Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Industrial & Imperial Age (Long 19th Century)

176 Episodes 43 Series 191 Figures 93 Events 525 Books 376 Authors

Covering the Industrial & Imperial Age (the long 19th century), the archive treats industrialization, empire, political violence and social reform. Series include "12 (or 13) Days of Christmas" (notable events from Dec 25–Jan 4), a multi‑episode history of Afghanistan (Achaemenids to modern conflict), multi‑part studies of the American Civil War (origins, slavery, secession, Gettysburg, Vicksburg), the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (final weeks and aftermath), and the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Gavrilo Princip and conspirators). Episodes also examine the last emperor of Mexico, Victorian servants, Freemasonry and the mystery of Le Prince. Discussed figures and events include Jean‑Baptiste Drouet, J. M. Barrie, Anthony Burns, Short Bull, the reconquest of Sudan (1896–98), Vicksburg (1863), Lincoln’s assassination (1865), Transvaal diamond finds and the RSPCA founding (1824). Books cited include works by Howard Zinn, James Belich and Edward Shawcross.

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2026

12 episodes

Dawn of the Samurai: The Shadow of the Sword (Part 1)

Apr 05, 2026
Dawn of the Samurai · Part 1

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook launch a new series on the origins and evolution of the samurai. They…

RIHC: The Hitler Interviews

Mar 25, 2026

In this episode of The Rest Is History, hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome historian and author Richard Ev…

The Ku Klux Klan: American Fascists (Part 4)

Mar 23, 2026
The Ku Klux Klan

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the rise and fall of the second Ku Klux Klan in the United St…

The Ku Klux Klan: The Rise of Evil (Part 1)

Mar 23, 2026
The Ku Klux Klan

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the birth and early growth of the Ku Klux Klan in the turbulent…

The Ku Klux Klan: Terror in the South (Part 2)

Mar 23, 2026
The Ku Klux Klan

In this second episode of the Rest Is History Reconstruction series, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the viol…

The Ku Klux Klan: Birth of a Nation (Part 3)

Mar 23, 2026
The Ku Klux Klan

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan in the United States, a m…

RIHC: London’s Golden Age EXTRA - James Boswell’s Secret Diaries

Mar 18, 2026

In this Rest Is History bonus episode, host Tom Holland (joined by guest Adam Sisman) revisits the legacy of James Bosw…

Greatest Paintings: The French Revolution - Millet's Angelus - FULL EPISODE

Feb 25, 2026
Great Paintings from History · Part 4

This episode — the final instalment in a short series on great paintings — is a focused conversation between host Tom H…

The Book Club: Wuthering Heights

Feb 23, 2026
The Book Club · Part 1

Dominic and Tabitha (Tabby) introduce a new show, The Book Club, a weekly series that will explore major novels — alter…

Greatest Paintings: Age of Enlightenment - Raeburn's Skating Minister - FULL EPISODE

Feb 18, 2026
Greatest Paintings with Laura Cumming

This Rest Is History club episode (Greatest Paintings with Laura Cumming) examines Henry Raeburn's celebrated portrait …

RIHC: The British Empire, Tudor Lovers, and War Poetry

Jan 21, 2026

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Mark Forsyth about his book Rhyme and Reason, a popular-history surve…

Wagner: LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall

Jan 01, 2026
Royal Albert Hall Orchestral Shows · Part 4

This episode is the second half of a live Royal Albert Hall show (4 May 2025) in which hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sa…
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Series in this era

43 series

Custer Versus Crazy Horse

8 episodes Aired: 2024-05-05 – 2024-05-12

Great World Cup Saga

8 episodes Aired: 2022-11-26 – 2022-12-17

12 (or 13) Days of Christmas

7 episodes Aired: 2021-12-25

American Civil War (1861 to 1865)

6 episodes Aired: 2022-06-27 – 2022-07-07

Horror in the Congo

6 episodes Aired: 2025-02-10 – 2025-02-26

Jack the Ripper - The Whitechapel Murders

6 episodes Aired: 2025-12-08 – 2025-12-17

Titanic

6 episodes Aired: 2024-03-11

The Ku Klux Klan

4 episodes Aired: 2026-03-23

The Road to the Great War

4 episodes Aired: 2024-07-14 – 2024-07-30

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

3 episodes Aired: 2024-06-30 – 2024-07-01

Fall of the Sioux

3 episodes Aired: 2024-05-26

Royal Albert Hall Orchestral Shows

3 episodes Aired: 2024-12-31 – 2026-01-01

The Young Churchill Trilogy

3 episodes Aired: 2022-10-03

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2 episodes Aired: 2025-08-10

England Games at the European Cup (November 2021)

2 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Gordon of Khartoum

2 episodes Aired: 2022-01-24

Holidays

2 episodes Aired: 2022-08-15

Ireland (S1)

2 episodes Aired: 2023-05-30 – 2023-06-05

Lord Byron

2 episodes Aired: 2024-04-14

Oscar Wilde

2 episodes Aired: 2023-06-15

Public Schools

2 episodes Aired: 2023-09-10

Statues

2 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

1066

1 episode Aired: 2025-04-22

Afghanistan

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

American Crusades

1 episode Aired: 2022-02-17

Beards

1 episode Aired: 2024-09-08

British Fascism

1 episode Aired: 2023-09-24

Christopher Columbus

1 episode Aired: 2023-02-20

Coronations

1 episode Aired: 2023-05-04

Dawn of the Samurai

1 episode Aired: 2026-04-05

Disease

1 episode Aired: 2022-02-03

Greatest Paintings with Laura Cumming

1 episode Aired: 2026-02-18

Great Paintings from History

1 episode Aired: 2026-02-25

London Week

1 episode Aired: 2022-07-18

Modern British Elections

1 episode Aired: 2024-06-23

Nelson (S2)

1 episode Aired: 2025-11-05

Paganism

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Queen's Platinum Jubilee

1 episode Aired: 2022-05-30

The Book Club

1 episode Aired: 2026-02-23

The Nazis' Rise to Power (S1)

1 episode Aired: 2023-01-16

The Olympics

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

The Rest is History Book Club (With Tabby)

1 episode Aired: 2025-09-25

World Cup of Prime Ministers

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

Historical figures

191 tagged

Abraham Lincoln

23 episodes

Queen Victoria

19 episodes

George A. Custer

16 episodes

Ulysses S. Grant

16 episodes

Sitting Bull

14 episodes

William Ewart Gladstone

13 episodes

Charles Dickens

12 episodes

Crazy Horse

12 episodes

Charles George Gordon (General Gordon)

11 episodes

George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

11 episodes

Karl Marx

10 episodes

Oscar Wilde

10 episodes

Arthur Conan Doyle

9 episodes

Rudyard Kipling

9 episodes

William Tecumseh Sherman

9 episodes

Andrew Johnson

8 episodes

Leopold II of Belgium

8 episodes

Percy Bysshe Shelley

8 episodes

Robert E. Lee

8 episodes

Theodore Roosevelt

8 episodes

Buffalo Bill Cody (William F. Cody)

7 episodes

Franz Joseph I of Austria

7 episodes

Joseph Conrad

7 episodes

Philip H. Sheridan

7 episodes

Alfred Lord Tennyson

6 episodes

Benjamin Disraeli

6 episodes

Henry Morton Stanley

6 episodes

Joseph Chamberlain

6 episodes

Napoleon III (Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte)

