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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1
The birth of medieval manuscripts
41 min
2
Poetry, maths and the Milky Way: the unsung gen...
48 min
3
Rethinking an Iron Age ‘war cemetery’
45 min
4
Love tokens from history
27 min
5
Before 1066: how England’s elites lived, ruled,...
46 min
6
A postie, an emperor, and a 2,000-year-old grai...
35 min
7
Falconry, fashion and threat: a history of peop...
43 min
8
Adventure and obsession: orchid hunting in the ...
39 min
9
Dogs and devotion: faithful companions and thei...
44 min
10
Vermeer: Double Vision
33 min
11
What was Christmas like for servants below stai...
55 min
12
The curious case of Santa’s finger and the stor...
47 min
13
From Bayswater to Neverland: J.M. Barrie and th...
43 min
14
Living with the ancestors: Neolithic death and ...
46 min
15
A delicious history of pudding
38 min
16
From Brodsworth with love: the girl who knitted...
37 min
17
Disability and care in medieval England
36 min
18
‘Pleasing terrors’: the origins and continuing ...
61 min
19
Privilege and play: a history of childhood adve...
33 min
20
Enslaver, politician, survivor: the complex l...
38 min
21
A history of curry in Britain
34 min
22
A coin, a castle and a conquest: the Normans in...
31 min
23
Circle of Days and the building of Stonehenge
48 min
24
Monastic to modern: a history of universities
41 min
25
Feeding the masses: fuelling an agricultural re...
34 min