Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Enlightenment & Age of Revolutions

130 Episodes 26 Series 159 Figures 83 Events 340 Books 248 Authors

Spanning the late 17th through the early 19th centuries, this era covers Enlightenment ideas, political revolutions, imperial expansion and early industrialization. Content includes multi-episode series on the American Revolution (colonial prosperity, protest and war), the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar (naval strategy, geopolitics), Captain Cook (Pacific voyages and encounters), London Week (from Roman Londinium to later landmarks and personalities), and a four-part life-and-legacy study of Lord Byron. Sample episodes address the Industrial Revolution (interview with Emma Griffin), Henry Fielding (London: People Ep. 3), Nelson-era extras on Emma Hamilton, and the summer 1792 crisis in the French Revolution. Figures, events and books discussed include Louis XVIII, Sir John Jervis, Charles Cornwallis, Le Chapelier Law (1791), Glorious First of June (1794), Jacobite Rising (1745), the Industrial Revolution, Gulliver’s Travels, and An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.

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2026

12 episodes

Did the Illuminati Control the French Revolution?

Oct 06, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026)

Tom Holland speaks with historian Michael Taylor about the real Bavarian Illuminati and the conspiracy theories that gr…

Why The French Revolution Turned Violent with Simon Schama

Sep 29, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026)

Dominic Sandbrook welcomes historian Simon Schama to discuss why the French Revolution descended into the Terror. Scham…

The Man Who Painted The Terror

Sep 22, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026)

Tom Holland and art critic Laura Cumming explore Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Death of Marat and David’s role as …

The Terror: Death at the Guillotine (Part 4)

Sep 20, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026) · Part 4

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the downfall and execution of Georges Danton in April 1794, setting his fate …

The Terror: The Fall of Robespierre (Part 6)

Sep 20, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026) · Part 6

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook conclude their French Revolution series with the fall of Maximilien Robespierre in Th…

The Terror: The Execution of Marie Antoinette (Part 3)

Sep 20, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026) · Part 3

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the destruction of Marie Antoinette and the fate of her son during the French…

The Terror: An Assassination in Paris (Part 1)

Sep 20, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026) · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Jean-Paul Marat’s rise from frustrated physician, self-styled scientist and a…

The Terror: Reign of Robespierre (Part 2)

Sep 20, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026) · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the origins and early machinery of the Reign of Terror in 1793, using Thomas …

The Terror: Killing God (Part 5)

Sep 20, 2026
The French Revolution - Season 4 (September 2026) · Part 5

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Maximilien Robespierre’s Festival of the Supreme Being, held in Paris on 8 Ju…

Conan O'Brien on What The Founding Fathers Got Wrong

Jul 23, 2026
Founding Fathers · Part 5

In this Rest Is History special, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome American television legend Conan O'Brien to …

Ken Burns on Why America Really Declared Independence

Jul 07, 2026

In this episode of The Rest Is History, host Dominic Sandbrook welcomes documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to discuss the …

Washington: Hero of the Revolution (Part 1)

Jun 28, 2026
Founding Fathers · Part 1

In this episode the hosts launch a new series commemorating the 250th anniversary of the colonial tax rebellion by focu…
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Series in this era

26 series

Historical figures

159 tagged

Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of the French)

49 episodes

Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

37 episodes

Louis XVI of France

35 episodes

Maximilien Robespierre

29 episodes

Marie Antoinette (born Maria Antonia of Austria)

27 episodes

George III (King George)

23 episodes

Samuel Johnson

21 episodes

Edmund Burke

19 episodes

Emma (Lady) Hamilton

19 episodes

George Washington

19 episodes

Jean-Paul Marat

19 episodes

William Pitt (The Younger)

19 episodes

George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

18 episodes

Thomas Jefferson

17 episodes

Voltaire

17 episodes

Benjamin Franklin

16 episodes

Georges Danton

16 episodes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

16 episodes

James Boswell

13 episodes

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington

12 episodes

John Adams

11 episodes

Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

11 episodes

Sir William Hamilton

11 episodes

Jacques-Louis David

10 episodes

Adam Smith

9 episodes

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade

9 episodes

Edward Gibbon

9 episodes

Thomas Paine

9 episodes

David Garrick

8 episodes

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette

8 episodes

Marie Antoinette

8 episodes

Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great)

8 episodes

Camille Desmoulins

7 episodes

Frederick II of Prussia (Frederick the Great)

7 episodes

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7 episodes

Jonathan Swift

7 episodes

Louis XV of France

7 episodes

Thomas Masterman Hardy (of HMS Victory)

7 episodes

Timothy Tackett

7 episodes

Alexander Hamilton

6 episodes

Captain James Cook

6 episodes

Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie)

6 episodes

Marquis de Lafayette

6 episodes

Marquis de Sade

6 episodes

Percy Bysshe Shelley

6 episodes

Beau Brummell

5 episodes

Charles François Dumouriez

5 episodes

Charles XII of Sweden

5 episodes

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

5 episodes

Denis Diderot

5 episodes

Federico Carlos Gravina

5 episodes

Jane Austen

5 episodes

John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent

5 episodes

Joshua Reynolds

5 episodes

Olympe de Gouges

5 episodes

Robert Walpole

5 episodes

William Wilberforce

5 episodes

William Wordsworth

5 episodes

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

5 episodes

Alexander Menshikov

4 episodes

Arthur Young

4 episodes

Axel von Fersen

4 episodes

Catherine II of Russia (Catherine the Great)

