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
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Episode 293 - A delicious history of the Englis...
50 min
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Episode 292 - Hailes Abbey and the Holy Blood
57 min
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Episode 291 - Ask the experts: England’s mediev...
69 min
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Episode 290 - Halloween, All Saints’ Day and Al...
37 min
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Episode 289 - Women in politics in the 1920s
49 min
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Episode 288 - Revealing the historic voices of ...
42 min
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Episode 287 - Beyond 1066: who was William the ...
65 min
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Episode 286 - John of Gaunt: the founder of a d...
62 min
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Episode 285 - Behind the Scenes of a Roman Villa
37 min
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Episode 284 - Lady Elizabeth Russell: Keeper of...
50 min
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Episode 283 - Vincent Van Gogh in London
47 min
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Episode 282 - Life as a medieval nun
66 min
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Episode 281 - Harry Hotspur and Warkworth Castle
60 min
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Bonus episode - Summer with Queen Victoria: Lif...
51 min
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Episode 280 - Bad King John: England’s worst mo...
68 min
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Episode 279 - Uncovering the prehistoric Uffing...
37 min
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Episode 278 - Marble Hill: how to build a Georg...
55 min
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Episode 277 - In the Ayahs’ Home: Pioneering In...
48 min
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Episode 276 - The lost art of the parterre garden
41 min
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Episode 275 - Secrets of the Corbridge Hoard
48 min
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Episode 274 - Heroes of the 1924 Paris Olympics
67 min
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Episode 273 - Pandemic: how the Black Death rav...
55 min
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Episode 272 - The decline of the English countr...
63 min
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Episode 271 - Ask the experts: Summer solstice ...
66 min
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Episode 270 - England’s rulers and their ‘favou...
68 min