Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

World Wars & Inter-war Era

186 Episodes 38 Series 180 Figures 118 Events 498 Books 3 Authors

The World Wars & Inter-war Era (c. 1914–1945) covers the conflicts, political radicalization and cultural shifts between the First and Second World Wars. Series include 1922 (transformative events of 1922), Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the Sarajevo murder, Gavrilo Princip and conspirators), Beards (cultural, political and religious meanings of facial hair), British Fascism (development and figures of the movement) and Eva Perón / Evita (life and political symbolism of Evita). Episodes examine the Anschluss (Conquest of Austria), Hitler (historiography and early development), the Sarajevo crime of 28 June 1914, and themed bonus shows on heroism and the English Revolution. Discussed figures and events include Gerd von Rundstedt, George VI, Sir Henry Wilson, the first Zeppelin raid (1914), Langemarck moments (1914), the invasion of Denmark and Norway (1940), Nazi book burnings, the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Leonard Woolley’s excavations, the Cristero War and the French Resistance. Featured books cited include Operation Mincemeat, Sicily and the Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook.

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2023

12 episodes

Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader (Ep 2)

Sep 24, 2023
British Fascism · Part 2

This episode (the second in a short series on British fascism) examines the life and political trajectory of Sir Oswald…

The Battle of Cable Street: Fascism Defeated (Ep 3)

Sep 24, 2023
British Fascism · Part 3

This episode — the third in The Rest Is History's series on British fascism — examines the lead-up to and fallout from …

Hitler and the Mitford Sisters (Ep 4)

Sep 24, 2023
British Fascism · Part 4

This episode examines the life and notoriety of Unity Valkyrie Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters, and her inti…

RIHC: The Bloodiest Place in History, Hitler's Evil Rivals, and Ageing Politicians

Sep 19, 2023

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, is an informal Q&A and roundtab…

Amsterdam: Kings, Canals and Coffee Houses (Ep2)

Jul 17, 2023
Amsterdam · Part 2

This episode is a guided historical tour of Amsterdam, tracing its rise in the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age — the buil…

RIHC: Blackshirts, Relics, and the Myth of Viking Sorcery

Jul 12, 2023

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook record a conversational mailbag/bonus-style episode covering listener questions and a…

Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Ep 1)

Jun 22, 2023
Oppenheimer · Part 1

This episode of The Rest Is History (part one of a multi-part look at Oppenheimer) traces Julius Robert "J. Robert" Opp…

RIHC: Dickens’ eulogy, Boris in a toga, and Indiana Jones

Jun 14, 2023

This bonus-style episode is a freewheeling Q&A between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They open by recounting…

Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Ep 3)

Jun 05, 2023
Ireland (S1) · Part 3

This episode examines the British side of the Home Rule crisis of 1912–1914, arguing that Edwardian Britain was poised …

Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Ep 4)

Jun 05, 2023
Ireland (S1) · Part 4

Recorded in the GPO in Dublin, this episode (the fourth and final in the series on Ireland and its relations with Brita…

RIHC: 24 hours in Amsterdam, Jesus on camera, and peeping Tom

May 31, 2023

This club bonus episode is an on-the-move conversation recorded on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. Tom Holland and Dom…

Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Ep 1)

May 29, 2023
Ireland (S1) · Part 1

Recorded at the GPO in Dublin with guest Professor Paul Rouse, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace roughly 800 year…
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Series in this era

38 series

The Nazis in Power (S2)

7 episodes Aired: 2024-01-01 – 2024-01-15

The Road to the Great War

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

The First World War

6 episodes Aired: 2025-08-24

Great World Cup Saga

5 episodes Aired: 2022-11-18 – 2022-12-16

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

4 episodes Aired: 2024-06-30 – 2024-07-03

British Fascism

4 episodes Aired: 2023-09-24

Irish independence struggle (1916–1921 S2)

4 episodes Aired: 2025-06-22 – 2025-07-02

The Nazis at War (S4)

4 episodes Aired: 2025-11-24

The Nazis' Rise to Power (S1)

4 episodes Aired: 2023-01-16

England Games at the European Cup (November 2021)

3 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Hitler's War on Poland

3 episodes Aired: 2025-01-13

Ireland (S1)

3 episodes Aired: 2023-05-29 – 2023-06-05

J. R. R. Tolkien

3 episodes Aired: 2022-08-24 – 2022-08-29

12 (or 13) Days of Christmas

2 episodes Aired: 2021-12-25

1922

2 episodes Aired: 2022-01-13

Eva Perón / Evita

2 episodes Aired: 2024-09-15

Hitler with Ian Kershaw

2 episodes Aired: 2021-11-27

Irish Civil War (S3)

2 episodes Aired: 2025-07-06

Second Sino-Japanese War

2 episodes Aired: 2022-09-19

Stalingrad

2 episodes Aired: 2022-07-25

The Ku Klux Klan

2 episodes Aired: 2026-03-23

The Nazis' Road to War (S3)

2 episodes Aired: 2025-01-06

The Rest is History Book Club (With Tabby)

2 episodes Aired: 2025-09-04 – 2025-10-02

Walt Disney / Disney (November 2025)

2 episodes Aired: 2025-11-03 – 2025-11-12

American Civil War (1861 to 1865)

