History between the Lines

Jonathan Brown and Dr Erik Mathisen talk about the daily struggles and experiences of enslaved African Americans on plantations in the South of the United States during the years before the Civil War.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Dr Edward Roberts talk about the wedding between Otto, heir to the East Frankish kingdom and Theophanu, a princess of the Byzantine Empire in 972, an unheard of pairing of West and East.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

From gods to barbarians, Gaul became a cornerstone of the Roman Empire in so many ways.  Jonathan Brown and Ryan Hearn talk about the Roman province of Gaul, one of the most fascinating parts of Roman history.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Ryan Hearn talk about the Gallic Wars.

Julius Caesar is a Roman general looking for a military campaign to make his name and to make him a celebrity amongst Romans. He finds it in 58 BC across the frontier amongst the Celts. The Gallic Wars have begun...

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Final episode of the mini-series on Fascist Italy.

As Mussolini's dreams of empire crash and burn, the war threatens to come onto Italian soil itself. As German troops prepare to defend it and the Western Allies prepare to invade it, what will happen to Italy when it becomes one of the war's battlefields?

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.
Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.
Sound effects from BBC Sound Effects.

By the middle of the 1930s, Benito Mussolini and his fascist regime are ready to embark on their quest of imperial glory and are determined to rebuild the Roman Empire in a new fascist form, even if that means taking Italy into the abyss of the Second World War...

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.
Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.
Sound effects from BBC Sound Effects.

Jonathan Brown and Matthew Vincent talk about the East India Company's opium trade and the corporation's eventual destruction in India in 1858.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Matthew Vincent talk about the East India Company, the private British  corporation that ruled much of India during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Robert Jones talk about the use of referendums and plebiscites across history.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a Bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.

Jonathan Brown and Robert Jones talk about the use of referendums and plebiscites across history.

Cover artwork: "Comfort of a bed of Roses" by James Gillray, courtesy of Look and Learn History Picture Archive.

Music by Lexin Music from Pixabay.