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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The Partners: who were Seely and Paget?
47 min
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The hidden history of women in construction
33 min
28
The secret world of portrait miniatures
45 min
29
The birth of medieval manuscripts
39 min
30
Poetry, maths and the Milky Way: the unsung gen...
47 min
31
Rethinking an Iron Age ‘war cemetery’
44 min
32
Love tokens from history
26 min
33
Before 1066: how England’s elites lived, ruled,...
44 min
34
A postie, an emperor, and a 2,000-year-old grai...
33 min
35
Falconry, fashion and threat: a history of peop...
42 min
36
Adventure and obsession: orchid hunting in the ...
39 min
37
Dogs and devotion: faithful companions and thei...
44 min
38
Vermeer: Double Vision
33 min
39
What was Christmas like for servants below stai...
55 min
40
The curious case of Santa’s finger and the stor...
47 min
41
From Bayswater to Neverland: J.M. Barrie and th...
43 min
42
Living with the ancestors: Neolithic death and ...
46 min
43
A delicious history of pudding
38 min
44
From Brodsworth with love: the girl who knitted...
37 min
45
Disability and care in medieval England
36 min
46
‘Pleasing terrors’: the origins and continuing ...
61 min
47
Privilege and play: a history of childhood adve...
33 min
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Enslaver, politician, survivor: the complex l...
38 min
49
A history of curry in Britain
34 min
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A coin, a castle and a conquest: the Normans in...
31 min