4 episodes

Charlotte Corday

4 episodes

David Hume

4 episodes

George I of Great Britain

4 episodes

George II of Great Britain

4 episodes

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, Comte de Mirabeau

4 episodes

Isaac Newton

4 episodes

James Madison

4 episodes

John Cam Hobhouse

4 episodes

John Wilkes

4 episodes

Joseph Banks

4 episodes

Pasquale Paoli

4 episodes

Robert Clive

4 episodes

Samuel Richardson

4 episodes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

4 episodes

Thomas Troubridge

4 episodes

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (Pitt the Elder)

4 episodes

Admiral Hood

3 episodes

Anne, Queen of Great Britain

3 episodes

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

3 episodes

Comte d'Artois

3 episodes

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

3 episodes

Henry Addington

3 episodes

Henry Fielding

3 episodes

Isaac Barré

3 episodes

Jacques-Pierre Brissot

3 episodes

Jean-Jacques Necker

3 episodes

Joseph Haydn

3 episodes

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor

3 episodes

Madame du Barry

3 episodes

Monsieur Léonard

3 episodes

Philippe Égalité (Duke of Orléans)

3 episodes

Pierre Charles de Villeneuve

3 episodes

Thomas Carlyle

3 episodes

William Beckford

3 episodes

William Blake

3 episodes

Admiral Hyde Parker

2 episodes

Alexander I of Russia

2 episodes

Ali Pasha

2 episodes

Augustin Robespierre

2 episodes

Benjamin Lay

2 episodes

Catherine I of Russia

2 episodes

Charles James Fox

2 episodes

George Frideric Handel

2 episodes

George Germain (Lord George Germain)

2 episodes

George Matcham

2 episodes

James Wolfe

2 episodes

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

2 episodes

John Locke

2 episodes

Joseph Fouché

2 episodes

Louis Philippe I of the French

2 episodes

Madame Roland (Marie-Jeanne Roland)

2 episodes

Maria Edgeworth

2 episodes

Maria Theresa of Austria

2 episodes

Mary Shelley

2 episodes

Princess de Lamballe

2 episodes

Reverend Edmund Nelson

2 episodes

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

2 episodes

Tipu Sultan

2 episodes

Abram/Avram Petrovich Gannibal (Avram Gannibal)

1 episode

Alexander Pushkin (Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin)

1 episode

Alexander Scott

1 episode

Benedict Arnold

1 episode

Catherine of Braganza

1 episode

Charles Townsend

1 episode

Charles-Henri Sanson

1 episode

Earl of Bute

1 episode

Frederick North (Lord North)

1 episode

Friedrich Schiller

1 episode

Galileo Galilei

1 episode

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

1 episode

Henri Sanson

1 episode

Henry Cadogan

1 episode

Henry Raeburn

1 episode

Immanuel Kant

1 episode

James Gillray

1 episode

James Graham

1 episode

Jean-Baptiste Drouet

1 episode

Jean-Joseph Mounier

1 episode

Jeremy Bentham

1 episode

John Burgoyne

1 episode

John Hancock

1 episode

John Stuart Mill

1 episode

Joseph Addison

1 episode

Joséphine de Beauharnais

1 episode

Ludwig van Beethoven

1 episode

Marmaduke Ward

1 episode

Martha Washington

1 episode

Mary Wollstonecraft

1 episode

Paul Barras

1 episode

Robert Burns

1 episode

Robert-François Damiens

1 episode

Sally Hemings

1 episode

Samuel Adams

1 episode

William Hogarth

1 episode

William Howe

1 episode

William Nelson

1 episode

Historical events

83 tagged

French Revolution (1789–1799)

44 episodes

Seven Years' War (1756–1763)

28 episodes

Napoleonic era (c. 1799–1815)

22 episodes

Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789)

22 episodes

Reign of Terror (1793–1794, France)

21 episodes

American Revolutionary War (American War of Independence, 1775–1783)

19 episodes

Battle of Trafalgar (1805)

19 episodes

Battle of the Nile (1798)

16 episodes

Flight to Varennes (1791, Varennes)

13 episodes

September Massacres (2–6 September 1792, Paris)

13 episodes

Industrial Revolution

10 episodes

Insurrection and attack on the Tuileries (10 August 1792)

10 episodes

Trial and Execution of Louis XVI (1793)

10 episodes

War in the Vendée (1793–1796)

10 episodes

Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)

9 episodes

American Declaration of Independence (1776)

8 episodes

Affair of the Diamond Necklace / Diamond Necklace Affair (c.1784–1786)

7 episodes

Battle of Copenhagen

7 episodes

Boston Tea Party (1773)

7 episodes

Capture/Siege of Toulon (1793)

7 episodes

French Revolutionary Wars

7 episodes

End of the Spanish Habsburg line / War of the Spanish Succession (1700 / 1701–1714)

6 episodes

French invasion of Russia (1812)

