All Episodes
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Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming - (pt 2 of 2) - The Knight of the National Name
Jonathan Clements on the fall of the Ming (pt 1 of 2) - death by a thousand haircuts
The Odyssey - No sex, terrible food
The U-Boat Stink
Lucy Hughes-Hallett on Gabriele D’Annunzio: Poet, Lover, Monster
Crimea (part 3): The Nazis, Stalin and the bitter end
Crimea (part 2): from the Golden Horde to Catherine the Great
POWs of the Crimean War
The Return of the Emperor (Justinian II - part 2)
Mutilated and exiled (the Emperor Justinian II - part 1)
Buckingham: the most hated man in England
YEAR ZERO: Jonathan Clements on the First Emperor of China
The Big Hop of 1919
Martin Luther, serfdom and the German Peasants’ War
World War I: The surprising victory of 1918
Ed West on 1066 and all that
Edward I - a Great and Terrible King
Empress Wu Zetian and the Age of Female Rule
Edward Shawcross on Napoleon III Part 2: The Power of Lust
Edward Shawcross on Napoleon III Part 1: The Lust for Power
From Eunuchs to Corsairs: The World of Islamic Slavery
The Tokyo Tribunal: War Crimes, Justice, and Geopolitics
The Pilgrimage of Grace: When England Fought the Reformation
Byzantium and the First Crusade
Shattered Jewels - Japan's Path to War (3 and final)
Manchuria to Pearl Harbor: Japan's Path to War (2)
An Alien Game: Japan's Path to War (1)
How England Nearly Conquered France & Why They Failed
Imperial Twilight: How Trade, Tea, and Opium Led to War
Suleiman's curse - with Christopher de Bellaigue
Anton Howes on Salt (and on much, much more!)
Tiberius - a good emperor, a broken man
Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 2
Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 1
In the Kingdom of Ice - with Hampton Sides
Spring Heeled Jack - with Mike Dash
Giles Milton on Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 2
Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 1
The 4th Crusade and the final fall of the Roman Empire - with Ed Watts
In Sulla's shadow - Ed Watts reappraises Caesar
A bishop hanged in Dublin
Kaldellis on Byzantium - part 2
Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
Hampton Sides - the last voyage of Captain Cook
The Sin Eater
Ed West - From the Romans to Alfred the Great
John McWhorter and Scott Sumner - talking movies
Dikötter on Dictators
The Lives of East Germans - Katja Hoyer
Britons never will be slaves?
Italy, a ruin - part 2 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Constantinople shows its teeth - part 1 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Mao's China with Frank Dikötter
David Grann on HMS Wager: shipwreck, mutiny and murder!
Sharp and Sumner: 6 Japanese movies
McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
Acre 1291 - the final showdown
The Salem Witch trials with Stacy Schiff
Suleiman the Magnificent with Christopher de Bellaigue
Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Talking movies with Scott Sumner
The war against Antony and Cleopatra
Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
The Death of Alexander pt 2 (Perdicass and the crocodiles)
The Death of Alexander Pt 1 - Chaos unfolds
Gladiator - the movie, the history!
A nuclear exchange
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 2
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 1
Tulip mania - 1630's Holland goes wild
A new world order - the Arab invasions of the 7th century
Firepower with Paul Lockhart
Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
The Korean War - the battle of the Chosin Reservoir
The Silver Way
The Last Great Siege - Constantinople 1453
Rome against Persia - their final battle
Poggio Bracciolini - an Indiana Jones from the 15th century
Pearl Hart - the Wild West's most notorious woman bandit
The declines of the Roman Empire with Edward Watts
Clive of India with Dr Zareer Masani
Laurence Bergreen on Magellan
With one leap he was free! - stories from Peter Henderson's life
A history of astronomy - from the Babylonians to Galileo
Clocks, Civilization, Power . . . all About Time with David Rooney
Talking movies with Freddie deBoer and Abe Callard (Mad Max, OUTIH, Ghostbusters etc)
Julian Sancton on the ill fated voyage of the Belgica to the Antarctic in 1898
When the Shogun's Sumo met Commodore Perry's minstrel show
Amazon the behemoth
Memories of wartime Japan and reflections on the kamikaze
Conquerors - how Portugal built its empire in India
Mike Dash on Batavia's Graveyard
Abulafia and Devereaux - the ancient Mediterranean
Peter Pomerantsev has stories to tell (and they are all true)
Bean on battleships (and much else besides)
David Goodhart on Head, Hand and Heart and the Road to Somewhere
The Siege of Gondor - Bret Devereaux rates the Witch King - A Bad Man, a Good General
The Knights of St John against the Turks (and the sheer bloody horror of Lepanto)
Bret Devereaux cancels Saruman. (Helms Deep as ancient military history)