History Podcasts
Travels Through Time
“If you could travel back in time, what year would you visit?”
Made in partnership with Unseen Histories and ACE Cultural Tours.
As featured in the Sunday Times.
One of the Guardian’s “five best podcasts for the curious-minded.”
One of the Evening Standard’s Top History Podcasts
“Brilliant” (Damien Lewis)
“One hell of a fun history podcast” (Daisy Dunn).
Travels Through Time is a mix of serious history and a playful parlour game.
Each episode features an interview with one of the world’s leading historians or public figures. They are asked the question:
“If you could travel back in time, what year would you like to visit?”
And then they tell us why.
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1982 - David Bosco on the oceans
1969 - Kassia St Clair on Apollo 11
1967 - Sam Knight on the Premonitions Bureau
1966 - Prof. Carol Dyhouse on the sexual revolution
1966 - Paul Hayward on the World Cup
1965 - Matthew Green on lost communities
1963 - Juliet Nicolson on the cold winter
1963 - Craig Brown on Beatlemania
1962 - Philip Stephens on Harold Macmillan
1960 - Professor Simon Hall on Fidel Castro
1957 - Dr Stuart Clark on the Space Age
1947 - Aanchal Malhotra on Partition
1945 - Giles Milton on Berlin
1945 - Selma van de Perre on survival
1944 - Ariana Neumann on her father's great escape
1944 - Dr Peter Caddick Adams on D-Day
1944 - Robert Lyman on Burma
1944 - Damien Lewis on the SAS
1944 - James Holland on the Sherwood Rangers
1943 - Anthony Tucker-Jones on Churchill
1942 - James McAuley on Beatrice de Camondo
1942 - Mary Fulbrook on the Holocaust
1941 - Owen Matthews on Richard Sorge
1940 - Annie Gray on Churchill's cook
1940 - Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill
1940 - Jane Rogoyska on the Katyn Massacre
1939 - Simon Scarrow on Nazi Berlin
1939 - Chris Bryant on the Glamour Boys
1936 - Giles Tremlett on the International Brigades
1934 - Thomas Harding on the blackshirts
1932 - Dr Suzy Sheehy on spllitting the atom
1925 - Alasdair Cross on the origins of the Spitfire
1922 - Nick Rennison on a turbulent year
1922 - Ronan McGreevy on assassination
1922 - Toby Wilkinson on Tutankhamun's Tomb
1920 - Charles Emmerson on volatile politics
1918 - Dr Patricia Fara on women at war
1918 - Professor Jonathan Schneer on the Lockhart Plot
1917 - Francesca Wade on Square Haunting
1916 - Simon Heffer on the Home Front
1925 - Frances Wilson on DH Lawrence
1914 - Dr Diane Atkinson on the Suffragettes
1889 - Sarah Wise on the East End
1885 - Lulu Jemimah on Buganda
1882 - Michele Mendelssohn on Oscar Wilde
1876 - Dr Sophie Ratcliffe on Anna Karenina
1871 - Petina Gappah on David Livingstone
1867 - Edward Shawcross on Emperor Maximilian
1862 - Suzanne Fagence Cooper on the Morrises
1862 - Dr Thomas Waters on folklore
1860 - Jamie Mackay on Garibaldi
1853 - Lesley Downer on Perry's Expedition
1845 - Professor James Shapiro on Shakespeare in America
1841 - Sir Michael Palin on HMS Erebus
1839 - Edward Rutherfurd on China
1839 - Alex Renton on Abolition
1835 - Daniel Levy on the Great Fire of NYC
1833 - Edmund Richardson on Afghanistan
1831 - Marcus du Sautoy on Évariste Galois
1825 - Ian Mortimer on the Regency
1815 - Bernard Cornwell on the Battle of Waterloo
1815 - Nicolas Guyatt on a massacre
1799 - Mike Jay on laughing gas
1792 - Tim Clayton on James Gillray
1794 - Colin Jones on Robespierre
1776 - Dr Kate Fullagar on Mai
