Top History Podcasts

In a country obsessed with gossip, the great and the good fear one thing more than any other - scandal.

British scandals change the co...

On the surface, the Victorian age is one of propriety, industry, prudishness and piety. But scrat....

These are stories you were never meant to hear. The invisible but vital work of the world’s intelligence services: secret operatives playing...

Every scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout and the outrage.

Scandals have shaped America...

Jon Hamm leads an all-star cast that includes Kate Mara, Ana de la Reguera, John Slattery, and Bradley Whitford in the riveting true story behind the making of the one American movie the FBI never wanted you to see....

Did you know that Henry Ford had a massive impact on square dancing in America? Or that the act of recycling traces back to 500 B.C. in Athens....

Behind the closed doors of government offices and military compounds, are hidden stories and buried secrets from the darkest corners of hist...

On New Year's Eve 1999, a young Vladimir Putin appeared on Russian TV screens â۠awkward, self....

In 1984, as a New York City subway train made its way downtown, a white man named Bernhard Goetz shot four unarmed Black teenagers he believed were going to rob him….

The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race. Every part of your life - the words you speak, the ideas you share - can be traced...

It’s not that hard to kill a planet. All it takes is a little drilling, some mining, a generous helping of pollution and voila! Earth over. ...

Humans are resilient. In our toughest moments, we will fight, we will struggle, and we will triumph...often against the odds.

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Crusading knights, Tudor monarchs, the D-Day landings and more. Travel back in time with some of ....

Making sense of the British Empire's legacy... through the stories of people who lived through it....

Veteran journalist Jon Snow gives us unique, untold stories and fresh insight into some of the mo....

Legendary sprinter Michael Johnson embarks upon a personal journey through the history of protest in sport....

We’ve all heard of fake news, but what about fake history? Dominic Sandbrook explores two and a half millennia of human history, traveling from the American Deep South to the air raid shelters of wartime Britain, to discover how the past has constantly been manipulated....

The future of democracy is uncertain. Populist world leaders are dominating headlines and creating a new kind of politics that challenges democratic values and the liberal order....

Yes, it's a strange kind of history. And that’s the way Public Historian Greg Jenner likes it. Because, he says, how we sit, where we sit, what we do when we sit and what happens as a result of all that sitting says a lot about humans past and present....

Ordinary people. Extraordinary stories. Listen to history's unsung heroes who changed the world, ....