Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Early Modern & Renaissance

145 Episodes 26 Series 163 Figures 85 Events 352 Books 271 Authors

Covering roughly the 15th through 18th centuries, this collection examines religious, political, imperial, and cultural transformations of the Renaissance and early modern world. Series include American Crusades (Christianity’s influence on American foreign policy and warfare from the colonial era onward), Amsterdam (the city’s rise from a fishing village to a financial hub), Aztec Epic (Hernán Cortés’s expedition and the fall of the Aztecs), Charles I: Trial and Execution (causes and consequences of regicide), and Christopher Columbus (origins and Atlantic voyages). Episodes address public debate and coffee-house culture, Magna Carta, Elizabeth I’s early reign, Ireland and Cromwell, and oddities such as Hwang Jini. Figures and events discussed include Ignatius of Loyola, Anne Boleyn, Mehmed II, William III, Sack of Antwerp, Sack of Texcoco, encomienda, Great Trier witch trials, and works like The Embarrassment of Riches and Stations of the Sun.

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2023

12 episodes

RIHC: Ireland, Cromwell, and Stanley Baldwin (livestream)

May 24, 2023

This live bonus episode is an informal Q&A and catch-up hosted by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. They discuss recen…

The Republic of Britain: Life Under Cromwell

May 18, 2023

This episode of The Rest Is History examines England's tumultuous 1650s after the 1649 execution of Charles I. Hosts To…

American Witches

May 11, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Professor Malcolm Gaskell about witchcraft and early colonial life in…

Coronations: Sex, Holy Oil and Civil War (Ep 2)

May 04, 2023
Coronations · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the political, religious and performative history of English coronations from t…

African Amazons

Mar 30, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by anthropologist and historian Luke Pepperer to survey female milit…

RIHC: The New Restoration, James Bond, and historical AI (livestream)

Mar 01, 2023

This episode is a wide-ranging, largely conversational live Q&A covering recent and upcoming Rest Is History material. …

Columbus: Death in the Caribbean (Ep 3)

Feb 20, 2023
Christopher Columbus · Part 3

This episode (part three of the podcast’s series on Christopher Columbus) follows Columbus’s return to Spain and his ru…

Columbus: Villain or Hero? (Ep 4)

Feb 20, 2023
Christopher Columbus · Part 4

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace Christopher Columbus's later voyages, his declining health and reputation…

Columbus: A New World? (Ep 2)

Feb 20, 2023
Christopher Columbus · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook narrate the preparation, voyage and immediate aftermath of Christopher Columbus's fir…

Columbus: The Adventure Begins (Ep 1)

Feb 20, 2023
Christopher Columbus · Part 1

This episode examines Christopher Columbus's origins, character and the political and maritime context that produced hi…

RIHC: Collectibles, literary criticism, and the illusion of historical truth

Feb 15, 2023

This bonus episode is a wide-ranging conversation between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They open by discuss…

RIHC: The Nine Days' Queen, Lennon vs Hitler, and History in schools

Jan 18, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook record a Q&A/bonus episode addressing listener questions and preview upcoming s…
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Series in this era

26 series

Historical figures

163 tagged

Elizabeth I of England

41 episodes

Henry VIII of England

30 episodes

Mary, Queen of Scots

24 episodes

Philip II of Spain

22 episodes

Charles I of England

21 episodes

Mary I of England

21 episodes

James VI and I of Scotland and England

20 episodes

Oliver Cromwell

20 episodes

Charles II of England (Charles Stuart)

19 episodes

Hernán Cortés

19 episodes

Edward VI of England

18 episodes

Anne Boleyn

14 episodes

Catherine of Aragon

13 episodes

Christopher Columbus

13 episodes

Martin Luther

13 episodes

Thomas Cromwell

13 episodes

Sir Francis Walsingham

12 episodes

Malinche (Doña Marina / La Malinche)

10 episodes

William III of England (William III, Prince of Orange)

10 episodes

Bartolomé de las Casas

9 episodes

Bernal Díaz del Castillo

9 episodes

Louis XIV of France

9 episodes

Ferdinand II of Aragon

8 episodes

Henry VII of England (Henry Tudor)