6 episodes

Andrew Jackson

5 episodes

Mary Ann (Polly) Nichols

5 episodes

Red Cloud

5 episodes

Sir Walter Scott

5 episodes

William McGonagall

5 episodes

Benjamin Harrison

4 episodes

Charles Darwin (Charles Robert Darwin)

4 episodes

Dom Pedro II of Brazil

4 episodes

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

4 episodes

Frederick Douglass

4 episodes

Friedrich Engels

4 episodes

George Crook

4 episodes

George IV of the United Kingdom

4 episodes

Grover Cleveland

4 episodes

Jack the Ripper

4 episodes

Jefferson Davis

4 episodes

John Wilkes Booth

4 episodes

Lord Randolph Churchill

4 episodes

Lord Salisbury

4 episodes

Martha Tabrum (Tabram)

4 episodes

Maximilian I of Mexico

4 episodes

Otto von Bismarck

4 episodes

Richard Davenport Hines

4 episodes

Robert Louis Stevenson

4 episodes

Roger Casement

4 episodes

Sir Robert Peel

4 episodes

Thomas Arnold

4 episodes

William Howard Taft

4 episodes

Alfred Dreyfus

3 episodes

Alfred H. Terry

3 episodes

Andrew Carnegie

3 episodes

Archibald Willingham Butt

3 episodes

Charles Othniel Marsh

3 episodes

Edward John Smith

3 episodes

Florence Nightingale

3 episodes

Frederick W. Benteen

3 episodes

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

3 episodes

Harriet Beecher Stowe

3 episodes

Henry James

3 episodes

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

3 episodes

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

3 episodes

J Bruce Ismay

3 episodes

James Ewell Brown 'Jeb' Stuart

3 episodes

John Brown

3 episodes

John Cam Hobhouse

3 episodes

John Murray

3 episodes

Joseph Haydn

3 episodes

Lord Palmerston

3 episodes

Mark Twain

3 episodes

Muhammad Ahmad (the Mahdi)

3 episodes

Nelson A. Miles

3 episodes

Nicola Pasic

3 episodes

Thomas Andrews

3 episodes

Thomas Babington Macaulay

3 episodes

Thomas Hughes

3 episodes

Thomas Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson

3 episodes

W. B. Yeats

3 episodes

W. G. Grace (William Gilbert Grace)

3 episodes

W. T. Stead

3 episodes

William IV of the United Kingdom

3 episodes

Ada Lovelace

2 episodes

Alexander Kerensky (Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky)

2 episodes

Alexandra Feodorovna (Empress of Russia)

2 episodes

Alfred Lord Douglas

2 episodes

Ali Pasha

2 episodes

Anthony Trollope

2 episodes

Arthur Evans

2 episodes

Arthur James Balfour

2 episodes

Cecil Rhodes

2 episodes

Charles Stewart Parnell

2 episodes

D. H. Lawrence

2 episodes

Elizabeth 'Libby' Custer

2 episodes

Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico

2 episodes

Eric Hobsbawm

2 episodes

Erskine Childers

2 episodes

Giuseppe Garibaldi

2 episodes

H. G. Wells

2 episodes

H. H. Asquith

2 episodes

Helmut von Moltke the Younger

2 episodes

Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

2 episodes

John Redmond

2 episodes

Jules Verne

2 episodes

Louis Philippe I of the French

2 episodes

Lytton Strachey

2 episodes

Mary Seacole

2 episodes

Mary Shelley

2 episodes

Maurice Schwab

2 episodes

Pope Leo XIII

2 episodes

Prince Albert

2 episodes

Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

2 episodes

Raymond Poincaré

2 episodes

Richard Burton

2 episodes

Richard Haldane

2 episodes

Richard Wagner

2 episodes

Robert Baden-Powell

2 episodes

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria

2 episodes

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2 episodes

Simon Bolivar

2 episodes

Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon

2 episodes

Sir Edward Carson

2 episodes

Thomas Carlyle

2 episodes

Thomas Cook

2 episodes

Wild Bill Hickok

2 episodes

Wilkie Collins

2 episodes

William Beckford

2 episodes

William McKinley

2 episodes

William Thomas Stead

2 episodes

William Wordsworth

2 episodes

Émile Zola

2 episodes

Alexander I of Russia

1 episode

Apis (Dragutin Dimitrijević)

1 episode

Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria

1 episode

Dr. William Brydon

1 episode

Duke of Wellington

1 episode

Edward Carson

1 episode

Edward Thomas

1 episode

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

1 episode

Friedrich Nietzsche

1 episode

Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

George Matcham

1 episode

Gideon Mantell

1 episode

Grigori Rasputin

1 episode

Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

1 episode

Helmut von Moltke

1 episode

Helmuth von Moltke (the Elder)

1 episode

Henry Cadogan

1 episode

Henry Ford

1 episode

Henry Raeburn

1 episode

Horatio Seymour

1 episode

Jacques-Louis David

1 episode

James Buchanan

1 episode

John Keats

1 episode

Leo Tolstoy

1 episode

Lola Montez

1 episode

Lord Elgin

1 episode

Ludwig van Beethoven

1 episode

Marcel Proust

1 episode

Margot Asquith

1 episode

Marie Curie

1 episode

Marmaduke Ward

1 episode

Martin Pugh

1 episode

Mary Anning

1 episode

Nathan Bedford Forrest

1 episode

Porfirio Díaz

1 episode

Raymond Asquith

1 episode

René Viviani

1 episode

Reverend Philip Ward

1 episode

Siegfried Sassoon

1 episode

Sigmund Freud

1 episode

Stefan Zweig

1 episode

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

1 episode

Thomas De Quincey

1 episode

Thomas Edison

1 episode

Thomas Henry Huxley

1 episode

Tipu Sultan

1 episode

Victor Hugo

1 episode

William Blake

1 episode

William Buckland

1 episode

William Butler Yeats

1 episode

William Nelson

1 episode

William Notman

1 episode

Historical events

93 tagged

American Civil War (1861–1865)

32 episodes

Battle of the Little Bighorn

15 episodes

Reconstruction (United States, 1865–1877)

13 episodes

Second Boer War (1899–1902)

13 episodes

Industrial Revolution

12 episodes

Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815)

10 episodes

Crimean War (1853–1856)

10 episodes

Whitechapel murders / Jack the Ripper attacks (1888, London)

10 episodes

Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871)

9 episodes

Wounded Knee (Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890)

9 episodes

European Revolutions of 1848–1849

8 episodes

Mexican War of Independence (early 19th century)

8 episodes

Sinking of the RMS Titanic (1912, North Atlantic)

8 episodes

Balkan Wars (1912–1913)

7 episodes

Annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1908)

6 episodes

Appomattox Court House Surrender (9 April 1865)

6 episodes

Ghost Dance movement (1889–1890)

6 episodes

Indian Mutiny (Indian Rebellion of 1857)

6 episodes

Siege of Khartoum / Sudan expedition to rescue General Gordon (1884–1885)

6 episodes

Sherman's March to the Sea (1864)

5 episodes

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (14 April 1865)

4 episodes

Battle of Gettysburg (1863, United States)

4 episodes

Battle of Omdurman (1898)

4 episodes

Battle of the Washita

4 episodes

Berlin Conference (1884–1885)