1 episode Aired: 2022-07-07

Amsterdam

1 episode Aired: 2023-07-17

Australian Prime Ministers

1 episode Aired: 2022-05-23

Beards

1 episode Aired: 2024-09-17

Crossover with Dan Carlin

1 episode Aired: 2022-05-09

Horror in the Congo

1 episode Aired: 2025-02-26

Joan of Arc

1 episode Aired: 2026-01-14

Life of Queen Elizabeth II

1 episode Aired: 2022-09-09

Oppenheimer

1 episode Aired: 2023-06-22

Portugal

1 episode Aired: 2022-09-07

Ronald Reagan

1 episode Aired: 2023-03-06

Statues

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

The Olympics

1 episode Aired: 2021-11-27

The World Cup

1 episode Aired: 2022-11-14

Historical figures

180 tagged

Adolf Hitler

69 episodes

Sir Winston Churchill

60 episodes

Joseph Stalin

34 episodes

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

28 episodes

Lloyd George

24 episodes

Joseph Goebbels

23 episodes

Benito Mussolini

20 episodes

Stanley Baldwin

20 episodes

Heinrich Himmler

17 episodes

Herbert Henry Asquith

17 episodes

Neville Chamberlain

17 episodes

Franklin D. Roosevelt

14 episodes

Paul von Hindenburg

14 episodes

Franz Joseph I of Austria

13 episodes

Oswald Mosley

13 episodes

Sir Edward Grey

13 episodes

Gavrilo Princip

12 episodes

Nicholas II of Russia

12 episodes

George V of the United Kingdom

11 episodes

J. R. R. Tolkien

10 episodes

Michael Collins

10 episodes

Erich Ludendorff

9 episodes

Philippe Pétain (Marshal Pétain)

9 episodes

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Vladimir Lenin)

9 episodes

Éamon de Valera

9 episodes

Joachim von Ribbentrop

8 episodes

Max Hastings

8 episodes

Reinhard Heydrich

8 episodes

Unity Mitford

8 episodes

Charles de Gaulle

6 episodes

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom

6 episodes

Erich von Falkenhayn

6 episodes

Franz von Papen

6 episodes

Hans Frank

6 episodes

Ramsay MacDonald

6 episodes

Thomas Mann

6 episodes

Virginia Woolf

6 episodes

Wilhelm Keitel

6 episodes

Woodrow Wilson

6 episodes

A. J. P. Taylor (Alan John Percivale Taylor)

5 episodes

Diana Mitford (Diana, Lady Mosley)

5 episodes

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

5 episodes

Erwin Rommel

5 episodes

Gabriele D'Annunzio

5 episodes

Gregor Strasser

5 episodes

Helmut von Moltke the Younger

5 episodes

Roger Casement

5 episodes

Rudolf Hess

5 episodes

Sophie Scholl

5 episodes

T. S. Eliot

5 episodes

Wilfred Owen

5 episodes

William L. Shirer

5 episodes

Albert Speer

4 episodes

Andrew Bonar Law

4 episodes

Bernard Law Montgomery (1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein)

4 episodes

Ernst Röhm

4 episodes

Erskine Childers

4 episodes

Fedor von Bock

4 episodes

Hans Scholl

4 episodes

Harry S. Truman

4 episodes

Helmut von Moltke

4 episodes

James Joyce

4 episodes

John Redmond

4 episodes

Julius Streicher

4 episodes

Lee Miller

4 episodes

Leni Riefenstahl

4 episodes

Ludwig Beck

4 episodes

Pablo Picasso

4 episodes

Raymond Poincaré

4 episodes

Sigmund Freud

4 episodes

Sir Henry Wilson

4 episodes

Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg

4 episodes

Vyacheslav Molotov

4 episodes

Walt Disney

4 episodes

Walter von Reichenau

4 episodes

William Joyce

4 episodes

Wojtek (bear)

4 episodes

Adolf Eichmann

3 episodes

Alexander von Kluck

3 episodes

Anne Frank

3 episodes

Arthur Griffith

3 episodes

Charlie Chaplin

3 episodes

Chiang Kai-shek

3 episodes

Count Berchtold

3 episodes

Douglas MacArthur

3 episodes

Dwight D. Eisenhower

3 episodes

Ferdinand Foch

3 episodes

Franz Halder

3 episodes

Friedrich Paulus

3 episodes

Fritz Fischer

3 episodes

George Bernard Shaw

3 episodes

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

3 episodes

Gina von Reininghaus

3 episodes

John Buchan

3 episodes

Kim Philby (Harold Adrian Russell Philby)

3 episodes

Kurt von Schleicher

3 episodes

Liam Lynch

3 episodes

Marcel Proust

3 episodes

Martin Pugh

3 episodes

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

3 episodes

Nicola Pasic

3 episodes

Paul Reynaud

3 episodes

Raymond Asquith

3 episodes

René Viviani

3 episodes

Richard Haldane

3 episodes

Richard Mulcahy

3 episodes

Rupert Brooke

3 episodes

Siegfried Sassoon

3 episodes

Sir Edward Carson

3 episodes

Sir John French

3 episodes

Stefan Zweig

3 episodes

Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

3 episodes

Walther von Brauchitsch

3 episodes

Agatha Christie

2 episodes

Alexander Watson

2 episodes

Alfred Rosenberg

2 episodes

Apis (Dragutin Dimitrijević)

2 episodes

Arthur James Balfour

2 episodes

Benjamin Britten

2 episodes

Charles Townsend

2 episodes

D. H. Lawrence

2 episodes

Edvard Benes

2 episodes

Edward Carson

2 episodes

F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

2 episodes

George S. Patton

2 episodes

Graham Greene

2 episodes

Grigori Rasputin

2 episodes

H. H. Asquith

2 episodes

Howard Carter

2 episodes

Igor Stravinsky

2 episodes

J. Robert Oppenheimer

2 episodes

Josip Broz Tito

2 episodes

Juan Domingo Perón

2 episodes

Karl I of Austria (Charles I)

