Bleeding Kansas
Comedian Curtis Cook talks about John Brown
History Extra podcast Zoot suits, mashers & New Romantics: the evolution of the dandy
From zoot suiters and mods, to mashers and Congolese sapeurs, since the early 19th century, fashionable male subcultures have popped up across the globe. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, Peter Andersson…
History Extra podcast: Queen Victoria’s secret love affair
Ever since the 1870s, rumours have swirled around Queen Victoria and her Highland servant John Brown. Were the pair in love? Could they have got married? And might they even have…
Queen Victoria At Kensington Palace With Lucy Worsley
BAFTA winning historian and Joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces Lucy Worsley takes Dan Snow on a tour of Kensington Palace, one of the principle royal residences since 1689.…
Are the Gilded Age interiors accurate?
The Gilded Age season just ended, but we have interiors to judge. Are these interiors accurate to the IRL gilded age. And more importantly, would Edith Wharton like them? We…
Tour Of The Jane Austen House With Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley explores the final residence of Jane Austen, the house where she passed away from an unknown illness. Alongside Dan Snow, learn about Jane Austen's life, her marriage proposals,…
The embroidery of Lorina Bulwer
with Elena Kanagy-Loux
BEYOND THE VISIBLE: HILMA AF KLINT
Before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Klee made a name for abstraction in visual art, another artist had already beat them to their discovery. But until very recently, her name was absent…
Stuff You Missed in History Class: Pope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII sought to find a way forward for the Catholic church at a time when the world was rapidly changing and the church was often at odds with…
The Eugenics Crusade | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS
THE EUGENICS CRUSADE tells the story of the unlikely—and largely unknown—project to breed a better American race, tracing the rise of a movement that turned a scientific theory of heredity…