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.

1984

George Orwell

8 mentions · 8 episodes

Mentioned in The Book Club: Wuthering Heights, 600. Chatham High Street +6 more.

Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad

8 mentions · 8 episodes

Events:Custer vs. Crazy Horse Horror in the Congo+1 more

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 543. Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God +6 more.

Persian Fire

Tom Holland

8 mentions · 8 episodes

Mentioned in 334: Athens and the Birth of Democracy, 185. Agatha Christie +6 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.

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

8 mentions · 8 episodes

Adventures in Time, Fury of the Vikings

Mentioned in The Book Club: Wuthering Heights, 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5) +6 more.

Who Dares Wins

Dominic Sandbrook

8 mentions · 8 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) +6 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.

The Wasteland

T.S. Eliot

7 mentions · 6 episodes

Events:1922 Days+1 more

Mentioned in 346: The Mystery of the Holy Grail (Part 2), 290: 2022: A History +4 more.

Titanic Lives

Richard Davenport Hines

7 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Titanic

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

Fifth Son

Camilla Townsend

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Events:Days The Fall of the Aztecs

Mentioned in 391. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Last Emperor (Part 8), 384. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Adventure Begins (Part 1) +4 more.

I Claudius

Robert Graves

6 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Emperors of Rome The Roman Conquest of Britain

Mentioned in 537. Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4), 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1) +3 more.

Iliad

Homer

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.

Lives of the Caesars

Suetonius

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 537. Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4), 535. Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (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.

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

6 mentions · 6 episodes

Mentioned in 667. The Mystery of the Mona Lisa, 520. Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1) +4 more.

Brilliant book

John Hemingway

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Mentioned in 648. The Fall of the Incas: Battle for the Sacred City (Part 5), 647. The Fall of the Incas: The King in the North (Part 4) +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.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Lord Byron The Fall of the Incas

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3) +3 more.

Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3) +3 more.

Henry V

William Shakespeare

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Hundred Years' War Nelson+2 more

Mentioned in 529. The Nazis' Road to War: Showdown in Munich (Part 2), 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1) +3 more.

Millennium

Tom Holland

5 mentions · 5 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) +3 more.

Pax

Tom Holland

5 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age (Extract), 369. The Colosseum: Rome's Arena of Death +2 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 Fall of the Aztecs

Dominic Sandbrook

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Your Wish is Your Command

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) +3 more.

War and Peace

Leo Tolstoy

5 mentions · 5 episodes

Events:Evita JFK

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

1066 and All That

Sellars and Yeatman

4 mentions · 4 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) +2 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.

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.

Conquistadores

Fernando Cervantes

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Days The Fall of the Aztecs

Mentioned in 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2), 384. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Adventure Begins (Part 1) +2 more.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

4 mentions · 4 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) +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.

Four Days in November

Vincent Bugliosi

4 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 396. JFK: The Second Assassin Strikes (Part 5), 394. JFK: Death in Dallas (Part 3).

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.

Hamnet

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3) +2 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.

Hitler

Ian Kershaw

4 mentions · 4 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) +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.

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Horror in the Congo

Mentioned in 541. Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo, 540. Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3) +2 more.

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Days Mary, Queen of Scots

Mentioned in 589. Mary, Queen of Scots: Downfall (Part 6), 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2) +2 more.

Odyssey

Homer

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Ancient Carthage Greek Myths

Mentioned in 605. Greek Myths: Jason & The Quest for the Golden Fleece (Part 4), 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2) +2 more.

State of Emergency

Dominic

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 418. Britain in 1974: The Crisis Election (Part 2), 417. Britain in 1974: State of Emergency (Part 1) +2 more.

The 39 Steps

John Buchan

4 mentions · 4 episodes

The Great British Dream Factory

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

Doyle

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Days

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

Dominic Sandbrook

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Mentioned in 367. The Real Harry Potter: Magic, Empire and Beastly Bullies, 186. The New Elizabethan Age +2 more.

The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3) +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 Name of the Rose

Umberto Eco

4 mentions · 4 episodes

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

The Twelve Caesars

Suetonius

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Events:Emperors of Rome

Mentioned in 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1), 533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis +2 more.

