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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Windmills: restoring England’s working giants
44 min
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Northumberland: castles and the borderlands of ...
48 min
28
Memories of flowers: a country house and its co...
43 min
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The bittersweet history of chocolate
48 min
30
The Partners: who were Seely and Paget?
47 min
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The hidden history of women in construction
33 min
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The secret world of portrait miniatures
45 min
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The birth of medieval manuscripts
39 min
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Poetry, maths and the Milky Way: the unsung gen...
47 min
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Rethinking an Iron Age ‘war cemetery’
44 min
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Love tokens from history
26 min
37
Before 1066: how England’s elites lived, ruled,...
44 min
38
A postie, an emperor, and a 2,000-year-old grai...
33 min
39
Falconry, fashion and threat: a history of peop...
42 min
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Adventure and obsession: orchid hunting in the ...
39 min
41
Dogs and devotion: faithful companions and thei...
44 min
42
Vermeer: Double Vision
33 min
43
What was Christmas like for servants below stai...
55 min
44
The curious case of Santa’s finger and the stor...
47 min
45
From Bayswater to Neverland: J.M. Barrie and th...
43 min
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Living with the ancestors: Neolithic death and ...
46 min
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A delicious history of pudding
38 min
48
From Brodsworth with love: the girl who knitted...
37 min
49
Disability and care in medieval England
36 min
50
‘Pleasing terrors’: the origins and continuing ...
61 min