2 episodes

Margot Asquith

2 episodes

Martin Bormann

2 episodes

Miklós Horthy

2 episodes

Patrick Pearse

2 episodes

Rosa Luxemburg

2 episodes

Thomas Edward (T. E.) Lawrence

2 episodes

W. B. Yeats

2 episodes

Wallis Simpson

2 episodes

William Butler Yeats

2 episodes

William Golding

2 episodes

A. A. Milne

1 episode

Admiral Canaris

1 episode

Al Capone (Alphonse Gabriel Capone)

1 episode

Albert Einstein

1 episode

Aldous Huxley

1 episode

Alexander Kerensky (Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky)

1 episode

Alexandra Feodorovna (Empress of Russia)

1 episode

Arthur Evans

1 episode

Bertolt Brecht

1 episode

Calvin Coolidge

1 episode

Clementine Churchill

1 episode

Curtis LeMay

1 episode

Diego Rivera

1 episode

Douglas Fairbanks

1 episode

Edward Thomas

1 episode

Enid Blyton

1 episode

Ernest Bevin

1 episode

Ernest Hemingway

1 episode

Frida Kahlo

1 episode

Getulio Vargas

1 episode

H. P. Lovecraft

1 episode

Hans Oster

1 episode

Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere

1 episode

Indira Gandhi

1 episode

Jawaharlal Nehru

1 episode

John Maynard Keynes

1 episode

Joseph Page

1 episode

Leon Trotsky

1 episode

Leonard Woolley

1 episode

Leslie R. Groves

1 episode

Lázaro Cárdenas

1 episode

Marie Curie

1 episode

Mohammad Mossadegh

1 episode

Oliver Baldwin

1 episode

Pius XII

1 episode

Ted Heath

1 episode

Historical events

118 tagged

First World War (WWI - 1914–1918)

90 episodes

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914, Sarajevo)

22 episodes

Great Depression (1929 onward)

19 episodes

Holocaust (1941–1945, Europe)

18 episodes

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939, Spain)

14 episodes

Battle of the Somme (1916)

13 episodes

Bolshevik Revolution / October Revolution (1917)

13 episodes

Dunkirk evacuation / Operation Dynamo (May–June 1940)

13 episodes

German invasion of the Soviet Union / Operation Barbarossa (1941)

13 episodes

Munich Agreement / Appeasement (1938)

13 episodes

Night of the Long Knives (30 June 1934, Germany)

13 episodes

Easter Rising (24–29 April 1916, Dublin)

12 episodes

Irish War of Independence (1919–1921)

12 episodes

Beer Hall Putsch / Munich Putsch (November 1923)

11 episodes

German invasion of Poland (1 September 1939)

10 episodes

Irish Civil War (1922–1923, Ireland)

10 episodes

Battle of Britain (1940)

9 episodes

D-Day / Normandy landings (6 June 1944)

9 episodes

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

9 episodes

Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)

8 episodes

London Blitz (The Blitz, 1940–1941)

8 episodes

1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)

7 episodes

Phoney War (1939–1940)

7 episodes

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)

6 episodes

German Revolution (1918–1919)

6 episodes

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass, 1938)

6 episodes

Allied invasion of Italy (1943–1945)

5 episodes

Anglo-Irish Treaty (6 December 1921)

5 episodes

Austro-Hungarian attack on Belgrade (30 July 1914)

5 episodes

Battle of the Marne (1914, France)

5 episodes

July Crisis (1914)

5 episodes

Nuremberg Race Laws (1935)

5 episodes

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland (1936)

5 episodes

20 July plot / Operation Valkyrie (20 July 1944)

4 episodes

Attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941)

4 episodes

Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau)

4 episodes

Battle of Arnhem / Operation Market Garden (1944, Netherlands)

4 episodes

Battle of Cable Street (1936, East End of London)

4 episodes

Battle of Mons (1914)

4 episodes

Battle of the Frontiers (August 1914)

4 episodes

Bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937)

4 episodes

First Battle of Ypres (October–November 1914, Ypres, Belgium)

4 episodes

German invasion of Belgium (1914)

4 episodes

Outbreak of the Second World War (1939)

4 episodes

Russian Civil War (1918–1923)

4 episodes

Weimar Germany (1919–1933)

4 episodes

White Rose resistance (1942–1943, Germany)

4 episodes

Abdication of Edward VIII / Abdication crisis (1936)

3 episodes

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

3 episodes

Annexation of the Sudetenland (1938)

3 episodes

Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson (22 June 1922)

3 episodes

Austria-Hungary declaration of war on Serbia (28 July 1914)

3 episodes

Battle of France (1940, German conquest of France)

3 episodes

Battle of Monte Cassino (1944, Italy)

3 episodes

Battle of Okinawa (1945)

3 episodes

Bombing of Rotterdam (May 1940)

3 episodes

Christmas Truce (1914, World War I)

3 episodes

Day of Potsdam (21 March 1933)

3 episodes

Fall of Singapore (1942)

3 episodes

Government of Ireland Act (1920)

3 episodes

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922, Asia Minor)

3 episodes

Home Rule crisis (1912–1914)

3 episodes

Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April 1940)

3 episodes

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)

3 episodes

Nuremberg rallies (1930s Germany)

3 episodes

Outbreak of the First World War (1914–1918)

3 episodes

Russian general mobilization (July 1914)

3 episodes

Soviet–Finnish Winter War (1939–1940)

3 episodes

Trinity test (16 July 1945, New Mexico)

3 episodes

VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945)