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

4 mentions · 4 episodes

Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Bulldog Drummond

H.C. McNeill

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:1922

Mentioned in 373. Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader, 372. The Birth of British Fascism +1 more.

Candide

Voltaire

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:The French Revolution Trafalgar

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

Dostoevsky

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 662. Britain in the 70s: The Rise of Thatcher (Part 1), 237. Marilyn Monroe +1 more.

Echolands

Duncan McKay

3 mentions · 2 episodes

Hurrah for the Black Shirts

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.

Flashman

George McDonnell Fraser

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2), 317: African Amazons +1 more.

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

3 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Ku Klux Klan

Mentioned in 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3), 204. Gone with the Wind.

Martin Pugh

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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

July Crisis

Thomas Otte

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:The Road to The Great War

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.

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.

Ladybird books

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Days The Roman Conquest of Britain

Mentioned in 501. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3), 192. Robin Hood +1 more.

Little Women

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3) +1 more.

Munich

Robert Harris

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:The Nazis' Road to War

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.

Natural History

Pliny the Elder

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 666. Wine and the Birth of Civilisation, 216. Pigeons +1 more.

Neuromancer

William Gibson

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Silicon Valley

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

Normal People

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3) +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.

Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Jack The Ripper The Ku Klux Klan

Mentioned in 654. The Ku Klux Klan: The Rise of Evil (Part 1), 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5) +1 more.

Pagan Britain

Ronald Hutton

3 mentions · 3 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) +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.

Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

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.

Spycatcher

Peter Wright

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Australian Prime Ministers Britain in 1974

Mentioned in 419. Britain in 1974: Countdown to a Coup (Part 3), 189. Australian Prime Ministers: Bob Hawke - Scott Morrison (Part 3) +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 Decameron

Boccaccio

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Mentioned in 416. The Canterbury Tales (Part 4), 293: Lady Jane Grey: The Nine Days' Queen (Part 1) +1 more.

The Fifth Sun

Camilla Townsend

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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) +1 more.

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

3 mentions · 3 episodes

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Mentioned in The Book Club: Wuthering Heights, 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5) +1 more.

Thucydides

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Ancient Carthage

Mentioned in 421. Ancient Carthage: Lords of the Sea (Part 1), 314: Atlantis: The Legend (Part 1) +1 more.

The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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

The Hunger Games

3 mentions · 3 episodes

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3) +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 Pillow Book

Seishonagon

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 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

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

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 Tale of the Heike

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Dawn of the Samurai

Mentioned in 661. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shōgun Triumphant (Part 4), 659. Dawn of the Samurai: Bloodbath at the Bridge (Part 2) +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 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.

Ulysses

James Joyce

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:1922

Mentioned in 290: 2022: A History, 237. Marilyn Monroe +1 more.

Utopia

Thomas More

3 mentions · 3 episodes

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

Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel

3 mentions · 3 episodes

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (Part 1), 267: Wales: The Roar of the Red Dragon +1 more.

Rana Mitter

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

A Jest of Robin Hood

Howard Pyle

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

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

Mark Gregory Pegg

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 303: The Bloodiest Crusade, 301: The Real Da Vinci Code.

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).

Aberystwyth, mon amour

Malcolm Price

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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).

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

An Instance of the Fingerpost

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

Alexander the Great

Adrian Goldsworthy

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

Ian Pears

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 333: The Republic of Britain: Life under Cromwell, 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

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.

Beyond a Boundary

CLR James

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:London

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

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

Events:Fall of the Sioux

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

Bloodlands

Timothy Snyder

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

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.

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).

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).

John Dickey

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 484. The Food that Changed the World.

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.

Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century

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).

Don Quixote

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Greatest Paintings The Fall of the Incas

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6), Greatest Paintings: The Ghost of Spain – Velázquez’s Las Meninas.

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.

Empire of Booze

Henry Jeffreys

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 289: Drink.

Empireland

Satnam Sanghera

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 68. The British Empire.

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.

Fatal Path

Ronan Fanning

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Forgotten Victory, the First World War, Myths and Realities

Mentioned in 579. The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4), 338: Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Part 3).

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.

