Alice Loxton

How much do we really know about history and how much do we trust about what we know? How do fashions in history and opinions change as new evidence emerges or old evidence is looked at afresh? Why are there huge arguments and rivalries between historians? Most importantly, why is Chalke so successful and popular? Charlie Higson and his guests examine these and other big questions to try to get to the bottom of why we are so fascinated by history. This event will be recorded for Charlie’s Willy Willy Harry Steve podcast.

Our annual comedy history panel show is back this year with some familiar faces and some new ones too as our teams show off their deep historical knowledge under the watchful eye of Quiz Master, Charlie Higson. Expect historical high jinks, merry mayhem and two teams playing the fool with more larks than the greatest of court jesters.

What if walls could talk? For historian Madeleine Pelling, they can - if you know where to look. From the centre of London to the islands of the Caribbean, Pelling goes in search of graffiti, evidence of how ordinary people experienced the world-changing events that defined their lives - from political prisoners to sex workers, homesick sailors, Romantic poets and the artisans of the industrial revolution. Here are lives, loves, triumphs and failures, scratched into the walls of prisons and latrines, chalked up on doors and etched into windows. The names of their creators may be lost to history, but together they tell the real story of Britain's most rebellious and transformative century.