3 episodes

Weimar hyperinflation (early 1920s)

3 episodes

Western Front (World War I, 1914–1918)

3 episodes

1930 FIFA World Cup (Uruguay)

2 episodes

American Prohibition (1920–1933)

2 episodes

Anzio landings (January 1944)

2 episodes

Ardennes Offensive / Battle of the Bulge (December 1944)

2 episodes

Battle of Jutland (31 May–1 June 1916)

2 episodes

Battle of Łódź (1914, Łódź, Poland)

2 episodes

Bloody Sunday (21 November 1920, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland)

2 episodes

Collapse of Austria-Hungary (1918)

2 episodes

Danish rescue of Jews (1943, Denmark)

2 episodes

Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb (1922)

2 episodes

Firebombing of Tokyo (1945)

2 episodes

German federal election (5 March 1933)

2 episodes

German invasion of the Netherlands (May 1940)

2 episodes

German presidential election (1932)

2 episodes

Hunger Winter (1944–1945, Netherlands)

2 episodes

Irish Home Rule / 1912–1914 Irish crisis

2 episodes

Italy's entry into World War I (May 1915)

2 episodes

Kindertransport (1938–1939, rescue of Jewish children to Britain)

2 episodes

Liberation of Paris (August 1944)

2 episodes

March on Rome (1922)

2 episodes

Nazi seizure of power (1933)

2 episodes

Nuremberg Rally (1934, Nuremberg)

2 episodes

Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings, 1943)

2 episodes

Operation Sea Lion (planned German invasion of Britain, 1940)

2 episodes

Reichstag fire (1933, Berlin)

2 episodes

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

2 episodes

Spanish flu pandemic (c.1918–1920)

2 episodes

1934 FIFA World Cup (Italy)

1 episode

1938 FIFA World Cup (France)

1 episode

1945 United Kingdom general election (5 July 1945)

1 episode

Angels of Mons (1914, myth/legend)

1 episode

Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1918)

1 episode

Dardanelles Campaign / Gallipoli (1915)

1 episode

Disestablishment of the Church in Wales (1920s)

1 episode

FIFA World Cup

1 episode

February 1941 general strike in Amsterdam (anti-deportation/anti-persecution strike)

1 episode

Gallipoli (Gallipoli campaign)

1 episode

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

1 episode

Great Purge / Great Terror (Soviet Union, 1936–1938)

1 episode

Holodomor / Soviet famine (early 1930s)

1 episode

Japanese American internment (1942–1945)

1 episode

Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)

1 episode

Pacific War / Pacific Theater (World War II, 1941–1945)

1 episode

Potsdam Conference (July 1945)

1 episode

Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)

1 episode

Women's suffrage in the UK (1918 and 1928)

1 episode

Books

498 tagged

Mein Kampf

Author: Adolf Hitler

18 episodes

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

12 episodes

July Crisis

Author: Thomas Otte

7 episodes

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

Author: Tom Holland

6 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

6 episodes

The Sleepwalkers

Author: Christopher Clark

6 episodes

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Author: Timothy Snyder

5 episodes

Crime and Punishment

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

5 episodes

Catastrophe

Author: Max Hastings

4 episodes

Hurrah for the Blackshirts

Author: Martin Pugh

4 episodes

The Escape Artist

Author: Jonathan Friedland

4 episodes

The Riddle of the Sands

Author: Erskine Childers

4 episodes

Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

4 episodes

Munich

Author: Robert Harris

3 episodes

On the Origin of Species

Author: Charles Darwin

3 episodes

Tarka the Otter

Author: Henry Williamson

3 episodes

The Fatal Path

Author: Ronan Fanning

3 episodes

The Remains of the Day

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

3 episodes

The Tempest

Author: William Shakespeare

3 episodes

The Trigger

Author: Tim Butcher

3 episodes

The War in the West

Author: James Holland

3 episodes

biography of Hitler

Author: Ian Kershaw

3 episodes

1066 and All That

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

2 episodes

A Tale of Two Cities

Author: Charles Dickens

2 episodes

Acts of Oblivion

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

Adventure in Time (Series)

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Adventures in Time: Fury of the Vikings

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

2 episodes

Angels with Dirty Faces

Author: Jonathan Wilson

2 episodes

Buddenbrooks

Author: Thomas Mann

2 episodes

Casino 44: Five Months of Hell in Italy

Author: James Holland

2 episodes

China's War with Japan, 1937 to 1945: The Struggle for Survival

Author: Rana Mitter

2 episodes

Diaries of Victor Klemperer

Author: Victor Klemperer

2 episodes

English Journey

Author: J. B. Priestley

2 episodes

Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

Forgotten Victory: The First World War, Myths and Realities

Author: Gary Sheffield

2 episodes

Henry IV, Part I

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

In the Shadow of the Sword

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

2 episodes

Love in a Cold Climate

Author: Nancy Mitford

2 episodes

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

Oh What a Lovely War

Author: Joan Littlewood

2 episodes

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Precipice

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

Ring of Steel

Author: Alexander Watson

2 episodes

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Author: Carlo Collodi

2 episodes

The Canterbury Tales

Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

2 episodes

The Cicero Trilogy

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

The Iliad

Author: Homer

2 episodes

The Intellectuals and the Masses

Author: John Carey

2 episodes

The Law of Blood, Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

Author: Johann Chaputet

2 episodes

The Lion and the Unicorn

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

The Northumbrians

Author: Dan Jackson

2 episodes

The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio — Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett

2 episodes

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Author: Unknown; plagiarised from various European authors