4 episodes

Dreyfus Affair (c.1894–1906)

4 episodes

Grand Tour (18th–19th century phenomenon)

4 episodes

Scramble for Africa (late 19th century)

4 episodes

Spanish–American War (1898)

4 episodes

Trial, Conviction and Imprisonment of Oscar Wilde (1895)

4 episodes

19th-century American Indian Wars

3 episodes

California Gold Rush (1848–1855)

3 episodes

Centennial Exhibition (1876, Philadelphia)

3 episodes

Congo Free State atrocities (late 19th century)

3 episodes

Emancipation Proclamation (issued January 1, 1863)

3 episodes

French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867)

3 episodes

Great Exhibition (1851)

3 episodes

Great Reform Act (1832)

3 episodes

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)

3 episodes

Manifest Destiny (19th century U.S. expansion ideology)

3 episodes

Panic of 1873

3 episodes

Peterloo Massacre (1819)

3 episodes

Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee (1887)

3 episodes

Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864, China)

3 episodes

1868 United States presidential election

2 episodes

Abolition of slavery in Brazil (1888, Lei Áurea)

2 episodes

Anglo–German naval arms race / Dreadnought arms race (early 20th century)

2 episodes

Austro-Hungarian Compromise (Ausgleich) (1867)

2 episodes

Congo Free State (1885–1908)

2 episodes

Congress of Vienna (1814–1815)

2 episodes

Dear Boss letter (27 September 1888)

2 episodes

First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842)

2 episodes

Foundation of the Metropolitan Police (1829)

2 episodes

French Revolutionary Wars

2 episodes

Fugitive Slave Act (1850)

2 episodes

German unification (1871)

2 episodes

Gilded Age (late 19th century)

2 episodes

Great Famine (Ireland) (c.1845–1852)

2 episodes

Great Game (19th–early 20th century Russian–British rivalry)

2 episodes

Greek War of Independence (1821–1829)

2 episodes

Irish Home Rule / 1912–1914 Irish crisis

2 episodes

Italian unification / Risorgimento (completed 1870)

2 episodes

Ku Klux Klan founding (c. 1865)

2 episodes

Maiden voyage of RMS Titanic (10 April 1912)

2 episodes

Meiji Restoration (1868)

2 episodes

Murder of Martha Tabrum (7 August 1888, Whitechapel)

2 episodes

Murders of Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes (29–30 September 1888 - Double Event)

2 episodes

Passage of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868)

2 episodes

Publication of A Christmas Carol (1843)

2 episodes

Repeal of the Corn Laws (1846)

2 episodes

Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905)

2 episodes

War of the Triple Alliance (Paraguayan War) (1864–1870)

2 episodes

Act of Union (1800/1801)

1 episode

Agrarian Revolution

1 episode

Battle of Balaclava / Charge of the Light Brigade (1854)

1 episode

Battle of Puebla / Cinco de Mayo (5 May 1862)

1 episode

Brazilian independence (1822)

1 episode

Catholic Emancipation In Britain (1829)

1 episode

Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1918)

1 episode

Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria (1897)

1 episode

First Opium War (1839–1842)

1 episode

Founding of FIFA (1904)

1 episode

Great Famine / Irish Potato Famine (1845–1849)

1 episode

Home Rule crisis (1912–1914)

1 episode

Irish Rebellion (1798)

1 episode

Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)

1 episode

Napoleon's campaign in Egypt (1798–1801)

1 episode

Paris Commune (1870–1871)

1 episode

Partitions of Poland (1795)

1 episode

Russian Civil War (1918–1923)

1 episode

Russian general mobilization (July 1914)

1 episode

Voyage of the Beagle (1831–1836)

1 episode

Year Without a Summer (1816)

1 episode

Books

525 tagged

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

13 episodes

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

9 episodes

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Author: Dee Brown

7 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

7 episodes

The Five

Author: Hallie Rubenhold

5 episodes

Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

5 episodes

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

4 episodes

Blood Meridian

Author: Cormac McCarthy

4 episodes

Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

4 episodes

July Crisis

Author: Thomas Otte

4 episodes

King Leopold's Ghost

Author: Adam Hochschild

4 episodes

My Early Life

Author: Winston Churchill

4 episodes

The Sleepwalkers

Author: Christopher Clark

4 episodes

Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

3 episodes

Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley

3 episodes

On the Origin of Species

Author: Charles Darwin

3 episodes

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

Author: Tom Holland

3 episodes

Pride and Prejudice

Author: Jane Austen

3 episodes

Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

3 episodes

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

3 episodes

The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon

Author: W. T. Stead

3 episodes

The Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

3 episodes

The Tale of Genji

Author: Murasaki Shikibu

3 episodes

The Trigger

Author: Tim Butcher

3 episodes

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

3 episodes

A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

An Officer and a Spy

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

Bleak House

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

Boys' Own Paper

Author: Various

2 episodes

Dombey and Son

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker

2 episodes

Eminent Victorians

Author: Lytton Strachey

2 episodes

Flashman (series )

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

2 episodes

Flashman at the Charge

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

2 episodes

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Author: Stephen Knight

2 episodes

King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

2 episodes

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

2 episodes

Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

2 episodes

My Life on the Plains

Author: George Armstrong Custer

2 episodes

Oliver Twist

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

Orientalism

Author: Edward Said

2 episodes

Recessional (poem)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

2 episodes

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

2 episodes

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

Author: Philip Sugden

2 episodes

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (standardized)

Author: Edward Gibbon

2 episodes

The Great Gatsby

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

2 episodes

The Intellectuals and the Masses

Author: John Carey

2 episodes

The Klansman

Author: Thomas Dixon

2 episodes

The Magnet (magazine)

Author: Various

2 episodes

The Mask of Anarchy

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

2 episodes

The Moonstone

Author: Wilkie Collins

2 episodes

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

The Old Curiosity Shop

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

The Pickwick Papers

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author: Oscar Wilde

2 episodes

The Psychopathia Sexualis

Author: Richard von Kraft-Ebbing

2 episodes

The Riddle of the Sands

Author: Erskine Childers

2 episodes

The River War

Author: Winston Churchill

2 episodes

The Sign of Four

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

2 episodes

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Author: John Buchan

2 episodes

The Voyage of the Beagle

Author: Charles Darwin

2 episodes

The White Man's Burden

Author: Rudyard Kipling

2 episodes

The Woman in White

Author: Wilkie Collins

2 episodes

Treasure Island

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

2 episodes

1066 and All That

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

1 episode

1066, Does the Date Still Matter?

Author: David Bates

1 episode

1798 publication on vaccination

Author: Edward Jenner

1 episode

1984

Author: Unknown

1 episode

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Author: Sarah J Maas

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 History of Modern Britain

Author: Andrew Marr

1 episode

A History of New York

Author: Washington Irving

1 episode

A Man of Iron

Author: Troy Sinek

1 episode

A New System of Domestic Cookery

Author: Maria Rundell

1 episode

A People's History of the United States

Author: Howard Zinn

1 episode

A Room with a View

Author: E. M. Forster

1 episode

A Scandal in Königsberg

Author: Christopher Clark

1 episode

A Secret Life, the Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland

Author: Charles Lackman

1 episode

A Short History of the Barclay Match

Author: Derek Martin

1 episode

A Study in Scarlet

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

A Tale of Two Aberystwyths

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Author: Daniel Defoe

1 episode

A Treatise on the One-Humped Camel in Health and Disease

Author: Arnold Spencer Lees

1 episode

A Visit from St. Nicholas (The Night Before Christmas)

Author: Clement Clarke Moore

1 episode

A Woman of No Importance

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

Aberystwyth Mon Amour

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

Absalom, Absalom!

