
Mark Knights
Professor of History at the University of Warwick.
4 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
The Hanoverian Succession
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the struggle by Whig politicians in London to have a Protestant from Hanover crowned at Westminster Abbey rather than the Catholic son of James II.
28 November 2024
Also featuring: Andreas Gestrich, Elaine Chalus
John Bull
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Arbuthnot's satirical figure, created in 1712 as an anthropomorphised bull, and its role as a representation of an English or British everyman.
30 June 2022
Also featuring: Judith Hawley, Miles Taylor
The Gordon Riots
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why a Westminster protest against 'Popery' in June 1780 led to widespread rioting across London, lethally suppressed.
2 May 2019
Also featuring: Ian Haywood, Catriona Kennedy
Titus Oates and his 'Popish Plot'
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Titus Oates and his role in starting and spreading rumours of a 'Popish Plot' against Charles II.
12 May 2016
Also featuring: Clare Jackson, Peter Hinds