands (Part 3).

Fanny Hill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 24. Sex in the City.

Farewell, My Queen

Chantal Thomas

1 mention · 1 episode

Fashion in the French Revolution

Mentioned in 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

Aileen Ribeiro

1 mention · 1 episode

Fashion Victims, the Dangers of Dress, Past and Present

Mentioned in 507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5).

Fashion Victims

Alison

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 158. Killer Fashion.

Alison Matthews David

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 158. Killer Fashion.

Fashionable Fancies

Maria Edgeworth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 238. The Regency Revolution.

Fatherland

Robert Harris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 32. What if?.

Faust

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 234. Germans Behaving Badly.

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

Hunter S. Thompson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Watergate

Mentioned in 106. Watergate: Part 1.

Fever Pitch

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 33. The Beautiful Game.

Finding Uncanny

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 234. Germans Behaving Badly.

Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

First World War

1 mention · 1 episode

Flashman and the Redskins

Mentioned in 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3).

Flashman and the Dragon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 141. General Gordon: The Ultimate Victorian Hero.

George MacDonald Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 446. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (Part 1).

Flashman in Ethiopia

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 22. Weird Wars.

Flashman's Lady

George MacDonald Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 317: African Amazons.

Fletchner

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 164. Saint Patrick.

Florentine Codex

1 mention · 1 episode

Football Against the Enemy

Mentioned in 388. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Festival of Blood (Part 5).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 33. The Beautiful Game.

Football Nation

David Goldblatt

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The World Cup

Mentioned in 253. The World Cup: Post-war reconciliation, Brazilian dictatorship, and North Koreans in Middlesbrough (Part 2).

Fouché

Stephen Schwartz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 57. Paris.

Foundation and Empire

Isaac Asimov

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 412. Romans in Space: Star Wars, Dune and Beyond....

Four Days in November

Vincent Bugliosi

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 394. JFK: Death in Dallas (Part 3).

Francis Mauricio

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 191. Childbirth.

Francis Sanford

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 328: Coronations: Sex, Holy Oil and Civil War (Part 2).

Freemasonry

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 335: The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory.

From Aberystwyth with Love

Malcolm Price

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

from Alexander to Actium

Peter Green

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4).

From Hell

Alan Moore

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5).

From Russia with Love

Ian Fleming

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 395. JFK: Hunt for a Killer (Part 4).

Frustrate Their Navistrix

Ben Pimlott

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 273: Portugal: The Carnation Revolution.

Fury of the Northmen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 290: 2022: A History.

G.A. Henty

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 8. The Echo of a Coffee House.

G.A. Henty books

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 47. The Seven Years' War.

Ganga Rolf

Tom Shippey

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 149. The Birth of Russia.

Garth Prendergast

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Irish Civil War

Mentioned in 581. The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2).

Gary Sheffield's biography of General Haig

Gary Sheffield

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 9. Causes of the First World War.

Gellert

William Robert Spencer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 323: History's Greatest Dogs.

Genghis Khan

John Mann

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 166. Genghis Khan: Lord of the Mongols.

George Orwell, English Rebel

Robert Coles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 208. George Orwell.

Ghosts, A Natural History, 500 Years of Searching for Proof

Roger Clarke

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 66. Ghosts.

Gibbon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 53. Game of Thrones.

Gilded Youth

James Brooke Smith

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

Given-Wilson's amazing biography

Chris Given-Wilson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1).

Giving Birth in the 18th Century

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 191. Childbirth.

Glory and Terror, Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

Antoine de Becque

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 547. The French Revolution: The Execution of the King (Part 4).

Glyndwr's Rebellion

Rhys Davies

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1).

God and Anatomy

Francesca Stavra Coppola

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 345: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Part 1).

God's Englishman

Christopher Hill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

Goethe

1 mention · 1 episode

Gordon, the man behind the legend

Mentioned in 546. The French Revolution: The Monarchy Falls (Part 3).

Goldblatt

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Modern Olympics

Mentioned in 80. Modern Olympics - Part 1.

Good Food Guide

Raymond Postgate

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 49. Food Glorious Food.

John Pollock

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 141. General Gordon: The Ultimate Victorian Hero.

Gospels

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 288: Jesus Christ: The History (Part 2).

Grant Morrison's book

Grant Morrison

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

Grave Concerns: The Follies and Folklore of Robin Hood's Final Resting Place

Kai Roberts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

great history

NAM Rogers

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1).

Great History of the French Revolution

Peter McPhee

1 mention · 1 episode

great trilogy about the British Empire

Mentioned in 507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5).

James Morris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 239: Young Churchill: Born to Lead (Part 1).

Greek Thought, Arabic Culture

Dimitri Guttas

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 379. Baghdad: The Arabian Nights (Part 4).

Green Mantle

John Buchan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 372. The Birth of British Fascism.

Greyfriars Bobby

Elena Atkinson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 323: History's Greatest Dogs.

Grim Glory, Pictures of Britain Under Fire

Ed Murrow

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 493. Lee Miller: Exposing the Horrors of World War Two.

Groovy Bob

Harriet Viner

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 559. The Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties of Sixties Rebellion (Part 2).

Grub Street Opera

Henry Fielding

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 286: England: Beef and Liberty.

Guests of the Ayatollah

Mark Bowden

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 638. Revolution in Iran: The Hostage Crisis (Part 3).

Guilty Pleasures

Deborah Mello

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 520. Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1).

Gulag Archipelago

Solzhenitsyn

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 160. The Fall of the Soviet Union.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 7. The Lessons of History.

Gustav Piper

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 565. The Great Northern War: Revenge of the Cossacks (Part 2).

Guy's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 588. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Mystery of the Exploding Mansion (Part 5).

Gwendolyn Lyke

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City.

H.G. Wells

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 258. Costa Rica: Civil War.

Hacks

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 369. The Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death.

Halek Kuchanski

1 mention · 1 episode

Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome

Mentioned in 532. Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3).

Hamlet in Purgatory

Stephen Greenblatt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 164. Saint Patrick.

Hampton Sides

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 509. America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2).

Peter Connolly

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hannibal

Mentioned in 571. Hannibal: Roman Bloodbath at Cannae (Part 4).

Hannibal's dynasty

Dexter Hoyos

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hannibal

Mentioned in 568. Hannibal: Rome's Greatest Enemy (Part 1).

Harry Colley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4).

Harry Flashman

1 mention · 1 episode

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Mentioned in 446. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (Part 1).

J.K. Rowling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 368. The History Behind Hogwarts: Ancient Schools and Revolting Students.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

J.K. Rowling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

Harun al-Rashid

André Clot

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 378. Baghdad: The Golden Age (Part 3).

Hatshepsut, the Female Pharaoh

Joyce Tardsley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 299: The Greatest Female Pharaoh.

Heart of Darkness

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 449. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Rise of Sitting Bull (Part 4).

Heart of Oak

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1).

Heaven's Command

Dan Morris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 269: Ghana: The Ashanti Empire.

Helen of Troy

Bethany Hughes

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 457. Helen of Troy: Queen of the Greek Myths (Part 1).

Helen of Troy

Bettany Hughes

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 458. Helen of Troy: A Family of Blood (Part 2).

Helen Parr

1 mention · 1 episode

Henry IV, parts one and two

Mentioned in 171. The Falklands War: Battle for the Islands (Part 3).

Hellenistic Life

Quintin McDonald

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hannibal

Mentioned in 570. Hannibal: The Invasion of Italy (Part 3).

Helter Skelter

Vincent Bugliosi

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 394. JFK: Death in Dallas (Part 3).

Henan and Sayers

Mrs. Elwood Nickerson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 593. The Fight of the Century.

Henrietta Lightfoot

Hallie Rubenhold

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 24. Sex in the City.

Henry IV Part I

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1).

Henry IV Part II

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

Henry the Fifth

Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 486. Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2).

Henry the Fifth

Ian Mortimer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 124. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 2.

Henry the Fourth

Chris Given-Wilson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 486. Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2).

Henry V

1 mention · 1 episode

Heroic Failure in the British

Mentioned in 529. The Nazis' Road to War: Showdown in Munich (Part 2).

Heretics and Reformers

Peter Marshall

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 46. Culture Wars.

Herodotus

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 82. Sparta.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 69. England v Ukraine.

High Minds

Simon Heffer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 36. Our Greatest Prime Minister.

Hilary Mantel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4).

His Last Bow

Arthur Conan Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

histories

Adam Tooze or Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 410. The Nazis in Power: The Night of Broken Glass (Part 7).

History

Thucydides

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 111. Golden Ages.

History of the Franks

Gregory of Tor

1 mention · 1 episode

history of the Seven Years' War

Mentioned in 521. Warlords of the West: Killer Queens (Part 2).

History of the Franks

Gregory of Tours

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 7. The Lessons of History.

Brendan Sims

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 11. Brexit.

History of the Tudors

David Lodes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 357: Historical Love Island: The Sequel.

History of the World

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2).

History of the World

Plantagenet Somerset Fry

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 70. Children’s History.

History of Treason

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 248. Medieval Treason (Part 1).

History of Treason

Neil

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 249. Treason in Modern Britain (Part 2).

Hitler

Kershaw

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 530. Hitler’s War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1).

Holton's book

Woody Holton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 349: The Birth of the United States (Part 3).

Holy Blood, Holy Grail

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 303: The Bloodiest Crusade.

Holy Feast and Holy Fast

Caroline Walker Bynum

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 356: The Blood-Drinking Bride of Christ.

Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 208. George Orwell.

Homo Britannicus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 127. Neanderthals.

Horace

1 mention · 1 episode

How Britain Brought Football to the World

Stewart and Philip Laycock

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The World Cup

Mentioned in 252. The World Cup: British Imperialism, South American rivalries, and Mussolini (Part 1).

How Hitler Killed the Devil

Tom Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 111. Golden Ages.

How Martin Luther Would Rule Twitter

Tom Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 111. Golden Ages.

How the Allies Won

Philip Sobrian

1 mention · 1 episode

How the Irish Invented Chess!

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 336: Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Part 1).

How the Irish Saved Civilization

Thomas Carhill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 164. Saint Patrick.

How the West Rose

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 7. The Lessons of History.

How to Build Stonehenge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 199. Stonehenge.

How to Survive the Titanic

Frances Wilson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 428. Titanic: Kings of the World (Part 2).

How to Survive the Titanic, or The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

Frances Wilson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 427. Titanic: The Tragedy Begins (Part 1).

Hugh Thomas's enormous, great brick of an account of the Spanish conquest

Hugh Thomas

1 mention · 1 episode

Hurrah for the Black Shirt

Mentioned in 390. The Fall of the Aztecs: War to the Death (Part 7).

Martin Pugh

1 mention · 1 episode

If This Is a Man (also published as Survival in Auschwitz)

Hurry On Down

John Wayne

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 363. Sixties Fashion: The Teenage Revolution (Part 1).

I Have a Dream

Gary Young

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 359: Martin Luther King's Dream.

I, Claudius

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 537. Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4).

Icon Basilika

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 333: The Republic of Britain: Life under Cromwell.

Primo Levi

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 292: The Shadow of the Holocaust.

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

1 mention · 1 episode

In Defense of English Cooking

Mentioned in 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5).

George Orwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 49. Food Glorious Food.

In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

In Portugal

Aubrey Bell

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 230. Portugal: Football, Fado, and Fascism? (Part 4).

In Search of Lost Time

Marcel Proust

1 mention · 1 episode

In Search of the Phoenicians

Mentioned in 560. The Golden Age of Japan: Lady Murasaki and the Shining Prince (Part 1).

Josephine Quinn

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Ancient Carthage

Mentioned in 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1).

