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What set off the final uprisings of the Iranian Revolution, against the last Shah of Iran, Mohammed ...
Why did the Iranian Revolution erupt in 1979? What was the nature of the relationship between Presid...
What were the harsh conditions of Joan of Arc’s imprisonment, at the hands of her English captors? H...
How was Charles VII, with the help of Joan of Arc, able to fight his way to Reims to be crowned in t...
How did a young, uneducated peasant girl dressed in men’s clothing, Joan of Arc, plan to crown the s...
What are the origins of the legendary Joan of Arc, the famous French maid who saved France from the ...
Was Richard Wagner a revolutionary artist who reshaped music forever, or an egotists mired in scanda...
What are the complex origins of Russia’s most renowned composer, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky? What inne...
Did the Christmas Truce - which saw a number of unofficial ceasefires between the combatants of the ...
With Adolf Hitler at the apex of his power during the Second World War, how did he move on Britain? ...
How did the Battle of Dunkirk unfold in 1940? Why was it one of the key turning points of the Second...
When Hitler’s eye fell on Norway and Denmark, how did he and the Nazis enact their terrible plan of ...
What was Adolf Hitler’s next move, after occupying Czechoslovakia in March 1939, and brutally invadi...
Why did Elizabeth I’s brother, Henry VIII’s heir, Edward VI, choose his cousin Jane Grey to succeed ...
What happened to the infant Elizabeth I following the bloody execution of her mother Anne Boleyn? Ho...
How did Elizabeth I’s tumultuous early life in the court of her wife murdering father, Henry VIII, i...
Why is Disneyland one of the most influential architectural creations of the 21st century? How did t...
How did Walt Disney come to found the company that still bears his name, and would change the world ...
How did the British fleet prepare for war, on the morning of the Battle of Trafalgar? With the flags...
After two years at sea chasing the combined fleet of France and Spain, what was Nelson’s next step? ...
With Britain at war for more than eight long years, and her people depleted and hungry, how did her ...
With fears that the powerful Danish fleet would join with the French against the British, what great...
After two years at sea, what happened when Horatio Nelson - now Britain’s most celebrated naval comm...
What happened when the heroic Horatio Nelson, victor of the Battle of the Nile, sailed into the seet...
Who was Emma Hamilton, Horatio Nelson’s strikingly beautiful, and famously fashionable mistress? How...
Who was Enoch Powell, the deeply controversial British conservative politician? Why is he the father...
Why is Chatham High-street both futuristic and riddled with the past? Why was it a magnet for histor...
After endeavouring to wreak their revenge on Serbia, what would be the greatest hammer blow to the A...
While the Western front was raging following the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, what was u...
What happened at the crucial, bloody, Battle of Ypres in October 1914? How did the battle come about...
What extraordinary events saw the French - already on the brink of defeat - take on the formerly for...
What was Britain's first military move following the outbreak of the First World War? Where did the ...
Following the declaration of war in 1914, how did the outbreak of the First World War unfold? What w...
Why did two men - John Heenan and and Tom Sayers - illegally meet in a field in Hampshire, in 1860, ...
How and when was football invented, and what are the origins of football clubs? What is the connecti...
How was President Abraham Lincoln murdered on Good Friday 1865, at Ford’s Theatre, just five days af...
After passing the 13th amendment, in the closing weeks of the brutal American Civil War, what did pr...
Following the murder of her husband, Lord Darnley, how did Mary Queen of Scots - thought to have con...
How and why was Mary Queen of Scots’ traitorous husband, Lord Darnley, murdered, and by whom…? Was M...
Following the death of her husband, the King of France, was the glamorous Mary welcomed back to Scot...
What was life like in the glittering French court, for the young and newly married Mary Queen of Sco...
Who was the Rector of Stiffkey, Harold Davidson - the "Prostitutes' Padre" - and why was he Britain’...
Why was a boy grotesquely and mysteriously murdered in a wood in Norwich in the 12th century? Who wa...
After the assassination of Sir Henry Wilson and the signing of the polarising Anglo-Irish Treaty, ho...
Who was Sir Henry Wilson, and how was he shockingly murdered in 1922? Who ordered it? What was his a...
What were the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, signed in December 1921, following negotiations betwe...
What occurred on Bloody Sunday on 21 November 1920 - a turning point in the Irish War of Independenc...
What was Sinn Féin’s totemic first move after winning a majority seat in 1917? Were the IRA’s method...
What are the origins of the Irish War of Independence? What impact did the First World War have on I...
Following the death of Lorenzo the Magnificent, who was his Medici successor? Could he overcome the ...
Did Lorenzo de’Medici’s rule in Florence incur prosperity, or was it a corrupt and autocratic regime...
Who was Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most glamorous, glittering, and blood-soaked of all the Medici,...
What are the origins of one of history’s most glittering, and for a time, most powerful families in ...
