Travels Through Time

Margarette Lincoln: The Glorious Revolution (1688)

The historian Margarette Lincoln takes us back to 1688 - an oddly neglected year in English history - to see the Glorious Revolution play out in three telling scenes.
In London there's tension, riots, a royal escape and a surprise invasion. Brought together, they combine change the political and religious character of the nation.
The storylines and characters that appear in this episode feature in Lincoln's new book, London and the Seventeenth Century, which is recently issued in hardback by Yale University Press.
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Show notes
Scene One: 29 June Westminster Hall, a packed courtroom as seven bishops are put on trial for refusing to carry out the King’s demands.
Scene Two: 10 December, James II flees London leaving chaotic scenes of anti-Catholic rioting and fires behind him.
Scene Three: 18 December, the forces of William of Orange enter London, as part of the peaceful transfer of power.
Memento: One of King William III’s spurs – because it is ambiguous, it could symbolize progress – spurring the nation into a new phase, but could also suggest cruelty – the new regime would be imposed by military force in Ireland and Scotland.
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Mary Hollingsworth: Charles V in Italy (1530)

In this sweeping tour of Renaissance century Italy, Mary Hollingsworth takes us to see the most powerful figure of the age: the King of Spain, Archduke of Austria, the Lord of the Netherlands and the soon-to-be-crowned Holy Roman Emperor - Charles V.
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Show notes
Scene One: Bologna, 24 February 1530, Pope Clement VII crowns Charles V as the Holy Roman Emperor, the last Pope to do so, marking the end of an 800-year tradition that stretched back to Charlemagne.
Scene Two: Mantua, 2 April 1530. Charles V is staying with Federigo Gonzaga at his beautiful court, they play a game of real tennis before sitting down in the great dining hall surrounded by Guilio Romano’s erotic frescos to enjoy an elaborate banquet.
Scene Three: Florence, 15 April 1530 (Good Friday). Imperial forces surround the city of Florence, leaving just one access point into the city at Empoli. Inside the gates, the situation is getting more desperate, food supplies are very low, but the spirit of the Florentine Republicans remains undimmed.
Memento: A piece of Florentine plaster daubed with the words “Poor but Free!”
Further reading: Geoffrey Parker, Emperor: A New Life of Charles V, 2019 (Yale University Press)
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Presenter: Violet Moller
Guest: Mary Hollingsworth
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Philip Stephens: Britain Alone (1962)

In this episode the author and journalist Philip Stephens takes us back to a crucial month in post-war British politics. December 1962, he explains, set Britain’s relationship with the rest of the world for the next half century.
Featuring in this episode is the elderly British prime minister, Harold Macmillan; the charismatic US president John F Kennedy; and the trenchant French statesman Charles de Gaulle. In this one month these three men would set out their contrasting visions of what kind of country Britain would be.
The scenes, characters and storylines in this episode of Travels Through Time all feature in Philip Stephen’s new book, Britain Alone: the path from Suez to Brexit (Faber)
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Show Notes
Scene One: 5 December 1962. Dean Acheson’s speech to the cadets of the Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Scene Two: 15 December. Macmillan's visit to Rambouillet to meet with Charles de Gaulle.
Scene Three: 19 December 1962. Macmillan travels to the Bahamas to meet President John F Kennedy.
Memento: The text for Dean Acheson’s ‘West Point Speech.’
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Juliet Nicolson: Frostquake (1963)

In Britain the winter of 1962/3 was astonishingly cold. The snow began to fall on Boxing Day and it did not thaw until Easter. In this episode the writer Juliet Nicolson takes us back to this white, frosty world.
Against a backdrop of snow and ice Nicolson describes the personal stories that were playing out at that time. There was the desperation of Sylvia Plath in London, the magical music of the Beatles in Liverpool and the political shock of the Profumo Affair.
In this episode Nicolson evokes all these stories and she also takes us back inside her primary school, where she was being taught by the most wonderful English literature teacher imaginable.
The scenes, characters and themes discussed in this episode all feature in Juliet Nicolson's new book, Frostquake, which is newly-published in hardback.
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Show Notes
Scene One: January 1963. Juliet Nicolson’s school in London
Scene Two: 12th February, 1963. The McCann’s sitting room in Oldham after the Beatles concert at the Astoria ballroom
Scene Three: 22nd March 1963. Public Gallery in the House of Commons
Memento: The contemporary notes made by Penelope Fitzgerald for her novel  ‘Offshore’
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Guest: Juliet Nicolson
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Prof. Carol Dyhouse: Love, Love, Love (1966)

