In 2015, he took up the post of lecturer in the Department of History and Classics at Swansea University.

In January 2016, he co-presented the BBC Two series Victorian Bakers with Annie Gray, a historian, cook, lecturer and writer.

In July 2016, he co-presented the BBC Two series Full Steam Ahead with Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn.

[5] In November 2016, he co-presented the Channel 4 series Britain at Low Tide with paleobiologist Tori Herridge.

[6] In 2019 Langlands co-presented the BBC series Victorian Bakers and served as a judge on Penelope Keith's Village of the Year.