In Time of the Breaking of Nations

Thomas Hardy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 5. 1981.

Instance of the Fingerpost

Ian Pears

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

Instant Classics

Mary Beard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Spartacus and Gladiators, with Mary Beard.

Intruders in the Dust

William Faulkner

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:American Civil War

Mentioned in 202. American Civil War: Gettysburg (Part 3).

ISIS Anubis

1 mention · 1 episode

J.R.R. Tolkien, Author of the Century

Mentioned in 124. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 2.

Islamic science

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 112. Medieval Science.

Ismay

Frances Wilson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 428. Titanic: Kings of the World (Part 2).

Italy is a Fake Country

David Gilmour

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 73. England v Italy.

Ivanhoe

Sir Walter Scott

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

Tom Shippey

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 225. J.R.R. Tolkien.

Jack the Ripper

Philip Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3).

Jack the Ripper case

Philip Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 625. Jack The Ripper: Horror in Whitechapel (Part 2).

Jack the Ripper, the final solution

Stephen Knight

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5).

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Stephen Knight

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3).

Jack the Ripper's Bedroom

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5).

Jacuzzi

Emil Zola

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Death of Edward the Confessor and the Dreyfus Affair.

Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 150. Smuggling.

James Fenton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 325: Fall of Saigon: Apocalypse Now (Part 2).

James Hoare's recent book on the history of England

James Hoare

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 18. The North South Divide.

James Morris's accounts of this war

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 269: Ghana: The Ashanti Empire.

Jane Eyre

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3).

Japan's Story in Search for Nation

Chris Harding

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 277: Japan: Samurai and Shoguns.

Jason and the Argonauts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 461. Dragons.

Jason the Argonauts

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4).

Jeremiah

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 145. Babylon.

Jeremy Alexander's brilliant book

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Carthage vs. Rome

Mentioned in 423. Carthage vs. Rome: The Wolf at the Gates (Part 3).

Jesus and the Eyewitnesses

Robert Bauckham

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 287: Jesus Christ: The Mystery (Part 1).

JFK

Fred Logevall

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1).

Jihad versus McWorld

Benjamin Barber

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 95. 9/11.

Jim Crow

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 204. Gone with the Wind.

Joachim Fest

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hitler, with Ian Kershaw

Mentioned in 63. Hitler, with Ian Kershaw - part 1.

Joan

Helen Castor

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 634. Joan of Arc: Heroine in Chains (Part 3).

Joan of Arc

Helen Castor

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 633. Joan of Arc: Saviour of France (Part 2).

Joan of Arc

Marina Warner

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 634. Joan of Arc: Heroine in Chains (Part 3).

Joan of Arc, the Image of Female Heroism

Marina Warner

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 632. Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1).

Job

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 461. Dragons.

John Betjeman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 96. The UK’s Best Churches.

John Buckner

1 mention · 1 episode

John Dunn

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 343: Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1).

John F. Kennedy

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 245. Trafalgar: Victory (Part 3).

John Guy

1 mention · 1 episode

John Sugden's brilliant biography

Mentioned in 589. Mary, Queen of Scots: Downfall (Part 6).

John Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 245. Trafalgar: Victory (Part 3).

Joseph and His Brothers

Thomas Mann

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 27. Tutankhamun.

Joseph Andrews

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:London

Mentioned in 211. London: People (Part 3).

Josephus's Judean war

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age (Extract).

Journey to a War

W.H. Auden

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 235. China and World War II (Part 1).

Julian and Madelow

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4).

Juliet

Marquis de Sade

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 56. Nero.

Juliet Barker

1 mention · 1 episode

Kai Bird and Martin Sherman

Mentioned in 490. Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4).

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 304: The Murder of Julius Caesar.

Just William

Richmal Crompton

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1922

Mentioned in 137. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 2.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 343: Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1).

Kaiserjäger

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6).

Kant

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 258. Costa Rica: Civil War.

Ken Lukowiak

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 171. The Falklands War: Battle for the Islands (Part 3).

Kenneth Williams' Diary

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 417. Britain in 1974: State of Emergency (Part 1).

Kershaw's biography

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 295: The Rise of the Nazis (Part 1).

Kevin Starr

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 61. California.

Khomeini

Bakir Mohin

1 mention · 1 episode

Killers of the Flower Moon

Mentioned in 638. Revolution in Iran: The Hostage Crisis (Part 3).

Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 241. Young Churchill: Prisoner and Fugitive (Part 3).

David Gran

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1).

Killing on Bloody Sunday, November 1920

Anne Dolan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 578. The Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday (Part 3).

Kindred

Rebecca Rag Sykes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 127. Neanderthals.

King Harold's saga

Snorri Sturluson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 555. 1066: Slaughter at Stamford Bridge (Part 2).

King James Bible

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 364. Sixties Fashion: Swinging London (Part 2).

King Lear

William Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

King Leopold's Ghost

1 mention · 1 episode

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Mentioned in 538. Horror in the Congo: The Nightmare Begins (Part 1).

Adam Hochschild

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3).

King Solomon's Mines

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 239: Young Churchill: Born to Lead (Part 1).

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

1 mention · 1 episode

Kings and Queens of England

Mentioned in 450. Custer's Last Stand: Death in the Black Hills (Part 5).

King Solomon's Mines

Ryder Haggard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 332: King Solomon's Mines.

Kingdom by the Sea

Paul Theroux

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 263: USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry.

Lady Bird

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 119. World Cup of Kings & Queens preview.

Kingsley Amis

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:London

Mentioned in 211. London: People (Part 3).

Kingsley Amis' memoirs

Kingsley Amis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 50. Teenagers.

Kissinger on Diplomacy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 445. The Habsburgs: Secrets of a Dynasty.

Knossos

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

Kropotkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

La Bête Humaine

Émile Zola

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo.

La guérison de Marianne

Guillaume Lavabre

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 545. The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2).

La Nouvelle Héloïse

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 mention · 1 episode

La Reine Sélérate, The Wicked Queen

Mentioned in 545. The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2).

La Peste

Albert Camus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Solomon Northup and Albert Camus.

La Reine Margaux

Alexandre Dumas

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 242. French History on Film.

Chantal Thomas

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

La Révolution Française

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5).

La Somoire

Émile Zola

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 57. Paris.

Labyrinth

Kate Mosse

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 301: The Real Da Vinci Code.

Labyrinth

Kate Moss

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 303: The Bloodiest Crusade.

Lady Antonia's biography

1 mention · 1 episode

Lady Bird book about Henry V

Mentioned in 585. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (Part 2).

Lady Bird

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 556. 1066: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3).

1 mention · 1 episode

Lady Bird book about Julius Caesar and the conquest of Britain

Mentioned in 487. Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

Lady Bird King Arthur books

Mentioned in 499. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar’s Invasion (Part 1).

Lady Bird books

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 19. King Arthur.

Lady Windermere's Fan

Oscar Wilde

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

Ladybird Book of Witchcraft

Susanna Lipscomb

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 26. Witches.

Landnama Book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 103. The Norse Sagas.

Landscape and Memory

Simon Schama

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 270: Poland: Copernicus, the Dragon and the Salt Mine.

Last Waltz in Vienna

George Clare

1 mention · 1 episode

Left Bank, Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940 to 1950

Mentioned in 407. The Nazis in Power: The Conquest of Austria (Part 4).

Laughing Shall I Die

Tom Shippey

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 555. 1066: Slaughter at Stamford Bridge (Part 2).

Lawrence Marvin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 303: The Bloodiest Crusade.

Le Comte d'Essex

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Napoleon

Mentioned in 382. Young Napoleon: Teenage Revolutionary (Part 1).

Le Premier Homme

Albert Camus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Solomon Northup and Albert Camus.

Le Rouge et le Noir

Stendhal

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4).

Le souper de bouquet

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Napoleon

Mentioned in 383. Young Napoleon: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 2).

Le Super de Beaucaire

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Napoleon

Mentioned in 383. Young Napoleon: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 2).

Leader and the Swan

WB Yeats

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 457. Helen of Troy: Queen of the Greek Myths (Part 1).

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:American Civil War

Mentioned in 203. American Civil War: Aftermath & Legacy (Part 4).

Agnès Poirier

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 57. Paris.

Lenin's Tomb

David Remnick

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 162. Putin's Russia.

Les Justes

Albert Camus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Solomon Northup and Albert Camus.

Les Rois maudits

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 53. Game of Thrones.

Letters of Cicero

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 5. 1981.

Letters of Pliny the Younger

1 mention · 1 episode

Leviticus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 27. Tutankhamun.

Liaisons dangereuses

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 607. Nelson’s Lover: The Scandalous Lady Hamilton.

Liberty

Lynn Hunt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 545. The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2).

Liberty is Sweet

Woody Holton

1 mention · 1 episode

Liberty or Death

Peter McPhee

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6).

liberty's dawn

emma

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 108. The Industrial Revolution.

Life and Fate

Vasily Grossman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 215. Stalingrad and the Red Army (Part 2).

Life of Johnson

James Boswell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

Like the Roman

Simon Heffer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 606. Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood.

Lindsay Hughes

1 mention · 1 episode

Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793 to 1815

Mentioned in 567. The Great Northern War: Murder in Moscow (Part 4).

Lives of the Engineers

Samuel Smiles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 140. The Birth of the Railways.

Jenny Uglow

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4).

Livre des Quatre Dames

1 mention · 1 episode

London in the 19th Century

Mentioned in 490. Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4).

Loch Ness Monster

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 233. The Loch Ness Monster.

London Fog

Christine Corton

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 624. Jack The Ripper: History’s Darkest Mystery (Part 1).

Jerry White

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 624. Jack The Ripper: History’s Darkest Mystery (Part 1).

Lonely Hearts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 151. Valentine's Day.

Lord Byron

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Massacre of the Innocents and the Tay Bridge disaster.

Losing Nelson

Barry Unsworth

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 608. Nelson: Slaughter in Naples (Part 1).

Lotharingia

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 7. The Lessons of History.

Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford

1 mention · 1 episode

Luther: Man Between God and the Devil

Loxley Hall

Alfred Tennyson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 140. The Birth of the Railways.

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 363. Sixties Fashion: The Teenage Revolution (Part 1).

Lucy Lethbridge's book

Lucy Lethbridge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

Luke Nictor

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4).

Luther

Scott Hendricks

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 435. Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3).

Luther

Richard Rex

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 434. Luther: The Revolution Begins (Part 2).

Heiko Obermann

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 434. Luther: The Revolution Begins (Part 2).

Macbeth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right

Mentioned in 589. Mary, Queen of Scots: Downfall (Part 6).

Mad as Hell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 439. Disco: Sex and Race in Seventies America.

Mad as Hell

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 360. Fear City: New York in the 1970s.

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 360. Fear City: New York in the 1970s.

Magic in Merlin's Realm

Francis Young

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 542. Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe.

magical quietism

1 mention · 1 episode

Magnificent Rebels, the First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Magna Carta

David Carpenter

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 62. Magna Carta.

Magna Carta

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 212. Haunted London (Part 4).

Magnificent Rebels

Andrea

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 234. Germans Behaving Badly.

Andrea Wolff

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 234. Germans Behaving Badly.

Maid Marian

Thomas Love Peacock

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

Maiden Castle

Mortimer Wheeler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 500. The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2).

Making Mary Poppins

Todd James Pierce

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 614. Walt Disney: The Great American Storyteller.

Malcolm Price's novel

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 573. The Medici: Lorenzo the Magnificent (Part 2).

Malleus Maleficarum

Heinrich Kramer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 26. Witches.

Mallory Towers

1 mention · 1 episode

Marie Antoinette, The Making of a French Queen

Mentioned in 585. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (Part 2).

