ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Every object has a story to tell. But how can one mystery item lead us on a journey through history, people and places?
In the English Heritage podcast, comedian and writer Amy Matthews brings you entertaining tales from unexpected places. Each week, we begin with a mystery item and with the help of English Heritage experts and special guests, Amy explores what our past can tell us about our present and perhaps our future.
Follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
In the English Heritage podcast, comedian and writer Amy Matthews brings you entertaining tales from unexpected places. Each week, we begin with a mystery item and with the help of English Heritage experts and special guests, Amy explores what our past can tell us about our present and perhaps our future.
Follow us wherever you get your podcasts.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
45 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United Kingdom
397 episodes
since March 29, 2019
episodic
AUDIENCE OF THIS PODCAST 🔗
~54.56% of listeners are from United States.
🇺🇸
US
54.56%
🇬🇧
GB
18.47%
🇳🇱
NL
6.93%
🇦🇺
AU
4.13%
🇸🇬
SG
2.53%
🇨🇦
CA
2.33%
🇪🇸
ES
1.26%
🇩🇪
DE
1.26%
🇫🇮
FI
1.06%
🇮🇩
ID
0.73%
🇹🇼
TW
0.66%
🇧🇪
BE
0.60%
🇮🇹
IT
0.46%
🇨🇭
CH
0.40%
🇳🇿
NZ
0.40%
🇮🇳
IN
0.40%
🇹🇷
TR
0.33%
🇻🇳
VN
0.33%
🇨🇿
CZ
0.26%
🇫🇷
FR
0.26%
🇲🇹
MT
0.26%
🇮🇪
IE
0.20%
🇦🇪
AE
0.20%
🇦🇹
AT
0.20%
🇿🇦
ZA
0.20%
🇲🇲
MM
0.13%
🇲🇪
ME
0.13%
🇦🇱
AL
0.13%
🇧🇷
BR
0.13%
Others
1.06%
* Data source: directly measured on Listen Notes. real-time
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
The day that changed English history forever has dawned.
In this episode of English Heritage’s special 1066 series, host Amy Matthews looks at the Battle of Hastings as it happened, using established facts and some creative speculation.
Joining her are Roy Porter, Senior Curator of Proper…
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PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Following our look at the Bayeux Tapestry in Episode 1, host Amy Matthews explores the dramatic events leading up to the Battle of Hastings. Joining her are regular guest Roy Porter (Senior Curator of Properties at English Heritage) and Dr Rebecca Tyson (expert in 11th-century maritime history at t…
From Long Meg and her Daughters to the Devil’s Arrows to Hetty Pegler’s Tump, the British Isles is dotted with ancient places with curious names. But who came up with those titles and what inspired them?
This time, Amy is joined by English Heritage’s Curator of History, Al Oswald and C…
Welcome to the first episode of our brand-new, seven-part English Heritage Podcast video series exploring the historic events of 1066.
This episode unravels the years long journey to bring the iconic 70-metre Bayeux Tapestry back to English soil for a landmark exhibition at the Briti…
In this episode, host Amy Matthews is joined by Kevin Booth, English Heritage’s Head Curator of Collections, and Professor Caroline Wilkinson, Director of Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University. Together, they explore how forensic science created a lifelike facial depiction of "Conquest Man" …
The English Heritage Podcast goes live! Host Amy Matthews records in front of a live audience at Audley End House during the 2026 Gardeners’ World Autumn Fair.
Joined by English Heritage experts Andrew Hann, Michael Klemperer and Emily Parker, Amy explores how gardening evolved from a practi…
In this episode, we explore how a simple piece of Roman pottery - a red Samian bowl - can reveal the hidden lives of people living in Britain nearly 2,000 years ago.
Found at Corbridge Roman Town, this artifact features a unique bit of ancient graffiti translating to "Nico slav…
Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall is Britain's most complete Roman fort. From the remains of its buildings, we can get a good idea of what it looked like. But how did the bathhouse smell? Or, perhaps more importantly, what about the latrines? What did the food taste like? And what sounds wou…
Step through the doors of Britain’s surviving medieval barns and you enter a space that once fed whole communities.
This week, Amy Matthews meets Dr Lydia Miller and Dr Nick Holder to explore the surprising power of England’s great barns.
This year ma…
Audley End House in Essex is still one of England’s finest mansions. To look at it today, you’d never know it started life as Walden Abbey, a Benedictine monastery dissolved by Henry VIII.
The story of its journey from monastery to mansion involves intrigue, fraud, brazen ambition and a cast of c…
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