Dan talks to Kavita Puri, a BBC journalist and broadcaster, about the Partition of India and its repercussions and consequences for the people it affected.
Nick Lloyd, PhD, FRHistS, is Reader in Military and Imperial History at King's College London based at the Joint Services Command & Staff College in Shrivenham, Wiltshire. His new book, Passchendaele: A New History is out now.;Producer: Dan Morelle;Subscribe, rate and review on iTunes and be sure...
It was an honour to be joined by Martyn Rady to discuss one of history's most thrilling families, the Habsburgs. Ruling for almost a millennium, their imperial vision was perhaps best realised in Emperor Frederick III's AEIOU motto: Austriae est imperare orbi universe, "Austria is destined to rul...
What makes a book bad? Does it have to be nonsensical? Heretical? Libellous? Sexy?
Well for 500 years, a panel from the Roman Catholic Church attempted to grapple with this distinction.
Today Betwixt the Sheets, we find out what this collection of people deemed unsafe for the eyes of their wors...