8 episodes

Isabella I of Castile

8 episodes

James II of England

8 episodes

John Calvin

8 episodes

John Knox

8 episodes

Pedro de Alvarado

8 episodes

Sir Francis Drake

8 episodes

William Cecil

8 episodes

Mary of Guise

7 episodes

Thomas More (Sir Thomas More)

7 episodes

Thomas Seymour

7 episodes

Cosimo de' Medici

6 episodes

Girolamo Savonarola

6 episodes

John Milton

6 episodes

Lady Jane Grey

6 episodes

Moctezuma II of the Aztec Empire

6 episodes

Samuel Pepys

6 episodes

Thomas Cranmer

6 episodes

William Shakespeare

6 episodes

Catherine Parr

5 episodes

David Rizzio

5 episodes

Diego Velázquez

5 episodes

Lorenzo de' Medici

5 episodes

Sir Philip Sidney

5 episodes

Thomas Harrison

5 episodes

Albrecht Dürer

4 episodes

Francis I of France

4 episodes

Guy Fawkes

4 episodes

James V of Scotland

4 episodes

John Dee

4 episodes

John Evelyn

4 episodes

Leonardo da Vinci

4 episodes

Lord Darnley

4 episodes

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

4 episodes

Michelangelo Buonarroti

4 episodes

Montezuma II, Emperor of the Aztec Empire

4 episodes

Richard Cromwell

4 episodes

Thomas Fairfax

4 episodes

Vasco da Gama

4 episodes

Andreas Karlstadt (Andreas von Karlstadt)

3 episodes

Baruch Spinoza

3 episodes

Catherine de' Medici

3 episodes

Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk

3 episodes

Cuauhtémoc (Cuauhtemoc)

3 episodes

Diego Columbus (Diego Colón)

3 episodes

Earl of Morton

3 episodes

Gonzalo de Sandoval

3 episodes

Guildford Dudley

3 episodes

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley

3 episodes

Hugh Thomas

3 episodes

James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell

3 episodes

Jane Seymour

3 episodes

Juan Ponce de León

3 episodes

Matthew Parker

3 episodes

Niccolò Machiavelli

3 episodes

Piero de' Medici

3 episodes

Robert Cecil

3 episodes

Thomas Hobbes

3 episodes

Thomas Wolsey

3 episodes

Walter Raleigh

3 episodes

William Maitland

3 episodes

Anna Kay

2 episodes

Anne of Cleves

2 episodes

Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales

2 episodes

Aurangzeb (Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb)

2 episodes

Babur (Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur)

2 episodes

Catherine Howard, Queen of England

2 episodes

Francis Young

2 episodes

Francisco Pizarro

2 episodes

Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (Frederick the Wise)

2 episodes

Frederick, Elector of Saxony

2 episodes

Galileo Galilei

2 episodes

Giovanni Boccaccio

2 episodes

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

2 episodes

Henrietta Maria of France

2 episodes

Jeronimo de Aguilar

2 episodes

Juan Pizarro

2 episodes

Louis XIII of France

2 episodes

Ludovico Sforza

2 episodes

Margaret Tudor

2 episodes

Martin Lopez

2 episodes

Nicholas Ridley

2 episodes

Nicolaus (Nicholas) Copernicus

2 episodes

Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia)

2 episodes

Prince Rupert

2 episodes

Prince Rupert of the Rhine

2 episodes

Pánfilo de Nárvaez

2 episodes

Rembrandt van Rijn

2 episodes

Sir Walter Raleigh

2 episodes

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

2 episodes

Abel Tasman

1 episode

Alexander Menshikov

1 episode

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

1 episode

Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony

1 episode

Bartolomé Ruiz

1 episode

Cesare Borgia

1 episode

Christopher Wren

1 episode

Cura Oclo

1 episode

Desiderius Erasmus

1 episode

Diego del Magro

1 episode

Edmund Spenser

1 episode

Eudokia

1 episode

Felipe (interpreter)