Gary Sheffield

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 90. The Western Front.

Foundation

Isaac Asimov

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

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's novel

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.

Global Crisis

Geoffrey Parker

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 89. Climate & Weather, 4. We’re all so 17th Century.

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).

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

Snorri Sturluson

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?.

History of the World

Plantagenet Somerset Fry

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 385. The Fall of the Aztecs: The Woman Who Changed The World (Part 2), 70. Children’s History.

History of Treason

Neil

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 249. Treason in Modern Britain (Part 2), 248. Medieval Treason (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.

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

2 mentions · 2 episodes

In The Shadow of the Sword

Mentioned in The Book Club: Wuthering Heights, 598. The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5).

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

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

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

Stephen Knight

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Jack The Ripper

Mentioned in 628. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5), 626. Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3).

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

Events: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).

Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

King Solomon's Mines

H. Rider Haggard

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Last Tango in Aberystwyth

Mentioned in 450. Custer's Last Stand: Death in the Black Hills (Part 5), 239: Young Churchill: Born to Lead (Part 1).

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

Events:The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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

Mentioned in 174. Merlin, Magic and the British.

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).

Magna Carta

David Carpenter

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 212. Haunted London (Part 4), 62. Magna Carta.

Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

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).

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.

Moonraker

Ian Fleming

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in Bonus Episode: No Time to Die, 101. James Bond.

Never Had It So Good

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Rolling Stones

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

Oedipus

Sophocles

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 603. Greek Myths: The Riddle of the Sphinx (Part 2), 27. Tutankhamun.

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.

Pamela

Samuel Richardson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:London

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

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.

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Lord Byron

Mentioned in 442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3), 49. Food Glorious Food.

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

Servants, a Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain

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).

Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 600. Chatham High Street, 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4).

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

Procopius

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.

Lucy Lethbridge

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 300: The Real Downton Abbey.

Shakespeare

Paul Johnson

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

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

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).

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.

Supergods

Grant Morrison

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 130. Superheroes.

Sword at Sunset

Rosemary Sutcliffe

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 19. King Arthur, 14. Historical Fiction.

Andrew Preston

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 153. God and the American Empire, 152. American Crusades.

Tarker the Otter

Henry Williamson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

The Birth of a Nation

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Ku Klux Klan

Mentioned in 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3), 655. The Ku Klux Klan: Terror in the South (Part 2).

The Black Jacobins

CLR James

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:London

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

The Conquest of the Incas

John Hemming

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The English and Their History

Mentioned in 646. The Fall of the Incas: Death to the Emperor (Part 3), 645. The Fall of the Incas: Massacre in the Andes (Part 2).

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.

The Earth Transformed

Peter Frankopan

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 313: Climate Apocalypse.

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 First World War

Cyril Falls

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

Mentioned in 596. The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3), 90. The Western Front.

David Goldblatt

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Modern Olympics

Mentioned in 81. Modern Olympics - Part 2, 80. Modern Olympics - Part 1.

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 War

Peter Hart

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 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 Klansman

Thomas Dixon

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:The Ku Klux Klan

Mentioned in 657. The Ku Klux Klan: American Fascists (Part 4), 656. The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3).

The Last Emperor of Mexico

Edward Shawcross

2 mentions · 1 episode

Mentioned in 163. The Last Emperor of Mexico.

The Last English King

Julian Rathbone

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:1066

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

The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Days

Mentioned in 12 Days: Alfred the Great and Pepys' 'Fanatiques, 71. England v Denmark.

The Life of Samuel Johnson

James Boswell

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad

Mentioned in 651. London’s Golden Age: Sex and Scandal in Georgian Britain (Part 2), 650. London’s Golden Age: The Mad Life of Dr Johnson (Part 1).

Ian McGregor

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

The Marriage of Figaro

Pierre Beaumarchais

2 mentions · 2 episodes

The Realness of Things Past

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 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 Pity of War

Neil Ferguson

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

Mentioned in 671. The First World War: Blood in the Trenches (Part 1), 473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5).

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).

The River War

Winston Churchill

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Young Churchill

Mentioned in 241. Young Churchill: Prisoner and Fugitive (Part 3), 142. General Gordon and the Siege of Khartoum.

