Episodes

  • Bonus Episode: The History Guy with Dan Snow
    Sep 13 2024


    Dan Snow is a BAFTA award winning historian, broadcaster and television presenter. Dan makes programmes around the world on a range of historical topics, from the abandoned Viking churches of Greenland to war damaged sites of Timbuktu. He is the host of one of the world’s biggest history podcasts, Dan Snow’s History Hit and is the Founder andCreative Director of History Hit TV, a digital history television channel described by the Times, ‘The Netflix of History.’

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    28 mins
  • Evelyn Dunbar & Sparsholt College
    Sep 5 2024

    Dunbar's work is featured heavily in the newly opened Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, London. Dunbar's work is the subject of a talk at the AshmoleanMuseum in Oxford.

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    35 mins
  • Licoricia Part 2
    Aug 29 2024


    Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.

    Rebecca produces both fiction and non-fiction. Her 2022 book ‘Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England’ was written in collaboration with The Licoricia of Winchester Appeal, and has met withcritical success in the UK and beyond. Other works include Touching Distance;The Jewish Journey (in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum); When Parents Die; and Three Shoes One Sock & No Hairbrush.

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    30 mins
  • Licoricia Part 1
    Aug 22 2024


    Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.

    Rebecca produces both fiction and non-fiction. Her 2022 book ‘Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England’ was written in collaboration with The Licoricia of Winchester Appeal, and has met withcritical success in the UK and beyond. Other works include Touching Distance;The Jewish Journey (in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum); When Parents Die; and Three Shoes One Sock & No Hairbrush.

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    24 mins
  • Hampshire Archives Trust
    Aug 9 2024

    Daniella Gonzalez is a Medievalist and Cataloguer at the UK Parliamentary Archives. She is also a member of the Hampshire Archives Trust team, where she is responsible for...

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    21 mins
  • Hovercraft Museum
    Jul 25 2024

    Join HistBites’ host, Julian Gerry as he speaks with Doug Coulson, curator of the Hovercraft Museum at Lee-on-the-Solent. The Hovercraft Museum is the only of one of its kind in the world and holds greatest collection of Hovercraft archive, film, and historic craft. Founded in 1987, Doug has been volunteering there since the late 90s and he is also a trustee.

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    33 mins
  • Queen Emma of Normandy Part 2
    Jul 11 2024


    History generally remembers Emma of Normandy as the wife of King Cnut and the mother of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Edward the Confessor. However, Emma’s life, as with most Queens, was so much more than the wife and mother of Kings. Join Johanna Strong as she interviews Steven Bishop about Emma’s amazing life and discover how Winchester became Emma’s final resting place.

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    24 mins
  • Queen Emma of Normandy: Much More Than a Wife (Part 1)
    Jun 27 2024

    History generally remembers Emma of Normandy as the wife of King Cnut and the mother of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Edward the Confessor. However Emma's life (as with most Queens) was so much more than a wife and mother.

    Join Johanna Strong as she interviews Steven Bishop (PhD) about Emma's amazing life, and how it ended with Winchester as her final resting place.

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    23 mins