Author: William Faulkner

1 episode

Acts of Oblivion

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Adelstrop

Author: Edward Thomas

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

Adventure in Time, the Fall of the Aztecs

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Advice to the People called Methodists with regard to Dress

Author: John Wesley

1 episode

After the Titanic

Author: Derek Mahon

1 episode

Albion Seed

Author: David Hackett Fisher

1 episode

All Played Out

Author: Pete Davies

1 episode

Almey's Volley

Author: Joseph Conrad

1 episode

American Brutus

Author: Michael Kaufman

1 episode

Among the Thugs

Author: Bill Buford

1 episode

Anderson's Constitutions (1723)

Author: George Payne (Compiler)

1 episode

Angels with Dirty Faces

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches

Author: Charles Godfrey Leland

1 episode

Archaeology, History and Custer's Last Battle

Author: Richard Fox

1 episode

Aristotle's ethics

Author: Aristotle

1 episode

Arthur & George

Author: Julian Barnes

1 episode

Atom Boy

Author: Tezuka Osamu

1 episode

Aubrey–Maturin series

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Aurora Lee

Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 episode

Bacon's Essays (1598 edition)

Author: Francis Bacon

1 episode

Barry Lyndon

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

1 episode

Becket

Author: Jean Anouilh

1 episode

Beowulf

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Beyond a Boundary

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

Bible (Book of Kings, Isaiah, Ezekiel, 1 Chronicles)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Billy Bunter (series)

Author: Charles Hamilton (pen name Frank Richards)

1 episode

Biography of Admiral Lord Nelson

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

1 episode

Biography of Byron

Author: Benita Eisler

1 episode

Biography of Charles II

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

Biography of Darwin

Author: Adrian Desmond and James Moore

1 episode

Biography of General Hague

Author: Gary Sheffield

1 episode

Biography of Rasputin (title not given in transcript)

Author: Douglas Smith

1 episode

Black Diaries

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

Black Elk Speaks

Author: John Neihardt

1 episode

Black Like Me

Author: John Howard Griffin

1 episode

Blood and Iron

Author: Katja Heuer

1 episode

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Author: Timothy Snyder

1 episode

Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series (lyrics/compilation referenced)

Author: Bob Dylan

1 episode

Book of Exodus

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Boswell's Life of Johnson

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

Boswell's London Journal

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

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

Author: Adam Sisman

1 episode

Bournville

Author: Jonathan Coe

1 episode

Bradshaw's Guides

Author: Various

1 episode

Brideshead Revisited

Author: Evelyn Waugh

1 episode

Brighton Rock

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

Britons

Author: Linda Colley

1 episode

Butler's Lives of the Saints

Author: Alban Butler

1 episode

Byron and Greek Love: Homophobia in Nineteenth-Century England

Author: Louis Crompton

1 episode

Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Author: Louis de Bernières

1 episode

Carlyle's biography of Frederick the Great

Author: Thomas Carlyle

1 episode

Casabianca

Author: Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1 episode

Casement report

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

Central Europe, The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea

Author: Luka Ivan Jukic

1 episode

Charles Dickens biography (unspecified title)

Author: Claire Tomalin

1 episode

Chioccolati e Tabacco, A Iuno Ecclesiastico e Naturale

Author: Tomas Hurtado

1 episode

Chrestomanci / (referred to in transcript as 'Cresta Mancy' stories)

Author: Diana Wynne-Jones

1 episode

Christabelle (referred)

Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 episode

Citizen Klansmen

Author: Leonard Moore

1 episode

City of Dreadful Delight

Author: Judith Valkovitz

1 episode

Civilization and Its Discontents

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

Classes and Cultures

Author: Ross McKibbin

1 episode

Cold Mountain

Author: Charles Fraser

1 episode

Collected Ghost Stories (introduction)

Author: Daryl Jones

1 episode

Concerning Beards

Author: Alan Withy

1 episode

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

Author: Thomas De Quincey

1 episode

Coronation: The History of Kingship and the British Monarchy

Author: Roy Strong

1 episode

Das Kapital

Author: Karl Marx

1 episode

De Cioccolatis Potu

Author: Francesco Maria Brancadio

1 episode

De Profundis

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

De Tabbe Glandulari

Author: Richard Russell

1 episode

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Author: National Constituent Assembly (France)

1 episode

Deeds of Esplandian

Author: Garci Ordonez de Monteluo

1 episode

Democracy in America

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville

1 episode

Description de l'Égypte

Author: French savants (collective)

1 episode

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

Author: Samuel Pepys

1 episode

Dirty Hands

Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

1 episode

Discworld (series)

Author: Terry Pratchett

1 episode

Domesday Book

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Don Quixote

Author: Miguel de Cervantes

1 episode

Emma, England's mistress

Author: Kate Williams

1 episode

Empire of Booze

Author: Henry Jeffries

1 episode

Empireland

Author: Satnam Sanghera

1 episode

England in 1819

Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley

1 episode

England's Mistress

Author: Kate Williams

1 episode

Enigma

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Ernest in the Wild West

Author: Ermanno Libenzi

1 episode

Exile and the Kingdom

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Exterminate All the Brutes

Author: Sven Linkvist

1 episode

Facial Hair and the Performance of Early Modern Masculinity

Author: Dr Eleanor Rycroft

1 episode

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism

Author: Domingo Sarmiento

1 episode

Fanny Hill

Author: John Cleland

1 episode

Fashion Victims: The Dangers of Dress, Past and Present

Author: Alison Matthews-David

1 episode

Fashionable Fanatics

Author: Karl Broom

1 episode

Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Fever Pitch

Author: Nick Hornby

1 episode

Finnegans Wake

Author: James Joyce

1 episode

Flashman and the Dragon

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman and the Mountain of Light

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman and the Redskins

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman's Lady

Author: George W. Fraser

1 episode

Florentine Codex

Author: Bernardino de Sahagún

1 episode

Folklore, Myths, and Legends of Britain (Readers' Digest)

Author: Readers' Digest Association

1 episode

Football Against the Enemy

Author: Simon Kuper

1 episode

For All That / A Man's a Man for All That (song)

Author: Robert Burns

1 episode

Foucault's Pendulum

Author: Umberto Eco

1 episode

From Hell

Author: Alan Moore

1 episode

From Hell

Author: Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell

1 episode

From Hell (comic)

Author: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

1 episode

Futurist Manifesto

Author: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

1 episode

Genesis

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

George III (The Last King of America)