Man in the High Castle

Philip K. Dick

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

Man with the Golden Gun

Ian Fleming

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 609. Nelson: The Gathering Storm (Part 2).

Mao's Last Revolution

Roderick Farquhar

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution.

Mao's Little Red Book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 242. French History on Film.

Maoism

Julia Lovell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution.

John Hardman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

Marie Antoinette's Head

Will Bashaw

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

Marina Warner

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 632. Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1).

Marjorie Allingham

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 257. Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man.

Marseillaise

1 mention · 1 episode

Mary Hollingsworth in her book

Mentioned in 507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5).

Martin Jones's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 573. The Medici: Lorenzo the Magnificent (Part 2).

Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 614. Walt Disney: The Great American Storyteller.

Mary Queen of Scots

Antonia Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 588. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Mystery of the Exploding Mansion (Part 5).

Mary Reynolds

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 117. Alexander the Great part 2.

Mary Tudor

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 586. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Battle for Scotland (Part 3).

Matthew Restle

1 mention · 1 episode

Matthew Sturgis' biography

Mentioned in 387. The Fall of the Aztecs: Prisoners of Montezuma (Part 4).

Matthew Sturgis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

Matthew Sturgis's biography

Matthew Sturgis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 342: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Downfall and Prison (Part 2).

Matthew's Gospel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 288: Jesus Christ: The History (Part 2).

Maud Arthur

Sir Thomas Malory

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 19. King Arthur.

Medici

Christopher Hibbert

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 572. The Medici: Masters of Florence (Part 1).

Mein Kampf

A. Hitler

1 mention · 1 episode

Memoirs of the 20th Century

Mentioned in 597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4).

Samuel Madden

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 21. The History of the Future.

Memoirs of the Bastille

Linguet

1 mention · 1 episode

Miami and the Siege of Chicago

Mentioned in 479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5).

Men of Honour

Adam Nicholson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1).

Mesopotamia

Gwendolyn Lyke

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City.

Metropolis

Ben Wilson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City.

Norman Mailer

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 512. America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5).

Michael Burley's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 296: The Nazis: The Beer Hall Putsch (Part 2).

Michael Burlingame's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 590. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Death at the Theatre (Part 1).

Michael Kaufman

1 mention · 1 episode

Michael Lawson's book on the battle

Mentioned in 591. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: Manhunt for the Killer (Part 2).

Michael Lawson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 556. 1066: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3).

Michael Psellus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Nero's succession and the fall of the Byzantine Empire.

Middlemarch

George Eliot

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 343: Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1).

Middlesex

John Betjeman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:London

Mentioned in 213. London: Moments (Part 5).

Milton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 316: The First Abolitionist.

Mistress of My Fate

Hallie Rubenhold

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 24. Sex in the City.

Moctezuma meeting with Cortez

Matthew Restles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 391. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (Part 8).

Monsters

Simon Sebag Montefiore

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 574. The Medici: Curse of the Mad Monk (Part 3).

Monstrous Commotion

Gareth Williams

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 233. The Loch Ness Monster.

Moonfleet

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 150. Smuggling.

Moonraker

Ian Fleming

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bonus Episode: No Time to Die.

Moonraker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

Mort d'Arthur

Thomas Mallory

1 mention · 1 episode

Motherland, 500,000 Years of African History, Cultures and Identity

Mentioned in 490. Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4).

Moses and Monotheism

Sigmund Freud

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 27. Tutankhamun.

Moses the Egyptian

Jan Assmann

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 27. Tutankhamun.

Mosque

Justin Maroz

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 377. Baghdad: Crossroads of the Universe (Part 2).

Mosquito Empires

John McNeill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 147. Disease, the New World and modern pandemics.

Motherland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 317: African Amazons.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 317: African Amazons.

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 206. Historical Love Island.

Mrs. Rundle's Domestic Cookery

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 441. Lord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (Part 2).

Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

Murder in the Cathedral

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: The Murder of Thomas Becket and the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Murder Mysteries

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1).

Murder on the Nile

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Murder on the Orient Express

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 304: The Murder of Julius Caesar.

My Agony of 38 Hours

François-Jorniac Saint-Méard

1 mention · 1 episode

My Fight for Irish Freedom

Mentioned in 544. The French Revolution: The September Massacres (Part 1).

My Country Right or Left

George Orwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 427. Titanic: The Tragedy Begins (Part 1).

Dan Breen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 577. The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (Part 2).

My Life on the Plains

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 447. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (Part 2).

My Love from the Plains

1 mention · 1 episode

Mysterious Affair at Stiles

Mentioned in 450. Custer's Last Stand: Death in the Black Hills (Part 5).

Mysterious Affair

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Nana

Émile Zola

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4).

Nancy

1 mention · 1 episode

Nancy Mitford

1 mention · 1 episode

Nancy Mitford's pursuit of love

1 mention · 1 episode

Naples 44

Norman Lewis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 399. The Savage Storm: World War II and The Battle for Italy.

Napoleon

Adam Zamoyski

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Napoleon

Mentioned in 382. Young Napoleon: Teenage Revolutionary (Part 1).

Narnia

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 53. Game of Thrones.

Naya Marsh

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 257. Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man.

Nazis at War

Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

Neanderthals first kindled history

Mentioned in 528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1).

Becky Ragsikes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 127. Neanderthals.

Neanderthals, the first flower children

Ralph Selecki

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 127. Neanderthals.

Nella Last

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 622. The Nazis at War: The Fall of France (Part 3).

Nelson

John Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 608. Nelson: Slaughter in Naples (Part 1).

Nelson at Naples

Jonathan North

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 608. Nelson: Slaughter in Naples (Part 1).

Nelson, Hero of the Seas

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 613. Nelson: Glory at Trafalgar (Part 6).

Nero

Edward Champlin

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 535. Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (Part 2).

Neuromancer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 21. The History of the Future.

Never Turn Back

Julian Gewirtz

1 mention · 1 episode

Nicholas Whitchell's book

News from Tartary

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 132. A Christmas Carol.

Nicholas Whitchell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 233. The Loch Ness Monster.

Nick Lloyd's book on Passchendaele

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 90. The Western Front.

Nietzsche

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 258. Costa Rica: Civil War.

Nigel Molesworth

Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 70. Children’s History.

Njáls saga

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 103. The Norse Sagas.

No Luther, No Reformation

Richard Rex

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 433. Luther: The Man Who Changed the World (Part 1).

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible

Peter Pomerantsev

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 162. Putin's Russia.

Notre Dame, the Soul of France

Agnès Poirier

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 57. Paris.

Odes

Horace

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 156. When did the Roman Empire fall?.

Oedipus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 27. Tutankhamun.

Oedipus

Sophocles

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2).

Oedipus at Kolonos

Sophocles

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2).

Oedipus Rex

Sophocles

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2).

Oh, What a Lovely War

Joan Littlewood

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 9. Causes of the First World War.

Oliver Aberystwyth

Malcolm Price

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

Olympus

Dan Simmons

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 457. Helen of Troy: Queen of the Greek Myths (Part 1).

On the Beach

Neville Shute

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 92. Nuclear Weapons.

On the Eastern Front

Nick Lloyd

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6).

On the Great Plains

Ian Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

On the Jews and Their Lies

Mentioned in 454. Fall of the Sioux: Death of Crazy Horse (Part 1).

Martin Luther

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 437. Luther: A World Torn Apart (Part 5).

On the Nature of the Gods

Cicero

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 114. Stonehenge, ancient ritual and the origins of paganism.

On the Vikings

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Road to 1066

Mentioned in 548. The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1).

On Walden Pond

Henry David Thoreau

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

Operation Columba

Gordon Carrera

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 216. Pigeons.

Operation Mincemeat

Ben McIntyre

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre.

Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man.

Origins of Our Species

Chris Stringer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 127. Neanderthals.

Origins of the European...

Michael McCormack

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 148. The Vikings Go East.

Orwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 180. England & Englishness.

Ostara

Jörg Lanz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 295: The Rise of the Nazis (Part 1).

Our Island Story

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 68. The British Empire.

Oxford History of the French Revolution

William Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

Paul Friedland's translated them

Mentioned in 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6).

P.G. Woodhouse stories

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

Pagan Britain

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 114. Stonehenge, ancient ritual and the origins of paganism.

Pale Rider

Laura Spinney

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Jean-Bédel Bokassa and the memory of pandemics.

Pan Tadeusz

Adam Mickiewicz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 270: Poland: Copernicus, the Dragon and the Salt Mine.

Paradise Lost

John Milton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

Parallel Lives

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 8. The Echo of a Coffee House.

Parkland

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 396. JFK: The Second Assassin Strikes (Part 5).

Patrick O'Brien books

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 245. Trafalgar: Victory (Part 3).

1 mention · 1 episode

Pax, War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Mentioned in 505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3).

Paulus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 215. Stalingrad and the Red Army (Part 2).

Pax Britannica

Jan Morris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 190. Jubilees.

Tom

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 355: Roman Apocalypse: Pompeii 79 AD.

People's History of Love

James C. Chevalier

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 22. Weird Wars.

Percival

Chrétien de Troyes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 346: The Mystery of the Holy Grail (Part 2).

Peron

Joseph Page

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2).

Persian Fire

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 82. Sparta.

Persuasion

Jane Austen

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3).

Peter Cousins

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 446. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (Part 1).

Peter Pan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 368. The History Behind Hogwarts: Ancient Schools and Revolting Students.

Peter the Great

Robert K. Mass

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 566. The Great Northern War: Slaughter on the Steppes (Part 3).

Peter the Great

Lindsay Hughes

1 mention · 1 episode

Peter the Great and His Times

Mentioned in 567. The Great Northern War: Murder in Moscow (Part 4).

Lindsay Hughes

1 mention · 1 episode

Peter the Great: His Life and World

Mentioned in 567. The Great Northern War: Murder in Moscow (Part 4).

Robert K. Massie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 567. The Great Northern War: Murder in Moscow (Part 4).

Petronius

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 224. Roman Holidays.

Phaedo Platonis

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 293: Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days' Queen (Part 1).

Philip K. Dick

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 61. California.

Philip Pullman

1 mention · 1 episode

Philosophy in the Boudoir

Mentioned in 448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3).

Marquis de Sade

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence.

Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean

Carolina Lopez-Ríez

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Ancient Carthage

Mentioned in 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1).

Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 132. A Christmas Carol.

Pictures of Sporting Life and Character

William Pitt Lannox

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 426. History's Greatest Monkeys.

Pilgrim's Progress

John Bunyan

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1).

Pindar

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 79. Ancient Olympics.

Plagues Upon the Earth, Disease and the Course of Human History

Karl Harper

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 146. Disease vs. the rise of civilisation.

Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 147. Disease, the New World and modern pandemics.

Plato's dialogues

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Silicon Valley

Mentioned in 94. Silicon Valley Part 2.

Pleasure Island

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 186. The New Elizabethan Age.

Pliny the Elder

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Rome's Greatest Enemy

Mentioned in 641. Rome’s Greatest Enemy: Hannibal’s Nemesis (Part 2).

Plutarch's Life of Caesar

Plutarch

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Julius Caesar, with Mary Beard.

Pogonotomy

Jean-Jacques Perrette

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2).

Poirot

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Poland in the Second World War

Jan Karski

1 mention · 1 episode

Predatory Kinship, the Creation of Norman Power

Mentioned in 532. Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3).

Pomerantz's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 162. Putin's Russia.

Pompeii

Mary Beard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in The Trojan War, with Mary Beard.

Pope Joan

Alain Bourreau

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 403. The Mystery of the Pregnant Pope.

Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain cover

Dan Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3).

Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardianism cover

Dan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3).

Population Bomb

Paul Ehrlich

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 313: Climate Apocalypse.

Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

Portugal in the future

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 273: Portugal: The Carnation Revolution.

Eleanor Searle

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 554. 1066: The Shadows of War (Part 1).

Pride and Prejudice

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 49. Food Glorious Food.

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3).

Procopius

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 89. Climate & Weather.

Procopius' account of the wars in Italy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 220. Justinian & Theodora: The Secret History (Part 3).

Procopius' secret history

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 207. Historical Love Island: THE WINNER.

Propertius

1 mention · 1 episode

Proust

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Death of Edward the Confessor and the Dreyfus Affair.

Providence Lost

Paul Ley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 54. Cromwell and the Protectorate.

Providence Lost

Paul Lay

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

Psychopathia Sexualis

Richard von Kraft-Ebing

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4).

Ptolemaic Alexandria

P.M. Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

Pygmalion

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 607. Nelson’s Lover: The Scandalous Lady Hamilton.

Quacks and Quackery

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

Queen of the World

Robert Hardman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 186. The New Elizabethan Age.

Queens as Jezebels

Janet L. Nelson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 521. Warlords of the West: Killer Queens (Part 2).

Rabbit is Rich

John Updike

1 mention · 1 episode

Ragnarok, the Age of Fire and Gravel

Mentioned in 637. Revolution in Iran: Rise of the Ayatollah (Part 2).

Ignatius Donnelly

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs

Douglas Smith

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 128. Rasputin.

Ravenna

Judith Heron

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 53. Game of Thrones.

Rawhide Down

Del Quentin Wilber

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 312: Reagan, Iran-Contra and the Cold War (Part 3).

Reagan's America, Innocence at Home

Gary Wills

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 311: Reagan: The Road to the White House (Part 2).

Recessional

Rudyard Kipling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 190. Jubilees.

Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Vincent Bugliosi

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 395. JFK: Hunt for a Killer (Part 4).

Reformations

Carlos Eyre

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 437. Luther: A World Torn Apart (Part 5).

Reith Lectures

Margaret Macmillan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 22. Weird Wars.

Remember, Remember

James Sharp

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 115. The Gunpowder Plot.

Remembrance

Rudyard Kipling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 118. End of the First World War & Remembrance.

Replenishing the Earth, the Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo World

James Bell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 61. California.

Restle

Matthew Restle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 388. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Festival of Blood (Part 5).

Resurrection

David Remnick

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 162. Putin's Russia.

Rethinking Columbus

William Bigelow

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 309: Columbus: Villain or Hero? (Part 4).

Return of a King

Willie Dalrymple

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 87. Afghanistan - Part 1.

Revolution by Reason

John Strakey

1 mention · 1 episode

Revolution in Iran

Michael Axworthy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 637. Revolution in Iran: Rise of the Ayatollah (Part 2).

Revolution in the Head

Ian McDonald

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 558. The Rolling Stones: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Part 1).

Revolutionary Ideas

Jonathan Israel

1 mention · 1 episode

Revolutionary Spring, Fighting for a New World, 1848 to 1849

Mentioned in 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 326: The Year of Revolutions: 1848.

Revolutionary Spring, Fighting for a New World, 1848-1849

Christopher Clarke

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 326: The Year of Revolutions: 1848.

Richard Davenport Hines

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 429. Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (Part 3).

Richard Evans' book

Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 296: The Nazis: The Beer Hall Putsch (Part 2).

Richard Evans' book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 297: The Nazis: Hitler's Triumph (Part 3).

Richard Evans' book about the Nazis and power

Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

Richard Evans' recent book on the Nazis

Mentioned in 528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1).

Richard II

Nigel Saul

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Peasants' Revolt

Mentioned in 413. The Peasants' Revolt: England Erupts (Part 1).

Richard II

William Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 415. The Murder of Richard II (Part 3).

Richard II

1 mention · 1 episode

Richard III

William Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 415. The Murder of Richard II (Part 3).

Richard III

Paul Murray Kendall

1 mention · 1 episode

Robert Caro's enormous, enormous cycle of Johnson biographies

Mentioned in 139. The Princes in the Tower Part 2.

Richard Rex in his book

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 435. Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3).

Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 249. Treason in Modern Britain (Part 2).

Rise and Kill First

Ronan Bergman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Modern Olympics

Mentioned in 81. Modern Olympics - Part 2.

River Kings

Kat Jarman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Last Viking

Mentioned in 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1).

Rivers of Gold

Hugh Thomas

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 308: Columbus: Death in the Caribbean (Part 3).

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1).

Robert Danton

1 mention · 1 episode

Robert Harris' latest novel

Mentioned in 477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3).

Robert E. Lee and Me

Ty Sidhu

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:American Civil War

Mentioned in 203. American Civil War: Aftermath & Legacy (Part 4).

Robert Graves

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 13. Stephen Fry and Troy.

Robert Harris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 249. Treason in Modern Britain (Part 2).

Robert K. Massey

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Peter the Great

Mentioned in 563. Peter the Great: Bloodbath in the Kremlin (Part 2).

Robert Lowell's poem on Alexander

Robert Lowell

1 mention · 1 episode

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Mentioned in 117. Alexander the Great part 2.

Robert Silverberg

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 600. Chatham High Street.

Robinson Crusoe

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4).

Roger Carrella's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 228. Portugal: The Golden Age of Discovery (Part 2).

Roger Knight

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 611. Nelson: Bonaparte Prepares to Strike (Part 4).

Roman Homosexuality

Craig Williams

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 340: Hadrian and Antinous.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 20. China.

Ronan Fanning

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4).

Room with a View

E.M. Forster

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

Roots

Alex Haley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 272: Senegal: The Door of No Return.

Rosca

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 215. Stalingrad and the Red Army (Part 2).

Rouges en Macquart

Émile Zola

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 57. Paris.

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward Fitzgerald

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 257. Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man.

Rudetsky March

Joseph Roth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 467. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3).

Rush to Judgment

Mark Lane

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 397. JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6).

Ruth's Girl

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 98. Thermopylae & Salamis Episode 1.

Sailing

Jonathan Rabban

1 mention · 1 episode

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Mentioned in 170. The Falklands War: The Task Force Sails (Part 2).

Sajiswaf Naida

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo.

Salambo

Flaubert

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Ancient Carthage

Mentioned in 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1).

Salome

Oscar Wilde

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

Salonbo

Gustave Flaubert

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The World Cup of Gods

Mentioned in 58. The World Cup of Gods - Part 1.

Santa Evita

Tomas Martinez

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 498. Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5).

Yuval Noah Harari

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 13. Stephen Fry and Troy.

Satyricon

Petronius

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 369. The Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death.

Say Nothing

Patrick Radden Keefe

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Last Viking

Mentioned in 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1).

Scarlet Memorial

Zheng Yi

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution.

Scoff

Penn

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 49. Food Glorious Food.

Seasons in the Sun, The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 65. A Very British Scandal.

Seasons of the Sun

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 419. Britain in 1974: Countdown to a Coup (Part 3).

Second Foundation

Isaac Asimov

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 412. Romans in Space: Star Wars, Dune and Beyond....

Second World War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 323: History's Greatest Dogs.

Secret History

Procopius

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 219. Justinian: Making Rome Great Again (Part 2).

Seeing Justice Done

Paul Friedland

1 mention · 1 episode

Servants, a Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain

Mentioned in 505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3).

Lucy Lethbridge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain

Lucy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Matthew Restle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3).

Sexual Personae

Camille Paglia

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4).

Shah of Shars

Richard Kapuscinski

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Oil

Mentioned in 167. Oil: The Making of the Modern World.

Shahnameh

Ferdowsi

1 mention · 1 episode

Shakespeare's history plays

Mentioned in 636. Revolution in Iran: Fall of the Shah (Part 1).

Shakespeare in 1606

James Shapiro

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 71. England v Denmark.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 53. Game of Thrones.

Shamala

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:London

Mentioned in 211. London: People (Part 3).

Sharma's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead

Mentioned in 478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4).

She

Ryder Haggard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 332: King Solomon's Mines.

She

H. Ryder Haggard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 190. Jubilees.

Sibylline books

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 21. The History of the Future.

Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 257. Australia: The Mystery of the Somerton Man.

Silmarillion

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 355: Roman Apocalypse: Pompeii 79 AD.

Six Wives of Henry VIII

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 70. Children’s History.

Stanley Brandes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 264: Mexico: Day of the Dead.

Small is Beautiful

E.F. Shoemaker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 120. The Oil Weapon.

So John and Paul

Ian Leslie

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Beatles

Mentioned in The Beatles: The Band that Changed the World, with Conan O’Brien (Part 1).

Socrates in Love

Armand Dangler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 97. Top Ten Mistresses.

Son of the Morning Star

Evan S. Connell

1 mention · 1 episode

Soviet Communism, A New Civilization

Mentioned in 446. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (Part 1).

Sidney and Beatrice Webb

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 343: Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Part 1).

Spike Milligan

1 mention · 1 episode

Sporting Life

Robert Coles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 33. The Beautiful Game.

Spy Among Friends

Ben McIntyre

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre.

Spycatcher

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Australian Prime Ministers

Mentioned in 189. Australian Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke - Scott Morrison (Part 3).

St Patrick Retold

Roy Fletchner

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 164. Saint Patrick.

St. Edmund

Dr. Francis Young

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 71. England v Denmark.

Stalin

Stephen Kotkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 38. Communism.

Stalin's War

Sean McMeakin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 38. Communism.

Stalingrad

Ian McGregor

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 182. Operation Barbarossa.

Star Wars

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 412. Romans in Space: Star Wars, Dune and Beyond....

State of Emergency

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 417. Britain in 1974: State of Emergency (Part 1).

Steven Runciman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 241. Young Churchill: Prisoner and Fugitive (Part 3).

Stone Alone

Bill Wyman

1 mention · 1 episode

Stonehenge, Neolithic Man and the Cosmos

Mentioned in 558. The Rolling Stones: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Part 1).

Stonehenge

Gerald Hawkins

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 199. Stonehenge.

John North

1 mention · 1 episode

Story Worlds of Robin Hood

Leslie Coot

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

Strongheart, The Story of a Wonder Dog

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 323: History's Greatest Dogs.

Suburban Warriors

Lisa McGurr

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 615. Disneyland: The Modern American Utopia.

Suetonius' Lives

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1).

Suite Francaise

Irene Nemirovsky

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 622. The Nazis at War: The Fall of France (Part 3).

Summits

David Reynolds

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 393. JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (Part 2).

Super Gods

Grant Morrison

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

Supergods

Grant Morrison

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

Swallows and Amazons

Arthur Ransom

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 342: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Downfall and Prison (Part 2).

Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliffe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 19. King Arthur.

Sword in the Stone

T.H. White

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 153. God and the American Empire.

Tacitus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 25. Empires.

Take Six Girls

Laura Thompson

1 mention · 1 episode

Tale of Attaf

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 379. Baghdad: The Arabian Nights (Part 4).

Tangled Hair

Yasano Akiko

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 277: Japan: Samurai and Shoguns.

Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 13. Stephen Fry and Troy.

Tark the Otter

Henry Williamson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 629. WWI: The Christmas Truce.

Taxation No Tyranny

Samuel Johnson

1 mention · 1 episode

The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire

Teenage

John Savage

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 50. Teenagers.

Tellingly Reformations

Carlos Eyre

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 436. Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4).

Terra Nostra

Carlos Fuentes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 309: Columbus: Villain or Hero? (Part 4).

That Printer of Udell's

Harold Bell Wright

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 310: Ronald Reagan and the American Dream (Part 1).

