Hitting the headlines
We’re sharing our expertise and changing understanding of history, archaeology and religion over more than two millennia.
Our insight is in demand, from major television series to go-to podcast series, with expertise giving context to news around the globe.
Take a look at just some recent highlights in this snapshot.
News coverage
Year-round our research, civic mission and engagement projects hit headlines.
Four of our latest breakthroughs garnered massive coverage, with 1000+ hits in media outlets globally from specialist journals and magazines like New Scientist, Cosmos and Science News, leading news outlets like The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph to features on radio and television in the UK and internationally.
Public Sphere
Year-round we share our work at home at major institutions.
From the British Library to the Smithsonian and at international events from the Hay Festival to the Eisteddfod, our experts regularly feature in popular talk series.
Watch recent TedX talks
Learning from the past to protect our future
With Professor Mary Heimann
Science, art and imagination
With Professor Jacqui Mulville
Television
Our academics regularly appear on tv screens, giving insight in arts, heritage, history, culture and religion.
Here are just some recent examples:
- Alexander: The Making of a God (Netflix) with Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Art That Made Us (BBC) with Dr Marion Loeffler
- Art of Persia (BBC) with Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Stonehenge: The Discovery with Dan Snow (Channel 5) with Dr Richard Madgwick
- Union with David Olusoga (BBC) episode 1 with Dr Lloyd Bowen
Digging for Britain
Our archaeology projects and excavations regularly feature in this popular BBC television series, revealing the latest archaeology discoveries on our shores.
Three of our 2023 digs featured in the latest series, first hitting screens in January 2024:
Series 11
- Buried Bronze Age: A bronze age roundhouse discovered under a much-loved city park.
- Early Medieval Enigma: Shedding light on the early medieval through a newly discovered cemetery at Fonmon castle (from 27 mins)
- Tintern Abbey Twist: Revealing local life and death after the reformation, thanks to extraordinary bioarchaeology (from 10 mins)
Radio
We share our specialist knowledge on the airwaves too, with mass popular impact on series like BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time.
Our contributions to the long-running history of ideas series include:
- Battle of Salamis with Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Julian the Apostate with Professor Shaun Tougher
- Megaliths with Professor Vicki Cummings
- Persepolis with Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- The Arthashastra with Professor James Hegarty
- The Danelaw with Professor John Hines
- The Eunuch with Professor Shaun Tougher
- The Knights Templar with Professor Helen Nicholson
- The Norse Gods with Professor John Hines
Podcasts
Our experts regularly feature in leading podcasts.
History Hit
- An Early Modern Teenage Werewolf with Dr Jan Machielsen
- Food, Sin and Shame with Dr Eleanor Barnett
- The East India Company with Dr Mark Williams
The Ancients series
Our ancient historians regularly share their expertise and latest research in History Hit spin-off The Ancients. Here are some of the latest, featuring Professor Guy Bradley, Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Dr Eve MacDonald and Dr Louis Rawlings.
Carthage
- Hannibal
- The Rise of Hannibal
- Hannibal Crossing the Alps
- Hannibal’s Greatest Victory
- Hannibal’s Winter War
Persia
Rome
Sasanian Empire
Britain
- The Truth about Iron Age Wales with Dr Oliver Davis