6 episodes

Great Northern War (1700–1721)

6 episodes

Siege of Yorktown (1781, Virginia)

6 episodes

Tennis Court Oath (20 June 1789)

6 episodes

Battle of Cape St Vincent (1797)

5 episodes

Battle of Valmy (20 September 1792)

5 episodes

Calling of the Estates-General (1789)

5 episodes

Jacobite rising of 1745

5 episodes

Peninsular War (1807–1814)

5 episodes

Abolition of the French monarchy (21 September 1792)

4 episodes

Acts of Union (1707)

4 episodes

Battle of Poltava (27 June 1709, Poltava, Ukraine)

4 episodes

Treaty and Peace of Amiens (1802–1803)

4 episodes

Agrarian Revolution

3 episodes

Atlantic slave trade

3 episodes

Battle of Blenheim (1704)

3 episodes

Battle of Bunker Hill (1775)

3 episodes

Battle of Plassey (1757)

3 episodes

Battle of Saratoga (1777)

3 episodes

Black Hole of Calcutta (1756)

3 episodes

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789)

3 episodes

French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802)

3 episodes

Irish Rebellion (1798)

3 episodes

Methuen Treaty (1703)

3 episodes

Observation of the Transit of Venus (3, June 1769, Tahiti)

3 episodes

Stamp Act (1765)

3 episodes

War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)

3 episodes

Battle of Camperdown (1797)

2 episodes

Battle of Culloden (1746, Scotland)

2 episodes

Battle of Quebec / Plains of Abraham (1759)

2 episodes

Battle of Talavera (1809)

2 episodes

Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775)

2 episodes

Champ de Mars Massacre (17 July 1791, Paris)

2 episodes

Dunmore's Proclamation (1775)

2 episodes

Exclusion Crisis (late 1670s)

2 episodes

First voyage of James Cook (1768–1771)

2 episodes

France's declaration of war on Austria (20 April 1792)

2 episodes

French and Indian War (1754–1763)

2 episodes

Grand Tour (18th–19th century phenomenon)

2 episodes

Haitian Revolution (1791–1804)

2 episodes

Jacobite rising (1715)

2 episodes

Lisbon earthquake (1755)

2 episodes

Second Continental Congress (1775–1781)

2 episodes

Siege of Calvi (12 July 1794)

2 episodes

South Sea Bubble (1720)

2 episodes

Thermidorian Reaction (27 July 1794)

2 episodes

War of Jenkins' Ear (1739–1748)

2 episodes

Abolition of slavery in the British Empire (early 19th century)

1 episode

Battle of Austerlitz (1805)

1 episode

Boston Massacre (1770)

1 episode

Brazilian independence (1822)

1 episode

Congress of Vienna (1814–1815)

1 episode

Coronation of Napoleon (1804)

1 episode

Gordon Riots 1 Gordon Riots (1780)

1 episode

Mexican War of Independence (early 19th century)

1 episode

Napoleon's campaign in Egypt (1798–1801)

1 episode

Napoleon's invasion of Egypt (1798–1801)

1 episode

Valley Forge winter encampment (1777–1778)

1 episode

War of 1812 (1812–1814)

1 episode

Washington crossing the Delaware (December 1776)

1 episode

Year Without a Summer (1816)

1 episode

Books

340 tagged

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution

Author: Simon Schama

12 episodes

Adventures in Time: Nelson, a Hero of the Seas

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

9 episodes

A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

7 episodes

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

7 episodes

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Author: Edmund Burke

5 episodes

A Place of Greater Safety

Author: Hilary Mantel

4 episodes

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Author: National Constituent Assembly (France)

4 episodes

Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

4 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

4 episodes

The Revolutionary Temper

Author: Robert Danton

4 episodes

Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution

Author: R. R. Palmer

4 episodes

Common Sense

Author: Thomas Paine

3 episodes

Empire of the Deep

Author: Ben Wilson

3 episodes

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

Author: Tom Holland

3 episodes

Rights of Man

Author: Thomas Paine

3 episodes

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (standardized)

Author: Edward Gibbon

3 episodes

Aubrey–Maturin series

Author: Patrick O'Brian

2 episodes

Biography of Peter the Great

Author: Robert K. Massey

2 episodes

Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England

Author: Louis Crompton

2 episodes

Candide

Author: Voltaire

2 episodes

Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 episodes

Dangerous Liaisons

Author: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

2 episodes

Declaration of Independence

Author: Thomas Jefferson

2 episodes

Empire of Booze

Author: Henry Jeffries

2 episodes

Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley

2 episodes

Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift

2 episodes

His Dark Materials

Author: Philip Pullman

2 episodes

Les Misérables

Author: Victor Hugo

2 episodes

Liberty or Death: The French Revolution

Author: Peter McPhee

2 episodes

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian series)

