If It Ain't Baroque...

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An Independent History Podcast, in which we look at life through the prism of History.

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Episode Date
Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother with Sophie Bacchus Waterman
Apr 23, 2026
Visit Blighty: Hever Castle with Dr Owen Emmerson
Apr 21, 2026
The House of Boleyn with Tracy Borman
Apr 20, 2026
The Aristocrat and the Able Seaman: The Tragedy of Titanic with Angela Young
Apr 15, 2026
Titanic: The Ship of Lost Illusions with Kevin Brown
Apr 14, 2026
Titanic and Her Six Chinese Survivors with Steven Schwankert
Apr 13, 2026
Titanic: The Death Ship with Victoria Brown
Apr 12, 2026
Titanic: The Ship of Dreams with Gareth Russell
Apr 11, 2026
Visit Blighty - National Maritime Museum at Greenwich - RMS Titanic Edition
Apr 10, 2026
Economica with Dr Victoria Bateman
Apr 03, 2026
Princesses of the Early Middle Ages with Sharon Bennett Connolly
Mar 28, 2026
Visit Blighty: Alnwick Castle
Mar 26, 2026
Visit Blighty - The Royal Observatory at Greenwich - John Harrison Edition
Mar 24, 2026
Desiderius Erasmus with Amy McElroy
Mar 12, 2026
Taking Manhattan with Russell Shorto
Mar 10, 2026
Curia and Crusade with Dr Thomas W Smith
Mar 08, 2026
The Shakespeare Ladies Club: The Forgotten Women Who Rescued the Bawdy Bard with Christine and Jonathan Hainsworth
Mar 06, 2026
Richard of Cornwall: The (Only) English King of Germany with Darren Baker
Mar 04, 2026
First Celebrities: The Georgian Superstars with Peter James Bowman
Mar 02, 2026
Charles II: Cradle to Crown with Claire Hobson
Feb 28, 2026
The Saga of the Earls of Orkney with Judith Jesch
Feb 26, 2026
The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of the Civil War 1642 with Jonathan Healey
Feb 24, 2026
Visit Blighty: Made in Ancient Egypt Exhibition in Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Feb 22, 2026
The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy with Dr Brooke N Newman
Feb 20, 2026
Reinventing... Mary I of England (none of Scotland) with Dr Johanna Strong
Feb 18, 2026
Playing Henry VIII with Mark Goldthorp
Feb 09, 2026
Salt People of the Cloud Houses: A Brief History of Dutch Manhattan with Fawn Brokaw Doyle
Feb 06, 2026
Lying Abroad: The Invention of Diplomacy with Carol Chillington Rutter
Feb 03, 2026
Reinventing... Charles I: The Final Days with Mark Turnbull
Jan 30, 2026
The House of Pole with Adam Pennington
Jan 27, 2026
The Women of the Burgundian Court 101 with Susan Abernethy
Jan 20, 2026
Visit Blighty: The Cutty Sark
Jan 17, 2026
I Came, I Saw, I Vikinged: The Baltic Edition with Alex Harvey
Jan 14, 2026
London and the 17th Century with Margarette Lincoln
Jan 11, 2026
Reinventing... The Late Queen Mum with Gareth Russell
Jan 09, 2026
Visit Blighty - National Maritime Museum at Greenwich - Lady Jane Franklin Edition
Dec 20, 2025
Prince Rupert of the Rhine: Nephew to Charles I, Uncle to George I with Mark Turnbull
Dec 17, 2025
Frederick Rutland, the Beverly Hills Spy with Ronald Drabkin
Dec 14, 2025
The Ashes of London with Andrew Taylor
Dec 12, 2025
Elizabeth Chudleigh, a French Chateau and a Baltic Vodka Distillery Owner with Catherine Ostler
Dec 10, 2025
The Professional Life of Henry VIII with Heather R Darsie
Dec 08, 2025
Reinventing... Charlotte Brontë with Graham Watson
