Elinor Evans News Today

Antonia Hylton explores the story of Crownsville Hospital, one of the last segregated asylums in the USA

Madeleine Pelling explores the stories behind historical graffiti, from chalk markings to glyphs scratched onto windows, to reveal what they can tell us about life in 18th-century Britain

Dane Kennedy discusses two ill-fated British expeditions that aimed to explore the interior of West Africa in the early 19th century, but ended in catastrophe

Suzanne Fagence Cooper answers listener questions on the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement, which re-emphasised the role of the maker in the artistic process

Hugo Wong shares the personal stories of two young men who left China in the late 19th century for the riches of California, encountering both opportunity and prejudice

Helen Fry introduces the women who secretly worked in wartime intelligence centres and behind enemy lines in the world wars

Elinor Evans reveals that the Boston Tea Party occurred against a backdrop of bloodshed

Annie Sulzberger, head of research for Netflix's flagship historical drama 'The Crown', explains how the show's real history elements are stitched into the storylines, and offers her take on dramatising the Windsors

The Boston Tea Party is often cited as a model of peaceful civil protest. But, as Elinor Evans reveals, on the 250th anniversary of this milestone in America’s foundational story, it occurred against a backdrop of bloodshed

Nancy C Unger answers questions on the so-called Gilded Age in the United States of America, considering life in tenements of industrial cities, and the mansions of the elite