1 episode

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor

1 episode

Ferdinand Magellan

1 episode

Francis Bacon

1 episode

Francis, Duke of Guise

1 episode

Francisco López de Gómara

1 episode

Francisco de Bobadilla

1 episode

Francisco de Jerez

1 episode

Francisco de Montejo

1 episode

Francisco de Oriana

1 episode

Henry II of France

1 episode

Henry IV of France

1 episode

Isaac Newton

1 episode

Johannes Vermeer

1 episode

John Aubrey

1 episode

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

1 episode

John Hawkins

1 episode

John Stowe

1 episode

John Winthrop

1 episode

Juan Borigán

1 episode

Manuel I of Portugal

1 episode

Margaret Beaufort

1 episode

Mary II of England

1 episode

Moctezuma (Moctezuma II)

1 episode

Nell Gwyn

1 episode

Paolo (Inca puppet)

1 episode

Pope Pius V

1 episode

Rodrigo Orgoñez

1 episode

Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor

1 episode

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

1 episode

Sebastian I of Portugal

1 episode

Thomas Parry

1 episode

Titu (Tito) Cusi

1 episode

Titus Oates

1 episode

Tokugawa Ieyasu

1 episode

Tupac Amaru

1 episode

Vaca de Castro

1 episode

William the Silent

1 episode

Historical events

85 tagged

English Civil War (1642–1651)

22 episodes

Execution of Charles I (1649, England)

16 episodes

Restoration of the Stuart monarchy (1660)

14 episodes

English Reformation (16th century England)

12 episodes

Protestant Reformation (16th century)

12 episodes

Glorious Revolution

11 episodes

Christopher Columbus's first voyage / European landfall (1492)

9 episodes

Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)

9 episodes

Conquest of Granada (1492)

8 episodes

Counter-Reformation / Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)

8 episodes

Great Fire of London (1666)

8 episodes

Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519–1521)

8 episodes

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572, France)

8 episodes

Wars of the Roses (1455–1487)

8 episodes

Columbian Exchange (post-1492 transatlantic exchange)

7 episodes

Battle of Bosworth

6 episodes

Gunpowder Plot

6 episodes

Introduction and spread of smallpox in the Americas (early 16th century)

6 episodes

Dutch Revolt (Eighty Years' War) (c.1568–1648)

5 episodes

Expulsion of the Jews from Spain (1492)

5 episodes

Anglo–Dutch Wars (17th century)

4 episodes

Assassination of William I of Orange (10 July 1584)

4 episodes

Battle of Worcester (1651)

4 episodes

Conquest of the Aztecs (Spanish conquest of Mexico)

4 episodes

Cromwell's Protectorate (1653–1658)

4 episodes

Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536–1541)

4 episodes

European witch trials (16th–17th centuries)

4 episodes

German Peasants' War (1524–1525)

4 episodes

Great Plague (1665)

4 episodes

Succession crisis of 1553 / Lady Jane Grey's brief reign (July 1553)

4 episodes

Battle of Marston Moor (1644)

3 episodes

Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–1653)

3 episodes

Death of Edward VI (6 July 1553)

3 episodes

Diet of Worms (1521, Worms)

3 episodes

Dutch–Portuguese War (Spice War; 17th century)

3 episodes

Exclusion Crisis (late 1670s)

3 episodes

Execution of Anne Boleyn (1536)

3 episodes

Pilgrimage of Grace (1536–1537)

3 episodes

Sack of Rome (1527)

3 episodes

Scottish Reformation (16th century)

3 episodes

Second English Civil War (1648–1649)

3 episodes

Union of the Crowns (1603, England and Scotland)

3 episodes

Wyatt's Rebellion (Palm Sunday, 1554)

3 episodes

Battle of Flodden (1513, England/Scotland)

2 episodes

Battle of the Boyne (1690, Ireland)

2 episodes

Coronation of Elizabeth I (14 January 1559)

2 episodes

Counter-Reformation (16th–17th centuries)

2 episodes

Cromwell's coup against the Rump Parliament (1653)

2 episodes

Death of Lorenzo de' Medici (1492)

2 episodes

Dutch Golden Age (17th century)