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Gilded Youth

Author: James Brooke Smith

1 episode

Global Crisis

Author: Geoffrey Parker

1 episode

Good Food Guide

Author: Raymond Posca

1 episode

Gordon biography

Author: John Pollock

1 episode

Gordon the Man Behind the Legend

Author: John Pollock

1 episode

Gospel of Matthew

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Gourmet's Guide to Europe

Author: Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Noonan Davis

1 episode

Great Expectations

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Greenmantle

Author: John Buchan

1 episode

Guide to Metro-land

Author: J.B. Priestley

1 episode

Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Hamnet

Author: Maggie O'Farrell

1 episode

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Author: J. K. Rowling

1 episode

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Author: J. K. Rowling

1 episode

Head of State

Author: Andrew Marr

1 episode

Heaven's Command

Author: Dan Morris

1 episode

Heenan and Seers

Author: Mrs Elwood Nickerson

1 episode

Henry IV, Part I

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill

Author: Candice Millard

1 episode

Hillbilly Elegy

Author: J. D. Vance

1 episode

His Dark Materials

Author: Philip Pullman

1 episode

Historical novels about Marius and Sulla

Author: Colleen McCulloch

1 episode

Hitler's Table Talk

Author: Heinrich Heim, Henry Picker, Hans Müller and Martin Bormann

1 episode

Hooded Americanism

Author: David Chalmers

1 episode

Horrible Histories (series)

Author: Terry Deary

1 episode

House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row

Author: Lance Richardson

1 episode

Houseman Country

Author: Peter Parker

1 episode

How to Survive the Tannic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay

Author: Francis Wilson

1 episode

How to survive the Titanic

Author: Francis Wilson

1 episode

Hurrah for the Blackshirts

Author: Martin Pugh

1 episode

In Cold Blood

Author: Unknown

1 episode

In Defence of English Cooking

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

In Patagonia

Author: Bruce Chatwin

1 episode

Interviewing Hitler

Author: Richard Evans

1 episode

Intruders in the Dust

Author: William Faulkner

1 episode

Inventing the Way of the Samurai

Author: Oleg Benesh

1 episode

Inverting the Pyramid

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

Ivanhoe

Author: Walter Scott

1 episode

J'Accuse

Author: Émile Zola

1 episode

Jane Eyre

Author: Unknown

1 episode

Japan's Story in Search for Nation

Author: Chris Harding

1 episode

Java, or How to Manage a Colony

Author: JWB Money

1 episode

Jeeves Takes Charge

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

Jeeves stories

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

Jurassic Park

Author: Michael Cryton

1 episode

Kidnapped

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

1 episode

King James Bible

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

King Leopold's Soliloquy

Author: Mark Twain

1 episode

L'étranger (The Stranger / Outsider)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

La Bête Humaine

Author: Émile Zola

1 episode

La Chute (The Fall)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

La Peste (The Plague)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Lady Windermere's Fan

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

Last Tango in Aberystwyth

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

Laughing Till I Die

Author: Tom Shippey

1 episode

Le Premier Homme (The First Man)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Left Bank, Art Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940 to 1950

Author: Agnès Prairie

1 episode

Legacy of Violence

Author: Caroline Elkins

1 episode

Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)

Author: Charles Baudelaire

1 episode

Les Justes

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Les Misérables

Author: Victor Hugo

1 episode

Les Tangiers

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton

Author: Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson

1 episode

Liberty's Dawn

Author: Emma Griffin

1 episode

Liberty's Exiles

Author: Maya Jasanoff

1 episode

Little Big Horn 1876 (Custer's Last Stand)

Author: Peter Panzeri (Author) , Richard Hook (Illustrator)

1 episode

Lives of the Engineers

Author: Samuel Smiles

1 episode

London Fields

Author: Martin Amis

1 episode

London Fog

Author: Christine Corton

1 episode

MCMXIV (1914) from The Whitsun Weddings

Author: Philip Larkin

1 episode

Martin Chuzzlewit

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian series)

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

1 episode

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

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Mistress of My Fate

Author: Halle Rubenhold

1 episode

Monographs on Stalin (unspecified titles)

Author: Stephen Kotkin

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

Mrs Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Munich

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

My Friend the Indian

Author: James McLauchlin

1 episode

My Life on the Plains

Author: George Armstrong Custer,

1 episode

My Secret Life

Author: Walter / Anonymous

1 episode

Nana

Author: Émile Zola

1 episode

Nathaniel's Nutmeg

Author: Charles Milton

1 episode

Never Let Me Go

Author: Kazuya Ishiguro

1 episode

Nicholas Nickleby

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Notre Dame, the Soul of France

Author: Agnès Prairie

1 episode

Novels of Gustave Flaubert

Author: Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

O Captain! My Captain!

Author: Walt Whitman

1 episode

Ode to Joy

Author: Friedrich Schiller

1 episode

Oh What a Lovely War

Author: Joan Littlewood

1 episode

Oliver Aberystwyth

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

On Chapel Sands

Author: Laura Cumming

1 episode

On Liberty

Author: John Stuart Mill

1 episode

On Savage Shores

Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock

1 episode

On the Nature of the Dutch

Author: Reverend Robert Walker

1 episode

Ornamentalism

Author: David Cannadine

1 episode

Ostara

Author: Jörg Lanz

1 episode

Our American Cousin

Author: Tom Taylor

1 episode

Our Island Story

Author: H. E. Marshall

1 episode

Pandemonium

Author: Humphrey Jennings

1 episode

Papillon

Author: Henri Charrière

1 episode

Paradise Lost

Author: John Milton

1 episode

Patria, Lost Countries of South America

Author: Lawrence Blair

1 episode

Pax Britannica

Author: Jan Morris

1 episode

Peace

Author: Rupert Brooke

1 episode

Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen

1 episode

Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica

Author: Isaac Newton

1 episode

Phineas Finn

Author: Anthony Trollope

1 episode

Pictures from Italy

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

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

Author: Kyle Harper

1 episode

Pleasure Island: The Great British Dream Factory / The Great British Dream Factory

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Poem on the Death of General Gordon (Khartoum, 1885)

Author: William McGonagall

1 episode

Poems of William McGonagall (including poem on Omdurman)

Author: William McGonagall

1 episode

Pogonotomy or The Art of Shaving One's Self

Author: Jean-Jacques Perrette

1 episode

Pompeii

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain

Author: Dan Jackson

1 episode

Portrait of Fouché

Author: Steven Schweig

1 episode

Precipice

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Publication on Colf

Author: Reverend Robert Walker

1 episode

Quacks and Quackery

Author: R. Joseph Astrobiology

1 episode

Question moral si il cioccolato che branta l'auno ecclesiastico

Author: Antonio de Leon Pinelo

1 episode

Quran (Koran)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Recollections (1903) (account by Wooden Leg, title not specified)

Author: Wooden Leg

1 episode

Red Shelley

Author: Paul Foote

1 episode

Replenishing the Earth: The Settler Revolution and the Rise of the Anglo World

Author: James Belich

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

Rights of Man

Author: Thomas Paine

1 episode

Robert E. Lee and Me

Author: Ty Siddle

1 episode

Robinson Crusoe

Author: Daniel Defoe

1 episode

Romeo and Juliet

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Room of the View

Author: E. M. Forster

1 episode

Royal Flash

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Author: Omar Khayyam

1 episode

Salome

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

Shooting an Elephant

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Skoff: A History of Food and Class

Author: Pen Vogler

1 episode

Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead

Author: Stanley Brands

1 episode

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

Author: Peter Parker

1 episode

Somnium Scipionis (The Dream of Scipio)

Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Son of the Morning Star

Author: Evan S. Connell

1 episode

Spycatcher

Author: Peter Wright

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

Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith

Author: Andrew Preston

1 episode

Tamworth Manifesto

Author: Sir Robert Peel

1 episode

Tangled Hair

Author: Yasano Akiko

1 episode

Tarka the Otter

Author: Henry Williamson

1 episode

Terra Nostra

Author: Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Author: Thomas Hardy

1 episode

The 7% Solution

Author: Nicholas Meyer

1 episode

The Age of Football

Author: David Goldblatt

1 episode

The Ambassadors

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The Anarchy on the East India Company

Author: William Dalrymple

1 episode

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Author: Robert Burton

1 episode

The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel

Author: John Betjeman

1 episode

The Artist of the Floating World

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

1 episode

The Beggar's Opera

Author: John Gay

1 episode

The Black Jacobins

Author: C. L. R. James

1 episode

The Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Author: Rebecca West

1 episode

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

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

1 episode

The Box of Delights

Author: John Maysfield

1 episode

The Call of the Wild

Author: Jack London

1 episode

The Cicero Trilogy

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

The Clansman

Author: Thomas Dixon

1 episode

The Classic Slum

Author: Robert Roberts

1 episode

The Communist Manifesto

Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

1 episode

The Communist Manifesto

Author: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels

1 episode

The Complete Jack the Ripper

Author: Donald Rumbelow

1 episode

The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

The Dark Is Rising

Author: Susan Cooper

1 episode

The Dark Is Rising (sequence)

Author: Susan Cooper

1 episode

The Day Aberystwyth Stood Still

Author: Malcolm Price

1 episode

The Death of Artemio Cruz

Author: Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

The Death of Crazy Horse

Author: Lucille Clifton

1 episode

The Death of a Hero

Author: Richard Aldington

1 episode

The Decameron

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

1 episode

The Definitive History

Author: Philip Sugden

1 episode

The Devils

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Difference Engine

Author: William Gibson & Bruce Sterling

1 episode

The Dinosaur Heresies

Author: Bob Backer

1 episode

The Dream Endures

Author: Kevin Starr

1 episode

The Dream of the Celt

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

The Earth Lies Weeping

Author: Peter Cousins

1 episode

The End of History

Author: Francis Fukuyama

1 episode

The Epic of Atraḥasis (Mesopotamian flood text)

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker

Author: Tobias Smollett

1 episode

The Fabric of Crime

Author: Alison Matthews-David

1 episode

The Fall of Feudalism

Author: Michael Davitt

1 episode

The Fall of the House of Habsburg

Author: Edward Crankshaw

1 episode

The Fatal Path

Author: Ronan Fanning

1 episode

The Ferry Queen

Author: Edmund Spencer

1 episode

The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Houston Stewart Chamberlain

1 episode

The Fraud

Author: Zadie Smith

1 episode

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

Author: David Goldblatt

1 episode

The Ghost

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

The Go Between

Author: L.P. Hartley

1 episode

The Green Eye of the Yellow God

Author: J. Milton Hayes

1 episode

The Gruffalo

Author: Julia Donaldson

1 episode

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Unknown

1 episode

The Harlot's Progress

Author: William Hogarth

1 episode

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Author: Henry Fielding

1 episode

The Hobbit (There and Back Again)

Author: Unknown

1 episode

The Human Hair, Popularly and Physiologically Considered

Author: Alexander Rowland

1 episode

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

The Importance of Being Ernest

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Author: Jonathan Rose

1 episode

The Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

The Invasion of 1910

Author: William Le Quex

1 episode

The Japanese, A History in 20 Lives

Author: Chris Harding

1 episode

The King's English

Author: Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler

1 episode

The Landlady

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Last Emperor of Mexico

Author: Edward Shawcross

1 episode

The Last English King

Author: Julian Rathbone

1 episode

The Last of the Mohicans

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

1 episode

The Leopard's Spot

Author: Thomas Dixon

1 episode

The Life of Johnson

Author: James Boswell

1 episode

The Life of an Amorous Man

Author: Ihara Saikaku

1 episode

The Lord of the Rings

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Author: Sophy Roberts

1 episode

The Making of Oliver Cromwell

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

The Man Who Would Be King

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Man of Mode

Author: Sir George Etheridge

1 episode

The Meaning of Cricket

Author: John Houghton

1 episode

The Missing Links

Author: Ross Barnett

1 episode

The Moor's Last Sigh

Author: Salman Rushdie

1 episode

The Myth of Sisyphus

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

The Natural History of Chocolate

Author: Monsieur de Kélu

1 episode

The Old Boys

Author: David Turner

1 episode

The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School

Author: David Turner

1 episode

The Old Gringo

Author: Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

The Parliament of Fowls

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

1 episode

The Pillow Book

Author: Sei Shōnagon

1 episode

The Plumed Serpent

Author: D. H. Lawrence

1 episode

The Population Bomb

Author: Paul Ehrlich

1 episode

The Power and the Glory

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

The Principles of Geology

Author: Charles Lyell

1 episode

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Vincent Starrett

1 episode

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Author: Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors

1 episode

The Radetzky March

Author: Joseph Roth

1 episode

The Reconstruction of Nations

Author: Timothy Snyder

1 episode

The Remains of the Day

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

1 episode

The Renaissance

Author: Walter Pater

1 episode

The Renaissance Beard

Author: William Fisher

1 episode

The Return of a King

Author: William Dalrymple

1 episode

The Rise and Fall of the Patriot Hunters: The Liberation of Canada from British Thraldom

Author: Oscar Kitchin

1 episode

The Rise of the Meritocracy

Author: Michael Young

1 episode

The Road to Sarajevo

Author: Vladimir Dedier

1 episode

The Rouge en Noir

Author: Stendhal

1 episode

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1 episode

The Secret History

Author: Donna Tartt

1 episode

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Author: Frederick Jackson Turner

1 episode

The Sleepwalkers

Author: Chris Clarke

1 episode

The Sound and the Fury

Author: William Faulkner

1 episode

The Stately Homes of England

Author: Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1 episode

The Stations of the Sun

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

The Story of Art

Author: Kenneth Clark

1 episode

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

1 episode

The Strange Death of Liberal England

Author: George Dangerfield

1 episode

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Author: Jürgen Habermas

1 episode

The Sword in the Stone

Author: T. H. White

1 episode

The Tay Bridge Disaster, 1880

Author: William McGonagall

1 episode

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Author: Anne Brontë

1 episode

The Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity

Author: David Kuchta

1 episode

The Tragedy of Central Europe

Author: Milan Kundera

1 episode

The Turn of the Screw

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The Untouchable

Author: John Banville

1 episode

The Vampire

Author: John Polidori

1 episode

The Vampyre

Author: John William Polidori

1 episode

The Village of Italy

Author: Richard Lassels

1 episode

The Violent Effigy

Author: John Kerry

1 episode

The War at the End of the World

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

1 episode

The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies

Author: Various

1 episode

The Wings of the Dove

Author: Henry James

1 episode

The Winning of the West

Author: Richard White

1 episode

The Winter's Tale

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

The World Crisis

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

The World of Yesterday

Author: Stefan Zweig

1 episode

The Worst Witch

Author: Jill Murphy

1 episode

The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

Author: Sarah Churchwell

1 episode

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Author: Michael Chabon

1 episode

The Young Man's Valentine Writer

Author: Samuel Carter Hall

1 episode

This Sporting Life

Author: Robert Coles

1 episode

This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England 1760 to 1960

Author: Robert Coles

1 episode

Thunder at Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

Thunder of Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

Thunderclap

Author: Laura Cumming

1 episode

Time on the Cross

Author: Stanley Engerman; Robert Fogle

1 episode

Titanic

Author: Filson Young

1 episode

To the Lighthouse

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Tourists

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Towards the Flame

Author: Dominic Levin

1 episode

Travelling Around the World

Author: Franz Ferdinand

1 episode

Travels on the Continent

Author: Mariana Stark

1 episode

Twelve Years a Slave

Author: Solomon Northup

1 episode

Two-volume biography of Custer

Author: Frederick Whitaker

1 episode

Ulster (poem)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Unspecified Abraham Lincoln biography (large multi-volume work referenced)