Author: Patrick O'Brian

2 episodes

Men of Honor

Author: Adam Nicholson

2 episodes

On the Origin of Species

Author: Charles Darwin

2 episodes

Orientalism

Author: Edward Said

2 episodes

Pamela

Author: Samuel Richardson

2 episodes

Pilgrim's Progress

Author: John Bunyan

2 episodes

Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

2 episodes

The 1619 Project

Author: Nikole Hannah-Jones

2 episodes

The Coming of the Terror in the French Revolution

Author: Timothy Tackett

2 episodes

The French Revolution: A History

Author: Thomas Carlyle

2 episodes

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Author: Henry Fielding

2 episodes

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author: Oscar Wilde

2 episodes

The Prelude

Author: William Wordsworth

2 episodes

The Red and the Black

Author: Stendhal

2 episodes

The Rest is History: History's Most Curious Questions Answered

Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Vanity Fair

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

2 episodes

1421, the Year China Discovered the World

Author: Gavin Menzies

1 episode

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Author: Mark Twain

1 episode

A Dance to the Music of Time

Author: Anthony Powell

1 episode

A Discourse of Bath and the Hot Waters There; Also some inquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock near Bristol

Author: Thomas Ghidotti

1 episode

A Distant Mirror

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

A History of the Crusades

Author: Stephen Runciman

1 episode

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

A Man for All Seasons

Author: Robert Bolt

1 episode

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

A Naval History of England

Author: Thomas Ledyard

1 episode

A New World Begins

Author: Jeremy Popkin

1 episode

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution

Author: Jeremy D. Popkin

1 episode

A Proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

A Smuggler's Song

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

A Wealth of Nations

Author: Adam Smith

1 episode

Acts of Oblivion

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Admiral Lord Nelson

Author: George Edinger and E.J.C. Kneep(e)

1 episode

Adventure in Time (Series)

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Adventures in Time: Alexander the Great

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Aftermath

Author: Harold Jena

1 episode

All Slave Keepers That Keep the Innocent in Bondage Apostates

Author: Benjamin Lay

1 episode

All the Devils Are Here

Author: Louise Penny

1 episode

American Sphinx

Author: Joseph Ellis

1 episode

An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

Author: Charles Beard

1 episode

Anderson's Constitutions (1723)

Author: George Payne (Compiler)

1 episode

Angels & Demons

Author: Dan Brown

1 episode

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Arcadia

Author: Sanazaro

1 episode

Around the World in Eighty Days

Author: Jules Verne

1 episode

Asterix in Britain

Author: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo

1 episode

Barry Lyndon

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

1 episode

Beef and Liberty

Author: Ben Rogers

1 episode

Beyond Black

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Beyond the Boundary

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

Billy Bunter (series)

Author: Charles Hamilton (pen name Frank Richards)

1 episode

Biographies of William Gladstone and Winston Churchill

Author: Roy Jenkins

1 episode

Biography by Lady Antoinette Fraser

Author: Lady Antoinette Fraser

1 episode

Biography of Admiral Lord Nelson

Author: George Edinger; E.J.C. Kneepe

1 episode

Biography of Augustus the Strong

Author: Tim Blanning

1 episode

Biography of Benjamin Lay

Author: Roberts Vokes

1 episode

Biography of Cook (unspecified title)

Author: Richard Hoff

1 episode

Biography of Darwin

Author: Adrian Desmond and James Moore

1 episode

Biography of George III

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Biography of Horatio Nelson (early celebrated biography, title unspecified)

Author: Robert Southey

1 episode

Biography of Horatio Nelson (title unspecified)

Author: John Sugden

1 episode

Black Spartacus

Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh

1 episode

Boswell's London Journal

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

Boswell's Presumptuous Task

Author: Adam Sisman

1 episode

Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Life of Dr. Johnson

Author: Adam Sisman

1 episode

Boys' Own Paper

Author: Various

1 episode

Britain Between the Wars

Author: A.J.P. Taylor

1 episode

Britons

Author: Linda Colley

1 episode

Burr

Author: Gore Vidal

1 episode

Byron Life and Legend

Author: Fiona McCarthy

1 episode

Casa Bianca

Author: Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1 episode

Chamela

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

Children of Ash and Elm

Author: Neil Price

1 episode

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

Clarissa

Author: Samuel Richardson

1 episode

Clisson et Eugénie

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

1 episode

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Author: Thomas De Quincey

1 episode

Cornish Wrecking

Author: Katherine J. Pierce

1 episode

Coronation: The History of Kingship and the British Monarchy

Author: Roy Strong

1 episode

Critique of Pure Reason

Author: Immanuel Kant

1 episode

Dangerous Merchandise (paper)

Author: Paul Monod

1 episode

Danton's Death

Author: Georg Büchner

1 episode

De Tabbe Glandulari

Author: Richard Russell

1 episode

Death or Victory: The Battle of Quebec and the Birth of Empire

Author: Dan Snow

1 episode

Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

Author: Olympe de Gouges

1 episode

Description de l'Égypte

Author: French savants (collective)

