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History Cafe

History Cafe

By: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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Summary
 True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building...

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Episodes
  • Slavery was even worse than we thought - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British Enslavement

    Slavery was even worse than we thought - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British Enslavement
    11 Nov 2026
    We repeat this 5-part series in the light of recent discussions in the UK about apologising for/making reparations for enslavement and to dispel the myth, much trumpeted, that the British 'saw the light' first. Which we did not. We try to give a factual outline of the experience of being transported in horrendous conditions from Africa to the British Caribbean against your will. And we open up the debate started in 1938 by the brilliant young Trinidadian historian Eric Williams as to whether it was money or morality that ended British enslavement? The trade in the enslaved was banned in 1807, the enslaved were 'emancipated' in 1833.

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    36 min
  • #60 After 1918 the secrets are out - Ep 8 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

    #60 After 1918 the secrets are out - Ep 8 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
    4 Nov 2026
    The reason we all believe Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst achieved women’s votes in Britain is because that’s the narrative created in the 20s and 30s by former suffragettes. The reality of what Emmeline and Christabel got up to post 1918 is shocking. Suffice it to say it involves racial purity and telling working women they can buy silk underwear, shapely shoes and fur hats, not by improving their working conditions but by giving into the feminine desire for shopping. What?

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    45 min
  • #43 The Suffragettes did not win the vote - Ep 7 The Secret History of the Suffragettes

    #43 The Suffragettes did not win the vote - Ep 7 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
    28 Oct 2026
    Suddenly, after 1913 votes for women looks inevitable. Not through the chaotic, dying campaign of the suffragettes. But through the political brilliance of Millicent Fawcett and the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies. Their 1913 alliance with the Labour Party changes the whole political balance. Now Liberal Prime Minister HH Asquith’s blockheaded intransigence over women’s votes is costing his party dearly and letting the Tories in. At the 1915 election all three parties will be vying to give women the vote. But then… war breaks out.

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    42 min
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