2 episodes

Dutch raid on the Medway / Battle of the Medway (June 1667)

2 episodes

Elizabeth I smallpox illness (1562)

2 episodes

Excommunication of Elizabeth I (1570)

2 episodes

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (8 February 1587)

2 episodes

Founding of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) (1602)

2 episodes

French invasion of Italy (1494) / start of the Italian Wars

2 episodes

Jacobite rising (1715)

2 episodes

Jacobite rising of 1745

2 episodes

Kett's Rebellion (1549, England)

2 episodes

Manco Inca's insurgency and establishment of Vilcabamba (Vilcabamba / Espiritu Pampa)

2 episodes

Marian persecutions (1553–1558, England)

2 episodes

Mary I's accession and entry into London (1553, England)

2 episodes

North Berwick witch trials (1590s, Scotland)

2 episodes

Popish Plot (1678)

2 episodes

Salem witch trials (1692, Massachusetts, New England)

2 episodes

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

2 episodes

Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Age of Exploration, 1492–1504)

2 episodes

Assassination of Francisco Pizarro (26 June 1541, Lima)

1 episode

Battle of Vienna (1683)

1 episode

Christopher Columbus's fourth voyage (1502–1504)

1 episode

Christopher Columbus's third voyage (1498)

1 episode

Commonwealth/Interregnum (c.1649–1660)

1 episode

Coronation of James VI of Scotland (29 July 1567)

1 episode

Essex Rebellion (1601, England)

1 episode

Execution of Michael Servetus (27 September 1553, Geneva)

1 episode

Gunpowder Plot (1605)

1 episode

Murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (referenced)

1 episode

Pizarro's drawing the line in the sand at Isla de Gallo (c. 1526)

1 episode

Pizarro's expeditions to Peru (1524–1532)

1 episode

Sinking of the Vasa (10 August 1628, Stockholm harbour)

1 episode

Spanish colonization/conquest of Cuba

1 episode

Spanish colonization/conquest of Hispaniola

1 episode

Spanish conquest of the Americas (16th century)

1 episode

Spanish conquest of the Aztec and Inca territories (early 16th century)

1 episode

Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (1530s)

1 episode

Books

352 tagged

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

10 episodes

Diary of a Nobody / Diary of Samuel Pepys consolidation (Pepys kept as separate canonical)

Author: Samuel Pepys

4 episodes

Adventure in Time, the Fall of the Aztecs

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

3 episodes

God's Englishman

Author: Christopher Hill

3 episodes

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

3 episodes

Paradise Lost

Author: John Milton

3 episodes

Rivers of Gold

Author: Hugh Thomas

3 episodes

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

3 episodes

The Watchers

Author: Stephen Alford

3 episodes

Timaeus

Author: Plato

3 episodes

95 Theses (Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences)

Author: Martin Luther

2 episodes

Acts of the Apostle s

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

2 episodes

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Author: Ian Pears

2 episodes

Blood Meridian

Author: Cormac McCarthy

2 episodes

Conquest

Author: Hugh Thomas

2 episodes

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

History of the Reformation

Author: John Knox

2 episodes

I, Claudius

Author: Robert Graves

2 episodes

Icon Basilicae

Author: King Charles I of England (attributed)

2 episodes

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

2 episodes

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

The Conquest of the Incas

Author: John Hemming

2 episodes

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

2 episodes

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (standardized)

Author: Edward Gibbon

2 episodes

The Embarrassment of Riches

Author: Simon Schama

2 episodes

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Author: Peter Shaffer

2 episodes

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

The Three Musketeers

Author: Alexandre Dumas

2 episodes

Tirant lo Blanch (Tirant the White)

Author: Joanot Martorell, Martí Joan de Galba

2 episodes

Tudor England

Author: Lucy Wooding

2 episodes

Wolf Hall

Author: Hilary Mantel

2 episodes

100 Years of Solitude

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

1 episode

1066 and All That

Author: W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman

1 episode

1421, the Year China Discovered the World

Author: Gavin Menzies

1 episode

1491

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

1493

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

1798 publication on vaccination

Author: Edward Jenner

1 episode

97 Theses (Disputation Against Scholastic Theology)

Author: Martin Luther

1 episode

A Distant Mirror

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

A Double Life

Author: Alan Stewart

1 episode

A Highly Provoked Defense and Answer to the Spiritless, Soft-Living Flesh at Wittenberg, Who Has Most Lamentably Befouled Pitiable Christianity in a Perverted Way by His Theft of Holy Scripture