Dec 06, 2025
Reinventing... Charles I: The Young King with Mark Turnbull
Nov 19, 2025
Visit Blighty: National Maritime Museum in Greenwich
Nov 18, 2025
How Great a King was Henry III? with Darren Baker
Nov 16, 2025
Reinventing... Anne Boleyn with Heather R Darsie
Nov 15, 2025
Realms of the Round Table with John Matthews
Nov 13, 2025
The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court with Breeze Barrington
Nov 12, 2025
Visit Blighty: Hampton Court Palace with Gareth Russell
Nov 10, 2025
The Kingdom of Mercia with Annie Whitehead
Nov 07, 2025
Reinventing... James VI & I with Steven Veerapen
Nov 05, 2025
The History of California with Michael Hiltzik
Nov 01, 2025
Shakespeare in Love (1998) with Darren Freebury-Jones
Oct 27, 2025
Margaret More, Mrs Roper, Tudor Scholar with Aimee Fleming
Oct 23, 2025
Visit Blighty: Queen's House in Greenwich
Oct 20, 2025
Exile: The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots with Rosemary Goring
Oct 14, 2025
Reinventing… The (Two) Hundred Years' War with Michael Livingston
Oct 09, 2025
John Dee and the Chamber of Secrets: The Years of the Wizard with Rachel Morris
Oct 09, 2025
Reinventing... The History of Art with Verity Babbs
Oct 02, 2025
Witches: A King’s Obsession with Steven Veerapen
Sep 25, 2025
Ravenglass: Baroque-n-Roll Adventures of a Gender Fluid Seafarer with Carolyn Kirby
Sep 24, 2025
Visit Blighty: Handel & Hendrix House
Sep 18, 2025
5000 Years of Female Monarchy with Dr Elizabeth Norton
Sep 16, 2025
Three Queens: Stage Meets History
Sep 15, 2025
Marianne: Where History Meets the Audience with Sofia Briccio
Sep 13, 2025
Born with Teeth with Liz Duffy Adams
Aug 27, 2025
More Myths of RMS Titanic with Dan E Parkes
Aug 27, 2025
Reinventing... Catherine of Braganza with Susan Abernethy
Aug 25, 2025
Reinventing… Juana of Castile: History and Musical Theatre Collide
Aug 10, 2025
Visit Blighty: Pirates at the National Maritime Museum
Aug 08, 2025
Anne Boleyn: The Musical with Rebecca Night
Aug 06, 2025
Rewriting the First Crusade with Dr Thomas W Smith
Jul 21, 2025
Regency Scandals: A Blackmailer at Frogmore with James Travers
Jun 21, 2025
Reinventing... The Fourteenth Century: Sceptred Isle with Helen Carr
Jun 20, 2025
Puritan Rule under Cromwell with Jane Hayter-Hames
Jun 18, 2025
Margaret Tudor, English Princess, Queen of Scotland with Linda Porter
Jun 15, 2025
The Realities of Regency Romance with Peter James Bowman
Jun 11, 2025
Visit Blighty: Hatfield House
Jun 09, 2025
Vile the Tudor Play with Laura Crow
Jun 05, 2025
The Book of Merlin with John Matthews
Jun 02, 2025
James VI & I and the Dawn of a Global Britain with Anna Whitelock
Jun 01, 2025
Melting Point with Rachel Cockerell
May 28, 2025
Reinventing… Margaret Beaufort with Lauren Johnson
May 28, 2025
Reinventing... Sir Thomas More with Dr Joanne Paul
May 25, 2025
What Matters in Jane Austen with John Mullan
May 24, 2025
The First Battle of St Albans with Jackson van Uden
May 21, 2025
Anna of Denmark, the First British Queen with Steven Veerapen
May 21, 2025
Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and the French Powers-That-Be with Estelle Paranque
May 19, 2025
Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy, Sister of English Kings with Dr Elizabeth Norton
May 17, 2025
Queen James: The Six Loves of James VI & I with Gareth Russell
May 12, 2025
