The Glorious Revolution
Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast 21 May 2025 In this episode we hear all about the Glorious Revolution, a pivotal moment in British history that saw the overthrow of King James II and the accession to the throne of William III and Mary II.
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: English Revolution 2, 1688
Past, Present, Future podcast with David Runciman 16 February 2025 In the second of our episodes with historian Clare Jackson on the English revolutions of the 17th century we discuss the one that usually gets called ‘Glorious’: the revolution of 1688.
The History of Revolutionary Ideas: English Revolution 1, 1640s
Past, Present, Future podcast with David Runciman 13 February 2025 David talks to historian Clare Jackson about whether this really was a revolution and about the thinking that inspired it.
Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump
BBC Radio 4 Nov 2024 Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the art of diplomacy from Ancient Greece to the Tudors and today’s shifting international security as well as how its portrayed on screen in dramas like the BBC’s Wolf Hall and the Netflix series The Diplomat.
Talking Politics: Clare Jackson on the United Kingdom, Scotland & the politics of memory
2015 Will the United Kingdom stay together? What have England’s politicians got wrong that Scotland’s have got right? We put these questions to the historian and documentary-presenter Clare Jackson, whose widely acclaimed BBC series on the Stuart dynasty was broadcast in the run-up to Referendum last year.
Versus History – Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 with Clare Jackson
2022 An interview with Dr Clare Jackson, the winner of Wolfson History Prize 2022 about her book, ‘Devil-Land:England Under Siege, 1588-1688′.
Talking Tudors: Devil-Land: England Under Siege with Clare Jackson
2022 Natalie Grueninger speaks with Clare Jackson about her latest book, ‘Devil Land’.
Free Thinking: The English Civil War
BBC Radio 3 Jan 2023 Rana Mitter talks to three historians, Jonathan Healey, Anna Keay and Clare Jackson, about politics, religion and divisions in 17th-century England.
Bear Grylls on Who Do You Think You Are?
Adventurer Bear Grylls discovers the stories behind the top secret documents hidden in his grandfather’s wartime trunk and is delighted by a Scottish royal connection.
Gunpowder 5-11, The Greatest Terror Plot
For the first time, the inner secrets of the gunpowder plotters are dramatised using the actual words of their most senior captured leader Thomas Wintour, Guy Fawkes and state interrogators investigating the 18-month conspiracy in which a family circle of militant Catholic gentlemen tried to blow up King and Parliament. BBC 2 November 2015