Interviews about History

Diving down beneath the waves to discover how archaeologists locate and recover treasure from old shipwrecks...

Richard Hollingham visits St. Brelade in Jersey to talk to a team of archaeologists who’re reappraising the caves to...

Complex life forms first evolved in the oceans around 630 million years ago, but they didn't look much like to...

This week has seen the announcment of the 2011 Nobel Prizes, so we invited BBC science correspondent Victoria Gill to...

Successfully decoding and reconstructing of the visual images experienced by volunteers viewing a sequence of Hollywood...

We explore how carbon dates can be statistically analysed in order to look at prehistoric England and causewayed...

How should astronomers go about communicating their work? Mark Thompson is President of Norwich Astronomical Society,...

Danny Axford discusses the biological insight made possible by the microfocus macromolecular crystallography beamline...

Radiocarbon dating is an extremely accurate and useful tool to date archaeological finds which contain any previously...

This week we are in Cambridge’s Museum of Technology to explore the engineering of an iconic bit of coal-fired power –...

Making use of the Historical Environment Record, the National Monument Record and the Urban Archaeological Database to...

Xenia explains the uses of ceramic petrology - the study of ceramics using microscopy, chemicals and thin sections.

A re-evaluation of Neanderthal remains from the Caucasus Mts in Russia has shown they are most likely to have lived...

Angelos explains how zooarchaeologists go about analysing animal bones in order to study the sites from which they...

Dr Hugh Hunt tells us about his work in solving the same problems that Barnes Wallis faced when he designed the famous...

Dominic Ford explains what an Astrolabe is, and how you can make one at home...

Katie Birkwood introduces us to Sir Fred Hoyle, through the objects he left with St John's College, Cambridge...

Dr Papadopoulos takes us through depictions of warriors in ancient Aegean art.

Stone tools and animal remains from 12,000 years ago have been found in the Californian channel islands.

A new study sheds doubt on the long held idea that Homo sapiens evolved from East Africa...

投矛器的长棍有连接结束that are used to hurl spears accurately over long distances. They are...

New evidence suggests humans used fire as early as 400,000 years ago. This coincides with the date Neanderthals are...

Scientists at Stanford University in California have discovered how certain changes in our DNA have sculpted the...