Reinventing... Margaret of Anjou with Lauren Johnson
May 08, 2025
Arranged Love Blossom: The Stuart Edition
May 04, 2025
Reinventing… Mary Queen of Scots with Steven Veerapen
May 04, 2025
Katharine of Aragon, Spanish Princess, Queen of England with Heather R Darsie
Apr 30, 2025
Trouble in Paradise: The Georgian Edition
Apr 29, 2025
Shakespeare's Sassy Ladies' Appreciation Tour with Carol Ann Lloyd
Apr 26, 2025
Shakespeare's Sisters with Ramie Targoff
Apr 26, 2025
Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors with Matt Pinches (Guildford Shakespeare Company)
Apr 25, 2025
Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers with Darren Freebury-Jones
Apr 23, 2025
Royal Love Stories Told Wrong: Cupid Painted Blind
Apr 20, 2025
The Fall of the House of Byron with Emily Brand
Apr 19, 2025
Reinventing… Edward I with Darren Baker
Apr 17, 2025
The Battle of Culloden and the Jacobites with Callum Watson
Apr 16, 2025
Arranged Love Blossom: We Found Love Right Where We Are
Apr 14, 2025
The Myths of RMS Titanic with Dan E Parkes
Apr 14, 2025
Uneasy Lies the Spouse that Wears the Crown: Trouble in Paradise
Apr 12, 2025
The Founding Fathers and Mothers of Victorian Engineering with Rob Bell
Apr 08, 2025
Strange Royal Bedfellows: Swiped Left
Apr 06, 2025
Voyages with the Celtic Saints with John Matthews
Apr 01, 2025
The King's Grannies
Mar 29, 2025
The Battle of Baugé with Callum Watson
Mar 22, 2025
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare with Will Tosh
Mar 21, 2025
Royal Friends to Lovers: Give Me Your Hand and Let Me All Your Fortunes Understand
Mar 14, 2025
San Pedro Bay: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America with James Tejani
Mar 12, 2025
The Royal What-Ifs: We Know Not What We May Be...
Mar 07, 2025
Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns and Queens with Gemma Hollman
Mar 02, 2025
Improbable Matches at the Royal Court: My Heart Flies to Your Service
Feb 28, 2025
Titanic Legacy: The Captain, The Daughter and The Spy with Dan E Parkes
Feb 25, 2025
Love amid Revolution: These Violent Delights have Violent Ends
Feb 21, 2025
Murder, She Wrote in Anglo-Saxon... with Annie Whitehead
Feb 19, 2025
Iconic Power Couples: My Bounty is as Boundless as the Sea
Feb 14, 2025
Reinventing... the Renaissance with Ada Palmer
Feb 13, 2025
Poet Mystic Widow Wife with Hetta Howes
Feb 07, 2025
The Master of Measham Hall with Anna Abney
Feb 05, 2025
Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Duchess of Suffolk with Amy McElroy
Feb 04, 2025
If It Ain’t Baroque Music with Nicholas McGegan
Jan 30, 2025
Reinventing... Katharine of Aragon with Heather R Darsie
Jan 29, 2025
Margaret Beaufort with Nicola Tallis (Bonus Episode)
Jan 27, 2025
Queen-Making with Elizabeth Norton (Bonus Episode)
Jan 26, 2025
The Imagery of Mary I with Peter Stiffell (Bonus Episode)
Jan 25, 2025
The Marriage That Made the Tudors with Nathen Amin (Bonus Episode)
Jan 23, 2025
Katharine of Aragon Festival in Peterborough with Jackson van Uden (Bonus Episode)
Jan 22, 2025
Educating the Tudors with Amy McElroy
Jan 20, 2025
John Morton: Henry's Shadow with Ashley Wood
Jan 15, 2025
Scotland's Medieval Queens: A Crown of Margarets with Sharon Bennett Connolly
Jan 11, 2025
The Death of Katharine of Aragon with Jackson van Uden
Jan 07, 2025
The Battle of Wakefield with Jackson van Uden
