History Cafe
True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 294
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#44 Anne Boleyn did not hold out on Henry - Ep 1 Henry VIII, his wife, his lover, the French
In 2010 a document from 1527 was found in which Henry admits to the pope that he is sleeping with the woman he wishes to marry instead of, or as well as, his Spanish wife Katherine. Very little of th…
00:31:12 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
#40 Henry VIII: his pope, Katherine, Anne and FLORENCE
Having looked at the role of the pope in Philip and Mary's burnings, we take a look at the pope Henry had to deal with.After years of negotiation and confrontation, Pope Clement VII was heard swearin…
00:36:44 |
Sat 25 Jun 2022
#72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Most of those executed for their beliefs under Philip and Mary 1555-58 came from places with a long history of religious dissidence. It matches European evidence that many – perhaps most – of those b…
00:42:58 |
Wed 15 Jun 2022
#71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Until six weeks before the child was due, everybody at court and indeed in Europe, believed Mary was pregnant. She suffered a rare disorder - pseudocyesis - maybe triggered by a tumour on her pituita…
00:41:49 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
#70 More interested in pirates than heretics - Ep 3 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Who ran the persecution of heretics in England 1555-58? England was a joint monarchy but historians traditionally accused bigoted Mary of running the clamp down herself - with her cousin, Reginald Po…
00:39:16 |
Wed 01 Jun 2022
#69 Who exactly was a heretic? - Ep 2 Bloody Mary Tudor?
England in the mid-1550s was being governed by a joint monarchy: Philip and Mary and a select council of extremely able English politicians. Almost all of them had experience in government stretching…
00:38:07 |
Wed 25 May 2022
#68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 of Bloody Mary Tudor?
Bloody Queen Mary? 313 people died for their beliefs 1555-58. We owe it to the victims to get the story right. In 2020 historian Alexander Samson said about the reign of Mary Tudor ‘it feels as if we…
00:40:06 |
Wed 18 May 2022
#33 Sex, Hollywood and Fashion
Why did fashion become so much more conservative in the 1930s? We look at the puritanical Hays Motion Picture Production Code that banned indecent passions, and at MGM’s Adrian Greenberg, the most po…
00:33:37 |
Wed 11 May 2022
#09 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 of 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
We complete our exploration of the dark shadows in the background of Cecil Beaton’s sunny photograph. The laws of the time made it perfectly possible to prevent Edward VIII from marrying Wallis Simps…
00:33:10 |
Wed 04 May 2022
#08 I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: King, wife, Führer, lobster
RE-RELEASING UPON POPULAR DEMAND. As the newly appointed king, but not yet crowned, Edward VIII secretly told the Nazis he admired, that he was going ‘to concentrate the business of government in him…
00:26:02 |
Wed 27 Apr 2022
#07 That Dress - Ep 1 '2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'
RE-RELEASING AT PUBLIC REQUEST: 2 May 1937. Cecil Beaton photographs for American Vogue the twice-divorced American heiress soon to marry the ex-King Edward VIII. Wallis Simpson wears a Schiaparelli …
00:24:19 |
Wed 20 Apr 2022
#60 After 1918 - the Secrets are Out - Ep 8 Secret History of Suffragettes
RE-RELEASED FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. The reason we all believe Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst achieved women’s votes in Britain is because that’s the narrative created in the 20s and 30s by form…
00:44:49 |
Wed 13 Apr 2022
#43 The Suffragettes did not win the vote - Ep 7 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
Suddenly, after 1913 votes for women looks inevitable. Not through the chaotic, dying campaign of the suffragettes. But through the political brilliance of Millicent Fawcett and the National Union of…
00:41:46 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
#42 Their violence backfired - Ep 6 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
RE-RELEASING FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. November 1912 sees the first defeat for women’s votes since 1891. The government has been struggling with law and order after two years of mass strikes. That y…
00:37:18 |
Wed 30 Mar 2022
#41 The violence the Suffragettes wouldn't admit to - Ep 5 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
RE-RELEASING FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. From 1912 the WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes – are out of control and dangerous. But that is not how they're remembered. Anyone who disagrees with the viol…
00:37:04 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
#37 Hunger strikes and force feeding - Ep 4 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
RE-RELEASING FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. The militant strategy of the WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes - is delivering them headlines. It gets them nowhere with the government but it makes enormous s…
00:38:23 |
Wed 16 Mar 2022
#36 The Pankhursts didn’t want the poor to get the vote - Ep 3 The Suffragettes
RE-RELEASING FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. The WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes - begin in the Manchester Labour Party in the 1890s and learn their publicity-grabbing tactics from Labour. But these tac…
00:30:38 |
Tue 08 Mar 2022
#35 Most women didn’t want the vote - Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
RE-RELEASE for Women's History Month. We go back to the great number of unsung women and men who made great strides towards women’s votes and female emancipation by 1900. Emmeline Pankhurst sets up h…
00:27:19 |
Wed 02 Mar 2022
#34 Getting the vote in 1918: the secret strategy - Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
RE-RELEASE for Women's History Month. Mrs Pankhurst claims she won women the vote through ‘marvellous leadership.’ An all-male conference of MPs counters that it gifted women the vote. We reveal tha…
00:35:22 |
Wed 23 Feb 2022
#67 The King, the lies and the whitewash - Ep 7 Nightmare in the trenches 1914-16
On 14 July 1916 senior officers finally decided to ignore Haig. At the Battle of Bazentin Ridge they put to use everything that was good practice and broke in to the German lines. But because junior …
00:41:43 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
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