How the Middle Ages were Built: Exuberance to Crisis, 1300-1408 - Professor Simon Thurley

A look at the flourishing of distinctive English architecture in the 14th Century, against the backdrop of perhaps the most catastrophic period of history.

Britain in the 20th Century: The Road to War - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

In underestimating Hitler, was Chamberlain personally culpable for war? Did Britain consider suing for peace in 1940?

The Victorians: Religion and Science - Professor Richard J Evans

Christianity pervaded all of society and private life in the Victorian era, and yet the discoveries of Darwin were to change this forever. Professor Evans explains all.

Your night is my day: London's Underground never sleeps - Oliver Green

What goes in the underground when it closes down for the night?

Britain in the 20th Century: "Appeasement" - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

How should history judge Neville Chamberlain’s 1930’s government that was completely unmatched to the storm that would become World War II?

The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality - Professor Richard J Evans

Professor Evans uses recent research to overturn our ideas of the Victorians as sexually repressed and strangled by convention.

Britain in the 20th Century: The Economic Crisis and its Consequences - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

The great depression of the inter-war years in Britain brought in political upheavals and a coalition government that was only thrown off by WWII.