Trapped History
Trapped History is a history reboot for everyone. It tells the stories of the forgotten – of the hidden heroes ignored by the history we were taught in school. We take our name from something the writer James Baldwin said: “People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.” We want to break people free from those stories.Whether it is women's history, Black history, military history, cultural history – all of this, hidden or forgotten, is also trapped history. And so we give you a hi...
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Episodes (149)
Hall of Fame: The Most Beautiful Music I've Ever Heard
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Blues Run The Game: Pete Paphides on the Lost World of Jackson C Frank
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Hall of Fame: The German Amelia Earhart
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The Women of the ATA: That Spitfire Bird on the Barnstorming Pauline Gower
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Hall of Fame: The Shepherd Cannot Run
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The Steamship Hajj: How Empire, Fear and Greed Took on Religion
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Hall of Fame: The Phoenix of America
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The Radical’s Radical: Jeremy Corbyn on Charlotte Despard and the Age of Protest
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A Delicate and Dangerous Job: Evelyn Dunbar and Female War Art
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Ben Ferencz and the Quest for World Peace: Keith Lowe on the Fear and the Freedo...
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Black Boy Lane: Joris Lechene on the Legacy of John La Rose
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The Women who Ran The Resistance: Anne Sebba on the Forgotten Heroines
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The Indian Imperialist: Sathnam Sanghera on the Curious Cornelia Sorabji
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Eurovision Special: The Song Contest which ended The Cold War
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How The Newsies beat the Press Barons
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Hall of Fame: The Silent and Unseen
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The Women who Flew for Hitler: Clare Mulley on a Very Complicated History
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Hall of Fame: The Genius in the Library
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Emmy Noether: Einstein's Greatest Mathematician
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Hall of Fame: Helping Ukrainian Refugees
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The Women who Flew the World: from Richarda Morrow-Tait to Polly Vacher
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Remembering the Ordinary: The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice
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The Four Heroic Lives of Johnny Smythe
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Adelaide Hall: The Greatest Singer you've Never Heard Of
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The Many Tangled Lives of Peter Stevens
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Nellie Bly: The Greatest Person Ever!
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