1 episode

Desolation Island

Author: Patrick O'Brien

1 episode

Diaries and letters

Author: Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Discoveries

Author: Nicholas Thomas

1 episode

Discoveries, the Voyages of Captain Cook

Author: Nicholas Thomas

1 episode

Dr. Johnson and Mr. Savage

Author: Richard Holmes

1 episode

Dr. Syn

Author: Russell Thorndyke

1 episode

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen

Author: Hilary Davidson

1 episode

Eagle of the Ninth

Author: Rosemary Sutcliff

1 episode

Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens

Author: Bavarian Government

1 episode

Emma, England's mistress

Author: Kate Williams

1 episode

Empireland

Author: Satnam Sanghera

1 episode

Encyclopédie

Author: Denis Diderot

1 episode

England's Mistress

Author: Kate Williams

1 episode

England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton

Author: Kate Williams

1 episode

Fanny Hill

Author: John Cleland

1 episode

Farewell My Queen

Author: Chantal Thomas

1 episode

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution

Author: Ruth Scurr

1 episode

Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Faust

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 episode

Foucault's Pendulum

Author: Umberto Eco

1 episode

German verse translations of Shakespeare (16 plays)

Author: August Wilhelm Schlegel and Caroline Schlegel

1 episode

Germania

Author: Tacitus

1 episode

Gert Nation

Author: David Hunt

1 episode

Gert, the unauthorised history of Australia

Author: David Hunt

1 episode

Glory and Terror: Seven Deaths Under the French Revolution

Author: Daniele Varè

1 episode

God Save the King

Author: Percy A. Scholes

1 episode

Great History of the French Revolution

Author: Peter McPhee

1 episode

Greater Britain After the Storm

Author: Penny Mordant; Chris Lewis

1 episode

Grub Street Opera

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

Hamlet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies

Author: TBD

1 episode

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

1 episode

Histoire et Dictionnaire de la Révolution Française

Author: French scholars (compiled)

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 Americas

Author: William Robertson

1 episode

Houseman Country

Author: Peter Parker

1 episode

How the Irish Invented Chess!

Author: Brian Nugent

1 episode

How to Ruin a Queen

Author: Jonathan Beckman

1 episode

Hymns to the Night

Author: Novalis

1 episode

Illuminati: The History of a Conspiracy Theory

Author: Michael Taylor

1 episode

Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion

Author: Michael Taylor

1 episode

Inferno (Dante's Inferno)

Author: Dante Alighieri

1 episode

Inglourious Empire

Author: Shashi Tharoor

1 episode

Jacques-Louis David

Author: Anita Brookner

1 episode

Jamaica Inn

Author: Daphne du Maurier

1 episode

Jean-Paul Marat: Prophet of Terror

Author: Keith Michael Baker

1 episode

John Sugden's biography

Author: John Sugden

1 episode

Joseph Andrews

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

Journal of Thomas Thistlewood

Author: Thomas Thistlewood

1 episode

Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Killers of the Flower Moon

Author: David Grant

1 episode

L'esclavage des Noirs

Author: Olympe de Gouges

1 episode

La Mille du Peuple (The People's Friend)

Author: Jean-Paul Marat

1 episode

La Nouvelle Eloise

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 episode

La Reine Sélérate (The Wicked Queen)

Author: Chantal Thomas

1 episode

La Ruge en Noir

Author: Stendhal

1 episode

La guérison de Marianne

Author: Guillaume Lavabre

1 episode

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Author: D.H. Lawrence

1 episode

Latest novel (about plague)

Author: Orhan Pamuk

1 episode

Le Conte d'Essex

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

1 episode

Le Souper de Beaucaire

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

1 episode

Le Vicomte de Bragelonne (The Vicomte of Bragelonne)

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire

Author: David Remnick

1 episode

Leopold's Letters

Author: Leopold Mozart

1 episode

Les Liaisons dangereuses

Author: Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

1 episode

Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton

Author: Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson

1 episode

Liberty Is Sweet

Author: Woody Holton

1 episode

Liberty is Sweet

Author: Woody Holton

1 episode

Liberty or Death

Author: Peter McPhee

1 episode

Liberty's Dawn

Author: Emma Griffin

1 episode

Look Back in Anger

Author: John Osborne

1 episode

Losing Nelson

Author: Barry Answorth

1 episode

Louis David, son école et son temps: souvenirs

Author: Étienne-Jean Delécluze

1 episode

Magnificent Rebels, the First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Author: Andrea Wolff

1 episode

Mansfield Park

Author: Jane Austen

1 episode

Marie Antoinette's Head

Author: Will Bashore

1 episode

Marie Antoinette's The Making of a French Queen

Author: John Hardman

1 episode

Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism

Author: Augustin Barruel

1 episode

Memoirs of the Bastille

Author: Linge

1 episode

Mistress of My Fate

Author: Halle Rubenhold

1 episode

Moonfleet

Author: J. Meade Falkner

1 episode

Moonraker

Author: Ian Fleming

1 episode

Mrs Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Mrs. Rundle's Domestic Cookery

Author: Mrs. Rundle

1 episode

Munich

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

My Agony of 38 Hours

Author: François Geniak-Samea

1 episode

My Early Life

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

My Internet, The Portrait of an Average Woman

Author: Stefan Weig

1 episode

My Secret Life

Author: Walter / Anonymous

1 episode

Nathaniel's Nutmeg

Author: Charles Milton

1 episode

Nelson at Naples

Author: Jonathan North

1 episode

Ninety-Three

Author: Victor Hugo

1 episode

Ode to Joy

Author: Friedrich Schiller

1 episode

On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Free-Masons, and to the Illuminati, on the Revolution of France

Author: Jean-Joseph Mounier

1 episode

On the Nature of the Dutch

Author: Reverend Robert Walker

1 episode

Ornamentalism

Author: David Cannadine

1 episode

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Author: Various

1 episode

Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands, 1780–1813

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

Paul Revere's Ride

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1 episode

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen

1 episode

Peter the Great and his times

Author: Lindsay Hughes

1 episode

Phenomenology of Spirit

Author: Hegel

1 episode

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Author: Isaac Newton

1 episode

Poem on the Lisbon disaster

Author: Voltaire

1 episode

Poldark

Author: Winston Graham

1 episode

Precipice

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Proofs of a Conspiracy

Author: John Robison

1 episode

Publication on Colf

Author: Reverend Robert Walker

1 episode

Qu'est-ce que le Tiers Etat? (What is the Third Estate?)