The 7% Solution

Nicholas Meyer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The 9-11 Wars

Jason Burke

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 95. 9/11.

Arthur Conan Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Carlo Cholodi

1 mention · 1 episode

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain

1 mention · 1 episode

the afterlife of Muhammad

Mentioned in 540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3).

Keita Ali

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 60. Muhammad.

The Age of Football

David Goldblatt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 33. The Beautiful Game.

The Age of Illusion

Ronald Blythe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 583. The Lion, the Priest and the Parlourmaids: A 1930s Sex Scandal.

The American Civil War

Andrew Preston

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 152. American Crusades.

The Americanisation of the World

W.T. Stead

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 29. Americanisation.

The Anarchy on the East India Company

Billy Dalrymple

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 88. The First Anglo-Afghan War.

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Robert Burton

1 mention · 1 episode

the annals of the Kingdom of the Franks

Mentioned in 447. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (Part 2).

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Charlemagne

Mentioned in 525. Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3).

The Anti-Prince

Barbara Tuchman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 320: Hundred Years' War: The Black Prince (Part 3).

The Archen Memorandum

Andrew Roberts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 11. Brexit.

The Ark of the Covenant

Roderick Grierson and Stewart Monroe Hay

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 345: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Part 1).

The arrest of Oscar wild at the Cadogan hotel

John Betjeman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy

Hannah Glass

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 286: England: Beef and Liberty.

The Art of the Deal

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 153. God and the American Empire.

The Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 277: Japan: Samurai and Shoguns.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Hilary Mantel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 43. 1940.

The Atlantic Slave Trader Census

Philip D. Curtin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 272: Senegal: The Door of No Return.

The Bacchae

Euripides

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 604. Greek Myths: Sex, Drugs & Tragedy (Part 3).

The Ballad of Sir Henry Newbolt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 129. Cricket.

The Battle of Britain

Stephen Bungay

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 623. The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (Part 4).

The Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand

1 mention · 1 episode

The Battle of the Washita River

Mentioned in 446. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

The Black Prince of England

Mentioned in 447. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (Part 2).

The best book in English

Tom Gallagher

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 230. Portugal: Football, Fado, and Fascism? (Part 4).

The Best Book on Nero

Edward Champlin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 56. Nero.

The Big Spore

Michael Malone

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Silicon Valley

Mentioned in 93. Silicon Valley Part 1.

The Birth of Mankind

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 191. Childbirth.

The Birth of Tragedy

Friedrich Nietzsche

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 604. Greek Myths: Sex, Drugs & Tragedy (Part 3).

The Black Jacobins

CLR James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

The Black Jacobins

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:London

Mentioned in 211. London: People (Part 3).

Francis Stonisonders

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 321: Hundred Years' War: A Storm of Swords (Part 4).

The Blue Light

Leni Riefenstahl

1 mention · 1 episode

the book by Robert Toombs about Brexit

Mentioned in 405. The Nazis in Power: The Nuremberg Rallies (Part 2).

Robert Toombs

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 23. The 90s.

the book of Amos

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 359: Martin Luther King's Dream.

The Book of God

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 400. Victorian Britain's Maddest Mystery.

The book of Isaiah

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 359: Martin Luther King's Dream.

the book of Judges

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 345: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Part 1).

the book of Mardis

1 mention · 1 episode

The Book of Pope Gregory the Great

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3).

The Book of Pompeii

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 355: Roman Apocalypse: Pompeii 79 AD.

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Alfred the Great

Mentioned in 251. Alfred the Great: Return of the King (Part 2).

The Book of Prophecies

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 633. Joan of Arc: Saviour of France (Part 2).

The Book of the City of Ladies

Christine de Pizan

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 632. Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1).

The Book on Anne Boleyn

Tracy Borman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (Part 1).

The book on fly fishing

Sir Edward Grey

1 mention · 1 episode

The Books of Stefan Zweig

Mentioned in 472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 256. Germany: The White Rose.

The Box of Delights

John Maysfield

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 10. Christmas.

The Brilliant Book on De Gaulle

Julian Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 353: Paris 1968: The Students' Revolt (Part 1).

The Brilliant, The Northumbrian

Dan Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 18. The North South Divide.

The Burgundians

Bart van Leeuw

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 271: Belgium: History's Greatest Artist.

The Burgundians

Bart van Leeuwen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 131. Burgundy: Europe's forgotten superpower.

The Burning of the World

Bella Zomberi-Moldovan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5).

The Caesars

Mary Beard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in The Trojan War, with Mary Beard.

the Calat Fair

David Bien

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6).

The Cathars

Gregory Pegg

1 mention · 1 episode

The Cause of the French Revolution or The Secret Conduct of Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3).

1 mention · 1 episode

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Mentioned in 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

The Centenary

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 629. WWI: The Christmas Truce.

The Century of Louis XIV

Voltaire

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 411. The Man in the Iron Mask.

The Century of Women

Pauline Stafford

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 460. The Empress of the Apocalypse.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 69. England v Ukraine.

The Child

1 mention · 1 episode

The Children of Ashen Elm

Mentioned in 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2).

Neil Price

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 148. The Vikings Go East.

The Christmas Truce

Carol Ann Duffy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 629. WWI: The Christmas Truce.

The Churchill Factor

Boris Johnson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 239: Young Churchill: Born to Lead (Part 1).

The Classic Slum

Robert Roberts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

the cold silence of the approaching

Adam Nicholson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 245. Trafalgar: Victory (Part 3).

The Command of the Ocean

NAM Roger

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1).

The Communist Manifesto

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 38. Communism.

The Company Quartet

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 75. The East India Company.

The Complete Jack the Ripper

Donald Rumbelow

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4).

The Conquest of New Spain

Bernal Diaz

1 mention · 1 episode

The Cornish Federation of Women's Institutes

Mentioned in 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 49. Food Glorious Food.

The Corsair

Lord Byron

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1).

The Count of Monte Cristo

Alexandre Dumas

1 mention · 1 episode

The Craft, How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 335: The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory.

The Crestomancy stories

Diana Wynne-Jones

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

The Crime of the Congo

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mentioned in 540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3).

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 237. Marilyn Monroe.

The Crucible of Islam

Glenn Boussac

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 60. Muhammad.

The Cultural Revolution

Frank de Kerta

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Dandy Dinment Terrier

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 323: History's Greatest Dogs.

The Dark is Rising

Susan Cooper

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 133. Christmas churches.

The Dark Knight Returns

Frank Miller

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

The Dark Queens

Shelley Bouhack

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 521. Warlords of the West: Killer Queens (Part 2).

The Dark Valley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 43. 1940.

The Darkening Age

Catherine Nixey

1 mention · 1 episode

The Daughter of Time

Josephine Tay

1 mention · 1 episode

The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still

Mentioned in 139. The Princes in the Tower Part 2.

Malcolm Price

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 275: Argentina: The Welsh Colony.

The Death of a Hero

1 mention · 1 episode

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

Carlos Fuentes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 309: Columbus: Villain or Hero? (Part 4).

The Death of Consensus

Phil Tinline

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 464. Modern British Elections (Part 2).

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Gibbon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence.

The Deeds of Esplandian

Garci Ordonez de Monteluo

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 61. California.

The Deer Hunter

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 325: Fall of Saigon: Apocalypse Now (Part 2).

the defeat of the Spanish Armada

Garrett Mattingly

1 mention · 1 episode

the definitive book on the Battle of Hastings

Mentioned in 584. Mary, Queen of Scots: Birth of a Legend (Part 1).

Michael Lawson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 554. 1066: The Shadows of War (Part 1).

The Devils

Dostoevsky

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 242. French History on Film.

the diary of Frances Stevenson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4).

The Dinosaur Heresies

Bob Bakker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 109. Dinosaurs.

The Disney Version

Richard Schickel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 614. Walt Disney: The Great American Storyteller.

The Distant Mirror

Barbara W. Tuchman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1).

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 105. Classics.

The Dragons of Eden

Carl Sagan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 461. Dragons.

The Dream of Scipio

Cicero

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 151. Valentine's Day.

The Duel

John Lukacs

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 17. Fascism.

The Eagle and the Heart

Helen Castor

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

Mentioned in 485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1).

The Eagle Unbowed

Halek Khorhansky

1 mention · 1 episode

the earth is all that lasts

Mentioned in 532. Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3).

The Eagle Unbowed

Halek Koczanski

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis.

The Earliest Englishman

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3).

The Earth Lies Weeping

Peter Cousins

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3).

The Earth Transformed

Peter Frankopan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 313: Climate Apocalypse.

The Earth Transformed

Peter Frankopan

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 313: Climate Apocalypse.

The Eastern Front

Alexander Watson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5).

The Eastern Front

Nick Lloyd

1 mention · 1 episode

The Emerging Republican Majority

Mentioned in 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6).

The Eaters of Light

Michael Crichton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 149. The Birth of Russia.

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4).

The Enoch Talchin

T.H. Nally

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 336: Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Part 1).

The Epic History of Italians and Their Food

John Dickey

1 mention · 1 episode

the evolution of the amphitheater

The Eumenides

Aeschylus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 458. Helen of Troy: A Family of Blood (Part 2).

The Eurydice

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 574. The Medici: Curse of the Mad Monk (Part 3).

Catherine Welch

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 369. The Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death.

The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Tobias Smollett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 221. Holidays: Byron's Grand Tour.

The Fabric of Crime

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 158. Killer Fashion.

The Fairy Queen

Edmund Spenser

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (Part 1).

The Fairy Queen

Edmund Spencer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 542. Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe.

The Fall of Feudalism

Michael Davitt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 337: Ireland: Union, Famine and Parnell (Part 2).

The Fall of France

Julian Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 622. The Nazis at War: The Fall of France (Part 3).

The Fall of Gondolin

J.R.R. Tolkien

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 225. J.R.R. Tolkien.

The Fall of Rome

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 325: Fall of Saigon: Apocalypse Now (Part 2).

the fall of Saigon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 325: Fall of Saigon: Apocalypse Now (Part 2).

The Fall of the Aztecs

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 391. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (Part 8).

The Fall of the Aztecs

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

The Fall of the House of Habsburg

Mentioned in 384. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Adventure Begins (Part 1).

Edward Crankshaw

1 mention · 1 episode

The Fate of Rome, Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire

Mentioned in 467. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3).

The Fall of the Incas

John Hemming

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

The Fate of Rome

Karl Harper

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 146. Disease vs. the rise of civilisation.

Kyle Harper

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire.

The Fateful Year

Mark Bostridge

1 mention · 1 episode

The Fifth Sun, A New History of the Aztecs

Mentioned in 474. The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6).

The Faults of Qin

Jia He

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 444. The First Emperor of China.

The Female Eunuch

Germaine Greer

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 364. Sixties Fashion: Swinging London (Part 2).

The Fifth Sun

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 51. Aztecs.

Camilla

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 51. Aztecs.

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

John Knox

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 585. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (Part 2).

the first book of Samuel

1 mention · 1 episode

The first book of what life was like after the war came down

Stefan Wohler

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 83. The Berlin Wall.

the first emperor of China

Frances Wood

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 444. The First Emperor of China.

The First World War

Cyril Falls

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 90. The Western Front.

The Flight of the King

Timothy Tackett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 482. The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8).

the flight to Varennes

Timothy Tackett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1).

The Fortress

Alexander Watson

1 mention · 1 episode

The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century

Mentioned in 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6).

Huston Stuart Chamberlain

1 mention · 1 episode

The Fraud

Zadie Smith

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 400. Victorian Britain's Maddest Mystery.

