Top History Podcasts

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

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....

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

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....

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....

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 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....

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....

An audio dramatisation in 6 episodes of With Our Backs To The Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918....

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

Prosegue e termina, con questo quarto volume, il nostro viaggio nella storia dell’omicidio attraverso le età contemporanea, rinascimentale, medioevale e...

An audio dramatisation of July 1914 Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin.....

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