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 110 - Lord of war: Napoleon Bonaparte’s...
This week we’re heading back to the late 18th and…
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Episode 109 - King on the run: The imprisonment...
We’re joined by English Heritage Properties Curat…
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Episode 108 - Here be dragons! Fire breathing b...
As we approach St George’s Day on 23 April, we’re…
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Episode 107 - A flying visit: 100 years since t...
This week we’re marking a slightly unusual milest…
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Episode 106 - Changing fortunes: At home with t...
Kirby Hall is one of England’s greatest Elizabeth…
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Episode 105 - Saints, gospels and vicious Vikin...
This week, we’re joined by senior properties hist…
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Episode 104 - Digging for history at Tintagel C...
Following the completion of the five-year long Ti…
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Episode 103 - At your service: The remarkable w...
All too often during Women’s History Month, stori…
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Episode 102 - A costume drama: Storytelling at ...
This week we’re looking at the colourful lives of…
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Episode 101 - Woman at war: Eleanor de Montfort...
This week we’re travelling back to the 13th centu…
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Episode 100 - Hide and seek with kings and prie...
For the 100th episode of the podcast we’ve made t…
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Episode 99 - Conserving works of art – and how ...
Responsible for caring for 1,300 artworks in prop…
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Episode 98 - Eleanor of Castile: Spanish prince...
We’re joined in the studio by senior properties h…
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Episode 97 - A tale of two castles: The Bigods,...
This week we’re joined by head properties curator…
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Episode 96 - Adventures in architecture: Sir Ch...
Imagine you're living in the 1800s, with the visi…
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Episode 95 - English Heritage in ruins
So many English Heritage sites are ruined – famou…
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Episode 94 - The life and work of St Aelred of ...
We’re joined in the studio by senior properties h…
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Episode 93 - Superstition, magic and the Evil E...
This week, we’re joined by curator of collections…
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Episode 92 - Time to change: The history of our...
As many of us prepare to hang up a new calendar f…
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Episode 91 - The pagan winter customs that shap...
This week we’re joined by English Heritage Truste…
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Episode 90 - Festive feasts through the ages
It’s traditional to eat a lot at Christmas, but d…
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Episode 89 - Thomas Becket’s murder and Dover C...
On the 850th anniversary of an event that shook m…
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Episode 88 - Medieval ghosts, ghouls and hauntings
This week expect winter chills as we’re joined by…
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Episode 87 - A marvellous menagerie: The animal...
Here on the podcast we spend most of our time dis…
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Episode 86 - Mortimer Wheeler and the excavatio...
This week, we’re joined by Senior Properties Hist…
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