Travels Through Time is a mixture of serious history and a playful parlour game.

Each episode features an interview with one of the world’s leading historians or public figures and follows a set format. First they are asked the question:

“If you could travel back in time, what year would you like to visit?”

The guest then guides us through their chosen year in three telling scenes before returning to the present day with a memento of their travels.

More than a million people have listened to our episodes.

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Our first time traveller was Sir Michael Palin who headed back to the 1840s to see John Franklin and HMS Erebus. He has been followed by eminent historians like Stephen Greenblatt, Simon Schaffer, Mary Fulbrook, Judith Herrin and David Abulafia, and international bestsellers such as Robert Harris, Dan Jones, Ken Follett, Lindsay Davis, Kate Mosse, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Kassia St Clair and more than a hundred others.

We have visited Athens in 347 bc, Rome in 46 bc, the Tower of London in 1483, the House of Commons in May 1940, the D-Day Beaches, the Moon in July 1969 and all sorts of years/places in between.

Within three months of its launch Travels Through Time had entered the top 10 on Apple Podcasts for history in the UK. It has been chosen as one of the Evening Standard’s top history podcasts, featured in the Sunday Times and selected by the Guardian as one of their top five podcasts for the curious minded.

Presenters

Peter Moore

Peter is a writer, historian and critic. He is the author of two Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers, Endeavour (2018) and The Weather Experiment (2015), along with a study of a double-murder in Georgian England, Damn His Blood (2012), that was serialised by BBC Radio 4. He teaches at the University of Oxford, and in 2018 founded this podcast as an occasional way of escaping the library.

Artemis Irvine

Artemis is a freelance podcast producer and presenter. She recently completed her MA in Broadcast Journalism at City University. In 2020 she graduated from Durham University with a first class degree in history and she's delighted to be able to continue learning about history through her role as co-presenter on Travels Through Time.

Violet Moller

Violet is a historian with a special interest in the history of science in the ancient and medieval worlds. She is the author of The Map of Knowledge (2019) which traces the journey of three crucial scientific texts through the Middle Ages and won the Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2016. As an avid podcast-listener, she is thrilled to be co-presenting Travels Through Time.

John Hillman

John runs his own digital media company, working on website strategy with clients like Universal Music. But before all of that he trained as a historian. He holds a first-class degree in Contemporary History from Queen Mary University in London, where in 2008/9 he was awarded the annual prize for outstanding academic achievement. He has been involved as a producer with the Travels Through Time podcast since its early days, and is now to be found presenting episodes too.