How did the Battle of Cannae - one of the most important battles of all time for Ancient Rome, with ...
How did Hannibal achieve the remarkable feat of crossing the Alps with his army and elephants? How m...
Why did Hannibal choose to cross the Alps with his elephants in 218 BC, when invading Rome? Was it a...
Who was Hannibal, the flawed but brilliant Carthaginian general? What makes Rome vs Carthage in the ...
What were the consequences of Peter the Great’s mighty victory over Sweden at the Battle of Poltova ...
Why was the greatest and most climactic battle of the Great Northern War, the Battle of Poltova, one...
After establishing the city of St Petersburg, what was Peter the Great’s next step in his titanic st...
How did the Great Northern War, which saw Sweden pitted against Peter the Great’s Russia and her all...
Why was the early life of Peter the Great - Tsar and autocrat of all the Russias, who endures to thi...
In the vibrant but vicious golden age of Imperial Japan, how did women use writing as a way to secur...
At the height of Imperial Japan, during a golden age of court intrigue, obsessive hierarchy, and fab...
"We're not worried about petty morals." What happened to the Rolling Stones in 1967 to see them on t...
What happened in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings? What horrors did William the Conqueror hav...
Following King Harold Godwinson’s climactic victory at the Battle of Stanford Bridge, and the death ...
In the tumultuous climax of 1066, why was Harold’s very own brother Tostig the first of the mighty f...
Why is 1066 the most important year in English history? Who were the three main candidates vying for...
Harald Hardrada; exiled prince of Norway and mercenary, has landed in the greatest city on Earth: Co...
“I swear I will not flee from this fight. I will triumph, or I will die!” In the 1066 game of throne...
In the triumvirate of 1066, William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada, and Harold Godwinson, the latter h...
Born into a world of treachery, violence and death, William of Normandy defied all expectations, for...
Following the bloody St Brice’s Day Massacre, of the 13th of November 1002, which saw King Æthelred ...
The Norman Conquest of 1066, culminating in the legendary Battle of Hastings, is perhaps the greates...
The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, w...
“From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world’s history, and you can all...
In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged wi...
‘Still more traitors, still more treason…’ It is 1792 and France has been at war since April; it is ...
“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wr...
In Tudor England, during the reign of Elizabeth I, there lived in the very heart of her court a magi...
“The horror! The horror!” Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Cop...
Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festeri...
“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”. In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an aw...
The story of King Leopold of Belgium’s brutal regime in the Congo Free State, during the late 19th c...
Following the bloody assassination of the twenty-eight year old Emperor Caligula, Rome found herself...
Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster…. The Roman emperor Caligula en...
The Roman historian Suetonius’ biography of the controversial Emperor Tiberius, is one of his most s...
The story of Wojtek - the bear who took on the Nazis - amidst the death and devastation of the Secon...
The Nazi invasion of Poland is one of the most harrowing episodes of the Second World War, which saw...
By the 11th of April 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in the process of drawing up a plan of at...
Following the Munich agreement of September 1938, Nazi troops marched into Czechoslovakia and ruthle...
On 17th September 1938, in Munich, one of the most extraordinary meetings in history took place. Nev...
Throughout the course of the 1930s, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party has overwhelmingly, terrifyingly seize...
Ludwig Van Beethoven, like his precursor and possible acquaintance Mozart, is one of the most famous...
In 1756 a musical prodigy was born in Salzburg, Austria: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Thanks to the effo...
“And from that moment on, he was addressed as emperor and Augustus!” The coronation of Charlemagne o...
“Here was a program to wet the ambitions of warlords as well as scholars, and to send men into battl...
The Frankish king, Charlemagne the Great, is one of the titanic figures of European history, simulta...
By 711, Europe and the Frankish warlords were facing a graver threat than ever before. Bands of Nort...
Following the death of the legendary Frankish King Clovis, his son Clothar I divided the mighty real...
The Rise of the Franks - a mighty host of warlords; forefathers of the western world and forgers of ...
In as early as 5000 BC the vast and spectacular city of Uruk - replete with towering walls, glisteni...
The 1st of August 1798 saw the British fleet sailing towards Alexandria into a land of classical his...
In the wake of the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in 1797, Horatio Nelson, though a much acclaimed publi...
Valentine’s day, 1797: the British Royal Navy are hoping for a decisive clash with the Spanish enemy...
It is 1793 and France has declared war on Britain, meaning that the British navy must serve as both ...
It’s 1758 and Britain’s greatest naval commander has just been born. The young Horatio Nelson has in...
“Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!” It's the 5th of November 1968, and Richard...
The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, ha...
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, w...
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred;...
The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had i...
"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.” On the night of Sunday, 31s...
“Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!” Written after the declaration of wa...
The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever ...
“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a for...
Welcome to Season 2 of The French Revolution Revolutionary fervour threatens to engulf the streets o...
