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Join your host Dr Fiona Richards as she interviews our Experts on History!

We'll meet historians, archaeologists and curators who are experts in their field and hear about the lives of people who have made history their jobs, learn fascinating facts about the past, and go on a journey through world history. Fiona also includes questions for our experts that were sent in by WHE readers. 

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  • Everyday Discoveries Reshaping History | Ian Richardson & Michael Lewis

    Everyday Discoveries Reshaping History | Ian Richardson & Michael Lewis
    Nov 29 2025

    Ian Richardson, Senior Treasure Registrar at the British Museum, explores how everyday discoveries made by the public have reshaped our understanding of Britain’s past. He explains the Portable Antiquity Scheme and the Treasure Act, showing how ordinary finds from metal detecting, gardening, or chance become part of the national record. In this talk, he shares stories of remarkable discoveries including a Bronze Age gold vessel mistaken for a light fitting, a rare Roman cavalry helmet, thousands of Anglo-Norman silver pennies buried after the Battle of Hastings, and even a jar of American gold coins hidden in a London garden. Richardson also explains how finds are reported, how museums decide what to keep, and why recording even small objects can reveal lost settlements and forgotten landscapes, while reflecting on the luck, strategy, and thrill behind uncovering history beneath our feet.

    Ian Richardson and Michael Lewis wrote Beneath Our Feet: Everyday Discoveries Reshaping History, going into greater depth on many of these stories and exploring the important role of the public in uncovering the past.


    📚 Buy the book here:

    Beneath Our Feet: Everyday Discoveries Reshaping History

    by Ian Richardson & Michael Lewis

    https://www.worldhistory.org/books/0500027528


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    The music used in this recording is the intellectual copyright of Michael Levy, a prolific composer for the recreated lyres of antiquity, and used with the creator's permission. Michael Levy's music is available to stream at all the major digital music platforms. Find out more on:

    https://www.ancientlyre.com

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v?si=emacIH9CRieFNGXRUyJ9

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1X6F7lGMEadnNETSzTv8A


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  • The Surprising Life of Christopher Marlowe | Harrison Mark

    The Surprising Life of Christopher Marlowe | Harrison Mark
    Nov 22 2025

    Step into the fascinating world of Elizabethan England with historian and educator Harrison Mark, as he explores the life, works, and mysterious death of Christopher Marlowe, one of the most influential—and controversial—figures in English literary history.

    In this conversation, Harrison shares his passion for history and literature, tracing Marlowe’s journey from his humble beginnings to his groundbreaking plays and poetry that transformed English drama. Discover how Marlowe’s bold themes of politics, religion, violence, and forbidden love pushed the boundaries of Renaissance theater and inspired none other than William Shakespeare.

    The lecture also dives deep into the mysteries surrounding Marlowe’s life: his rumored role as a spy for Queen Elizabeth I, his dangerous ideas on religion, his sexuality, and the suspicious circumstances of his early death—murder or secret escape? Harrison unpacks the myths and historical evidence with clarity and insight.

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    The music used in this recording is the intellectual copyright of Michael Levy, a prolific composer for the recreated lyres of antiquity, and used with the creator's permission. Michael Levy's music is available to stream at all the major digital music platforms. Find out more on:

    https://www.ancientlyre.com

    https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v?si=emacIH9CRieFNGXRUyJ9

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1X6F7lGMEadnNETSzTv8A


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    44 m
  • The New Roman Empire - Interview with Anthony Kaldellis

    The New Roman Empire - Interview with Anthony Kaldellis
    Nov 15 2025
    A major new history of the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as Byzantium), from Constantine to 1453 by author and scholar Anthony Kaldellis. In recent decades, the study of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, has been revolutionized by new approaches and more sophisticated models for how its society and state operated. No longer looked upon as a pale facsimile of classical Rome, Byzantium is now considered a vigorous state of its own, inheritor of many of Rome's features, and a vital node in the first truly globalized world. The New Roman Empire is the first full, single-author history of the eastern Roman empire to appear in over a generation. Covering political and military history as well as all the major changes in religion, society, demography, and economy, Anthony Kaldellis's volume is divided into ten chronological sections which begin with the foundation of Constantinople in 324 AD and end with the fall of the empire to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth century. The book incorporates new findings, explains recent interpretive models, and presents well-known historical characters and events in a new light. — BUY THE BOOK HERE — The New Roman Empire - A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-new-roman-empire-9780197549322?utm_campaign=8692uxaqm&utm_source=third%20party&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=web+banner+link&utm_term=world+history+encyclopedia — EXTRAS — Other publications by Anthony Kaldellis: https://kaldellispublications.weebly.com/ Byzantium & Friends - A podcast on Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis: https://byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/ — CHAPTERS — 00:00 Intro 00:40 What is your book about? 03:15 Did you get to focus on the everyday people? 05:15 How could the Empire sustain for so long? 07:38 Why did you write this book now? 08:39 Did you find anything surprising during your research? 10:50 How did you approach your book? 15:20 On the bad reputation of the Byzantine Empire 22:50 Outro — WANT TO KNOW MORE? — Byzantium https://www.worldhistory.org/Byzantium/ Byzantine Empire https://www.worldhistory.org/Byzantine_Empire/ Philo of Byzantium's On the Seven Wonders https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2257/philo-of-byzantiums-on-the-seven-wonders/ The Isaurians and the End of Germanic Influence in Byzantium https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1346/the-isaurians-and-the-end-of-germanic-influence-in/ Byzantine-Armenian Relations https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1207/byzantine-armenian-relations/ — BUY OUR MERCH — https://www.worldhistory.store​/​ — SUPPORT US VIA OUR PATREON— https://www.patreon.com/join/whencyclopedia — ATTRIBUTIONS — The music used in this recording is the intellectual copyright of Michael Levy, a prolific composer for the recreated lyres of antiquity, and used with the creator's permission. Michael Levy's music is available to stream at all the major digital music platforms. Find out more on: https://www.ancientlyre.com https://open.spotify.com/artist/7Dx2vFEg8DmOJ5YCRm4A5v?si=emacIH9CRieFNGXRUyJ9 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1X6F7lGMEadnNETSzTv8A World History Encyclopedia www.worldhistory.org
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