1764 - William Dalrymple on the East India Company
1739 - Nichols Crane on scientific expeditions
1720 - Thomas Levenson on the South Sea Bubble
1711 - Dr Joseph Hone on Robert Harley
1709 - Ellen Alpsten on the Tsarina's Daughters
1700 - Philip Mansel on Louis XIV
1688 - Margarette Lincoln on the Glorious Revolution
1682 - Nigel Pickford on HMS Gloucester
1666 - Margaret Willes on the Great Fire of London
1660 - Robert Harris on the Act of Oblivion
1655 - Hugh Aldersley-Williams on Christian Huygens
1649 - Malcolm Gaskill on a witch hunt
1643 - John Heilbron on Galileo
1620 - Nadine Akkerman on Elizabeth Stuart
1601 - Katherine Rundell on John Donne
1593 - Stephen Greenblatt on Christopher Marlowe
1588 - Tracy Borman on the Armada
1572 - Kate Mosse on the Wars of Religion
1558 - Lucy Wooding on Mary and Elizabeth
1549 - Michael Pye on Antwerp
1540 - James Clark on the Dissolution of the Monasteries
1539 - Richard Ovenden on Glastonbury Abbey
1536 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch on Thomas Cromwell and Anne Boleyn
1534 - Christopher de Bellaigue on Suleyman the Magnificent
1520 - Philip Hoare on Albrect Drurer
1517 - Alan Mikhail on the Ottomans
1510 - Damian Dibben on Venice
1492 - Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the year our world began
1483 - Thomas Penn on King Richard III
1454 - Susan Denham Wade on the printing press
1453 - Justin Marozzi on the seizure of Constantinople
1434 - Ross King on Renaissance Florence
1415 - Professor David Abulafia on the Chinese Star Fleets
1381 - Helen Carr on John of Gaunt
1325 - Luke Pepera on Mansa Musa
1215 - Professor Giles Gasper on Robert Grosseteste
1199 - Sara Cockerill on Eleanor of Aquitaine
1187 - Professor Jonathan Phillips on the Battle of Hattin
1147 - Dan Jones on the Second Crusade
1120- Charles Spencer on the White Ship
1002 - Ken Follett on The Evening and the Morning
878 - Michael Wood on Alfred the Great
529 - Violet Moller on the transmission of knowledge
500 - Judith Herrin on Ravenna
415 - Catherine Nixey on Hypatia
218 - Harry Sidebottom on Heliogabalus
89 AD - Lindsey Davis on the Emperor Domitian
79 AD - Daisy Dunn on Vesuvius
62 AD - om Chivers on Deep London
14 AD - Llewelyn Morgan on the Augustan Age
31 BC - Jane Draycott on Antony and Cleopatra
46 BC - Josiah Osgood on Caesar and Cato
146 BC - Greg Woolf on the Romans
447 BC - Roderick Beaton on Herodotus
450 BCE - Professor Armand D'Amgour on Socrates
480 BCE - Professor Paul Cartledge on the Battle of Thermopylae
Garry j. Shaw on Tutankhamun
Neil Oliver on Skara Brae
125,000 years ago - Rebecca Wragg Skyes on the Neanderthals
Find out more about our podcast partner, ColorGraph
“The past brought to life.”
(The Guardian)
Travels Through Time is incredibly proud to be working in partnership with Jordan Lloyd, one of the leading photo colourists working today.
It all begins with an old photograph.
It ends with something unique.
Jordan Lloyd’s Dynamichrome have worked with clients like the BBC, the Times, National Geographic and Columbia Records.
Now you can buy prints of his work yourself. It could be a fragment of the past for your office wall or a unique present for your history-loving friend or family member.
To see the range of available prints head to colorgraph.co - listeners to Travels Through Time can save 10% on any order, but you will have to listen to the podcast to hear what the discount code is
