Interviews about History

Planet Earth podcast presenter Richard Hollingham has been asking what have the Romans ever done for us? Well, apart...

In London, Blue Plaques have been placed on buildings across the city for over 140 years to highlight where notable...

Now here’s a question... What colour are dinosaurs? It’s an issue that puzzled palaeontologists since fossils of the...

To help us understand leprosy, it’s important to look into the past and see what evidence we can find from when and...

New technique uses infa-red to tell whether rock fragments are man-made or naturally occuring. This useful new...

We explore the importance of understanding ancient and aboriginal astronomy...

We visit the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, and discover a collection of Mars Globes and the story they tell...

In July this year, five devastated a Surrey beauty spot. Fire fighters from three counties tackled the blaze on...

Brain-boosting drugs raise some interesting ethical questions, ones that we’re likely to need to address more and more...

In the West we tend to view slim body shape as attractive and a sign of affluence. But how were plump and thin body...

An extinct horse found in Pompeii had DNA very different to modern horses. New research has solved this mystery- the...

When American scientists discovered some tree fossils in 2007, they turned out to be 385 million years old. That makes...

10年前,开创性的论文题为“Hallmarks of Cancer” was published in the journal Cell, examining the state...