Dec 30, 2024
Pomp & Piety at the Stuart Court with Ben Norman
Dec 29, 2024
Kateryn Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Queen with Laura Adkins
Dec 24, 2024
Mary Windsor, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood with Elisabeth Basford
Dec 23, 2024
Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England with Myke Cole
Dec 20, 2024
Katharine of Aragon: The Queen of England with Jackson van Uden
Dec 16, 2024
Catalina de Aragón: The Daughter of Spain with Emma Cahill Marrón
Dec 16, 2024
The House of Dudley with Dr Joanne Paul
Dec 14, 2024
Saints: A New Legendary of Heroes, Humans and Magic with Amy Jeffs
Dec 12, 2024
The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll with Lyndsy Spence
Dec 11, 2024
Reinventing... The Vikings with Alex Harvey
Dec 10, 2024
Reinventing... Henry VI with Lauren Johnson
Dec 06, 2024
Women of the Anarchy with Sharon Bennett Connolly
Nov 25, 2024
Reinventing... Charles I: The Young Prince with Mark Turnbull
Nov 19, 2024
Firebrand (a.k.a. Queen's Gambit) with Elizabeth Fremantle
Nov 18, 2024
The Battle of Flodden Field with Callum Watson
Nov 17, 2024
Reinventing...Henry III with Matthew Lewis
Nov 16, 2024
True Murder History Club with Steven Veerapen
Nov 14, 2024
The Eagle and The Hart with Helen Castor
Nov 08, 2024
Gunpowder, Macbeth, England and Shakespeare...Let's Connect the Dots with James Travers
Nov 05, 2024
Scary History: Dark Valentines with Chris Wood
Oct 31, 2024
Scary History: A History of Death in 17th Century England with Ben Norman
Oct 30, 2024
Scary History: Ghost Encounters with Stuart Anderson Harris
Oct 29, 2024
Scary History: Women Who Kill with Erin Fetterly
Oct 26, 2024
The Battle of Agincourt with Chris Riley
Oct 25, 2024
Stuart Spouses with Heather R Darsie
Oct 23, 2024
The King's Loot with Richard Wallace
Oct 20, 2024
The Ravenous Barbara Villiers with Andrea Zuvich
Oct 19, 2024
1066 and the Norman Conquest: The Legacy with Chris Riley
Oct 15, 2024
1066 and the Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings with Chris Riley
Oct 14, 2024
Alice Chaucer with Michèle Schindler
Oct 12, 2024
1066 and the Norman Conquest: The Battle of Stamford Bridge with Chris Riley
Sep 25, 2024
1066 and the Norman Conquest: The Origins with Chris Riley
Sep 24, 2024
Henry V with Dan Jones
Sep 09, 2024
Eating with the Tudors with Brigitte Webster
Sep 07, 2024
1666: Plague, War and Hellfire with Rebecca Rideal
Sep 06, 2024
The Battle of Bannockburn: The Legacy with Callum Watson
Sep 03, 2024
Firebrand (2023) with Dr Elizabeth Norton
Aug 28, 2024
That Woman: Wallis Simpson with Anne Sebba
Aug 26, 2024
The Battle of Bosworth with Jackson van Uden
Aug 22, 2024
Elizabeth I's Tudor Tinder with Carol Ann Lloyd
Aug 19, 2024
Wallis: a New Musical
Aug 13, 2024
Champion of English Freedom with Robin Eagles
Aug 09, 2024
My Lady Jane (2024) with Dr Joanne Paul
Jul 28, 2024
The Battle of Bannockburn: In The Thick of It with Callum Watson
Jul 24, 2024
Confinement: Victorian Motherhood with Jessica Cox
Jul 23, 2024
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother of Europe with Chris Riley
Jul 18, 2024
Reinventing... Anna of Cleves with Heather R Darsie
Jul 16, 2024
The Tudors by Numbers: SIX, Forty-Two and 007 with Carol Ann Lloyd
Jul 10, 2024
The Battle of Bannockburn: The Outlaw King with Callum Watson
Jul 09, 2024
