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A conversation about the world of history, featuring interviews with key historians and authors and discussions about historical themes and ideas.
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Listen to History Today Podcast, a Society & Culture podcast by Katie Holyoak. Stream 97 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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The Crown Lost at Sea
This year marks the 900th anniversary of the worst maritime disaster suffered by the English Crown and, arguably, by England. The sinking of...
The Wars of the Roses: The Queen who Lost Everything
In the Wars of the Roses, Margaret is remembered as a warrior queen, the ‘she-wolf of France’. But the means by which she operated in the pe...
Foreign Correspondents in the Soviet Union
Over the past hundred years, foreign correspondents have been central to the West’s understanding of Russia’s political and cultural turning...
Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds
During the last week of September an Azerbaijani offensive re-ignited a decades-old conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno...
‘The Terrible Lioness’
The Sikh queen Jind Kaur inherited an empire shaken by unexpected deaths and embroiled in civil war, but her biggest problem was the British...
Terror on Wall Street
A terrorist attack on Wall Street on 16 September 1920 aroused suspicion of anarchists, socialists and foreigners, as America saw danger aro...
The Power of the Royal Mistress
In 1660, the Royalist exiles were returning with European languages, manners and culture in tow. Yet, of all the European imports that Charl...
The Rise of the Valkyries
Life and death in a Viking battle depended not on military prowess, but on the favour of the valkyries. Why were these mythical figures, who...
Henry VIII Meets his Match
Shortly after 5pm on 7 June 1520, Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France met for the first time. That first meeting, and their time t...
A History of the Oceans
In this podcast, History Today Editor Paul Lay is joined by David Abulafia, winner of the 2020 Wolfson History Prize, for his book The Bound...
The Wrongful Death of Toussaint Louverture
The hero of the Haitian Revolution’s lonely death in a French prison cell was not an unfortunate tragedy but a cruel story of deliberate des...
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution
Join Marlene Daut in conversation with History Today Editor, Paul Lay, as they discuss the background of the Haitian Revolution, Toussaint L...
Thebes: The Forgotten City
The city of Thebes was central to the ancient Greeks’ achievements in politics and culture. For many centuries it has been largely – and oft...
The Great Migration Mystery
In the 17th century, fanciful solutions to the mystery of the swallow’s whereabouts were the result of an intense battle over the nature of...
The State of Myanmar
Myanmar’s colonial legacy includes racial hierarchies and authoritarian government. In the new nation state, not everyone is welcome. To und...
What can History tell us about Epidemics?
Four historians discuss what we learn from history about how diseases spread, and how we respond to them. Buy a copy of the April issue of H...
The Rights of France
France’s attraction to right-wing populism has been a constant, if shape-shifting, presence in its politics since the end of the 19th centur...
Soviet Super Sniper
In 1942, Lieutenant Lyudmila Pavlichenko, a Soviet frontline sniper, was sent on a mission to convince US and British allies to open up a Se...
Sexual Eeling
In March 1876, the young Sigmund Freud arrived in Trieste, looking for the testicles of an eel. For centuries past, these troublesome organs...
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