Author: Michael Burlingame

1 episode

Unspecified novel by George Saunders (referenced)

Author: George Saunders

1 episode

Utopia

Author: Thomas More

1 episode

Vanity Fair

Author: William Makepeace Thackeray

1 episode

Vartek

Author: William Beckford

1 episode

Vines in the Cold Climate

Author: Henry Jeffries

1 episode

Wales, England's Colony

Author: Martin Jones

1 episode

War and Peace

Author: Leo Tolstoy

1 episode

When Montezuma Met Cortez

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

When William Came

Author: Sarkey

1 episode

Whitaker's Almanac

Author: J. Whitaker & Sons

1 episode

White Fang

Author: Jack London

1 episode

White Noise

Author: Don DeLillo

1 episode

Who Owns Britain

Author: Kevin Cahill

1 episode

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Author: Wisden

1 episode

Witches, Druids, and King Arthur

Author: Ronald Hutton

1 episode

With Great Understatement: Seven Eventful Years in Paraguay

Author: George Frederick Masterman

1 episode

Works of H. P. Lovecraft (including the Call of Cthulhu stories)

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

1 episode

Wuthering Height

Author: Emily Bronson

1 episode

Authors

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Tom Holland

19 episodes

Charles Dickens

13 episodes

Joseph Conrad

9 episodes

George MacDonald Fraser

8 episodes

Dee Brown

7 episodes

Traditional Attribution or Various

6 episodes

Winston Churchill

6 episodes

Geoffrey Chaucer

5 episodes

Hallie Rubenhold

5 episodes

Robert Louis Stevenson

5 episodes

Thomas Hughes

5 episodes

Adam Hochschild

4 episodes

Arthur Conan Doyle

4 episodes

Christopher Clark

4 episodes

Cormac McCarthy

4 episodes

Margaret Mitchell

4 episodes

Rudyard Kipling

4 episodes

Thomas Otte

4 episodes

Various

4 episodes

Albert Camus

3 episodes

Charles Darwin

3 episodes

Dan Jackson

3 episodes

Dominic Sandbrook

3 episodes

Fyodor Dostoevsky

3 episodes

Harriet Beecher Stowe

3 episodes

Jane Austen

3 episodes

Mary Shelley

3 episodes

Murasaki Shikibu

3 episodes

Oscar Wilde

3 episodes

Philip Sugden

3 episodes

Thomas Dixon

3 episodes

Tim Butcher

3 episodes

W. T. Stead

3 episodes

Wilkie Collins

3 episodes

William McGonagall

3 episodes

William Shakespeare

3 episodes

Émile Zola

3 episodes

Adolf Hitler

2 episodes

Bram Stoker

2 episodes

David Goldblatt

2 episodes

David Turner

2 episodes

E. M. Forster

2 episodes

Edward Gibbon

2 episodes

Edward Said

2 episodes

Erskine Childers

2 episodes

F. Scott Fitzgerald

2 episodes

Francis Wilson

2 episodes

George Armstrong Custer

2 episodes

H. Rider Haggard

2 episodes

James Boswell

2 episodes

John Buchan

2 episodes

John Carey

2 episodes

John Pollock

2 episodes

Kazuo Ishiguro

2 episodes

Lucy Lethbridge

2 episodes

Lytton Strachey

2 episodes

P. G. Wodehouse

2 episodes

Patrick O'Brian

2 episodes

Percy Bysshe Shelley

2 episodes

Richard von Kraft-Ebbing

2 episodes

Robert Coles

2 episodes

Robert Harris

2 episodes

Sigmund Freud

2 episodes

Stephen Knight

2 episodes

Susan Cooper

2 episodes

Timothy Snyder

2 episodes

William Faulkner

2 episodes

William Makepeace Thackeray

2 episodes

Adam Sisman

1 episode

Adrian Desmond and James Moore

1 episode

Agnès Prairie

1 episode

Alan Moore

1 episode

Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell

1 episode

Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell

1 episode

Alan Withy

1 episode

Alban Butler

1 episode

Alexander Rowland

1 episode

Alexis de Tocqueville

1 episode

Alison Matthews-David

1 episode

Andrew Preston

1 episode

Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Anne Brontë

1 episode

Anthony Trollope

1 episode

Antonio de Leon Pinelo

1 episode

Aristotle

1 episode

Arnold Spencer Lees

1 episode

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1 episode

Benita Eisler

1 episode

Bernardino de Sahagún

1 episode

Bill Buford

1 episode

Bob Backer

1 episode

Bob Dylan

1 episode

Bruce Chatwin

1 episode

C. L. R. James

1 episode

Candice Millard

1 episode

Carlos Fuentes

1 episode

Caroline Dodds Pennock

1 episode

Caroline Elkins

1 episode

Charles Baudelaire

1 episode

Charles Fraser

1 episode

Charles Godfrey Leland

1 episode

Charles Hamilton (pen name Frank Richards)

1 episode

Charles Lackman

1 episode

Charles Lyell

1 episode

Charles Milton

1 episode

Chris Clarke

1 episode

Chris Harding

1 episode

Christine Corton

1 episode

Claire Tomalin

1 episode

Clement Clarke Moore

1 episode

Colleen McCulloch

1 episode

D. H. Lawrence

1 episode

Dan Morris

1 episode

Daniel Defoe

1 episode

Daryl Jones

1 episode

David Bates

1 episode

David Cannadine

1 episode

David Chalmers

1 episode

David Hackett Fisher

1 episode

David Kuchta

1 episode

Derek Mahon

1 episode

Derek Martin

1 episode

Diana Wynne-Jones

1 episode

Domingo Sarmiento

1 episode

Dominic Levin

1 episode

Don DeLillo

1 episode

Donald Rumbelow

1 episode

Donna Tartt

1 episode

Douglas Smith

1 episode

Dr Eleanor Rycroft

1 episode

Edmund Spencer

1 episode

Edward Crankshaw

1 episode

Edward Jenner

1 episode

Edward Shawcross

1 episode

Edward Thomas

1 episode

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1 episode

Emily Bronson

1 episode

Emma Griffin

1 episode

Ermanno Libenzi

1 episode

Evan S. Connell

1 episode

Evelyn Waugh

1 episode

Felicia Dorothea Hemans

1 episode

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

1 episode

Filson Young

1 episode

Francesco Maria Brancadio

1 episode

Francis Bacon

1 episode

Francis Fukuyama

1 episode

Franz Ferdinand

1 episode

Frederick Jackson Turner

1 episode

Frederick Morton

1 episode

Frederick Whitaker

1 episode

French savants (collective)