Author: Emmanuel Siez

1 episode

Quoted chapter/work (unnamed) referenced near the end of the episode

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

Quran (Koran)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Rasselas

Author: Samuel Johnson

1 episode

Reagan: His Life and Legend

Author: Max Boot

1 episode

Refugee Tales

Author: David Hurd

1 episode

Restless Republic

Author: Anna Kaye

1 episode

Revolution Song

Author: Russell Shortow

1 episode

Revolutionary Ideas

Author: Jonathan Israel

1 episode

Robespierre: A Revolutionary Life

Author: Peter McPhee

1 episode

Roman infrastructure in early medieval Britain: the adaptations of the past in text and stone

Author: Mateusz Fafinski

1 episode

Samuel Johnson

Author: Walter Jackson Bate

1 episode

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

Author: Samuel Johnson

1 episode

Seeing Justice Done: The Age of Spectacular Capital Punishment in France

Author: Paul Friedland

1 episode

Sodomy Simplified, or Pederacity Proved to be Praiseworthy from Ancient Authors and Modern Practice

Author: Lord Byron

1 episode

Some Men in London, volume one: Queer Life, 1945 to 1959

Author: Peter Parker

1 episode

Speak for Britain! A New History of the Labour Party

Author: Martin Pugh

1 episode

Such, and other essays mentioned (e.g., "Boys' Weeklies", "Such Were the Joys", "Homage to Catalonia", "The Lion and the Unicorn")

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Taxation No Tyranny

Author: Samuel Johnson

1 episode

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Author: Thomas Hardy

1 episode

The 9/11 Wars

Author: Jason Burke

1 episode

The Aenach Talchean

Author: T.H. Nally

1 episode

The Ambassadors

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The American Crisis

Author: Thomas Paine

1 episode

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy

Author: Hannah Glass

1 episode

The Beggar's Opera

Author: John Gay

1 episode

The Black Jacobins

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

The Buried Giant

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

1 episode

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

Author: Voltaire

1 episode

The Children of Ashen Elm

Author: Neil Price

1 episode

The Cicero Trilogy

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

The Coming of the Terror

Author: Timothy Tackett

1 episode

The Command of the Ocean

Author: N. A. M. Rogers

1 episode

The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

The Difference Engine

Author: William Gibson & Bruce Sterling

1 episode

The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Author: Tobias Smollett

1 episode

The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

Author: Colin Jones

1 episode

The Future Eaters

Author: Tim Flannery

1 episode

The Geometry of Love

Author: Margaret Visser

1 episode

The God Desire

Author: David Baddiel

1 episode

The God to Delusion

Author: Richard Dawkins

1 episode

The Harlot's Progress

Author: William Hogarth

1 episode

The Iliad

Author: Homer

1 episode

The Interest: How the British Establishment Resisted the Abolition of Slavery

Author: Michael Taylor

1 episode

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

The Judgment of Paris

Author: George Temme

1 episode

The Last of the Mohicans

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

1 episode

The Leopard

Author: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1 episode

The Life of Johnson

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

The London Tradesman

Author: Robert Campbell

1 episode

The Lost King of France: How DNA Solved the Mystery of the Murdered Son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette

Author: Deborah Cadbury

1 episode

The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

1 episode

The Magic Flute

Author: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1 episode

The Magnet (magazine)

Author: Various

1 episode

The Man Who Would Be King

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Man in the Iron Mask

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

The Man in the Iron Mask

Author: Voltaire

1 episode

The Man of Mode

Author: Sir George Etheridge

1 episode

The More of Peter the Great

Author: Alexander Pushkin

1 episode

The Multifarious Mr. Banks

Author: Toby Musgrave

1 episode

The Old Curiosity Shop

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

The Oxford History of the French Revolution

Author: William Doyle

1 episode

The Poems of Ossian / Fingal

Author: James Macpherson

1 episode

The Principles of Geology

Author: Charles Lyell

1 episode

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Author: Max Weber

1 episode

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

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

Author: Roger Knight

1 episode

The Rage of Party

Author: George Hours

1 episode

The Rage of Party, How Wig vs Tauri Made Modern Britain

Author: George Hours

1 episode

The Revolutionary Tempo

Author: Robert Danton

1 episode

The Rights of Woman

Author: Olympe de Gouges

1 episode

The Robbers

Author: Friedrich Schiller

1 episode

The Romans in Britain

Author: Howard Brenton

1 episode

The Ruin

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Second Volume of His Life of Nelson