The French Revolution

Simon Sharma

1 mention · 1 episode

The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

Mentioned in 506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4).

Timothy Tackett

1 mention · 1 episode

The Games, A Global History of the Olympics

Mentioned in 482. The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8).

The Future Eaters

Tim Flannery

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 121. Australia Before Cook.

David Goldblatt

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Modern Olympics

Mentioned in 80. Modern Olympics - Part 1.

The General Reader

Mary Beard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in The Trojan War, with Mary Beard.

The Girlfriend's Book

Anna Volin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 559. The Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties of Sixties Rebellion (Part 2).

The God Forsakes Anthony

C.P. Cavafy

1 mention · 1 episode

The Gold of Rennes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 301: The Real Da Vinci Code.

The Golden Ass

Puleus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The World Cup of Gods

Mentioned in 59. The World Cup of Gods - Part 2.

The Golden Bough

James Frazer

1 mention · 1 episode

The Golden Dream

Robert Silverberg

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

The Golden Symbol

1 mention · 1 episode

The great biography of Eva Perón

The Gossip's Choice

Sarah Reid

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 191. Childbirth.

Nicolas Fraser and Marisa Navarro

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 494. Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1).

The Great British Dream Factory

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

The Great British Dream Factory

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

The Great British Dream Factory, The Strange History of Our National Imagination

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

The Great Cryptogram

Ignatius Donnelly

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

The Great Divergence

Kenneth Pomerantz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 20. China.

The Great Early 20th Century Writer Liu Xun

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution.

The Great Game

Peter Hopkirk

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 88. The First Anglo-Afghan War.

The Great Introduction to Iran

Ali Ansari

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 41. Persia.

The Great Wall

Julia Lovell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 15. Walls and Borders.

The Great Wall of China

Julia Lovell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 444. The First Emperor of China.

The Greek Way

Edith Hamilton

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 510. America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3).

The Greeks and the Irrational

E.R. Dodds

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 604. Greek Myths: Sex, Drugs & Tragedy (Part 3).

The Greyfriars School Stories

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 129. Cricket.

The Grizzly Folk

H.G. Wells

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 127. Neanderthals.

The Habsburg Way, Seven Rules for Turbulent Times

Edward

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 445. The Habsburgs: Secrets of a Dynasty.

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Stephanie Daly

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 145. Babylon.

The Harold Saga

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Last Viking

Mentioned in 552. The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1).

the Heath government

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 120. The Oil Weapon.

The History of Cricket

John Major

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 129. Cricket.

The History of Savile Row

James Shepard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 459. The Suit, Savile Row, and Smartly Dressed Men.

The History of the Conquest of Mexico

William Prescott

1 mention · 1 episode

The History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Mentioned in 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2).

Sir Winston Churchill

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 554. 1066: The Shadows of War (Part 1).

the history of the indies of new spain

diego duran

1 mention · 1 episode

the history of the monarchy

Mentioned in 388. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Festival of Blood (Part 5).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 39. Elizabeth I.

The History of the Norman Conquest of England

Edward A. Freeman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 557. 1066: The Norman Conquest (Part 4).

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 314: Atlantis: The Legend (Part 1).

The History of the Reformation

John Knox

1 mention · 1 episode

The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Mentioned in 586. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Battle for Scotland (Part 3).

José Saramago

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 227. Portugal: On the Edge of the World (Part 1).

The History of Ukraine

Sergei Plokhy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 149. The Birth of Russia.

The Hitler Myth

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hitler, with Ian Kershaw

Mentioned in 63. Hitler, with Ian Kershaw - part 1.

The Holy Man in Late Antiquity

Peter Brown

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 164. Saint Patrick.

The Honorary Consul

Graham Greene

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 498. Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5).

The House of Dudley, A New History of Tudor England

Joanne Paul

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 293: Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days' Queen (Part 1).

The House That Was Haunted to Death

Roger Clark

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 66. Ghosts.

The Ideal Home exhibition of 1959

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

The Imagination of an Insurrection

William Irwin Thompson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4).

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

The Indian Wars

Peter Cousins

1 mention · 1 episode

The Instance of the Fingerpost

Mentioned in 455. Fall of the Sioux: The Ghost Dance (Part 2).

The Inheritors

William Golding

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 127. Neanderthals.

Iain Pears

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 333: The Republic of Britain: Life under Cromwell.

The Insurrection in Dublin

James Stevens

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4).

The Intellectuals and the Masses

John Carey

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:London

Mentioned in 213. London: Moments (Part 5).

The Intellectuals and the Mathes

John Carey

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 372. The Birth of British Fascism.

The Interest

Michael Taylor

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 12. Conspiracy Theories.

The Invasion of 1910

William Le Quex

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 9. Causes of the First World War.

The Invention of Holidays

Lucy Lethbridge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex.

The Japanese History in 20 Lives

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 277: Japan: Samurai and Shoguns.

The Japanese, A History in 20 Lives

Chris Harding

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 277: Japan: Samurai and Shoguns.

The Joy of Sex

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 417. Britain in 1974: State of Emergency (Part 1).

The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 614. Walt Disney: The Great American Storyteller.

The King of the North

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 631. Wagner: LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall.

The King's great matter

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 74. The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

The Knight's Tale

Chaucer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 53. Game of Thrones.

The Landlady

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 128. Rasputin.

The Last 100 Years Give and Take

Al Murray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 28. The Kings of Comedy.

The Last Assassin

Peter Stoddart

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 305: The Fall of the Roman Republic.

the last day of Rob Spierre's life

Colin Jones

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 273: Portugal: The Carnation Revolution.

The Last Emperor of Mexico

Edward Shawcross

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 163. The Last Emperor of Mexico.

The Last Emperor of Mexico

Edward Shawcross

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 163. The Last Emperor of Mexico.

The Last Empire

Circe Plocky

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 162. Putin's Russia.

The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 71. England v Denmark.

The Last Kingdom

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Alfred the Great and Pepys' 'Fanatiques.

The Last Mogul

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 75. The East India Company.

The Last of the Mohicans

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 285: Canada: Beaver Wars.

The Last Sherlock Holmes Story

Michael Dibdin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Nathaniel Philbrick

1 mention · 1 episode

The Law of Blood, Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

Mentioned in 451. Custer's Last Stand: The Charge of the 7th Cavalry (Part 6).

The Last Viking

Don Holway

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 555. 1066: Slaughter at Stamford Bridge (Part 2).

The Last Viking

Don Holloway

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Last Viking

Mentioned in 553. The Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome (Part 2).

Johann Chaputet

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 408. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's Dream (Part 5).

The Laws

Plato

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 314: Atlantis: The Legend (Part 1).

The Leopard

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 14. Historical Fiction.

The Libation Bearers

Aeschylus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Helen of Troy

Mentioned in 458. Helen of Troy: A Family of Blood (Part 2).

The Library of Babel

Jorge Luis Borges

1 mention · 1 episode

The Life and Death of Lady Jane Grey

Eric Ives

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 293: Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days' Queen (Part 1).

The Life and Miracles of Saint William of Norwich

Thomas of Monmouth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 582. The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery.

The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 582. The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery.

the life of Alfred

Asa

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Alfred the Great

Mentioned in 250. Alfred the Great: Fury of the Vikings (Part 1).

The Life of an Amorous Man

Ihara Saikaku

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 277: Japan: Samurai and Shoguns.

The Life of Charlemagne

Einhardt

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Charlemagne

Mentioned in 523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1).

The Life of William of Norwich

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 582. The Body in the Woods: A Medieval Murder Mystery.

The Light Ages

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 112. Medieval Science.

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad

Ian McGregor

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 214. The Battle of Stalingrad (Part 1).

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad

Ian

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 215. Stalingrad and the Red Army (Part 2).

The Lion and the Unicorn

George Orwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 180. England & Englishness.

The Little Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 71. England v Denmark.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars

Suetonius

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Crossing the Rubicon

Mentioned in 135. Crossing the Rubicon: The die is cast.

The London Tradesman

Robert Campbell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 286: England: Beef and Liberty.

The Long Walk

Stephen King

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 592. Mad Victorian Sport.

The Lost Prince

Stephen Poliakoff

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 123. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 1.

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Mentioned in 538. Horror in the Congo: The Nightmare Begins (Part 1).

The Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man.

The Lost World

Conan Doyle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 233. The Loch Ness Monster.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 342: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Downfall and Prison (Part 2).

The Luck of Barry Lyndon

William Makepeace Thackeray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 47. The Seven Years' War.

The Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 256. Germany: The White Rose.

The Magician

Colm Tóibín

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1922

Mentioned in 136. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1.

The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4).

The Making of Cromwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 114. Stonehenge, ancient ritual and the origins of paganism.

The Making of Cromwell

Ronald Hutton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 113. Hallowe'en and modern paganism.

The Making of Martin Luther

Richard Rex

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 433. Luther: The Man Who Changed the World (Part 1).

The Making of Oliver Cromwell

Ronald Hutton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 123. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 1.

the man in the iron mask

Voltaire

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6).

The Man in the Iron Mask

1 mention · 1 episode

The Man Who Would Be King

Mentioned in 479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5).

The Man in the Iron Mask

Alexandre Dumas

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 411. The Man in the Iron Mask.

The Man in the Moon

Francis Goodwin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 96. The UK’s Best Churches.

Rudyard Kipling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 335: The Freemasons: History's Greatest Conspiracy Theory.

The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe

Sarah Churchwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 237. Marilyn Monroe.

The Marquis de Sade

1 mention · 1 episode

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

Mentioned in 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

Roberto Calasso

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 602. Greek Myths: Zeus, King of the Gods (Part 1).

The Marriage of Figaro

Pierre Beaumarchais

1 mention · 1 episode

The Maw of Peter the Great

Mentioned in 476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2).

The Mask of Anarchy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4).

Alexander Pushkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 279: Cameroon: The Slave General of Peter the Great.

The Meaning of Cricket

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 129. Cricket.

The Medici

Mary Hollingsworth

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Medici

Mentioned in 574. The Medici: Curse of the Mad Monk (Part 3).

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1 mention · 1 episode

The More of Peter the Great

The Midwife

Jane Sharp

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 191. Childbirth.

The Midwife's Truth

Sarah Reid

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 191. Childbirth.

The Mighty Wurlitzer

Tom Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 125. The CIA.

The Missing Links

Ross Barnett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 285: Canada: Beaver Wars.

The Moor's Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Reconquest of Spain and the Old Queen of Hawaii.

The Morbid Age

Richard Overy

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1922

Mentioned in 136. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1.

Alexander Pushkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 279: Cameroon: The Slave General of Peter the Great.

The Morte d'Arthur

Mallory

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 461. Dragons.

The Murder Machine

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4).

The Murder of Brian Jones

Anna Volin

1 mention · 1 episode

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Mentioned in 559. The Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties of Sixties Rebellion (Part 2).

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 132. A Christmas Carol.

The Naked Ape

Desmond Morris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 426. History's Greatest Monkeys.

the nativist prophets of early Islamic Iran

Patricia Kroner

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 377. Baghdad: Crossroads of the Universe (Part 2).

The Nazi Conscience

Claudia Kuhns

1 mention · 1 episode

the novels of Jane Austen

Mentioned in 408. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's Dream (Part 5).

The Nazis

Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 620. The Nazis at War: Hitler Strikes West (Part 1).

The Necessary War

Michael Lin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 72. The Vietnam War.

The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

The New Europe

Michael Palin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 270: Poland: Copernicus, the Dragon and the Salt Mine.

The New Look

Harry Hopkins

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 263: USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry.