In this Valentine’s Day special of Travels Through Time we find out how women’s love lives were being transformed in the year 1966. 
Our guest is Professor Carol Dyhouse, a social and cultural historian and emeritus professor at the University of Sussex. Dyhouse takes us on a fascinating, uplifting tour of the sixties that ends with us sniffing fine perfume in a Scottish department store.
Dyhouse is the author of several books about women’s history from education and feminism to glamour and consumerism. Her most recent work Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen is soon to be published by Oxford University Press.
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Show notes
Scene One: A visit to Gretna Green
Scene Two: Sitting in on deliberations of the Latey Committee on Age of Majority
Scene Three: Witnessing the opening of Brook Advisory Centre in Birmingham
Memento: Two bottles of scent from the perfume department at Jenners in Edinburgh. 
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Prof. John Heilbron: Galileo's Ghost (1643)

This week we're heading to 1643 - a year of conflict and strife in the English Civil War.
Our guest is the distinguished historian of science, Professor John Heilbron. Heilbron opted to travel back to Royalist Oxford, a university city teeming with action.
Amid it all he finds a stranglely unstudied history lurking in the colleges. It's a story that is captured in a painting of a young scholar and his tutor, who sits beside a copy of Galileo's Dialogues. 
See the painting discussed in this episode here.
The characters and stories in this episode feature in JL Heilbron's new book, The Ghost of Galileo, which has been recently published by Oxford University Press.
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Show notes
Scene One: Sir John Bankes arrives in Oxford, probably in February of 1643
Scene Two: Summer 1643. Young John Bankes arrives in Oxford to begin his studies at Oriol College
Scene Three: The painter Francis Cleyn comes to Oxford on business.
Memento: Three copies of the original edition of Galileo’s Dialogue (current market value $1m each)
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Kate Mosse: The City of Tears (1572)

The bestselling novelist Kate Mosse kicks off our new season of recordings with this dramatic trip back to sixteenth-century Paris.
The summer of 1572 was supposed to be a joyous one for Parisians. After years of strife a wedding was planned and the best was expected. The events of that August, though, would be remembered for quite different reasons.
Find out more with this conversation between Kate and Artemis. 
The material covered in this episode of Travels Through Time comes from Kate Mosse's new novel, The City of Tears, which is recently published in hardback by Macmillan
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Show notes
Scene One: Hôtel de Bourbon, Paris, June 1572, where the Queen of Navarre is lodging.
Scene Two: Catherdal de Notre Dame, Paris, 18th August, for the wedding of Maguerite de Valois to Henry de Navarre.
Scene Three: Rue de Béthisy in the early hours of 24th August, St Bartholomew’s Day, as the massacre begins.
Momento: A steel Huguenot cross. 
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Season Four Trailer

We're very excited to let you know that the fourth season of Travels Through Time begins on Tuesday 26 January.
Our first episode will be with the bestselling novelist Kate Mosse. Following Kate will be a brilliant range of historians, novelists, poets and others - all of them full of expertise and enthusiasm for the past.
For more, check out tttpodcast.com. // See you soon!

Pen Vogler: A Christmas Feast

In this indulgent Christmas Special with the author Pen Vogler, we forego the tradition of our usual format and opt to roam freely across the centuries.
Instead of looking at one year in isolation, we examine one single day. That, of course, is the brightest, bonniest, most edacious date in all the Christian calendar: 25 December.
Pen Vogler is the author of the expertly researched, Scoff, A History of Food and Class in Britain, A multiple book of the year, Scoff has been described by Jay Rayner as 'A brilliant romp of a book that gets to the very heart of who we think we are, one delicious dish at a time.'
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Show notes
Scene One: Christmas, 1524
Scene Two: Christmas, 1660s
Scene Three: Christmas, 1843
Memento: Samuel Pepys’s Venison Pasty
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Charles Spencer: The White Ship (1120)

Charles Spencer takes us back exactly nine centuries to one of the most shocking maritime disasters in English history: the sinking of the White Ship.
Down with the White Ship on 25 November went King Henry I's legitimate son, William Ætheling, and many leading nobles. The fallout was both immediate and long-lasting. For decades afterwards England would be lost to civil war.
The material covered in this episode of Travels Through Time comes from Charles Spencer's latest book, The White Ship, Conquest, Anarchy and The Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream.
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Show notes
Scene One: 1120, Stoneleigh in Warwickshire. Henry I grants Geoffrey de Clinton land to build a castle
Scene Two: 25 November 1120. The White Ship sinks at Barfleur
Scene Three: Late November. The New Forest. King Henry learns of the disaster
Memento: The figurehead of the doomed White Ship
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