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 Six Wives of Henry VIII

Dominic Sandbrook

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 74. The Six Wives of Henry VIII, 70. Children’s History.

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 Vanity of Human Wishes

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

Juvenal

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:Hannibal London's Golden Age

Mentioned in 650. London’s Golden Age: The Mad Life of Dr Johnson (Part 1), 569. Hannibal: Elephants Cross the Alps (Part 2).

The War at the End of the World

Mario Vargas Llosa

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

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).

Thunder at Twilight

Frederick Morton

2 mentions · 2 episodes

112 Lessons in How Democracies Die

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

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

Thomas Hughes

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).

Trojan War

Stephen Fry

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Mentioned in 13. Stephen Fry and Troy, 6. Troy.

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.

Virgil

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

2 mentions · 2 episodes

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

While England Slept

Winston Churchill

2 mentions · 2 episodes

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 393. JFK: Cuba, Camelot and the Cold War (Part 2), 392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1).

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.

1066 and all that

Sellers and Eatman

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 62. Magna Carta.

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).

1493

Charles C. Mann

1 mention · 1 episode

1606: The Year of King Lear

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6).

James Shapiro

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 104. Macbeth.

1914

Philip Larkin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

1914

Paul Hamm

1 mention · 1 episode

1983 the world at the brink

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

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.

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

Mentioned in 366. The Architect of Modern China.

A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess

1 mention · 1 episode

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

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in The Book Club: Wuthering Heights.

A Discourse of Bath and the Hot Waters There

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 Game of Thrones

George R. R. Martin

1 mention · 1 episode

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

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 History of the World in 51 Heroes and Villains

Goalhanger Podcasts, Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 666. Wine and the Birth of Civilisation.

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Samuel Johnson

1 mention · 1 episode

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

Mentioned in 652. London’s Golden Age: The Ghosts of Culloden (Part 3).

A Man of Iron

Troy Sinek

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 601. Scandal in the White House.

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 Most Holy War

Mark Gregory Pegg

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 302: The Mystery of the Cathars.

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 Place of Greater Safety

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

Henry Mantel

1 mention · 1 episode

A Place of Greater Safety

Mentioned in 503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1).

Hilary Mantel

1 mention · 1 episode

a poem by the Welsh poet,

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

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).

A Short History of Japan

Christopher Harding

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Dawn of the Samurai

Mentioned in 658. Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (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).

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

Events:The Rolling Stones

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

Adrienne Mayer

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 109. Dinosaurs.

Adventure in Time, The Fall of the Aztecs

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

Alfred and the Anglo-Saxons

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.

Aftermath

Harold Yeener

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 102. Germany from Adenauer to Angela.

Aftermath

Harald Jena

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).

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.

Alexander

Dominic Sandbrook

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 195. Young Cleopatra (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 Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945

Max Hastings

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Nazis at War

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

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

Events:The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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 Prometheus

Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

1 mention · 1 episode

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

American Prometheus

Kybird and Martin J. Sherwin

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 344: Oppenheimer: The Witch Hunt (Part 2).

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

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization

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

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).

Anne Boleyn: A Life

Tracy Borman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Elizabeth I

Mentioned in 616. Elizabeth I: The Fall of the Axe (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

Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shiaism

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

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 198. Cleopatra's Downfall (Part 4).

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

Ignatius Donnelly

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).

Balzac

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 665. Britain in the 70s: The Bailout from Hell (Part 4).

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 a Boundary

C.L.R. James

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 100. Decolonising Africa.

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

John Sugden

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 97. Top Ten Mistresses.

Black Elk Speaks

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Fall of the Sioux

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.

Bond, The Man Who Saved Britain

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.

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.

Boswell

1 mention · 1 episode

Boswell's Life of Johnson

Mentioned in 665. Britain in the 70s: The Bailout from Hell (Part 4).

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 653. London’s Golden Age: The Shadow of the Madhouse (Part 4).

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.

Brazil, a biography

Eloisa Starling and Lilia Moritz Schwartz

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Portugal

Mentioned in 229. Portugal: Gold, Earthquakes, and Brazil (Part 3).