Author: Thomas Munzer

1 episode

A Man for All Seasons

Author: Robert Bolt

1 episode

A Natural History of Ghosts

Author: Roger Clarke

1 episode

A People's History of the United States

Author: Howard Zinn

1 episode

A Radical History of Britain

Author: Ted Vallance

1 episode

A Room with a View

Author: E. M. Forster

1 episode

A Smuggler's Song

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

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

Author: George R. R. Martin

1 episode

A Study in Failure

Author: Jenny Wormald

1 episode

A Wealth of Nations

Author: Adam Smith

1 episode

A history of magic witchcraft in the occult

Author: Professor Suzannah Lipscomb

1 episode

Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days, touching matters of the church

Author: John Foxe

1 episode

Acts of Oblivion

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation

Author: Martin Luther

1 episode

Adventure in Time (Series)

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Adventures in Time: Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Adventures in Time: Nelson, a Hero of the Seas

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Advice to the People called Methodists with regard to Dress

Author: John Wesley

1 episode

After Tamerlane

Author: John Darwin

1 episode

Against the Robbing and the Murdering Hordes of Peasants

Author: Martin Luther

1 episode

Agreements of The People (English Civil War)

Author: Various

1 episode

All Souls trilogy

Author: Deborah Harkness

1 episode

All the Devils Are Here

Author: Louise Penny

1 episode

Almagest

Author: Ptolemy

1 episode

Amadeus de Gaula

Author: Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo

1 episode

And Then There Were None

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Anne Boleyn

Author: Tracy Borman

1 episode

Anne of Gaiosteen

Author: Walter Scott

1 episode

Apprenticeship

Author: David Starkey

1 episode

Arcadia

Author: Philip Sidney

1 episode

As You Like It

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Astrophil and Stella

Author: Philip Sidney

1 episode

Atom Boy

Author: Tezuka Osamu

1 episode

Audience for a Giraffe: European Expansionism and the Quest for the Exotic

Author: Eric Ringmar

1 episode

Autobiography (unnamed)

Author: Gina Davis

1 episode

Autobiography of the executioner of Paris (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Charles-Henri Sanson

1 episode

Babylonian Captivity of the Church

Author: Martin Luther

1 episode

Basilicon Doron

Author: James VI of Scotland and I of England

1 episode

Beowulf

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Bernal Díaz's memoir

Author: Bernal Díaz

1 episode

Biography of Mary Queen of Scots

Author: John Guy

1 episode

Biography of Peter the Great

Author: Robert K. Massey

1 episode

Black Tudors: The Untold Story

Author: Miranda Kaufmann

1 episode

Black Tutors

Author: Miranda Calfman

1 episode

Bleak House

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Brand Luther

Author: Andrew Pettigrew

1 episode

Brief Lives

Author: John Aubrey

1 episode

Broken Spears

Author: Miguel León Portillo

1 episode

Casabianca

Author: Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1 episode

Charter of the Forest

Author: Various

1 episode

Chronicle (early 13th century account mentioning Pope Joan)

Author: Jean de Mailly

1 episode

Chronicle of the Popes and Emperors

Author: Martin of Poland

1 episode

Citizens

Author: Simon Sharma

1 episode

Commentaries on the Psalms

Author: Girolamo Savonarola

1 episode

Concerning Heretics and Whether They'd Be Persecuted

Author: Sebastian Castello (preface author)

1 episode

Conquerors

Author: Roger Crowley

1 episode

Conquest of New Spain

Author: Diaz

1 episode

Cornish Wrecking

Author: Katherine J. Pierce

1 episode

Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

Critias

Author: Plato

1 episode

Cromwell, An Island: New Perspectives

Author: Edited by Martin Bennett

1 episode

Culture Wars

Author: James Davison Hunter

1 episode

Dan Jones's New History of the Middle Ages

Author: Dan Jones

1 episode

Dangerous Merchandise (paper)