2 episodes

The Red and the Black

Author: Stendhal

2 episodes

The Republic

Author: Charles Townsend

2 episodes

The Road to Wigan Pier

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

The Spanish Civil War

Author: Hugh Thomas

2 episodes

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Author: John Buchan

2 episodes

The World Crisis

Author: Winston Churchill

2 episodes

The World of Yesterday

Author: Stefan Zweig

2 episodes

Thunder at Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

2 episodes

Timaeus

Author: Plato

2 episodes

1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

1493 - Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

15 Decisive Battles of the World

Author: Edward Creasy

1 episode

1944

Author: Jay Winnick

1 episode

31 Days: Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon and a Government in Crisis

Author: Barry Werth

1 episode

A Certain Sense of France

Author: Julian Jackson

1 episode

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

A Circle of Sisters

Author: Judith Flanders

1 episode

A Distant Mirror

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

A History of New York

Author: Washington Irving

1 episode

A History of the Crusades

Author: Stephen Runciman

1 episode

A History of the World

Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry

1 episode

A Man for All Seasons

Author: Robert Bolt

1 episode

A Man in Havana

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

Author: Gareth Williams

1 episode

A Murder Is Announced

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A New System of Domestic Cookery

Author: Maria Rundell

1 episode

A Night to Remember

Author: Walter Lord

1 episode

A Place of Greater Safety

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

A Pocket Full of Rye

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Author: James Joyce

1 episode

A Room with a View

Author: E. M. Forster

1 episode

A Social History of the Third Reich

Author: Richard Grunberger

1 episode

A Stranger in Corfu

Author: Alex Preston

1 episode

A Traitor to His Class

Author: H.W. Brands

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

Achtung Panzer!

Author: Heinz Guderian

1 episode

Acts of the Apostle s

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Adventure in Time, the Fall of the Aztecs

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Aftermath

Author: Harold Jena

1 episode

Agent Sonya

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Agent Zigzag

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

American Prometheus

Author: Kai Bird; Martin J. Sherwin

1 episode

American Way of Death

Author: Jessica Mitford

1 episode

Among the Thugs

Author: Bill Buford

1 episode

An Officer and a Spy

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

And Then There Were None

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Angry Aztecs

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Annals of the Four Masters

Author: Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, Cú Choigríche Ó Duibhgeannáin

1 episode

Antony and Cleopatra

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Appointment with Death

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

April 1865

Author: Jay Winnick

1 episode

As You Like It

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Aubrey–Maturin series

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Auschwitz and the Allies

Author: Martin Gilbert

1 episode

Austerlitz

Author: W.G. Zabold

1 episode

Autobiography of the executioner of Paris (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Charles-Henri Sanson

1 episode

Avedon at Work in the American West

Author: Laura Wilson

1 episode

Babbitt

Author: Sinclair Lewis

1 episode

Beyond Black

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Bhagavad Gita

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Biography of Eamonn de Valera

Author: David McCullough

1 episode

Biography of Eva Perón

Author: Nicholas Fraser and Marisa Navarro

1 episode

Biography of General Hague

Author: Gary Sheffield

1 episode

Biography of Hitler

Author: Ian Kershaw

1 episode

Biography of Hitler by Alan Bullock (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Alan Bullock

1 episode

Biography of Peter the Great

Author: Robert K. Massey

1 episode

Biography of Rasputin (title not given in transcript)

Author: Douglas Smith

1 episode

Biography of Robert Peel

Author: Douglas Hurd

1 episode

Biography of Stanley Baldwin

Author: Keith Middlemass and John Barnes

1 episode

Biography of Unity Mitford (1977) — subtitle 'The Frivolity of Evil'

Author: David Price-Jones

1 episode

Biography on William II

Author: Christopher Claes

1 episode

Black Diaries

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

Bleak House

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Blitzt

Author: Unknown

1 episode

Blood and Iron

Author: Katja Heuer

1 episode

Blood on the Snow

Author: Robert Service

1 episode

Book on Dunkirk (referred to)

Author: Max Hastings

1 episode

Books on the Third Reich (referred to)

Author: Richard Evans

1 episode

Borderlines: A History of Europe Told from the Edges

Author: Lewis

1 episode

Bournville

Author: Jonathan Coe

1 episode

Brideshead Revisited

Author: Evelyn Waugh

1 episode

Brighton Rock

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

Britain's War Machine

Author: David Edgerton

1 episode

Bulldog Drummond (series)

Author: H. C. McNeile (pen name: Sapper)

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

Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

Author: Paul Kenyon

1 episode

China at War

Author: Hans van der Ven

1 episode

Chioccolati e Tabacco, A Iuno Ecclesiastico e Naturale

Author: Tomas Hurtado

1 episode

Churchill biography (unspecified)

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Citizen Klansmen

Author: Leonard Moore

1 episode

Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War

Author: Al Murray

1 episode

Confessions

Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo

1 episode

Constellation Genius

Author: Kevin Jackson

1 episode

Copenhagen

Author: Michael Frayn

1 episode

Countrymen

Author: Bo Lidegaard

1 episode

Critias

Author: Plato

1 episode

Culture and Imperialism

Author: Edward Said

1 episode

Dance of the Furies

Author: Mike Nyberg

1 episode

Dane-Geld

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Das Kapital

Author: Karl Marx

1 episode

De Cioccolatis Potu

Author: Francesco Maria Brancadio

1 episode

De Senatu Romano

Author: Jan Zamoyski

1 episode

Dear England

Author: Gareth Southgate

1 episode

Death Comes as the End

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Death on the Nile

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Delizia: The Epic History of Italians and Their Food

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

Departure of the Fourth Camerons

Author: Hewitt Macintosh

1 episode

Der Stürmer (newspaper)

