Ye Olde Guide

A podcast guide to the history of English urban life

LATEST EPISODE Series 1

Oxford: Dreaming Spires

Mar 15, 2026 Ye Olde Guide 0

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London’s West End Squares

Feb 7, 2026 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Stockport: The Town Built in Layers

Dec 1, 2025 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Towns in Turmoil and Transition – The Tudor & Stuart Era

Aug 18, 2025 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Britain Invented the Metro—So Why Did It Stop?

Jul 1, 2025 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Nottingham

May 6, 2025 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Lost Cities of England

Apr 21, 2025 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Brighton – Regency City by the Sea

Mar 25, 2025 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Castles & Cathedrals: The rise of the medieval English city

Feb 9, 2025 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Peterborough: Historic city, New town

Dec 9, 2024 Ye Olde Guide 0

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London’s Olympic Legacies: Unveiling historic venues 1908 to 2012

Jul 24, 2024 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Liverpool: trade hub and cultural colossus (4 part episode)

May 25, 2024 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Local Museums: essential narrators of urban history

Mar 20, 2024 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Southampton: port & gateway of England

Jan 13, 2024 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Settling in Stone: Tracing the First Steps of British Towns

Aug 24, 2023 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Stoke-on-Trent: Polycentric city of ceramics

May 31, 2023 Ye Olde Guide 1

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England’s best walled cities

Mar 24, 2023 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Cambridge: Town and Gown

Feb 28, 2023 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Warrington: town of many industries

Oct 16, 2022 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Windsor & Eton

Oct 5, 2022 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Hull

Jun 29, 2022 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Shrewsbury: quintessential English market town

May 10, 2022 Ye Olde Guide 1

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History of Lancaster: Georgian Maritime Centre

Mar 21, 2022 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Lincoln: tallest, steepest, bloodiest? – a city of superlatives

Feb 13, 2022 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Colchester: Britain’s first town

Jan 25, 2022 Ye Olde Guide 1

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History of Wakefield

Dec 29, 2021 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Great Yarmouth – Beyond the Beach

Nov 3, 2021 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Chester – ancient capital of the northwest

Sep 15, 2021 Ye Olde Guide 3

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Bath – Georgian England, preserved

Aug 11, 2021 Ye Olde Guide 0

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History of Coventry: a tale of three cathedrals

Jun 27, 2021 Ye Olde Guide 2

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History of Swindon – a railway legacy

Jan 29, 2021 Ye Olde Guide 0

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Reading: rock and royalty

Dec 23, 2020 Ye Olde Guide 3