Author: Paul Monod

1 episode

De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

De Senatu Romano

Author: Jan Zamoyski

1 episode

De jure regni apud Scotos

Author: George Buchanan

1 episode

De revolutionibus

Author: Copernicus

1 episode

Delizia: The Epic History of Italians and Their Food

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

Demonology

Author: James VI and I

1 episode

Devil Land

Author: Claire Jackson

1 episode

Diaries and letters

Author: Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Dissertation (1647)

Author: David Blondel

1 episode

Domesday Book

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes

1 episode

Dr. Syn

Author: Russell Thorndyke

1 episode

Drake's Drum

Author: Sir Henry Newbolt

1 episode

Eikon Basilike

Author: attributed to Charles I

1 episode

Eikonoclastes

Author: John Milton

1 episode

Elizabeth Apprenticeship

Author: David Starkey

1 episode

Empireland

Author: Satnam Sanghera

1 episode

Epic of Gilgamesh

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots

Author: Rosemary Goring

1 episode

Fifth Son

Author: Camilla Townsend

1 episode

Finnegans Wake

Author: James Joyce

1 episode

Flashman (series )

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman on the March

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman's Lady

Author: George W. Fraser

1 episode

Florentine Codex

Author: Bernardino de Sahagún

1 episode

Fox's Book of Martyrs

Author: John Foxe

1 episode

Geneva Bible

Author: Various

1 episode

Gert Nation

Author: David Hunt

1 episode

Gert, the unauthorised history of Australia

Author: David Hunt

1 episode

Ghosts, a Natural History, 500 Years of Searching for Proof

Author: Roger Clark

1 episode

Giving Birth in the 18th Century

Author: Sarah Fox

1 episode

Global Crisis

Author: Geoffrey Parker

1 episode

God's Traitors

Author: Jessie Childs

1 episode

Gordon biography

Author: John Pollock

1 episode

Gutenberg's Bible

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Harry Potter (series)

Author: J. K. Rowling

1 episode

Heaven's Command

Author: Dan Morris

1 episode

Henry V

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Heretics and Believers

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

Heretics and Reformers

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

His Dark Materials

Author: Philip Pullman

1 episode

History of England

Author: David Hume

1 episode

History of Treason: The Bloody History of Britain Through the Stories of its Most Notorious Traitors

Author: Neil Johnston (co-author)

1 episode

History of the Mafia

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

History of the Peloponnesian War

Author: Thucydides

1 episode

History of the Windrush generation (unspecified title)

Author: Trevor Phillips; Mike Phillips

1 episode

Hollinshead's chronicle

Author: Ralph Hollinshead

1 episode

Holy Blood and the Holy Grail

Author: Michael Baigent; Richard Leigh; Henry Lincoln

1 episode

Homecoming: The Scottish Years of Mary Queen of Scots

Author: Rosemary Goring

1 episode

House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row

Author: Lance Richardson

1 episode

Hugh Thomas's account of the Spanish conquest

Author: Hugh Thomas

1 episode

I Bernal Mintio and Bernal Lied

Author: Juan Mirales

1 episode

Imago Mundi

Author: Pierre Dailly

1 episode

In the Shadow of the Sword

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Inglourious Empire

Author: Shashi Tharoor

1 episode

Jamaica Inn

Author: Daphne du Maurier

1 episode

Japan's Story in Search for Nation

Author: Chris Harding

1 episode

Jeeves Takes Charge

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

1 episode

Kitap al-Masalik al-Malmalik (The Book of Roads and Kingdoms)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Author: Nikolai Leskov

1 episode

Landscape and Memory

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

Laughing Till I Die

Author: Tom Shippey

1 episode

Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (The Vicomte of Bragelonne)

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

Les Rois Maudits (The Accursed Kings)