Brazil, a Biography

Eloisa Starling and Lilia Moritz-Schwartz

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 268: Brazil: The Last Emperor.

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 book

Edmund Dell

1 mention · 1 episode

brilliant book about the conquest of Peru

Mentioned in 664. Britain in the 70s: Scandal in Downing Street (Part 3).

John Heming

1 mention · 1 episode

brilliant paired biography

Mentioned in 648. The Fall of the Incas: Battle for the Sacred City (Part 5).

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).

Helen Castor

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Henry IV

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

brilliant, brilliant book

John Hemming

1 mention · 1 episode

Britain and the Napoleonic Wars

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (Part 6).

Britain Against Itself

Samuel Beer

1 mention · 1 episode

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

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).

Brothers York

Thomas Penn

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Princes in the Tower

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

Brothers York

Tom Penn

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Princes in the Tower

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

John Blair

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Alfred the Great

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

Bulldog Drummond

H.C. McNeile

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

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).

Burns

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 665. Britain in the 70s: The Bailout from Hell (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).

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

Mentioned in 416. The Canterbury Tales (Part 4).

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).

children's history of Alexander the Great

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Alexander the Great

Mentioned in 117. Alexander the Great part 2.

China at War

Hans van der Veen

1 mention · 1 episode

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

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

China's Good War

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 366. The Architect of Modern China.

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

Paul Johnson

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?.

Clarissa

Samuel Richardson

1 mention · 1 episode

Cleopatra and Mark Antony

Mentioned in 650. London’s Golden Age: The Mad Life of Dr Johnson (Part 1).

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).

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

Mentioned in 373. Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader.

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

Mentioned in 247. Monty & Patton vs. the Nazis.

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

Al Murray

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 247. Monty & Patton vs. the Nazis.

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.

Confessions

St. Augustine

1 mention · 1 episode

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

Confessions

Saint Augustine

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 256. Germany: The White Rose.

Congo

David van Rijbroek

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Horror in the Congo

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

Conquistadores

Fernandez Cervantes

1 mention · 1 episode

Coronation, A History of Kingship in the British Monarchy

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

Cornerstone Speech

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Ku Klux Klan

Mentioned in 654. The Ku Klux Klan: The Rise of Evil (Part 1).

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

Ian Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

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

Custer

TJ Styles

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 451. Custer's Last Stand: The Charge of the 7th Cavalry (Part 6).

Custer

T.J. Stiles

1 mention · 1 episode

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

Mentioned in 402. Christmas: Pagan or Christian?.

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.

Das Kapital

Karl Marx

1 mention · 1 episode

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

David Douglas

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Road to 1066

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

David Turner

1 mention · 1 episode

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

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

Agatha Christie

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

James VI of Scotland

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

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.

Diary of the War

Captain Alexander Stewart

1 mention · 1 episode

Dictionary of the Khazars

Mentioned in 671. The First World War: Blood in the Trenches (Part 1).

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

Mentioned in 484. The Food that Changed the World.

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).

Discoveries, The Voyages of Captain Cook

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 new book on Nelson

Dominic

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Nelson

Mentioned in 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (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

Robert Louis Stevenson

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Jack The Ripper

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

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage

Richard Holmes

1 mention · 1 episode

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

Mentioned in 650. London’s Golden Age: The Mad Life of Dr Johnson (Part 1).

Dr. No

Ian Fleming

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 101. James Bond.

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).

Eleanor Rigby

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 670. Tom Holland Meets Paul McCartney.

Embarrassment of Riches

Simon Schama

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 351: Amsterdam: Miracles, Money, and Mud (Part 1).

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.

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.

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.

Fatal Path

Ronald Fanning

1 mention · 1 episode

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail

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

Fatherland

Robert Harris

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 32. What if?.

Faust

Goethe

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 234. Germans Behaving Badly.

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).

Flashman

George MacDonald Fraser

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 14. Historical Fiction.

Flashman and the Dragon

1 mention · 1 episode

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

Flashman and the Redskins

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).

Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:JFK

Mentioned in 398. JFK: The Mystery is Solved (Part 7).

