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...

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

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....

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

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

Hollywood and Crime is a ground-breaking true crime series about the most infamous murders in Tinseltown history.

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....

DNA science. Artificial intelligence. Smartphones and 3D printers. Science and technology have transformed the world we live in. But how did...

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….

From 'I Have a Dream' to 'Make America Great Again', there are certain speeches that have....

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

In Search Of Black History with Bonnie Greer brings you face-to-face with the people you n....

Das 19. Jahrhundert ist eine Zeit voller Entdeckungen und Experimente - besonders in der Medizin. Es ist eine Zeit, in der eine neue Sicht auf den Körper und Krankheiten entsteht, alte Vorstellungen aber immer noch wirken. Eine Zeit voller Widersprüche. Im Mittelpunkt des Podcasts stehen nicht...

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....

When protesters descended on the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, they came to peacefully protest racism, politics and the...

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

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....

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....