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Thematic / Biographical series

31 Episodes 7 Series 4 Figures 2 Events 97 Books 86 Authors

This thematic/biographical era spans prehistory to modern political history, grouping episodes by topic or life to illuminate specific events, movements, and leadership. Series include "12 (or 13) Days of Christmas" (significant events from Dec 25–Jan 4, from early Christian history to African modernization), "America in 1968" (Vietnam, political upheaval, social change), "American Crusades" (Christianity’s influence on US foreign policy and warfare), "Amsterdam" (city’s rise from a 13th‑century fishing village to a financial hub), and "Australian Prime Ministers" (federal politics from 1901 onward). Sample episodes cover Britain’s greatest prime ministers, Viking history and popular culture, church architecture, French history in film, Rome’s worst emperor and Jacobite uprisings. Figures and topics discussed include Jeffrey Parker, Amani Reynos, Eva Perón’s secret burial (1955), poll taxes, Doggerland submergence, the Younger Dryas, Neanderthal extinction, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene event. Recommended books cited include The Geometry of Love, Face of Battle, History of the English‑Speaking Peoples, and A History of the World.

Thematic / Biographical series

Episodes by year

2026

Joan of Arc: Warrior Maid (Part 1)

Joan of Arc: For Fear of the Flames (Part 4)

Joan of Arc: Heroine in Chains (Part 3)

Joan of Arc: Saviour of France (Part 2)

2025

RIHC: Historical Love Affairs, Totemic History Books, and the Naming of Wars

RIHC: Iconic Episodes, Unforgettable Heroes, and History’s Greatest Apples

Jack The Ripper: From Hell (Part 4)

Jack The Ripper: History's Darkest Mystery (Part 1)

Jack The Ripper: Horror in Whitechapel (Part 2)

Jack The Ripper: The Killer Strikes Again (Part 3)

Jack The Ripper: The Killer Unmasked (Part 5)

RIHC: Rome’s Worst Emperor, The Jacobite Uprising, and Consequential Battles

RIHC: Famous Composers, Mozart’s Requiem, and Musical Riots

2024

Mozart: History's Greatest Prodigy LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall

RIHC: Tudor Scuba Diving, Dinosaur Hunters and Britain's Greatest Cartoonist

RIHC: Vikings, Last of the Mohicans, and Nuclear Ragnarök

History's Greatest Monkeys

2023

RIHC: Britain's Greatest Prime Ministers (Livestream)

History's Greatest Dogs

2022

USA vs England: The 200-Year Rivalry

French History on Film

Haunted London (Ep 4)

How Prime Ministers Fall

Oil: The Making of the Modern World

The Most Disastrous Party in History

2021

Top Ten Eunuchs

China

Climate & Weather

Top Ten Mistresses

World Cup of Kings & Queens - Part 1

The UK’s Best Churches

Series in this era

Jack the Ripper - The Whitechapel Murders

Joan of Arc

Great World Cup Saga

London Week

Oil

Royal Albert Hall Orchestral Shows

World Cup of Kings and Queens

Historical figures

Armand D'Angor

Jeffrey Parker

John Klee

Mike Macbeth

Historical events

Quaternary Ice Age (ongoing)

Younger Dryas

Books

The Five

Dracula

Flashman (series )

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Martin Chuzzlewit

Sherlock Holmes

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

The Sign of Four

The Three Musketeers

A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) (series)

A Study in Scarlet

A Thousand Best Churches

Adventures in Time: Nelson, a Hero of the Seas

Alexander to Actium: The Hellenistic Age

American Notes

An American Uprising

An Officer and a Spy

Anne of Gaiosteen

Biographies of William Gladstone and Winston Churchill

Black Tutors

Bleak House

Britain Against Itself

Citizens