Author: Maurice Druon

1 episode

Letters of Toscanelli

Author: Toscanelli

1 episode

Leviathan

Author: Thomas Hobbes

1 episode

Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco

Author: Anonimo Veneziano

1 episode

Live and Let Die

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Lives of the Great Artist

Author: Giorgio Vasari

1 episode

Lonely Planet Guide to West Africa

Author: Lonely Planet

1 episode

Luther's translation of the New Testament

Author: Martin Luther

1 episode

Luther, Man Between God and the Devil

Author: Heiko Obermann

1 episode

Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Magic in Merlin's Realm

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Magic in Merlin's Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Magna Carta

Author: David Carpenter

1 episode

Malleus Maleficarum

Author: Heinrich Kramer

1 episode

Martin Luther Renegade and Prophet

Author: Lindell Roper

1 episode

Mary Was Here

Author: Historic Scotland

1 episode

Mary, Queen of Scots

Author: Antonia Fraser

1 episode

Mercurius Politicus

Author: Marchmont Needham

1 episode

Midwifery guide (published 1671)

Author: Jane Sharp

1 episode

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Monsters

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore

1 episode

Moonfleet

Author: J. Meade Falkner

1 episode

Mosquito Empires

Author: John McNeill

1 episode

Motherland, Five Hundred Thousand Years of African History, Cultures and Identity

Author: Luke Pepperer

1 episode

My Heart Is My Own

Author: John Guy

1 episode

Never Had It So Good

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Next to Me

Author: John Guy

1 episode

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

No Luther, No Reformation

Author: Richard Rex

1 episode

Oceana

Author: James Harrington

1 episode

Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Author: John Keats

1 episode

On the Jews and Their Lies

Author: Martin Luther

1 episode

On the Ruin of the Church

Author: Girolamo Savonarola

1 episode

On the Ruin of the World

Author: Girolamo Savonarola

1 episode

Pagan Britain

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

Pan Tadeusz

Author: Adam Mickiewicz

1 episode

Peter the Great and his times

Author: Lindsay Hughes

1 episode

Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease in the Course of Human History

Author: Kyle Harper

1 episode

Poldark

Author: Winston Graham

1 episode

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Author: Catherine Parr

1 episode

Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

1 episode

Providence Lost

Author: Paul Lay

1 episode

Providence Lost: The Rise and Fall of Cromwell's Protectorate

Author: Paul Hay

1 episode

R.J. Anstead book of world history

Author: R.J. Anstead

1 episode

Ravenna

Author: Judith Heron

1 episode

Reformations

Author: Carlos Ayer

1 episode

Refugee Tales

Author: David Hurd

1 episode

Remember, Remember

Author: James Sharp

1 episode

Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decades 1649 to 1660

Author: Alice Hunt

1 episode

Rerum Scoticarum Historia

Author: George Buchanan

1 episode

Rethinking Columbus

Author: William Bigelow

1 episode

Rhyme and Reason: A Short History of Poetry for People Who Don't Usually Read Poetry

Author: Mark Forsyth

1 episode

Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Right Dominion

Author: Unknown

1 episode

Rights of Man

Author: Thomas Paine

1 episode

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Roots

Author: Alex Halley

1 episode

Silk Roads

Author: Peter Frankenplan

1 episode

Socrates in Love

Author: Armand D'Angor

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State of Emergency

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

Tangled Hair

Author: Yasano Akiko

1 episode

Tellingly Reformations

Author: Carlos Ayre

1 episode

Terra Nostra

Author: Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

The 120 Days of Sodom

Author: Marquis de Sade

1 episode

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Author: Carlo Collodi

1 episode

The Alhambra

Author: Washington Irving

1 episode

The Amityville Horror

Author: Jay Anson

1 episode

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Author: Robert Burton

1 episode

The Artist of the Floating World

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

1 episode

The Atlantic Slave Trade, A Census

Author: Philip D. Curtin

1 episode

The Bible

Author: Unknown

1 episode

The Book of the Duchess (also known as The Death of Blanche)

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

1 episode

The Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Author: Bartolomé de Las Casas

1 episode

The Byrth of Mankynde (The Birth of Mankind)

Author: Thomas Raynalde

1 episode

The Castle of Otranto

Author: Horace Walpole

1 episode

The Century of Louis the 14th (Siècle de Louis XIV)

Author: Voltaire

1 episode

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Author: Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

The Decameron

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

1 episode

The Definitive History of the Mona Lisa

Author: Donald Sassoon

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The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

Author: Anne Frank

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The Divine Comedy

Author: Dante Alighieri

1 episode

The Earth Transformed

Author: Peter Frankopan.

