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From best-selling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes this fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy, historically expressed in ecstatic revels of feasting, costuming, and dancing. Ehrenreich uncovers the origins of communal celebration in human biology and culture, showing that such mass festivities have been indigenous to the West since the ancient Greeks.

Societies that ignore social disintegration and collapsing birth rates are putting their future in peril. So why are we ignoring the signs? ?In The Origin Of Politics, Nicholas Wade explains how our political systems compete with a more ancient set of rules for organizing society—those...

Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won. Engineers of Victory is a fascinating nuts-and-bolts account of the strategic factors that led to Allied victory. Kennedy reveals how the leaders’ grand strategy was carried out by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers, and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success.

Brought to you by Penguin. This is history through the eyes of Mr and Mrs Peasant (and their good friend Monsieur Guillotine...). A globetrotting, laugh-out-loud funny history from the multi-million copy bestselling author of A History of Britain in Ten Enemies and Horrible Histories. Remember...

This book interweaves two narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy's Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Metis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin's last expedition?

Long the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America's frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the western landscape-in art, books, film-is today shared by the figures called "Mountain Men."...

Huellas de Santidad es un podcast narrativo y educativo que cuenta la vida de santos católicos como si fueran historias vivas, cercanas y profundamente humanas. Cada episodio se centra en un santo: su época, sus heridas, sus decisiones, sus dudas, sus milagros y el camino que lo llevó a dejar una marca espiritual en el mundo. Pensado para jóvenes practicantes, jóvenes curiosos y personas que buscan sentido, el show evita el tono solemne o distante para presentar la santidad como una aventura posible, concreta y muchas veces inesperada. A través de relatos cuidados, contexto histórico y ...

Old games, dead platforms, forgotten memes, vanished websites, and the strange little artifacts that somehow survived.

C’est ton droit le balado juridique où le droit est simple à comprendre! Dans cette série podcast, Me Sophie Mongeon fait ce que peu d’avocats osent faire : elle répond sans filtre, en direct et sans langue de bois aux vraies questions du public. Chaque lundi à 19 h 30, sur son TikTok Live (@mesophieavocate), des centaines de personnes bombardent Me Mongeon de questions sur leurs problèmes réels : logement, travail, séparation, dettes, police, employeurs, famille, contrats, voisinage, réseaux sociaux, droits et obligations. Chaque épisode transforme ces échanges bruts en ...

Discover our lesbian and feminist herstory - to shape the future !Lesbians have always been involved in the activism for women's rights, LGBTQI rights, social justice, access to healthcare and medicines, sexual and reproductive rights, environmentalism, peace, decolonial struggles and anti-racist vigilance. Strangely enough they are way too often erased, forgotten, and overlooked. This is what is known as the “lesbian invisibility”. And this is precisely why Evien Tjabbes, a long-standing member of ILIS and now actively involved in the current international lesbian network, called EL*C, ...

Real history. Big stories. Unexpected adventures.Jump Through History is a fun, story-driven history podcast for curious kids, families and classroom historians.Join history performer and presenter Mr Dilly, and history teacher and writer Matt Howorth, as they jump into some of the most dramatic and unforgettable true stories from the past! From revolutions and disasters to explorers, battles, survival stories, you'll discover moments that changed the world forever.Each episode we uncover the people, mysteries, strange and unbelievable twists hidden inside history’s greatest stories — as ...

On Replay the Rewind, host Kate Evans sits down with historians, journalists, leaders, and changemakers to uncover the stories, decisions, and moments that shaped our world. Through thoughtful conversations and unexpected connections between past and present, each episode brings history to life in a fresh and engaging way.

Il 2 giugno 1946 gli italiani eleggono 21 deputate all'Assemblea Costituente.In questo podcast, dedicato ai più giovani, vi raccontiamo, in 8 episodi, il loro lavoro, le loro emozioni e le loro difficoltà, per capire meglio le battaglie che hanno affrontato per affermare i diritti delle donne nella nostra Costituzione.Ciascun episodio parla di una protagonista e di temi fondamentali, che riguardano la vita di tutti: il diritto all’istruzione, il diritto al lavoro, i principi di uguaglianza e pari opportunità. Sono questioni che hanno attraversato il dibattito dell’Assemblea Costituente ...

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

In The Black Dahlia Serial Killers, host Tracy Pattin investigates the sensational unsolved murder of Elizabeth Short. Known as the Black Dahlia, Short was a star-struck young woman whose body was found completely severed at the waist in January 1947. Many remember her tragic story, yet few know that more than a dozen other women died in similar circumstances around that same time.

H. G. Wells examines the origins of the Earth, and the development of life upon the planet, as it was understood in his era, and then explores the history of human civilization from its earliest beginnings, through the various empires of world history, up to the aftermath of the First World War, and the League of Nations.

The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the fifth century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. Joined here are the sheer drama of Herodotus' narrative of the Persian invasions of Greece, and the endless curiosity - turning now to cannabis, now to the Pyramids - which make his book the source of so much of our knowledge of the ancient world. 

In this second part of the famous diary specially adapted for audio, Pepys gives us vivid eye-witness accounts of two famous events: the Plague and the Great Fire of London. Not only do we learn how these two events affected the people of London but also how Pepys and his family were affected...

From the political storytelling of the Bayeux tapestry's anonymous embroiderers and Mary, Queen of Scots' treasonous stitching, to the sewing of First World War soldiers suffering from PTSD and the banner makers at Greenham Common, Threads of Life stretches from medieval France to 1980s America, from a Second World War POW camp in Singapore to a family attic in Scotland. It is as much about identity, protest, memory and politics as craft and artistry.