Author: Julius Streicher (editor)

1 episode

Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek

Author: Chiang Kai-shek

1 episode

Diaries of Nella Last

Author: Nella Last

1 episode

Disturbing the Water

Author: Peter Wise

1 episode

Dombey and Son

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Down and Out in Paris and London

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker

1 episode

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Author: Hannah Arendt

1 episode

Enigma

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Eurasia

Author: Bruno Massange

1 episode

Evil Under the Sun

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Farewell to the Horse

Author: Ulrich Rapp

1 episode

Five Days in London

Author: John Lukacs

1 episode

Flashman at the Charge

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman in Ethiopia

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Florentine Codex

Author: Bernardino de Sahagún

1 episode

Fortress Malta and Island Under Siege

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Foucault's Pendulum

Author: Umberto Eco

1 episode

Four Quartets

Author: T. S. Eliot

1 episode

Fox's Book of Martyrs

Author: Unknown

1 episode

George Orwell: English Rebel

Author: Robert Coles

1 episode

Ghosts of Empire

Author: Kwasi Kwarteng

1 episode

God's Englishman

Author: Christopher Hill

1 episode

Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

1 episode

Goodbye to All That

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

Great Hatred

Author: Ronan McGreevey

1 episode

Greenmantle

Author: John Buchan

1 episode

Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain Under Fire

Author: Edward R. Murrow

1 episode

Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Hannibal and the Carthaginians

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

1 episode

Hell to Pay

Author: DM Jeanne Greco

1 episode

Henry V

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 1

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 2

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 3

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Heretics and Believers

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

Heroic Failures and the British

Author: Paul L. F. H. B. McCarthy

1 episode

Historical novels about Marius and Sulla

Author: Colleen McCulloch

1 episode

History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

History of the Mafia

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

History of the Middle Ages

Author: Mark Gregory Pegg

1 episode

Hitler's Table Talk

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

1 episode

Homage to Catalonia

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Hooded Americanism

Author: David Chalmers

1 episode

How Britain Brought Football to the World

Author: Stuart Laycock and Philip Laycock

1 episode

How the Irish Invented Chess!

Author: Brian Nugent

1 episode

I, Claudius

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

Ian Kershaw's biography

Author: Ian Kershaw

1 episode

In Flanders Fields

Author: John McCrae

1 episode

In Portugal

Author: Aubrey Bell

1 episode

In Pursuit of Love

Author: Nancy Mitford

1 episode

Interviewing Hitler

Author: Richard Evans

1 episode

Inventing the Way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism and Bushido in Modern Japan

Author: Oleg Benesh

1 episode

Inverting the Pyramid

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

Italy

Author: James Holland

1 episode

J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

Author: Tom Shippey

1 episode

Jeeves stories

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

Joseph and His Brothers

Author: Thomas Mann

1 episode

Journal entries on the Battle of Stalingrad

Author: Vasily Grossman

1 episode

Journey to a War

Author: W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood

1 episode

Just William (series)

Author: Richmal Crompton

1 episode

King Leopold's Ghost

Author: Adam Hochschild

1 episode

L'étranger (The Stranger / Outsider)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

La Peste (The Plague)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Author: D.H. Lawrence

1 episode

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

1 episode

Landscape and Memory

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

Last Waltz in Vienna

Author: George Clare

1 episode

Latest novel (about plague)

Author: Orhan Pamuk

1 episode

Le Premier Homme (The First Man)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Leaders

Author: Richard Nixon

1 episode

Leading German biography of Hitler (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Joachim Fest

1 episode

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

Author: Agnès Prairie

1 episode

Les Misérables

Author: Victor Hugo

1 episode

Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco

Author: Anonimo Veneziano

1 episode

Life and Fate

Author: Vasily Grossman

1 episode

London Fields

Author: Martin Amis

1 episode

Look Back in Anger

Author: John Osborne

1 episode

Looking at History

Author: R. J. Unstead

1 episode

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

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Making Mary Poppins

Author: Todd James Pierce

1 episode

Martin Chuzzlewit

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Mary Poppins

Author: P. L. Travers

1 episode

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian series)

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Memoirs (unspecified)

Author: Paul Schmidt

1 episode

Memoirs of Milita Maschmann

Author: Milita Maschmann

1 episode

Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

1 episode

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

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Modern Times and Modern Places, Life and Art in the 20th Century

Author: Peter Conrad

1 episode

Moses and Monotheism

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

Moses the Egyptian

Author: Jan Asman

1 episode

Mrs Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Murder in Mesopotamia

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Murder on the Orient Express

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

My Early Life

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

My Family and Other Animals

Author: Gerald Durrell

1 episode

My Fight for Irish Freedom

Author: Dan Breen

1 episode

Naples '44

Author: Norman Lewis

1 episode

Not Just Pictures

Author: Chris Floyd

1 episode

Notre Dame, the Soul of France

Author: Agnès Prairie

1 episode

On Savage Shores

Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock

1 episode

Ones and Rebels

Author: Jessica Mitford

1 episode

Operation Columba: The Secret Pigeon Service

Author: Gordon Carrera

1 episode

Operation Mincemeat

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Ostara

Author: Jörg Lanz

1 episode

Our Island Story

Author: H. E. Marshall

1 episode

Oxford English Dictionary

Author: Various

1 episode

Pan Tadeusz

Author: Adam Mickiewicz

1 episode

Peace

Author: Rupert Brooke

1 episode

People's History of Love

Author: James Meek

1 episode

Phineas Finn

Author: Anthony Trollope

1 episode

Pilgrim's Progress

Author: John Bunyan

1 episode

Poems (1907)

