Tour guide and historian Becky Laxton=Bass returns to give us the lowdown on four more women with links to her work who we really should know more about...

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Our chum Jonathan Clements returns with his passion for Chinese history, this time to tell the tale of the exceptional Medieval Empress Wu.

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Kit Chapman brings the science. What sounds trivial is actually a massively important piece of history, not to mention tragic, bloody and sinister. 

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Rob Thompson from the Films Team at Army University press joins us to talk about his new book on the pacification of Phù Yèn during the Vietnam War. We concentrate on the most significant year, 1970

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Elizabeth Mason joins us to talk about how and why you put genocide on film.

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Based on his fantastic book, Roger Crowley joins us to talk all about how little Portugal forged the world's first truly global empire.  

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Joshua Green joins us to discuss the sad history of lunatic asylums. 

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Archaeologist Simon Verdegem joins us to talk about a decade spent exhuming newly uncovered First World War remains on the Western Front and attempting to give the fallen back their identity. 

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Aaron Edwards joins us to talk about Britain's covert efforts to combat certain Irish Republicans.

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Kat Hill joins us to tell us all about this little-known Christian group named after Menno Simons.

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