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Join us as we explore the love stories of the past.

Swiped Left: Strange Royal Bedfellows...

On this episode, we’ll be talking about the many royal couples that didn’t take to each other and thus the …

Please welcome John Matthews to the show.

And we’ll be talking about his upcoming book Voyages with the Celtic Saints: Stories and Wisdom for Travellers in Search of Truth.

Voyages of Celtic Saints:

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Welcome to our Romance Royale series.

On this episode, we’ll be talking about the King’s many grannies. The royal couplings that had to happen to further the family tree. 

We’re looking at five such co…

Many people know the Hundred Years’ War, and almost everyone in the English speaking world has heard of the Battle of Agincourt, but not many would be familiar with the The Battle of Baugé which was …

Welcome to season SEVEN of our podcast!

Everybody knows Shakespeare. 

However, perhaps not as well known to most is that beneath the surface, much of Shakespeare’s work surrounds ideas of gender and q…

On this episode, we’ll be talking about Royal Couples that truly fit the trope of Friends to Lovers.

The title of the episode is Give Me Your Hand and Let Me All Your Fortunes Understand, meaning our …

Please welcome James Tejani on the show.

We’re talking about his book A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth:

The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America.

Published last year with WW Norton and Company…

Welcome to our Royal Romance season.

On this episode, we’ll be talking about Royal Pairs that never got together. 

The couples in question were considered by the powers that be, or they took a fancy to…

Right trusty and well beloved, we greet you well!

Gemma Hollman is back on the show!

This time with her latest book Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns and Queens (Abbevi…

Join us this month and explore the love stories of the past.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing with you our chats to various historians and we’ll be covering all the ways that Royals can come t…

Please welcome to the podcast Dan E Parkes, he has just released a book called Titanic Legacy: The Captain, the Daughter and the Spy with Amberley Publishing.

What happened to the family of Titanic’s …

This month please join us in exploring the love stories of the past.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing with you our chats to various historians and we’ll be covering all the ways that Royals ca…

Let’s talk about murder that was happening in Anglo-Saxon England, who was killing whom, why and what was the punishment?

With kings and queens, Did primogeniture or the lack of it made any difference…

This month please join us in exploring the love stories of the past.

Over the next few weeks we’ll be sharing with you our chats to various historians and we’ll be covering all the ways that Royals ca…

Please welcome to the podcast Ada Palmer, who is talking about her new book - Inventing The Renaissance,

just published with Head of Zeus.

Let’s dive in and debunk some myths, shall we?

Get Inventing t…

Let’s talk about women’s lives in the medieval era, did you know that they wrote books under their own names? They had a sense of humour? Let’s talk of those women who lived lives on their own terms…

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Today we’re sitting down with Anna Abney, who has written a historical fiction quadrilogy set in Stuart England, the first book is called The Master of Measham Hall, published by Duckworth Books.

Let’…

Let’s welcome back Amy McElroy, to talk about Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, sister of Henry VIII, Queen of France by first marriage and Duchess of Suffolk by second.

If you remember the Showtime …

Today we have a very special guest. He is an OBE and a Grammy award nominee. He has conducted Baroque music the world over, and today he joined us for a chat about his decades-long career, his love o…

Heather R Darsie is back on the podcast, this time with her upcoming new book

"Katharine of Aragon: Spanish Princess: I Am Not as Simple as I May Seem", published by Amberley Books.

Let's re-evaluate w…