The English Heritage Podcast
English Heritage cares for over 400 historic buildings, monuments and sites, and brings the story of England to life for over 10 million people each year. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk
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Episode 45 - Unearthing Wrest Park’s Mithraic G...
Following an archaeological dig to discover the s…
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Episode 44 - Dover Castle’s secret Cold War tun...
This week we’re at Dover Castle in Kent to take a…
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Episode 43 - Spring watch: how we prepare our h...
We’ve managed to convince English Heritage head g…
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Episode 42 - The final frontier: what life was ...
This week we’re joined in the studio by two exper…
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Episode 41 - New year, new skills: behind the s...
If you’re inspired to try something new in 2020 t…
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Episode 40 - The English Heritage sites that ch...
Happy New Year from English Heritage. If you’re l…
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Episode 39 - The origins of Christmas carols, w...
We’ve come over all festive this week as we take …
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Episode 38 - A weird and wonderful history of C...
We’re in the studio with English Heritage Trustee…
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Episode 37 - Celebrating Christmas with Queen V...
This week we’re joined by Osborne curator Michael…
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Episode 36 - The rise of Mead: Toasting the wor...
Once the Vikings’ drink of choice, mead now has a…
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Episode 35 - Deal Castle and Henry VIII’s ‘devi...
480 years since Henry VIII started building his ‘…
25 min
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Episode 34 - Charles Darwin and 'On the Origin ...
On the 160th anniversary of publication of 'On th…
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Episode 33 - Memory & Light: the sound installa...
This week we’re back on the road to experience a …
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Episode 32 - Nursing the nation: how Wrest Park...
Ahead of Armistice Day on 11 November, we talk to…
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Episode 31 - 'These Our Monsters' : Retelling m...
This week we’re back in the studio with English H…
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Episode 30 - The Duke of Wellington and the Bat...
We’re at Apsley House in London, the grand former…
28 min
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Episode 29 - Rembrandt’s ultimate ‘selfie’ at K...
To mark the 350th anniversary of Rembrandt’s deat…
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Episode 28 - Behind the scenes of the 1066 Batt...
We head to 1066 Battle of Hastings, Abbey and Bat…
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Episode 27 - Exodus: the story behind reggae le...
This week, we interview historian Howard Spencer …
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Episode 26 - Rescuing England’s largest collect...
We’re joined in the studio by Senior Collections …
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Episode 25 - Building a Bronze Age roundhouse a...
We’re at Beeston Castle, one of the most spectacu…
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Episode 24 - The story of a real Downton Abbey ...
As the new Downton Abbey film opens in cinemas, w…
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Episode 23 - Enter a lost industrial world at J...
This week we’re in Birmingham’s historic Jeweller…
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Episode 22 - The Iron Bridge and the Industrial...
On the 240th anniversary of the creation of the i…
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Episode 21 - Steam power at Stott Park Bobbin M...
At Stott Park Bobbin Mill on the shores of Lake W…
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