Author: Illaer Belloch

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

Prospero's Cell

Author: Lawrence Durrell

1 episode

Question moral si il cioccolato che branta l'auno ecclesiastico

Author: Antonio de Leon Pinelo

1 episode

Recessional (poem)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the 1916 Rising

Author: Royal Commission

1 episode

Rerum Novarum

Author: Pope Leo XIII

1 episode

Restless Republic

Author: Anna Kaye

1 episode

Revolution by Reason

Author: John Strachey

1 episode

Richard III

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Richard Nixon: The Life

Author: John A. Farrell

1 episode

River Kings

Author: Kat Jarman

1 episode

Rumours of Angels, a Legend of the First World War

Author: David Clarke

1 episode

SSGB

Author: Len Deighton

1 episode

Salammbô

Author: Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

Savage Storm

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Schindler's List

Author: Thomas Keneally

1 episode

Scissors and Paste

Author: Arthur Griffith

1 episode

Scouting for Boys

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

1 episode

Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Author: Matthew Restall

1 episode

Shakespeare in 1606

Author: James Shapiro

1 episode

Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

Shoah

Author: Claude Landsman

1 episode

Shooting an Elephant

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Short story about the assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Sicily

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead

Author: Stanley Brands

1 episode

Soviet Communism and New Civilization

Author: Sidney Webb; Beatrice Webb

1 episode

Spare

Author: Prince Harry

1 episode

Spy Among Friends

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Storm of Steel

Author: Ernst Junger

1 episode

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

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

Suite Française

Author: Irène Némirovsky

1 episode

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Author: Laura Thompson

1 episode

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Author: Thomas Hardy

1 episode

Testament of Youth

Author: Vera Brittain

1 episode

That Printer of Udels

Author: Harold Bell Wright

1 episode

The 9/11 Wars

Author: Jason Burke

1 episode

The Aenach Talchean

Author: T.H. Nally

1 episode

The Aeneid (standardized)

Author: Virgil

1 episode

The Age of Decadence

Author: Simon Heffer

1 episode

The Age of Illusion

Author: Ronald Blythe

1 episode

The Alteration

Author: Kingsley Amis

1 episode

The Beautiful and the Dam

Author: Scott Fitzgerald

1 episode

The Best and the Brightest

Author: Hal Blastam

1 episode

The Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Author: Rebecca West

1 episode

The Box of Delights

Author: John Maysfield

1 episode

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

Author: Matthew Gabriel

1 episode

The Burning of the World

Author: Bela Zomberi Moldavan

1 episode

The Children of Ashen Elm

Author: Neil Price

1 episode

The Christmas Truce

Author: Carol Anne Duffy

1 episode

The Clansman

Author: Thomas Dixon

1 episode

The Code of the Woosters

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

The Commissar Vanishes

Author: David King

1 episode

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

The Constellation of Genius

Author: Kevin Jackson

1 episode

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

1 episode

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

Author: Piers Brendon

1 episode

The Day of the Jackal

Author: Frederick Forsyth

1 episode

The Death of a Hero

Author: Richard Aldington

1 episode

The Definitive History of Northumbria

Author: Dan Jackson

1 episode

The Descent of Man

Author: Charles Darwin

1 episode

The Devils

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

Author: Anne Frank

1 episode

The Disney Version

Author: Richard Schickel

1 episode

The Donkeys

Author: Alan Clark

1 episode

The Dream of the Celt

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

The Eagle Unbowed

Author: Halik Kochanski

1 episode

The Earliest Englishman

Author: Arthur Smith Woodward

1 episode

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

Author: Michael Pye

1 episode

The End of History

Author: Francis Fukuyama

1 episode

The Fall of the House of Habsburg

Author: Edward Crankshaw

1 episode

The Fatal Path

Author: Ronald Fanning

1 episode

The Fateful Year

Author: Mark Bostridge

1 episode

The Fortress

Author: Alexander Watson

1 episode

The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Houston Stewart Chamberlain

1 episode

The Frozen Deep

Author: Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens

1 episode

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

Author: David Goldblatt

1 episode

The Gardener

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Ghost

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

The Great Gatsby

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

1 episode

The Great God Pan

Author: Arthur Machen

1 episode

The Great and Holy War

Author: Philip Jenkins

1 episode

The Greek Army

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

The Guns of August

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times

Author: Eduard Habsburg

1 episode

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Happy Death (L'Amour Heureuse)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

The Haunted Wood

Author: Sam Leith

1 episode

The Hidden Hand Presidency

Author: Fred Greenstein

1 episode

The Histories

Author: Herodotus

1 episode

The Hitler Myth

Author: Ian Kershaw

1 episode

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration

Author: Stefan Malinowski

1 episode

The IRA and Its Enemies

Author: Peter Hart

1 episode

The Imagination of an Insurrection

Author: William Erwin Thompson

1 episode

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

The Insurrection in Dublin

Author: James Stevens

1 episode

The Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

The Invasion of 1910

Author: William Le Quex

1 episode

The Jungle Book

Author: Roger Kipling

1 episode

The King's English

Author: Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler

1 episode

The Klansman

Author: Thomas Dixon

1 episode

The Landlady

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Last Kingdom

Author: Bernard Cornwell

1 episode

The Last of the Mohicans

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

1 episode

The Leopard

Author: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1 episode

The Leopard's Spot

Author: Thomas Dixon

1 episode

The Light Ages

Author: Seb Falk

1 episode

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad

Author: Ian McGregor

1 episode

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad, The Hidden Truth, Center of World War Two's Greatest Battle

