Browse the 19th Century era within the In Our Time archive.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), celebrated American poet.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Elizabeth Gaskell's novel North and South from 1855.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Clare, poet and farm labourer.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Nietzsche's On The Genealogy of Morality.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, for our Listener Week.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss JMW Turner's The Fighting Temeraire.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the invention of photography.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Corn Laws of the 19th century.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Social Darwinism.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of Rudyard Kipling.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss behavioural ecology.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the California Gold Rush of the 1850s.
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work of the 18th-century writer Fanny Burney.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Lancashire cotton famine during the American Civil War
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Utilitarianism.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, first published in 1847.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Frederick II, king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss perpetual motion.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Emma, the novel by Jane Austen.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the scientist Michael Faraday.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origins, development and uses of chromatography.