Author: John Sugden

1 episode

The Sentinel of the People

Author: Volney

1 episode

The Song of Roland

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 episode

The Spectator

Author: Joseph Addison

1 episode

The Tale of Genji

Author: Murasaki Shikibu

1 episode

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution

Author: Dan Edelstein

1 episode

The Three Musketeers

Author: Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

The Turn of the Screw

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The Vanity of Human Wishes

Author: Samuel Johnson

1 episode

The Vantage Point

Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

1 episode

The Village of Italy

Author: Richard Lassels

1 episode

The Voyage of the Beagle

Author: Charles Darwin

1 episode

The Wings of the Dove

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The World Crisis

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

The Wrath of the Black Shirts

Author: Martin Pugh

1 episode

The Year of the French

Author: Thomas Van Lingen

1 episode

This House

Author: James Graham

1 episode

Thomas Cromwell novels (by Hilary Mantel)

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Tim to the Lighthouse

Author: Edward R. Dizzoni

1 episode

To the Finland Station

Author: Edmund Wilson

1 episode

To the Lighthouse

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

1 episode

Tracts by John Milton

Author: John Milton

1 episode

Tristram Shandy

Author: Laurence Sterne

1 episode

True Gert

Author: David Hunt

1 episode

Twilight of the Godlings

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

1 episode

Unspecified recent English-language survey on the French Revolution

Author: Jeremy Popkin

1 episode

Vartek

Author: William Beckford

1 episode

Vermeer's Hat

Author: Timothy Brooke

1 episode

Vines in the Cold Climate

Author: Henry Jeffries

1 episode

War and Peace

Author: Leo Tolstoy

1 episode

Washington biography

Author: Ron Chernow

1 episode

When the King Took Flight

Author: Timothy Tackett

1 episode

White Noise

Author: Don DeLillo

1 episode

Who Dares Wins

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Winchelsea

Author: Alex Preston

1 episode

World Crisis

Author: Jeffrey Parker

1 episode

writing on the Marseillaise

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

Authors

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Simon Schama

14 episodes

Dominic Sandbrook

12 episodes

Tom Holland

10 episodes

Charles Dickens

8 episodes

Thomas Paine

6 episodes

Edmund Burke

5 episodes

Hilary Mantel

5 episodes

Jane Austen

5 episodes

Peter McPhee

5 episodes

National Constituent Assembly (France)

4 episodes

R. R. Palmer

4 episodes

Robert Danton

4 episodes

Samuel Johnson

4 episodes

Timothy Tackett

4 episodes

Voltaire

4 episodes

William Makepeace Thackeray

4 episodes

Ben Wilson

3 episodes

Edward Gibbon

3 episodes

Henry Fielding

3 episodes

James Boswell

3 episodes

John Sugden

3 episodes

Jonathan Swift

3 episodes

Patrick O'Brian

3 episodes

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

3 episodes

Robert Harris

3 episodes

Samuel Richardson

3 episodes

Stendhal

3 episodes

Traditional Attribution or Various

3 episodes

Adam Nicholson

2 episodes

Adam Sisman

2 episodes

Charles Darwin

2 episodes

Daniel Defoe

2 episodes

Edward Said

2 episodes

Friedrich Schiller

2 episodes

Fyodor Dostoevsky

2 episodes

George Hours

2 episodes

Henry Jeffries

2 episodes

Jeremy Popkin

2 episodes

John Bunyan

2 episodes

Kate Williams

2 episodes

Louis Crompton

2 episodes

Martin Pugh

2 episodes

Mary Shelley

2 episodes

Napoleon Bonaparte

2 episodes

Neil Price

2 episodes

Nicholas Thomas

2 episodes

Nikole Hannah-Jones

2 episodes

Olympe de Gouges

2 episodes

Oscar Wilde

2 episodes

Philip Pullman

2 episodes

Robert K. Massey

2 episodes

Rudyard Kipling

2 episodes

Thomas Carlyle

2 episodes

Thomas Jefferson

2 episodes

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Various

2 episodes

Victor Hugo

2 episodes

William Shakespeare

2 episodes

William Wordsworth

2 episodes

Woody Holton

2 episodes

A.J.P. Taylor

1 episode

Adam Smith

1 episode

Adrian Desmond and James Moore

1 episode

Alex Preston

1 episode

Alexander Pushkin

1 episode

Alexandre Dumas

1 episode

Andrea Wolff

1 episode

Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Anita Brookner

1 episode

Anna Kaye

1 episode

Anonymous

1 episode

Anthony Powell

1 episode

August Wilhelm Schlegel and Caroline Schlegel

1 episode

Augustin Barruel

1 episode

Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

Barry Answorth

1 episode

Bavarian Government

1 episode

Ben Rogers

1 episode

Benjamin Lay

1 episode

Brian Nugent

1 episode

C. L. R. James

1 episode

Chantal Thomas

1 episode

Charles Beard

1 episode

Charles Hamilton (pen name Frank Richards)

