We Are History
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The 1960s - The advent of the permissive society
42 mins; April 29, 2024
The Painful History of Dentistry
49 mins; April 22, 2024
British Shops and Shopping Centres
61 hours 43 mins; April 15, 2024
The Brighton Bomb – 1984
50 mins; April 08, 2024
The History of April Fool’s Day
60 hours 5 mins; March 31, 2024
The Grand Tour
48 mins; March 25, 2024
The French Revolution
62 hours 26 mins; March 18, 2024
The Story of Live Aid
44 mins; March 11, 2024
International Women’s Day
39 mins; March 04, 2024
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
34 mins; February 26, 2024
The Golden Age of Smuggling
35 mins; November 13, 2023
The Green Belt: Contentious countryside
55 mins; November 06, 2023
The Gunpowder Plot: He didn’t start the fire
46 mins; October 30, 2023
From Bits to Bots: A History of AI
63 hours 44 mins; October 23, 2023
Nudity down the centuries
51 mins; October 16, 2023
The Zimmermann Telegram
56 mins; October 09, 2023
The Haitian Revolution - the slave rebellion that succeeded
40 mins; October 02, 2023
The Glamour Boys
58 mins; September 25, 2023
The Race for the Bomb
53 mins; September 18, 2023
Bonuscast: Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell answer your questions.
62 hours 38 mins; September 06, 2023
The Legend of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass
36 mins; July 23, 2023
The Story of Nancy Wake: The Mouse that ran rings around the Nazis
53 mins; July 17, 2023
The 1904 St Louis Olympics: A Marathon Event
47 mins; July 10, 2023
St Patrick and the Patriarchy: Women’s rights in Ireland
51 mins; July 03, 2023
Saucy Seaside Postcards - A Celebration of Great British Smut
55 mins; June 26, 2023
Great Fire of London: Burning down the house
36 mins; June 19, 2023
Navajo Code Talkers – America's secret WWII weapon
71 hours 22 mins; June 12, 2023
Albania: Communism, capitalism, chaos
40 mins; June 05, 2023
The 1968 US Presidential Election: Rotting from the head down
46 mins; May 29, 2023
Radium: A toxic love affair
62 hours 27 mins; May 22, 2023
Christmas Number Ones
76 hours 11 mins; December 12, 2022
Mussolini - the rubbish war leader
44 mins; December 04, 2022
The Domestication of Dogs
61 hours 3 mins; November 28, 2022
The Birth of the BBC
63 hours 0 mins; November 21, 2022
The Stasi Poetry Circle - the East Germans secret police advancing socialism through verse
72 hours 23 mins; November 14, 2022
The Fascist Who Switched Sides and Spied on the British Far Right
47 mins; November 07, 2022
The 60s Satire Boom
56 mins; October 31, 2022
The slow death of John Major’s government 1992-97
59 mins; October 24, 2022
We're coming back and we're doing it LIVE
2 mins; October 03, 2022
A Little Apology From We Are History
1 min; June 01, 2022
The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
62 hours 51 mins; March 28, 2022
Agent Sonya
78 hours 18 mins; March 21, 2022
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower
52 mins; March 14, 2022
Maud West, the unlikely private investigator
72 hours 54 mins; March 05, 2022
Victorian Anti-vaxxers
53 mins; February 28, 2022
The Great Exhibition 1851
68 hours 59 mins; February 21, 2022
The Scottish Witch Panic
49 mins; February 14, 2022
Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky
88 hours 47 mins; December 13, 2021
The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz, 1969-71
49 mins; December 06, 2021
MI9 - the secret agency helping British POWs
51 mins; November 29, 2021
Christopher Columbus, the man who didn't discover America
35 mins; November 22, 2021
The Rise of Fall of Robert Maxwell
55 mins; November 15, 2021
The Winter of Discontent 1978-9
64 hours 55 mins; November 08, 2021
A History of Contraception
61 hours 21 mins; June 07, 2021
The Thorpe Affair
33 mins; May 31, 2021
The Bay of Pigs - Cuba 1961
62 hours 17 mins; May 24, 2021
The Campaign Against Women's Suffrage
43 mins; May 17, 2021
The Agapemonites - the Victorian religious love cult
70 hours 7 mins; May 10, 2021
The Scopes Monkey Trial
41 mins; May 03, 2021
A History of Marriage
61 hours 12 mins; April 26, 2021
The fall of Thatcher - 1990
53 mins; April 19, 2021
Elizabethan child actors
50 mins; April 12, 2021
The Abdication Crisis - 1936
46 mins; April 05, 2021
Operation Mincemeat - 1943
65 hours 1 min; March 29, 2021
Prohibition
49 mins; March 21, 2021
Zoo Wars
67 hours 38 mins; March 15, 2021
Lesbian Pirates!?
38 mins; March 08, 2021
The Aids Crisis
50 mins; March 01, 2021
When Britain was a Republic 1649-60
68 hours 22 mins; February 22, 2021
Celtic Britain v Roman Empire (away win)
45 mins; February 15, 2021
The Big Stink - 1858
58 mins; February 08, 2021
2020 (Thank God it's history)
59 mins; December 28, 2020
The History of Christmas
59 mins; December 21, 2020
1989 - Revolutions across Eastern Europe
60 hours 13 mins; December 14, 2020
An Explicit History of Swearing
63 hours 14 mins; December 07, 2020
A Thoroughly Researched History of Beer
64 hours 10 mins; November 30, 2020
Murder at Road Hill House - 1860
42 mins; November 23, 2020
German Resistance to the Nazis
64 hours 48 mins; November 16, 2020
The Battle of Hastings - 1066
43 mins; November 09, 2020
Sealand - the Essex family that declared independence from Britain
65 hours 1 min; November 02, 2020
The Bristol Bus Boycott - 1963
33 mins; October 26, 2020
The cult of Jack the Ripper
59 mins; October 19, 2020
Ireland 1916 - the Easter Rising
51 mins; October 12, 2020
Watergate
58 mins; October 05, 2020
The Origins of Homo Sapiens
41 mins; September 28, 2020
Eurovision
54 mins; July 20, 2020
Kim Il Sung and the creation of North Korea
54 mins; July 13, 2020
Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples
46 mins; July 06, 2020
Stonehenge
46 mins; June 28, 2020
Tulip Fever - Amsterdam 1637; the first financial crash?
57 mins; June 22, 2020
Railway Mania
52 mins; June 15, 2020
Able Archer '83 - the Almost Nuclear Apocalypse
60 hours 59 mins; June 08, 2020
The Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands
61 hours 32 mins; June 01, 2020
The Miners' Strike 1984-5
61 hours 25 mins; May 25, 2020
The Rise and Fall of the Council House
61 hours 6 mins; May 18, 2020
The Spanish Civil War
56 mins; May 11, 2020
Ethelred the Unready
53 mins; May 04, 2020
The British Invasion of Iceland 1940
39 mins; April 27, 2020
Boudica
38 mins; April 20, 2020
The Suez Crisis 1956
45 mins; April 13, 2020