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 441. Lord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (Part 2).

the novels of Patrick O'Brien

Patrick O'Brien

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1).

the novels of Patrick O'Brien

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 229. Portugal: Gold, Earthquakes, and Brazil (Part 3).

the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Coatley

1 mention · 1 episode

The Old Boys, The Decline and Rise of the Public School

Mentioned in 452. Custer's Last Stand: The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Part 7).

The Old Boys

David Turner

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 368. The History Behind Hogwarts: Ancient Schools and Revolting Students.

David Turner

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 132. A Christmas Carol.

The Old Gringo

Carlos Fuentes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 309: Columbus: Villain or Hero? (Part 4).

The Once and Future King

T.H. White

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 19. King Arthur.

The Open Veins of Latin America

Eduardo Galeano

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 261: Uruguay: The Tupamaros.

The Origins of Islam

Patricia Kroner

1 mention · 1 episode

The Origins of the Scottish Reformation

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3).

Alec Ryrie

1 mention · 1 episode

the origins of the Second World War

Mentioned in 585. Mary, Queen of Scots: The Royal Rivals (Part 2).

A.J.P. Taylor

1 mention · 1 episode

The Paranoid Style in American Politics

Mentioned in 530. Hitler’s War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1).

The Outline of History

HG Wells

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 258. Costa Rica: Civil War.

The Pal-Mal Gazette

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3).

Richard Hofstadter

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 397. JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6).

The Pardoner's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer

1 mention · 1 episode

The Persian Aegean Empire

The Parliament of Fowls

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 151. Valentine's Day.

The People's Post

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 151. Valentine's Day.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 25. Empires.

The Persian Boy

Mary Reynolds

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 45. Top Ten Eunuchs.

The Pike, Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet, seducer and preacher of war

Lucy Hughes Hallett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 194. The First Fascist.

The Pillow Book

1 mention · 1 episode

The Piltdown Man Hoax Case Closed

Mentioned in 560. The Golden Age of Japan: Lady Murasaki and the Shining Prince (Part 1).

Mars Russell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man.

The Pinner J File

Peter Kornbluh

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The 1973 Chilean Coup

Mentioned in 370. The 1973 Chilean Coup: Allende, Nixon and the CIA (Part 1).

The Pity of War

Neil Ferguson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5).

The Places in Between

Rory Stewart

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 88. The First Anglo-Afghan War.

The Plumed Serpent

D.H. Lawrence

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 264: Mexico: Day of the Dead.

The Poems of Catullus

1 mention · 1 episode

The Poetical Works of William McGonagall

William McGonagall

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 142. General Gordon and the Siege of Khartoum.

The Poetry of William McGonagall

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 240. Young Churchill: Soldier of Empire (Part 2).

The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics

Dan T. Carter

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:America in '68

Mentioned in 511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4).

The Portrait of Dorian Gray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

The Possessed

Dostoevsky

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 242. French History on Film.

The Power and the Glory

Graham Greene

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 264: Mexico: Day of the Dead.

The Power Broker

Robert Caro

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 360. Fear City: New York in the 1970s.

The Power of Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 153. God and the American Empire.

The primary spy

Anthony Gray

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Australian Prime Ministers

Mentioned in 188. Australian Prime Ministers: Harold Holt - Malcolm Fraser (Part 2).

The Prince and the Pauper

Mark Twain

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 328: Coronations: Sex, Holy Oil and Civil War (Part 2).

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Dan Brown

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 411. The Man in the Iron Mask.

The Prize

Daniel Yergin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 120. The Oil Weapon.

The Proper Function of Man

Jack London

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in Bonus Episode: No Time to Die.

The Proud Tower

Barbara Tuchman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 318: Hundred Years' War: A Game of Thrones (Part 1).

The Psychopathia Sexualis

Richard von Kraft-Ebbing

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

The Punica

Silius Italicus

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hannibal

Mentioned in 570. Hannibal: The Invasion of Italy (Part 3).

The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford

1 mention · 1 episode

The Quran and Its Historical Context

Fred Donner

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 60. Muhammad.

The Real Problem with Slavery

Hinton Rowan Helper

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 200: American Civil War: The Causes (Part 1).

The Rector of Stiffkey

Ronald Blythe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 583. The Lion, the Priest and the Parlourmaids: A 1930s Sex Scandal.

The Red and the Black

Stendhal

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1).

the Reformation

Dierman McCulloch

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 437. Luther: A World Torn Apart (Part 5).

The Reformation: A History

Diarmaid MacCulloch

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

Mentioned in 436. Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4).

The Remains of the Day

Kazuyoshi Shigeru

1 mention · 1 episode

The Restoration of Christianity

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

The Republic

Plato

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 314: Atlantis: The Legend (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 274: Switzerland: Calvin's Cancel Culture.

The Return of a King

Willie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 88. The First Anglo-Afghan War.

The Revolutionary Temper

Robert Danson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1).

The Revolutionary Temper

Robert Darnton

1 mention · 1 episode

The Revolutionary Tempered

Mentioned in 478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4).

Robert Darnton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2).

The Rights of Woman

Olympe de Gouges

1 mention · 1 episode

The Rise of the Meritocracy

Mentioned in 544. The French Revolution: The September Massacres (Part 1).

The Ring Cycle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 631. Wagner: LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall.

Michael Young

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 84. Exams.

The Rise of Western Christendom

Peter Brown

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Charlemagne

Mentioned in 525. Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3).

The River War

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 241. Young Churchill: Prisoner and Fugitive (Part 3).

The River War

Winston Churchill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 142. General Gordon and the Siege of Khartoum.

The Road

Cormac McCarthy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 21. The History of the Future.

The Road to Mickley Guard

Henry Trees

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 149. The Birth of Russia.

The Road to Oxyana

Robert Byron

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 87. Afghanistan - Part 1.

The Road to Sarajevo

Vladimir Dedio

1 mention · 1 episode

The Roth to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

The Road to Wigan Pier

George Orwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 208. George Orwell.

The Robert Coles book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 33. The Beautiful Game.

The Roman Revolution

Syme

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 297: The Nazis: Hitler's Triumph (Part 3).

Sarah

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 204. Gone with the Wind.

The Rotter's Club

Jonathan Coe

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 420. Britain in 1974: Thatcher Enters the Ring (Part 4).

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Peter Shaffer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 644. The Fall of the Incas: Empire of Gold (Part 1).

The Ruin of All Witches

Malcolm Gaskell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 331: American Witches.

the rune of all witches

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 331: American Witches.

The Russo-Japanese War

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2).

The Sacred Register

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4).

the saga of King Harold

Snorri Sturluson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1066

Mentioned in 555. 1066: Slaughter at Stamford Bridge (Part 2).

The Savage Storm

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 399. The Savage Storm: World War II and The Battle for Italy.

The Savage Storm, The Battle for Italy, 1943

James Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 399. The Savage Storm: World War II and The Battle for Italy.

The Scarlet and the Black

Stendhal

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 242. French History on Film.

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orksy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

the second volume of his life of Nelson

John Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 245. Trafalgar: Victory (Part 3).

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾

Sue Townsend

1 mention · 1 episode

The Seduction of the Innocent

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

Frederick Wertham

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

The Seven Champions of Christendom

Richard Johnson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 462. St George: Dragon-Slayer.

The Shadow of the Sword

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 60. Muhammad.

The Shot Heard Round the World

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1 mention · 1 episode

The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant

Graham Hancock

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 345: Raiders of the Lost Ark (Part 1).

The Sign of the Four

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner

1 mention · 1 episode

The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Mentioned in 456. Fall of the Sioux: The Massacre at Wounded Knee (Part 3).

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 74. The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

The Sixth Wife

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 74. The Six Wives of Henry VIII.

The Sleeper in the Sands

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Last Viking

Mentioned in 553. The Last Viking: Warrior of the New Rome (Part 2).

The Sleepwalkers

Christopher Clark

1 mention · 1 episode

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Mentioned in 466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2).

the Slush Fund

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

Mentioned in 243. Trafalgar: A World at War (Part 1).

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 234. Germans Behaving Badly.

The Sound of the City

Charlie Gillick

1 mention · 1 episode

The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream'

Mentioned in 559. The Rolling Stones: Satanic Majesties of Sixties Rebellion (Part 2).

The Spanish Holocaust

Paul Preston

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 2. Civil War.

The Speckled Band

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

Gary Younge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 359: Martin Luther King's Dream.

The Speech: The Story Behind Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream'

Gary Younge

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 359: Martin Luther King's Dream.

The Spy and the Traitor

Ben McIntyre

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre.

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

John le Carré

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The 1973 Chilean Coup

Mentioned in 370. The 1973 Chilean Coup: Allende, Nixon and the CIA (Part 1).

The Statues of the Sun

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 114. Stonehenge, ancient ritual and the origins of paganism.

The Story of China, a Portrait of Civilisation and Its People

Michael Wood

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 20. China.

the story of the 19 of the Olympics

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Modern Olympics

Mentioned in 80. Modern Olympics - Part 1.

The Strand

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 627. Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4).

The Strange Death of Liberal England

George Dangerfield

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3).

The Sword at Sunset

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 14. Historical Fiction.

The Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Andrew Preston

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 152. American Crusades.

The Taj Mahal

Rabindranath Tagore

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 362. The Taj Mahal: Love and Death.

The Taxes of the Marne

Jean Dutour

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3).

The Tay Bridge Disaster

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Massacre of the Innocents and the Tay Bridge disaster.

The Teenage Revolution

Peter Laurie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 558. The Rolling Stones: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Part 1).

The Teenage Revolution

Peter Lorre

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 364. Sixties Fashion: Swinging London (Part 2).

The Tempest

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 68. The British Empire.

the terror

David Andress

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 544. The French Revolution: The September Massacres (Part 1).

the terror

David Andres

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5).

The Terror

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1).

The Terror

David Andrus

1 mention · 1 episode

The Thief Who Stole Nothing

Mentioned in 506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4).

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Baghdad

Mentioned in 379. Baghdad: The Arabian Nights (Part 4).

The Things They Carried

Tim O'Brien

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 325: Fall of Saigon: Apocalypse Now (Part 2).

The Third Reich

Michael Burley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 405. The Nazis in Power: The Nuremberg Rallies (Part 2).

The Third Reich at War

Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 532. Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3).

The Third Reich in Power

Richard Evans

1 mention · 1 episode

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity

Mentioned in 409. The Nazis in Power: Hitler's War on the Jews (Part 6).

The Thirty Years' War

Jeffrey Parker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 89. Climate & Weather.

The Three Imposters

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 352: Amsterdam: Kings, Canals, and Coffee Houses (Part 2).

David Kuchta

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 459. The Suit, Savile Row, and Smartly Dressed Men.

The Tin Drum

Gunter Grass

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 532. Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3).

The Toxic Alliance

1 mention · 1 episode

The Treasure of Amethabas

Mentioned in 236. China and World War II (Part 2).

M.R. James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 133. Christmas churches.

the treaty

Gretchen Freeman

1 mention · 1 episode

The Truth About the Congo Free State

Mentioned in 579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4).

The Trojan War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 6. Troy.

The Troublesome Priest

Jonathan Tucker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 583. The Lion, the Priest and the Parlourmaids: A 1930s Sex Scandal.

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3).

The Twelve Caesars

Mary Beard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 105. Classics.

The Twelve Caesars

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1).

The Unknown Shore

Patrick O'Brien

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1).

The Valley of Fear

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 85. Sherlock Holmes.

The Vampire

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4).

The Vanished Library

Luciano Canfora

1 mention · 1 episode

The Vanity of Human Wishes

The Vanishing Man

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greatest Paintings

Mentioned in Greatest Paintings: The Ghost of Spain – Velázquez’s Las Meninas.

