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Description: In this episode, Sandi is joined by Dr Christina Lee, Associate Professor in Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham's School of English, who has specialist knowledge of medieval medicines. Christina, whose research is looking at healing in Early Medieval England, joins Sandi Toksvig to talk about potential medicines which were around in the period. The 'eyesalve' which Christina researched with a team of scientist has proved to be efficacious and it shows that people in the so-called 'Dark Ages' may have had effective healing. Together they recreate a remedy from a 10th century book Bald's Leechbook.
Date:: 05/12/2025

Description: Experts from the Universities of Nottingham and Exeter are to ensure that a nationwide survey, commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th-century England and Wales, be made publicly accessible for the first time.The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church of which the Tudor king had just made himself head in his Break with Rome.Valor Ecclesiasticus counted 8,000 parish churches, 650 monasteries, 22 cathedrals and numerous chapels, chantries, colleges, schools, hospitals and poor houses. It took note of their buildings and grounds, their farmland and the commercial, industrial and residential property in which they were invested. And it recorded the names of many of the men and women who lived and worked with these great enterprises and even gave attention to the large number of children, elderly and sick who depended on them for their welfare.
Date:: 12/11/2025

Description: A Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham has led an ambitious new project and produced a fresh, annotated English translation of one of the most important medieval texts of northern Europe – The Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga).
Date:: 12/11/2025

Description: In February 2025, we sat down with Juliet Jacques, author of Trans: A Memoir (2015), Variations (2021), and The Woman in the Portrait (2024), among other works. We discussed her work, its scope, and its influences. We talked about trans experience and how that shapes and is shaped by fictional writing, the influence of political and artistic movements on Jacques' own fiction, modernist film and literature, trans and LGBTQ representation in the media, and much more. The emerging theme of the interview is that of the archive, which here stands as something to be researched, re-purposed, and invented anew, all with the aim of creating both a new aesthetic and drawing important political and cultural lessons. The interview was conducted by Joel Evans (School of English, University of Nottingham) in the company of a live audience.
Date:: 01/07/2025

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