Foucault's Pendulum

Alberto Eco

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 12. Conspiracy Theories.

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....

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.

Global Crisis

Jeffrey Parker

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 313: Climate Apocalypse.

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

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.

Goodbye to All That

Robert Graves

1 mention · 1 episode

Gordon, the man behind the legend

Mentioned in 671. The First World War: Blood in the Trenches (Part 1).

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).

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

Kai Roberts

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 192. Robin Hood.

Graves' accounts

1 mention · 1 episode

Great History of the French Revolution

Mentioned in 671. The First World War: Blood in the Trenches (Part 1).

great history

NAM Rogers

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

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

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 Religion

Volta Burkert

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

Mentioned in 602. Greek Myths: Zeus, King of the Gods (Part 1).

Greek Religion

Volta Burckhardt

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Greek Myths

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

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

Events:The Rolling Stones

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

Hannibal and the Enemies of Rome

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

Events:The Great Northern War

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

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

Events:Hitler's War on Poland

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 Oak

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Trafalgar

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

Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law

Sadakat Kadri

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 666. Wine and the Birth of Civilisation.

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

Mentioned in 416. The Canterbury Tales (Part 4).

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

Heroic Failure in the British

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).

Heretics and Reformers

Peter Marshall

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 46. Culture Wars.

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.

History of the Klan

Allan Trulys

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Ku Klux Klan

Mentioned in 655. The Ku Klux Klan: Terror in the South (Part 2).

history of the samurai

Jonathan Clements

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Dawn of the Samurai

Mentioned in 659. Dawn of the Samurai: Bloodbath at the Bridge (Part 2).

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.

Hitler

Kershaw

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Hitler's War on Poland

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

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

Mentioned in 198. Cleopatra's Downfall (Part 4).

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

Mentioned in 247. Monty & Patton vs. the Nazis.

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

Mentioned in 373. Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader.

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.

Icon Basilika

1 mention · 1 episode

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

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

Primo Levi

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 292: The Shadow of the Holocaust.

In Defense of English Cooking

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.

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'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 Boswell and Dr. Johnson's idea of fun

1 mention · 1 episode

James Hoare's recent book on the history of England

Mentioned in 665. Britain in the 70s: The Bailout from Hell (Part 4).

James Fenton

1 mention · 1 episode

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

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

Mentioned in 373. Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader.

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

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

John Hemming

1 mention · 1 episode

John Sugden's brilliant biography

Mentioned in 649. The Fall of the Incas: The Last Emperor (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

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

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

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).

Adam Hochschild

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Horror in the Congo

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

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.

Kings and Queens of England

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).

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

Mentioned in 402. Christmas: Pagan or Christian?.

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

Mentioned in 348: The Boston Tea Party (Part 2).

Liberty or Death

Peter McPhee

1 mention · 1 episode

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

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 Can Be Hard

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 670. Tom Holland Meets Paul McCartney.

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

Events:The Great Northern War

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

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

1 mention · 1 episode

London in the 19th Century

Mentioned in 650. London’s Golden Age: The Mad Life of Dr Johnson (Part 1).

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

Mentioned in 375. Hitler and the Mitford Sisters.

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).

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).

Luther: Man Between God and the Devil

Heiko Obermann

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:Luther

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

Mad as Hell

Dominic Sandbrook

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.

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

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

Mentioned in 174. Merlin, Magic and the British.

Magnificent Rebels

Andrea

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 234. Germans Behaving Badly.

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

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

Marianna Stark, Travels on the Continent

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.

Marianna Stark

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 222. Victorian Holidays.

Marie Antoinette, The Making of a French Queen

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

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

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

Events:Alexander the Great

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).

Master and Commander

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 662. Britain in the 70s: The Rise of Thatcher (Part 1).

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).

Memoirs of the 20th Century

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 Kaufman

1 mention · 1 episode

Events:The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Mona Lisa: The History of the World's Most Famous Painting

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

Donald Sassoon

1 mention · 1 episode

Mentioned in 667. The Mystery of the Mona Lisa.

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.

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

Agatha Christie

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

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

My Secret Planet

Dennis Healy

1 mention · 1 episode