Juvenal

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hannibal

Mentioned in 569. Hannibal: Elephants Cross the Alps (Part 2).

The Village of Italy

Richard Lascelles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 221. Holidays: Byron's Grand Tour.

The Virginian

Owen Wister

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 42. The Wild West.

The Voices of Nîmes

Susanna Lipscomb

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 26. Witches.

The Voyage of the Beagle

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Port wine and Darwin sets sail.

The Wages of Destruction

Adam Tooze

1 mention · 1 episode

The Waning of the Middle Ages

Mentioned in 406. The Nazis in Power: Hitler’s Road to War (Part 3).

The Wall and the Books

Jorge Luis Borges

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 444. The First Emperor of China.

Johan Huizinga

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Joan of Arc

Mentioned in 632. Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1).

The Waning of the Middle Ages

Jan Huizinga

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 131. Burgundy: Europe's forgotten superpower.

the war in italy in the second world war

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 220. Justinian & Theodora: The Secret History (Part 3).

The War in the West

my brother

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 621. The Nazis at War: Blitzkrieg (Part 2).

The War in the West

null

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 623. The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (Part 4).

The War in the West, Germany Ascendant, 1939 to 1941

James Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

Mentioned in 620. The Nazis at War: Hitler Strikes West (Part 1).

The War on Heresy

Bob Moore

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 302: The Mystery of the Cathars.

The War on Heresy

R.A. More

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 303: The Bloodiest Crusade.

The Warlord Chronicles

Bernard Cornwell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 19. King Arthur.

The Watchers

Stephen Alford

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 39. Elizabeth I.

The Way We Were, Britain 1970 to 1974

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 418. Britain in 1974: The Crisis Election (Part 2).

The West was not dull

Evan Connell

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 447. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (Part 2).

The White Guard

Mikhail Bulgakov

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 155. Ukraine and Russia.

The White Man's Burden

Rudyard Kipling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 190. Jubilees.

The White Rose

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 256. Germany: The White Rose.

The White War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 599. The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6).

The Wife of Bath

Geoffrey Chaucer

1 mention · 1 episode

The Wife of Bath's Tale

Chaucer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 53. Game of Thrones.

The Wings of the Dove

Henry James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

The Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum

1 mention · 1 episode

The Wolf Girl, the Gods and the Greeks

Mentioned in 456. Fall of the Sioux: The Massacre at Wounded Knee (Part 3).

The Wolf Age

Tora Skaer

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Road to 1066

Mentioned in 549. The Road to 1066: Revenge of the Vikings (Part 2).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 334: Athens and the Birth of Democracy.

The Wolf Girl, The Greeks and the Gods

Tom Holland

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 330: Herodotus: The Birth of History.

The Woman in White

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 601. Scandal in the White House.

The World of the Vikings

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 103. The Norse Sagas.

The Worst Witch

Jill Murphy

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

The Wrath to Come

Sarah Churchill

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 204. Gone with the Wind.

The Year of the French

Thomas Van Lingen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 336: Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Part 1).

The yellow book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 341: The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Sex and Scandal (Part 1).

The Young Man's Valentine Writer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 151. Valentine's Day.

The Young Meteors

Jonathan Aitken

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 364. Sixties Fashion: Swinging London (Part 2).

The Ypres salient

1 mention · 1 episode

This Sporting Life, Sport and Liberty in England 1760 to 1960

Mentioned in 597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4).

Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 185. Agatha Christie.

Theogony

Hesiod

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 602. Greek Myths: Zeus, King of the Gods (Part 1).

There and Back Again

Matthew Lyons

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 226. The Lord of the Rings.

Theseus and the Minotaur

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4).

Third Reich, New History

Michael Burley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 297: The Nazis: Hitler's Triumph (Part 3).

this fantastic book

Leslie Coote

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

this sporting life

Rob

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 593. The Fight of the Century.

This Sporting Life

Robert Coles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 592. Mad Victorian Sport.

Robert Coles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 593. The Fight of the Century.

Thomas Hill's book of...

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 151. Valentine's Day.

Three Men and a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 530. Hitler’s War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1).

Three Men on a Bummel

Jerome K. Jerome

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 67. Anglo-German Relations.

Tiberius and His Age

Edward Champlin

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 535. Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (Part 2).

Tim Butcher

1 mention · 1 episode

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

Tim to the Lighthouse

Edward Ardizzoni

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 150. Smuggling.

Timaeus

Plato

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 315: Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire (Part 2).

John Le Carre

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 419. Britain in 1974: Countdown to a Coup (Part 3).

Titanic

Filson Young

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 428. Titanic: Kings of the World (Part 2).

Titanic Lies of Nelson

John Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1).

titanic Nelson

John Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 608. Nelson: Slaughter in Naples (Part 1).

TJ Stiles

1 mention · 1 episode

Tolkien and the Great War

Mentioned in 446. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (Part 1).

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 206. Historical Love Island.

Toad of Toad Hall

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 205. The Last Days of Boris Johnson.

John Garth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 225. J.R.R. Tolkien.

Tom

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Alfred the Great

Mentioned in 250. Alfred the Great: Fury of the Vikings (Part 1).

Tom Holland's packs

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 340: Hadrian and Antinous.

Tom Sharp

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 65. A Very British Scandal.

Tomb with a View

Peter Ross

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 96. The UK’s Best Churches.

top children's book on Alexander

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 117. Alexander the Great part 2.

Towards the Flame

Dominic Levin

1 mention · 1 episode

Travels and Researches in Chaldia, or Chaldia

Mentioned in 471. The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3).

Tracy Borman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 119. World Cup of Kings & Queens preview.

Transfigured into Hope

Jose Maria Castanera de Dios

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Evita

Mentioned in 497. Evita: Death of a Martyr (Part 4).

Sir William Loftus

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 519. The World's First City.

Travels on the Continent

Marianna Stark

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 332: King Solomon's Mines.

tresor du monde

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 301: The Real Da Vinci Code.

Trojan War

Stephen Fry

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 13. Stephen Fry and Troy.

Troy

Stephen Fry

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 6. Troy.

Twins at St. Claire's

Enid Blyton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies.

Ulrich's book

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 102. Germany from Adenauer to Angela.

Ulster

Rudyard Kipling

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3).

Ulysses

James Joyce

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:1922

Mentioned in 136. 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 200: American Civil War: The Causes (Part 1).

Unheard

Tom Owolade

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 100. Decolonising Africa.

Unlikely Partners

Julian De Wertz

1 mention · 1 episode

Usborne book of mysteries

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 233. The Loch Ness Monster.

V for Vendetta

Alan Moore

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 115. The Gunpowder Plot.

Vanity Fair

Thackeray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 615. Disneyland: The Modern American Utopia.

Victor Klemperer's diaries

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 410. The Nazis in Power: The Night of Broken Glass (Part 7).

Vietnam War

Max Hastings

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 72. The Vietnam War.

Viking England

Thomas Williams

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Alfred the Great

Mentioned in 250. Alfred the Great: Fury of the Vikings (Part 1).

Vincent Bramley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 171. The Falklands War: Battle for the Islands (Part 3).

Vincent Bramley's memoir

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 171. The Falklands War: Battle for the Islands (Part 3).

Vincent Bugliosi

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 393. JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (Part 2).

Vines in a Cold Climate

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 289: Drink.

Virginia Woolf

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

Virtual History

Alvin Jackson

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 578. The Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday (Part 3).

Vita Lampada

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 142. General Gordon and the Siege of Khartoum.

Vitae Lampada

Sir Henry Newbolt

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 129. Cricket.

Vivid Faces

Roy Foster

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 339: Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Part 4).

Voltaire's own theory

Voltaire

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 411. The Man in the Iron Mask.

Wales, England's Colony

Martin Jones

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 267: Wales: The Roar of the Red Dragon.

Wales: England's Colony?

Martin Johnes

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 267: Wales: The Roar of the Red Dragon.

Walter Scott

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1).

Wang Jingwei

1 mention · 1 episode

War and Society in Early Rome, From Warlords to Generals

Mentioned in 235. China and World War II (Part 1).

Jeremy Armstrong

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Carthage vs. Rome

Mentioned in 423. Carthage vs. Rome: The Wolf at the Gates (Part 3).

War Game

Anthony Price

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 40. History as Entertainment.

War Horse

Michael Mopoga

1 mention · 1 episode

War Reporting from Vietnam

Mentioned in 595. The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2).

war memoirs

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:French Presidents

Mentioned in 178. French Presidents: 1958-1981 (Part 1).

Library of America

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 324: Fall of Saigon: The Nightmare Begins (Part 1).

Warwick the Kingmaker

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: The Battle of Wakefield and Emperor Karl I.

Watchmen

Alan Moore

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

We Are Ourselves Again

1 mention · 1 episode

When Montezuma Met Cortez

Mentioned in 172. The Falklands War: Afterlife (Part 4).

Westworld

Michael Crichton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 615. Disneyland: The Modern American Utopia.

Matthew Restle

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 302: The Mystery of the Cathars.

When the King Took Flight

Timothy Tackett

1 mention · 1 episode

Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England

Mentioned in 482. The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8).

When William Came

Sarky

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 9. Causes of the First World War.

While England Slept

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1).

While England Slept

Winston Churchill

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 393. JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (Part 2).

White Heat

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Sixties Fashion

Mentioned in 363. Sixties Fashion: The Teenage Revolution (Part 1).

White Moguls

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 75. The East India Company.

Who Are We Now?

Jason Cowley

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 180. England & Englishness.

Jason

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 180. England & Englishness.

Who Dares Wins?

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 1. Greatness.

Who Killed Kennedy

Thomas Buchanan

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 397. JFK: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 6).

Why They Won

Philip Sobrian

1 mention · 1 episode

Wild Wales

George Borrow

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 49. Food Glorious Food.

Wilfred Owen

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 597. The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4).

Wilkie Collins

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 601. Scandal in the White House.

William Hickey's memoirs

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 24. Sex in the City.

William Morris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1).

William Wordsworth

1 mention · 1 episode

Windrush, 75 Years of Modern Britain

Mentioned in 503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1).

Winchelsea

Alex Preston

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 150. Smuggling.

Windrush

Trevor Phillips

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 401. Windrush: The Story of Black Britain.

Trevor

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 401. Windrush: The Story of Black Britain.

Winter King

Tom Penn

1 mention · 1 episode

witches, druids, and King Arthur

Mentioned in 123. World Cup of Kings and Queens part 1.

Witchcraft

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 331: American Witches.

Ronald Hutton

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 113. Hallowe'en and modern paganism.

Wojtek

Eileen Orr

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis.

Wojtek the Bear, Polish War Hero

Eileen Orr

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis.

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 267: Wales: The Roar of the Red Dragon.

Women in Purple

Judith Herron

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Charlemagne

Mentioned in 525. Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3).

Wordsworth

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 223. Sun, Sea, and Sex.

World War III

General Hackett

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 92. Nuclear Weapons.

Wrath of God

Evan Bulkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

Y Bernal Mintio and Bernal Lied

Juan Mirales

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 386. The Fall of the Aztecs: The City of Gold (Part 3).

Yanaki

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 75. The East India Company.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Bob Stanley

1 mention · 1 episode

Year of the Four Emperors

Mentioned in 558. The Rolling Stones: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll (Part 1).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 290: 2022: A History.

Yeltsin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 160. The Fall of the Soviet Union.

Young Elizabeth, Princess, Prisoner, Queen

Nicola Tallis

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (Part 1).

Young Men

Richard Davenport Hines

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Titanic

Mentioned in 431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5).

Young People Today

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 471. The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3).

Young Werther

1 mention · 1 episode