Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3)
16 Dec 2024
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By 711 Europe and the Frankish warlords were facing a graver threat than ever before. Bands of North...
521. Warlords of the West: Killer Queens (Part 2)
12 Dec 2024
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Following the death of the legendary Frankish King Clovis, his son Clothar I divided the mighty real...
520. Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1)
09 Dec 2024
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The Rise of the Franks - a mighty host of warlords; forefathers of the western world and forgers of ...
519. The World's First City
05 Dec 2024
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In as early as 5000 BC the vast and spectacular city of Uruk - replete with towering walls, glisteni...
518. Nelson: The Battle of the Nile (Part 5)
02 Dec 2024
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The 1st of August 1798 saw the British fleet sailing towards Alexandria into a land of classical his...
517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4)
28 Nov 2024
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In the wake of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797, Horatio Nelson, though a much acclaimed publi...
516. Nelson: God of War (Part 3)
25 Nov 2024
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Valentine’s day, 1797: the British Royal Navy are hoping for a decisive clash with the Spanish ene...
515. Nelson: Attack the French! (Part 2)
21 Nov 2024
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It is 1793 and France has declared war on Britain, meaning that the British navy must serve as both ...
514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1)
18 Nov 2024
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It’s 1758 and Britain’s greatest naval commander has just been born. The young Horatio Nelson ha...
513. America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeback (Part 6)
14 Nov 2024
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“Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!” It's the 5th of November 1968, and Ric...
512. America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5)
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, ha...
511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4)
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” George Wallace, Governor of Alaba...
510. America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3)
04 Nov 2024
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“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatre...
509. America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2)
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had i...
508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1)
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.” On the night of Sunday, 3...
507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5)
24 Oct 2024
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“Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!” Written after the declaration o...
506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4)
23 Oct 2024
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The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever ...
505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3)
20 Oct 2024
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During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in th...
504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2)
16 Oct 2024
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“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a f...
503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1)
13 Oct 2024
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Welcome to Season 2 of The French Revolution! Revolutionary fervour threatens to engulf the streets...
502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4)
09 Oct 2024
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In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British ...
501. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3)
06 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the islan...
500. The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2)
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Viewed as an idiot by those around him, Claudius felt the need to prove himself. In the century sinc...
499. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar’s Invasion (Part 1)
29 Sep 2024
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Julius Caesar saw the Britons as brutal savages. Yet the Romans romanticised their lack of civilisat...
498. Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5)
25 Sep 2024
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After lying in state in an open casket, Evita’s corpse is taken down to a secret laboratory in the...
497. Evita: Death of a Martyr (Part 4)
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The workaholic mother of a nation, Evita’s health deteriorates and she faints at a public event. A...
496. Evita: The World's Most Powerful Woman (Part 3)
22 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“There is only one man who can lead any worker’s regime.” Together, Eva and Colonel Perón bu...
495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2)
18 Sep 2024
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An admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, Colonel Perón rose through the ranks during the 1943 military c...
494. Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1)
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Don’t cry for me Argentina, the truth is I never left you.” Few political figures have been...
493. Lee Miller: Exposing the Horrors of World War Two
11 Sep 2024
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It’s August 1944: the Liberation of Paris is underway, and France appears to slowly be extricating...
492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2)
09 Sep 2024
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“I like an Englishman to look like an Englishman, and beards are foreign and breed vermin. Also de...
491. History's Greatest Beards: From Egyptian Queens to Medieval Conquerors (Part 1)
08 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What did Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, and Ragnar Lothbrok all have in common? Apart from their notorious ...
490. Hundred Years' War: England Triumphant (Part 4)
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
St Crispin’s day, 1415: Henry V stands victorious, after a tremendous defeat of the French forces ...
489. Hundred Years' War: Bloodbath at Agincourt (Part 3)
01 Sep 2024
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“We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”. The Battle of Agincourt in 1415 endures as perhaps...
488. Hundred Years' War: The Road to Agincourt (Part 2)
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the 11th of August 1415, King Henry V of England - an austere, pious, thoughtful and terrifying w...
487. Hundred Years' War: Henry V’s Invasion of France (Part 1)
25 Aug 2024
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“Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more, we'll close the wall up with our English dead...