Author: Ian McGregor

1 episode

The Little Mermaid

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

1 episode

The Little Stranger

Author: Sarah Waters

1 episode

The Lives of the Engineers

Author: Samuel Smiles

1 episode

The Lord of the Flies

Author: William Golding

1 episode

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Author: Sophy Roberts

1 episode

The Lost World

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

The Magic Mountain

Author: Thomas Mann

1 episode

The Making of Western Christendom

Author: Peter Brown

1 episode

The Man in the High Castle

Author: Philip K. Dick

1 episode

The Marvelous Land of Snugs

Author: E. A. Wyke-Smith

1 episode

The Meaning of Cricket

Author: John Houghton

1 episode

The Mediterranean Diet

Author: Ancel Keys

1 episode

The Merceau Investigation

Author: Kamel Daud

1 episode

The Morbid Age

Author: Richard Overy

1 episode

The Mousetrap

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Moving Finger

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Murder Machine

Author: Patrick Pearse

1 episode

The Murder of Michael Collins

Author: Paddy Cullivan

1 episode

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Myth of Sisyphus

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

The Natural History of Chocolate

Author: Monsieur de Kélu

1 episode

The Nazi Conscience

Author: Claudia Koons

1 episode

The New Statesman (magazine)

Author: Various

1 episode

The Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300 to 900

Author: Michael McCormick

1 episode

The Piltdown Man Hoax Case Closed

Author: Miles Russell

1 episode

The Pity of War

Author: Niall Ferguson

1 episode

The Plumed Serpent

Author: D. H. Lawrence

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 Pursuit of Love

Author: Nancy Mitford

1 episode

The Radetzky March

Author: Joseph Roth

1 episode

The Reconstruction of Nations

Author: Timothy Snyder

1 episode

The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities

Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

The Road to Sarajevo

Author: Vladimir Dedier

1 episode

The Roman Army

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

The Roman Revolution

Author: Syme

1 episode

The Saint's Life

Author: author not specified in transcript

1 episode

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy, 1943

Author: James Holland

1 episode

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1 episode

The Secret Adversary

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Secret History

Author: Procopius (Procopius of Caesarea)

1 episode

The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network

Author: Richard Cabage

1 episode

The Sleepwalkers

Author: Chris Clarke

1 episode

The Spanish Holocaust

Author: Paul Preston

1 episode

The Spy and the Traitor

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

The Strange Death of Liberal England

Author: George Dangerfield

1 episode

The Tailor of Panama

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

The Taxis of the Marne

Author: Jean Dutour

1 episode

The Third Reich

Author: Michael Burley

1 episode

The Three Impostors

Author: Arthur Machen

1 episode

The Tin Drum

Author: Günter Grass

1 episode

The Tragedy of Central Europe

Author: Milan Kundera

1 episode

The Traitor's Circle

Author: Jonathan Friedland

1 episode

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Author: B. Traven

1 episode

The Troublesome Priest

Author: Jonathan Tucker

1 episode

The Untouchable

Author: John Banville

1 episode

The Vantage Point

Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

1 episode

The Very Dark Ages: Why the Middle Ages Were Terrible, Nothing Good Happened, and People Lived in Mud

Author: ComebackZinc

1 episode

The Violent Effigy

Author: John Kerry

1 episode

The Wages of Destruction

Author: Adam Tooze

1 episode

The War in the West, Germany Ascendant, 1939 to 1941

Author: James Holland

1 episode

The War of the End of the World

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

1 episode

The White War

Author: Mark Thompson

1 episode

The Witch Cult in Western Europe

Author: Margaret Murray

1 episode

The World Turned Upside Down

Author: Christopher Hill

1 episode

The Wrath of the Black Shirts

Author: Martin Pugh

1 episode

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

Author: Sarah Churchwell

1 episode

The Year of the French

Author: Thomas Van Lingen

1 episode

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Author: Michael Chabon

1 episode

Third Reich, New History

Author: Michael Burley

1 episode

Thomas Cromwell novels (by Hilary Mantel)

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Three Men in a Boat

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

1 episode

Three Men on a Bummel

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

1 episode

Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the epic journeys that changed the world

Author: Simon Hall

1 episode

Thunder of Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

Times Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust and the Music of Remembrance

Author: Jeremy Eichler

1 episode

Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

1 episode

Towards the Flame

Author: Dominic Levin

1 episode

Travelling Around the World

Author: Franz Ferdinand

1 episode

Treasure Island

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

1 episode

Twilight of the Godlings

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Ulster (poem)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

1 episode

Victory 45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders

Author: Al Murray; James Holland

1 episode

Virtual History

Author: Alvin Jackson

1 episode

Vivid Faces

Author: Roy Foster

1 episode

Voitek the Bear, Polish War Hero

Author: Eileen Orr

1 episode

Walt Disney: The Biography

Author: Neil Gabler

1 episode

Watching the Door

Author: Kevin Myers

1 episode

When William Came

Author: Sarkey

1 episode

White Noise

Author: Don DeLillo

1 episode

Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England

Author: Jason Cowley

1 episode

Who Goes Nazi?

Author: Dorothy Thompson

1 episode

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Why the Allies Won the Second World War (approx.)

Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien

1 episode

Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

1 episode

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Author: Wisden

1 episode

Witness for the Prosecution

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

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

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

1 episode

Worlds of Arthur

Author: Guy Howsor

1 episode

Wuthering Height

Author: Emily Brontë

1 episode

the assassination of Field Marshal Henry Wilson MP as Ireland's Sarajevo

Author: Ronan McGreevey

1 episode

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