Cecily Neville and the Other Kings' Mothers with Annie Garthwaite
Jul 08, 2024
Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt with Jonathan North
Jul 04, 2024
Being a Tudor Shero with Sharon Bennett Connolly
Jun 30, 2024
The First British Empire with John Oliphant
Jun 27, 2024
Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Young Queen with Chris Riley
Jun 22, 2024
Anthony Woodville with Danielle Burton
Jun 21, 2024
Planet Bridgerton
Jun 20, 2024
Magna Carta with Chris Riley
Jun 15, 2024
The Apple and The Tree with Clemmie Bennett
Jun 12, 2024
Edward I versus France with David Pilling
Jun 10, 2024
The Serpent and The Rose with Catherine Butterfield
Jun 03, 2024
A Gentleman from Japan with Thomas Lockley
Jun 01, 2024
The Real Queen Charlotte with Catherine Curzon (Bonus)
May 21, 2024
The King's Wife: a New Musical
May 19, 2024
The Real Bridgerton with Catherine Curzon
May 17, 2024
There's Something About Mary II with Heather R Darsie
May 13, 2024
At the Gates of Rome with Don Hollway
May 08, 2024
James VI & I in 1603 with Ben Norman
May 04, 2024
Three Queens with Rosamund Gravelle
Apr 23, 2024
The Unmentionable: Shadow of the Titanic with Andrew Wilson
Apr 15, 2024
Titanic: The Unfathomable with W. B. Bartlett
Apr 14, 2024
Titanic: Understanding J. Bruce Ismay with Clifford Ismay
Apr 13, 2024
Titanic: The Unsinkable with Cody Hartman
Apr 12, 2024
Titanic: Day by Day with Simon Medhurst
Apr 11, 2024
Titanic (1997): The Unmistakeable Success
Apr 10, 2024
The Queen and the Mistress with Gemma Hollman
Apr 08, 2024
The Battle of Towton: The Winner Takes It All with Chris Riley
Mar 29, 2024
Mary & George and Royal Kill List
Mar 26, 2024
The Queen is Mad: A New Musical about Juana of Castile
Mar 19, 2024
Strictly Stuarts with Andrea Zuvich
Mar 16, 2024
From Beauforts to Tudors: Henry VII, the Son of Prophecy with Nathen Amin
Mar 01, 2024
Arranged Love Blossom: Tudors and Stuarts Edition
Feb 29, 2024
Strange Bedfellows: Spouses Swiped Left
Feb 28, 2024
Only Love Can Hurt Like This: Unrequited Love
Feb 26, 2024
Improbable Matches at the Royal Court
Feb 21, 2024
I Would Not Wish Any Companion in the World but You: Love as a Choice
Feb 17, 2024
Arranged Love Blossom: Medieval Edition
Feb 14, 2024
The Love that Looks on Tempests: The Windsor Love
Feb 09, 2024
Teaser for Season Two
Feb 08, 2024
Sweet Georgian Carolines with Catherine Curzon
Jan 30, 2024
Holiday Banter with TK
Jan 10, 2024
Saxon, Viking and Norman Girl Power with Sharon Bennett Connolly
Jan 03, 2024
The Crown: Seasons Four, Five, Six...
Dec 24, 2023
Katharine of Aragon: Queenquel
Dec 16, 2023
British History Travel...and some Castles with Molly Anderson
Dec 10, 2023
The Princes in the Tower: The New Evidence
Dec 05, 2023
The White Ship with Chris Riley
Nov 25, 2023
The Crown: Seasons One, Two, Three...
Nov 20, 2023
Young Queens with Leah Redmond Chang
Nov 13, 2023
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
Nov 05, 2023
Royal Witches with Gemma Hollman
Oct 26, 2023
Famous Last Words with Chris Wood
Oct 15, 2023
The Black Death with Chris Riley
Oct 08, 2023
Richard III
Oct 02, 2023
Katharine of Aragon
Sep 25, 2023
Princes, Perfumes and Pomanders with Olka Dott
Sep 17, 2023
Queen Charlotte: A German Princess, A British Queen and A Netflix Darling
Sep 11, 2023
Death in the Theatre with Chris Wood
Aug 28, 2023
Teaser
Aug 24, 2023