The English Heritage Podcast

Every object has a story to tell. But how can one mystery item lead us on a journey through history, people and places? 

In the English Heritage podcast, comedian and writer Amy Matthews brings you entertaining tales from unexpected places. Each week, we begin with a mystery item and with the help of English Heritage experts and special guests, Amy explores what our past can tell us about our present and perhaps our future.

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History
1
The secret world of portrait miniatures
47 min
2
The birth of medieval manuscripts
41 min
3
Poetry, maths and the Milky Way: the unsung gen...
48 min
4
Rethinking an Iron Age ‘war cemetery’ 
45 min
5
Love tokens from history
27 min
6
Before 1066: how England’s elites lived, ruled,...
46 min
7
A postie, an emperor, and a 2,000-year-old grai...
35 min
8
Falconry, fashion and threat: a history of peop...
43 min
9
Adventure and obsession: orchid hunting in the ...
39 min
10
Dogs and devotion: faithful companions and thei...
44 min
11
Vermeer: Double Vision
33 min
12
What was Christmas like for servants below stai...
55 min
13
The curious case of Santa’s finger and the stor...
47 min
14
From Bayswater to Neverland: J.M. Barrie and th...
43 min
15
Living with the ancestors: Neolithic death and ...
46 min
16
A delicious history of pudding
38 min
17
From Brodsworth with love: the girl who knitted...
37 min
18
Disability and care in medieval England 
36 min
19
‘Pleasing terrors’: the origins and continuing ...
61 min
20
Privilege and play: a history of childhood adve...
33 min
21
Enslaver, politician, survivor: the complex l...
38 min
22
A history of curry in Britain
34 min
23
A coin, a castle and a conquest: the Normans in...
31 min
24
Circle of Days and the building of Stonehenge
48 min
25
Monastic to modern: a history of universities
41 min