486. Henry IV: Warrior Princes and Fat Knights (Part 2)
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 1403, and the Usurper King, Henry IV, faces a seemingly insurmountable challenge to his ...
485. Henry IV: The Usurper King (Part 1)
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…” Henry IV has been portrayed as both a shadowy, obscu...
484. The Food that Changed the World
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The unexpected evolution of Italian food can serve as a tantalising doorway into some of the greates...
483. The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man
11 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Sussex, in 1912, men quarrying in a gravel pit near Piltdown village turned up a human skull. Acc...
482. The French Revolution: The Royal Family Escapes (Part 8)
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Twelve months after the dramatic Women’s March on Versailles, the Revolution proper was well into ...
481. The French Revolution: The Women's March on Versailles (Part 7)
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By the summer of 1789 the different sections of the Revolution were at loggerheads, and the recently...
480. The French Revolution: The Rights of Man (Part 6)
05 Aug 2024
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“Liberté, égalité, fraternité!” Alongside violence, the French Revolution is a story of p...
479. The French Revolution: The Storming of the Bastille (Part 5)
04 Aug 2024
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“It was violence that made the revolution revolutionary”. The storming of the Bastille is viewe...
478. The French Revolution: Showdown in Versailles (Part 4)
01 Aug 2024
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In the summer of 1788, a monstrous storm swept across France, wiping out the crucial wheat harvest. ...
477. The French Revolution: The Violence Begins (Part 3)
31 Jul 2024
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With seismic antecedents such as the Glorious Revolution in England and the American War of Independ...
476. The French Revolution: The Diamond Necklace Scandal (Part 2)
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In August 1785 a shocking affair came to light which would prove so detrimental to the reputation an...
475. The French Revolution: Marie Antoinette (Part 1)
28 Jul 2024
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The French Revolution is one of the great seismic events of global history. A devouring conflagratio...
474. The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6)
25 Jul 2024
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“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime” In th...
473. The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We have been forced to draw the sword”. Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturd...
472. The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4)
21 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary, ...
471. The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3)
18 Jul 2024
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On the 20th of July 1914 the heads of state of two great European powers - France and Russia - met i...
470. The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (Part 2)
17 Jul 2024
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In the wake of the cataclysmic assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th of June 1914, in Austria...
469. The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)
14 Jul 2024
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By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at wa...
468. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4)
10 Jul 2024
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand has arrived in Sarajevo for a military inspection, alongside his wife, Soph...
467. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3)
07 Jul 2024
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, as heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the most important men ...
466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2)
03 Jul 2024
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Gavrilo Princip, having been sent to school in Sarajevo, has become mixed up with the wrong crowd, a...
465. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1)
30 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in Jun...
Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar (Extract)
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To coincide with the re-release of Dynasty in audiobook, now with Tom Holland himself narrating, we ...
464. Modern British Elections (Part 2)
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
From the turn of the 20th century, election campaigns - though still replete with politicians behavi...
463. Mad Elections (Part 1)
23 Jun 2024
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"Good God I am shot! I shall die!" The colourful kaleidoscope of British elections from 1265 to thei...
462. St George: Dragon-Slayer
19 Jun 2024
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The image of Saint George astride his horse, sword and spear in hand, slaying a dragon, is one of th...
461. Dragons
16 Jun 2024
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"When dragons flew to war… everything burned. I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone...
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic (Extract)
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To coincide with the re-release of Rubicon in audiobook, now with Tom Holland himself narrating it, ...
460. The Empress of the Apocalypse
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 972AD a princess of the Byzantine Empire was sent by her uncle, the Roman emperor in Constantinop...
459. The Suit, Savile Row, and Smartly Dressed Men
09 Jun 2024
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"His clothes seemed to melt into each other with the perfection of their cut and the quiet harmony o...
458. Helen of Troy: A Family of Blood (Part 2)
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1870 the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann - a man of remarkable energy, desperately fasci...
457. Helen of Troy: Queen of the Greek Myths (Part 1)
02 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of Helen of Troy, her remarkable birth and her infamous love affair with Paris, the Trojan...
456. Fall of the Sioux: The Massacre at Wounded Knee (Part 3)
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I will bury my heart, at Wounded Knee" With Native American culture in free fall in the years follo...
