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.Follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
Episodes (389)
Episode 290 - Halloween, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day
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Episode 289 - Women in politics in the 1920s
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Episode 288 - Revealing the historic voices of Brixton
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Episode 287 - Beyond 1066: who was William the Conqueror?
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Episode 286 - John of Gaunt: the founder of a dynasty
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Episode 285 - Behind the Scenes of a Roman Villa
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Episode 284 - Lady Elizabeth Russell: Keeper of Donnington Castle
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Episode 283 - Vincent Van Gogh in London
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Episode 282 - Life as a medieval nun
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Episode 281 - Harry Hotspur and Warkworth Castle
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Bonus episode - Summer with Queen Victoria: Life at Osborne
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Episode 280 - Bad King John: England’s worst monarch?
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Episode 279 - Uncovering the prehistoric Uffington White Horse
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Episode 278 - Marble Hill: how to build a Georgian villa
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Episode 277 - In the Ayahs’ Home: Pioneering Indian and Chinese Women in Hackney
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Episode 276 - The lost art of the parterre garden
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Episode 275 - Secrets of the Corbridge Hoard
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Episode 274 - Heroes of the 1924 Paris Olympics
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Episode 273 - Pandemic: how the Black Death ravaged medieval England
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Episode 272 - The decline of the English country house
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Episode 271 - Ask the experts: Summer solstice at Stonehenge
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Episode 270 - England’s rulers and their ‘favourites’
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Episode 269 - Exploring the Roman Lake District
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Episode 268 - Building better communities: celebrating two pioneering women
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Episode 267 - Day of reckoning: remembering the events of D-Day
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Episode 266 - Art and Ideals: Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and the Bloomsbury Grou...
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Episode 265 - Stonehenge and the Major Lunar Standstill
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Episode 264 - Ask the Experts: Everything You Wanted to Know About Medieval Knig...
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Episode 263 - Saving our Paintings: Jan Wijnants at Brodsworth Hall and Gardens
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Episode 262 - Behind the Lord Warden's Secret Door at Walmer Castle
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Episode 261 - 900 years of history at Furness Abbey
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Episode 260 - The military history of the Isles of Scilly
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Episode 259 - Long lost shells returned: from Captain Cook’s voyage to Chesters...
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Episode 258 - Seeing Belsay Hall in a new light with artist Ingrid Pollard
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Episode 257 - Mum's the word: an exploration of maternity and motherhood
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Episode 256 - What happened after the Romans left Britain?
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Episode 255 - Walking Offa's Dyke
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Episode 254 - Art and activism: the life and legacy of Derek Jarman
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Episode 253 - True romances: the perfect partnerships made at our sites
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Episode 252 - Uncovering the mystery of the Corbridge dodecahedra
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Episode 251 - The remarkable rise and fall of Old Sarum
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Episode 250 - Eels: medieval England's forgotten currency
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Episode 249 - Leap years, Candlemas and other archaic calendar traditions
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Episode 248 - England’s lost composer: George Jeffreys at Kirby Hall
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Episode 247 - Kits Coty House and the Medway Megaliths
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Episode 246 - Ask the experts: everything you wanted to know about the history o...
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Episode 245 - Christmas misbehaviour and the Lords of Misrule
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Episode 244 - Mead, mulsum and merrymaking: a brief history of booze
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Episode 243 - St Milburga: princess, abbess, miracle worker
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Episode 242 - How to stay healthy in Roman Britain
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