1688 is an oddly neglected year in English history. Yet it is a compelling and consequential one as the author Margarette Lincoln explains in this episode. The year saw fiery riots, an invasion, a royal getaway and a change of monarchs. Lincoln takes us back to these events, which form part of the event we remember today as the Glorious Revolution.

Power, Beauty and War. In this episode Mary Hollingsworth takes us back to 1530, a pivotal year when the balances of power were shifting irrevocably across the Italian peninsular.

Author and journalist Philip Stephens takes us back to the scene of some intense political drama, as Britain’s prime minister Harold Macmillan attempted to find a new post colonial identity for the nation.

In this tenderly-described, perceptive episode, the writer Juliet Nicolson takes us back more than half a century to those memorable months of bitter cold in the winter of 1963. She recalls the magic of the snow, the slipperiness of the streets and the changing nature of life in Britain

In this Valentine’s Day special we find out how women’s love lives were being transformed in the year 1966.

In this episode we’re venturing back to a dramatic moment in the seventeenth century, to investigate the secret histories embedded in a forgotten painting with one America’s great historians.

We begin our new season with the novelist Kate Mosse and a trip to Paris in the summer of 1572. The city is hot and teeming with people who have come from all over France to witness an unexpected royal wedding between a young couple – Maguerite de Valois, a Catholic, and Henri de Navarre, a Huguenot. Events then take a terrible turn.

Welcome to Season Four of Travels Through Time. Our first episode will be available on Tuesday 26 January!