455. Fall of the Sioux: The Ghost Dance (Part 2)
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Following the tragic death of Crazy Horse and the ruthless cessation of the Sioux way of life, the l...
454. Fall of the Sioux: Death of Crazy Horse (Part 1)
26 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Though the Battle of the Little Bighorn seemed for the triumphant Lakota and their allies - the larg...
453. Custer's Last Stand: The Final Showdown (Part 8)
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What happened between the moment that George A. Custer dispatched a trumpeter with his famous final ...
452. Custer's Last Stand: The Battle of the Little Bighorn (Part 7)
20 May 2024
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“You and I are going home today, and by a trail that is strange to us both…” The Battle of The...
451. Custer's Last Stand: The Charge of the 7th Cavalry (Part 6)
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. was cast into a spiralling panic following the economic depression of 1873, and waves of pa...
450. Custer's Last Stand: Death in the Black Hills (Part 5)
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the barbaric Washita River massacre, George Custer found himself drifting; addicted t...
449. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Rise of Sitting Bull (Part 4)
12 May 2024
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"What would you do if your home was attacked? You would stand up like a brave man and defend it. Tha...
448. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Horse-Lords of the Plains (Part 3)
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Of all the great characters entangled in the story of George A. Custer and the American Indian Wars...
447. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: The Winning of the West (Part 2)
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With the American Civil War coming to a close in April 1865, George Custer, cavalry commander in the...
446. Custer vs. Crazy Horse: Civil War (Part 1)
05 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Come on, you Wolverines!” The story of the American Indian Wars of 1862-68 is an enthralling ta...
445. The Habsburgs: Secrets of a Dynasty
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, the Habsburg dynasty's mightiest ruler, was at once King of Spain,...
444. The First Emperor of China
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided….” The First Emperor of China, Qin Shi ...
443. Lord Byron: Death of a Vampire (Part 4)
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rumours surrounding Lord Byron’s scandalous divorce rippled throughout the world. Finally, he had ...
442. Lord Byron: Dangerous Liaisons (Part 3)
21 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Good God I am surely in hell! Upon Lord Byron’s return to England and the publication of Childe ...
441. Lord Byron: Scandal, Sex and Celebrity (Part 2)
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
By 1809, Lord Byron found himself untethered and debt-ridden. Disenchanted with politics, frustrated...
440. Lord Byron: Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know (Part 1)
14 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few lives from history can have contained as many strange and exciting strands as that of Lord Byron...
439. Disco: Sex and Race in Seventies America
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by… The explosion of Disco provides a...
438. The Moonwalkers, with Tom Hanks
07 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, ...
437. Luther: A World Torn Apart (Part 5)
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“I think there is not a devil left in hell, they have all gone into the peasants… smite, stab an...
436. Luther: Showdown with the Emperor (Part 4)
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.…Her...
435. Luther: The Battle Against Satan (Part 3)
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Three years on from Martin Luther’s publication of the Ninety-Five Theses - a shocking attack on t...
434. Luther: The Revolution Begins (Part 2)
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Luther is one of the few people to have genuinely changed the world, igniting a religious rev...
433. Luther: The Man Who Changed the World (Part 1)
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Reformation, launched in 1517, stands as one of the most convulsive and transformative events of...
432. Titanic: The Survivors (Part 6)
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Then it is I drown again, with all those dim lost faces I never understood… Include me in your la...
431. Titanic: Nightmare at Midnight (Part 5)
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“A story of horror unparalleled in the annals of the Sea.” On the 14th of April 1912, Titanic, a...
430. Titanic: The Iceberg Strikes (Part 4)
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is Sunday the 14th of April 1912, and the passengers of the Titanic, from the tycoons in first cl...
429. Titanic: Countdown to Disaster (Part 3)
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The drama and tragedy of the Titanic’s sinking has spawned all manner of myths about those who lef...
428. Titanic: Kings of the World (Part 2)
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Titanic was a product of the furious competition of the late Gilded Age, and no expenses were sp...
427. Titanic: The Tragedy Begins (Part 1)
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience wil...
426. History's Greatest Monkeys
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, ...
425. The History Of Chocolate
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
‘For if a person fatigued with long and hard labour, or with a violent agitation of the mind, take...