Top History Podcasts

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

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

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

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....

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....

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

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....

Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character of all time, and he has been reimagined....

A five part series exploring how the story of Western ideology may have unfolded differently in the 20th Century, based on the undelivered speeches of world leaders. Features academics, writers and historians talking to presenter Professor Suzannah Lipscomb....

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

Narrated by award-winning actor Martin Sheen, The Home Front: Life in America During World War....

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

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....

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….

A crew of 47 aboard an Alaskan fishing boat ominously nicknamed “The Danger Ranger” had been counting on a final run deep into the Bering Sea as a last-ditch effort to save a mediocre fishing season....

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....

Broadcaster, comedian and writer Mark Dolan interrogates the most intriguing people imaginable....