1 episode

Friedrich Schiller

1 episode

Garci Ordonez de Monteluo

1 episode

Gary Sheffield

1 episode

Geoffrey Parker

1 episode

George Armstrong Custer,

1 episode

George Dangerfield

1 episode

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

1 episode

George Edinger; E.J.C. Kneepe

1 episode

George Eliot

1 episode

George Frederick Masterman

1 episode

George Payne (Compiler)

1 episode

George Saunders

1 episode

George W. Fraser

1 episode

Giovanni Boccaccio

1 episode

Graham Greene

1 episode

Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

H. E. Marshall

1 episode

H. P. Lovecraft

1 episode

Halle Rubenhold

1 episode

Heinrich Heim, Henry Picker, Hans Müller and Martin Bormann

1 episode

Henri Charrière

1 episode

Henry Fielding

1 episode

Henry James

1 episode

Henry Jeffries

1 episode

Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler

1 episode

Henry Williamson

1 episode

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

1 episode

Howard Zinn

1 episode

Humphrey Jennings

1 episode

Ihara Saikaku

1 episode

Isaac Newton

1 episode

J. D. Vance

1 episode

J. K. Rowling

1 episode

J. Milton Hayes

1 episode

J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

J. Whitaker & Sons

1 episode

J.B. Priestley

1 episode

JWB Money

1 episode

Jack London

1 episode

James Belich

1 episode

James Brooke Smith

1 episode

James Fenimore Cooper

1 episode

James Joyce

1 episode

James McLauchlin

1 episode

Jan Morris

1 episode

Jean Anouilh

1 episode

Jean-Jacques Perrette

1 episode

Jean-Paul Sartre

1 episode

Jill Murphy

1 episode

Joan Littlewood

1 episode

John Banville

1 episode

John Betjeman

1 episode

John Cleland

1 episode

John Dickey

1 episode

John Gay

1 episode

John Houghton

1 episode

John Howard Griffin

1 episode

John Kerry

1 episode

John Maysfield

1 episode

John McNeill

1 episode

John Milton

1 episode

John Neihardt

1 episode

John Polidori

1 episode

John Stuart Mill

1 episode

John Wesley

1 episode

John William Polidori

1 episode

Jonathan Coe

1 episode

Jonathan Rose

1 episode

Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

Joseph Roth

1 episode

Judith Valkovitz

1 episode

Julia Donaldson

1 episode

Julian Barnes

1 episode

Julian Rathbone

1 episode

Jörg Lanz

1 episode

Jürgen Habermas

1 episode

Karl Broom

1 episode

Karl Marx

1 episode

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

1 episode

Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels

1 episode

Kate Williams

1 episode

Katja Heuer

1 episode

Kazuya Ishiguro

1 episode

Kenneth Clark

1 episode

Kevin Cahill

1 episode

Kevin Starr

1 episode

Kyle Harper

1 episode

L.P. Hartley

1 episode

Lance Richardson

1 episode

Laura Cumming

1 episode

Lawrence Blair

1 episode

Leo Tolstoy

1 episode

Leonard Moore

1 episode

Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Noonan Davis

1 episode

Linda Colley

1 episode

Louis Crompton

1 episode

Louis de Bernières

1 episode

Lucille Clifton

1 episode

Luka Ivan Jukic

1 episode

Luke Pepperer

1 episode

Maggie O'Farrell

1 episode

Malcolm Price

1 episode

Marcus Tullius Cicero

1 episode

Maria Rundell

1 episode

Mariana Stark

1 episode

Mario Vargas Llosa

1 episode

Mark Forsyth

1 episode

Mark Twain

1 episode

Martin Amis

1 episode

Martin Jones

1 episode

Martin Pugh

1 episode

Matthew Restel

1 episode

Maya Jasanoff

1 episode

Michael Burlingame

1 episode

Michael Chabon

1 episode

Michael Cryton

1 episode

Michael Davitt

1 episode

Michael Kaufman

1 episode

Michael Young

1 episode

Miguel de Cervantes

1 episode

Milan Kundera

1 episode

Monsieur de Kélu

1 episode

Mrs Elwood Nickerson

1 episode

National Constituent Assembly (France)

1 episode

Nicholas Meyer

1 episode

Nick Hornby

1 episode

Oleg Benesh

1 episode

Omar Khayyam

1 episode

Oscar Kitchin

1 episode

Paul Ehrlich

1 episode

Paul Foote

1 episode

Pen Vogler

1 episode

Pete Davies

1 episode

Peter Cousins

1 episode

Peter Panzeri (Author) , Richard Hook (Illustrator)

1 episode

Peter Parker

1 episode

Peter Wright

1 episode

Philip Larkin

1 episode

Philip Pullman

1 episode

R. Joseph Astrobiology

1 episode

Raymond Posca

1 episode

Readers' Digest Association

1 episode

Rebecca West

1 episode

Reverend Robert Walker

1 episode

Richard Aldington

1 episode

Richard Evans

1 episode

Richard Fox

1 episode

Richard Lassels

1 episode

Richard Russell

1 episode

Richard White

1 episode

Robert Burns

1 episode

Robert Burton

1 episode

Robert Roberts

1 episode

Roger Casement

1 episode

Ronald Hutton

1 episode

Ronan Fanning

1 episode

Ross Barnett

1 episode

Ross McKibbin

1 episode

Roy Strong

1 episode

Rupert Brooke

1 episode

Salman Rushdie

1 episode

Samuel Carter Hall

1 episode

Samuel Pepys

1 episode

Samuel Smiles

1 episode

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1 episode

Sarah Churchwell

1 episode

Sarah J Maas

1 episode

Sarkey

1 episode

Satnam Sanghera

1 episode

Sei Shōnagon

1 episode

Simon Kuper

1 episode

Sir George Etheridge

1 episode

Sir Robert Peel

1 episode

Solomon Northup

1 episode

Sophy Roberts

1 episode

Stanley Brands

1 episode

Stanley Engerman; Robert Fogle

1 episode

Stefan Zweig

1 episode

Stendhal

1 episode

Stephen Kotkin

1 episode

Steven Schweig

1 episode

Sven Linkvist

1 episode

T. H. White

1 episode

Terry Deary

1 episode

Terry Pratchett

1 episode

Tezuka Osamu

1 episode

Thomas Carlyle

1 episode

Thomas De Quincey

1 episode

Thomas Ghidotti

1 episode

Thomas Hardy

1 episode

Thomas More

1 episode

Thomas Paine

1 episode

Tobias Smollett

1 episode

Tom Shippey

1 episode

Tom Taylor

1 episode

Tomas Hurtado

1 episode

Troy Sinek

1 episode

Ty Siddle

1 episode

Umberto Eco

1 episode

Unknown

1 episode

Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors

1 episode

Victor Hugo

1 episode

Vincent Starrett

1 episode

Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Viscount Horatio Nelson Nelson

1 episode

Vladimir Dedier

1 episode

W. C. Sellar & R. J. Yeatman

1 episode

Walt Whitman

1 episode

Walter / Anonymous

1 episode

Walter Pater

1 episode

Walter Scott

1 episode

Washington Irving

1 episode

William Beckford

1 episode

William Bigelow

1 episode

William Dalrymple

1 episode

William Fisher

1 episode

William Gibson & Bruce Sterling

1 episode

William Hogarth

1 episode

William Le Quex

1 episode

Wisden

1 episode

Wooden Leg

1 episode

Yasano Akiko

1 episode

Zadie Smith

1 episode