1 episode

Charles Lyell

1 episode

Charles Milton

1 episode

Colin Jones

1 episode

D.H. Lawrence

1 episode

Dan Brown

1 episode

Dan Edelstein

1 episode

Dan Snow

1 episode

Daniele Varè

1 episode

Dante Alighieri

1 episode

Daphne du Maurier

1 episode

David Baddiel

1 episode

David Cannadine

1 episode

David Grant

1 episode

David Hunt

1 episode

David Hurd

1 episode

David Remnick

1 episode

Deborah Cadbury

1 episode

Denis Diderot

1 episode

Don DeLillo

1 episode

Edmund Wilson

1 episode

Edward R. Dizzoni

1 episode

Emma Griffin

1 episode

Emmanuel Siez

1 episode

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1 episode

Fiona McCarthy

1 episode

Francis Young

1 episode

François Geniak-Samea

1 episode

French savants (collective)

1 episode

French scholars (compiled)

1 episode

Gavin Menzies

1 episode

Georg Büchner

1 episode

George Edinger and E.J.C. Kneep(e)

1 episode

George Edinger; E.J.C. Kneepe

1 episode

George Payne (Compiler)

1 episode

George Temme

1 episode

Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1 episode

Gore Vidal

1 episode

Guillaume Lavabre

1 episode

Halle Rubenhold

1 episode

Hannah Glass

1 episode

Harold Jena

1 episode

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1 episode

Hegel

1 episode

Henry James

1 episode

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1 episode

Hilary Davidson

1 episode

Howard Brenton

1 episode

Ian Fleming

1 episode

Immanuel Kant

1 episode

Isaac Newton

1 episode

J. Meade Falkner

1 episode

James Fenimore Cooper

1 episode

James Graham

1 episode

James Macpherson

1 episode

Jason Burke

1 episode

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1 episode

Jean-Joseph Mounier

1 episode

Jean-Paul Marat

1 episode

Jeffrey Parker

1 episode

Jeremy D. Popkin

1 episode

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1 episode

John Cleland

1 episode

John Dickey

1 episode

John Gay

1 episode

John Hardman

1 episode

John Milton

1 episode

John Osborne

1 episode

John Robison

1 episode

Jonathan Beckman

1 episode

Jonathan Israel

1 episode

Jonathan North

1 episode

Joseph Addison

1 episode

Joseph Conrad

1 episode

Joseph Ellis

1 episode

Jules Verne

1 episode

Katherine J. Pierce

1 episode

Kazuo Ishiguro

1 episode

Keith Michael Baker

1 episode

Lady Antoinette Fraser

1 episode

Laurence Sterne

1 episode

Leo Tolstoy

1 episode

Leopold Mozart

1 episode

Linda Colley

1 episode

Lindsay Hughes

1 episode

Linge

1 episode

Lord Byron

1 episode

Louise Penny

1 episode

Lyndon B. Johnson

1 episode

Margaret Visser

1 episode

Mark Twain

1 episode

Mateusz Fafinski

1 episode

Max Boot

1 episode

Max Weber

1 episode

Michael Taylor

1 episode

Mrs. Rundle

1 episode

Murasaki Shikibu

1 episode

N. A. M. Rogers

1 episode

Neil Johnston (co-author)

1 episode

Novalis

1 episode

Orhan Pamuk

1 episode

Patrick O'Brien

1 episode

Paul Friedland

1 episode

Paul Monod

1 episode

Penny Mordant; Chris Lewis

1 episode

Percy A. Scholes

1 episode

Peter Parker

1 episode

René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo

1 episode

Reverend Robert Walker

1 episode

Richard Dawkins

1 episode

Richard Hoff

1 episode

Richard Holmes

1 episode

Richard Lassels

1 episode

Richard Russell

1 episode

Robert Bolt

1 episode

Robert Campbell

1 episode

Robert Southey

1 episode

Roberts Vokes

1 episode

Roger Knight

1 episode

Ron Chernow

1 episode

Rosemary Sutcliff

1 episode

Roy Jenkins

1 episode

Roy Strong

1 episode

Russell Shortow

1 episode

Russell Thorndyke

1 episode

Ruth Scurr

1 episode

Sanazaro

1 episode

Satnam Sanghera

1 episode

Shashi Tharoor

1 episode

Sigmund Freud

1 episode

Sir George Etheridge

1 episode

Stefan Weig

1 episode

Stephen Runciman

1 episode

Sudhir Hazareesingh

1 episode

T.H. Nally

1 episode

TBD

1 episode

Tacitus

1 episode

Thomas De Quincey

1 episode

Thomas Ghidotti

1 episode

Thomas Hardy

1 episode

Thomas Hughes

1 episode

Thomas Ledyard

1 episode

Thomas Thistlewood

1 episode

Thomas Van Lingen

1 episode

Tim Blanning

1 episode

Tim Flannery

1 episode

Timothy Brooke

1 episode

Tobias Smollett

1 episode

Toby Musgrave

1 episode

Umberto Eco

1 episode

Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson

1 episode

Volney

1 episode

Walter / Anonymous

1 episode

Walter Jackson Bate

1 episode

Will Bashore

1 episode

William Beckford

1 episode

William Doyle

1 episode

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling

1 episode

William Hogarth

1 episode

William Robertson

1 episode

Winston Churchill

1 episode

Winston Graham

1 episode

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1 episode

Étienne-Jean Delécluze

1 episode