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The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us

Author: Michael Pye

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The Education of a Christian Prince

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

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The Emperors of Byzantium

Author: Kevin Ligo

1 episode

The English and Their History

Author: Robert Toombs

1 episode

The English and their history

Author: Robert Tombs

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The Epistle to the Romans

Author: Saint Paul

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The Exorcist

Author: William Peter Blatty

1 episode

The Faerie Queene

Author: Edmund Spenser

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Author: Edmund Spencer

1 episode

The Fatal Path

Author: Ronan Fanning

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The Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

Author: Camilla Tansen

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Author: John Knox

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Author: Alexander Watson

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Author: Tim Flannery

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The Golden Dream

Author: Robert Silverberg

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Author: Sarah Reed

1 episode

The Green Eye of the Yellow God

Author: J. Milton Hayes

1 episode

The Gruffalo

Author: Julia Donaldson

1 episode

The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times

Author: Eduard Habsburg

1 episode

The History of the Indies of New Spain

Author: Diego Durán

1 episode

The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England

Author: Joanne Paul

1 episode

The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam

Author: Gerald Horting

1 episode

The Institutes

Author: Sir Edward Cook

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The Japanese, A History in 20 Lives

Author: Chris Harding

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The Last Kingdom

Author: Bernard Cornwell

1 episode

The Last of the Mohicans

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

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The Life of an Amorous Man

Author: Ihara Saikaku

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Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

The Making of Martin Luther

Author: Richard Rex

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The Making of Oliver Cromwell

Author: Ronald Hutton

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The Man in the Iron Mask

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

The Man in the Moon; or, a Discourse of a Voyage Thither

Author: Francis Godwin

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The Mediterranean Diet

Author: Ancel Keys

1 episode

The Men of Kayamaka

Author: James Lockhart

1 episode

The Midwife's Truth

Author: Sarah Reed

1 episode

The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI and I

Author: Claire Jackson

1 episode

The Missing Links

Author: Ross Barnett

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The Moderate (Leveller news sheet)

Author: Richard Overton, editor

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Author: Salman Rushdie

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The Name of the Rose

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The Night Before Christmas

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Author: Homer

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The Old Gringo

Author: Carlos Fuentes

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The Oration on the Dignity of Man

Author: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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The Persian Boy

Author: Mary Reynolds

1 episode

The Personal Rule of Charles I

Author: Kevin Sharpe

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The Prince and the Pauper

Author: Mark Twain

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The Pursuit of Victory - The Life and Achievements of Admiral Horatio Nelson

Author: Roger Knight

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The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr Dee

Author: Benjamin Woolley

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Author: George Hours

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The Requirement

Author: Council of Castile (1513)

1 episode

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Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

The Restless Republic

Author: Anna Kay

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The Restless Republic, Written Without a Crown

Author: Anna Kay

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The Restoration of Christianity

Author: Michael Servetus

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The Romantic Agony

Author: Mario Pras

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The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Author: Peter Chaffer

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The Royal Hunt of the Sun

Author: Peter Schaffer

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The Royal Hunt of the Sun

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Author: Felicia Dorothea Hemans

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Author: Murasaki Shikibu

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Author: James Shapiro

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Author: Edward R. Dizzoni

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Translation of the documents relating to Joan's trial (English translation)

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True Gert

Author: David Hunt

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Author: John Sugden

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Unknown

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Unknown (book on the conquest of the Incas)

Author: John Hemming

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Unknown (florid 19th-century account of the conquests)

Author: William H. Prescott

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Author: Alan Moore

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When Montezuma Met Cortez

Author: Matthew Restel

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Author: Girolamo Savonarola

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attributed to Charles I

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