In the aftermath of Boudicca’s uprising, the Romans felt they could not withdraw from the British Is...
“Two cities were sacked, eighty thousand of the Romans and of their allies perished, and the island ...
Viewed as an idiot by those around him, Claudius felt the need to prove himself. In the century sinc...
Julius Caesar saw the Britons as brutal savages. Yet the Romans romanticised their lack of civilisat...
After lying in state in an open casket, Evita’s corpse is taken down to a secret laboratory in the b...
The workaholic mother of a nation, Evita’s health deteriorates and she faints at a public event. A s...
“There is only one man who can lead any worker’s regime.” Together, Eva and Colonel Perón built a po...
An admirer of Hitler and Mussolini, Colonel Perón rose through the ranks during the 1943 military co...
“Don’t cry for me Argentina, the truth is I never left you.” Few political figures have been both ha...
It’s August 1944: the Liberation of Paris is underway, and France appears to slowly be extricating h...
“I like an Englishman to look like an Englishman, and beards are foreign and breed vermin. Also depe...
What did Marcus Aurelius, Jesus, and Ragnar Lothbrok all have in common? Apart from their notorious ...
St Crispin’s day, 1415: Henry V stands victorious, after a tremendous defeat of the French forces at...
On the 11th of August 1415, King Henry V of England - an austere, pious, thoughtful and terrifying w...
“Once more unto the breach, dear friends. Once more, we'll close the wall up with our English dead [...
The year is 1403, and the Usurper King, Henry IV, faces a seemingly insurmountable challenge to his ...
"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown…” Henry IV has been portrayed as both a shadowy, obscure fi...
In Sussex, in 1912, men quarrying in a gravel pit near Piltdown village turned up a human skull. Acc...
Twelve months after the dramatic Women’s March on Versailles, the Revolution proper was well into it...
By the summer of 1789 the different sections of the Revolution were at loggerheads, and the recently...
Alongside violence, the French Revolution is a story of principles and values. It is the ultimate in...
“It was violence that made the revolution revolutionary”. The storming of the Bastille is viewed by ...
In the summer of 1788, a monstrous storm swept across France, wiping out the crucial wheat harvest. ...
With seismic antecedents such as the Glorious Revolution in England and the American War of Independ...
In August 1785 a shocking affair came to light which would prove so detrimental to the reputation an...
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime” In the ea...
“We have been forced to draw the sword”. Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturday 25t...
On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary, ...
On the 20th of July 1914 the heads of state of two great European powers - France and Russia - met i...
In the wake of the cataclysmic assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th of June 1914, in Austria...
By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at wa...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand has arrived in Sarajevo for a military inspection, alongside his wife, Soph...
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, as heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the most important men ...
Gavrilo Princip, having been sent to school in Sarajevo, has become mixed up with the wrong crowd, a...
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June ...
To coincide with the re-release of Dynasty in audiobook, now with Tom Holland himself narrating, we ...
From the turn of the 20th century, election campaigns - though still replete with politicians behavi...
"Good God I am shot! I shall die!" The colourful kaleidoscope of British elections from 1265 to thei...
The image of Saint George astride his horse, sword and spear in hand, slaying a dragon, is one of th...
"When dragons flew to war… everything burned. I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone."...
To coincide with the re-release of Rubicon in audiobook, now with Tom Holland himself narrating it, ...
In 972AD a princess of the Byzantine Empire was sent by her uncle, the Roman emperor in Constantinop...
His clothes seemed to melt into each other with the perfection of their cut and the quiet harmony of...
In 1870 the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann - a man of remarkable energy, desperately fasci...
"I will bury my heart, at Wounded Knee" With Native American culture in free fall in the years follo...
Following the tragic death of Crazy Horse and the ruthless cessation of the Sioux way of life, the l...
Though the Battle of the Little Bighorn seemed for the triumphant Lakota and their allies - the larg...
What happened between the moment that George A. Custer dispatched a trumpeter with his famous final ...
The U.S. was thrust into frenzied panic following the economic depression of 1873, with waves of par...
In the wake of the barbaric Washita River massacre, George A. Custer finds himself drifting: addicte...
“What would you do if your home was attacked? You would stand up like a brave man and defend it. Tha...
Of all the great characters entangled in the story of George A. Custer and the American Indian Wars,...
With the American Civil War coming to a close in April 1865, George Custer, cavalry commander in the...
“Come on, you Wolverines!” The story of the American Indian Wars of 1862-68 is an enthralling tale o...
Charles V, The Holy Roman Emperor of the House of Habsburg, was at once King of Spain, Archduke of A...
"The First Emperor will die and his land will be divided….” The First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huan...
Rumours surrounding Lord Byron’s scandalous divorce rippled throughout the world. Finally, he had no...
Good God I am surely in hell! Upon Lord Byron’s return to England and the publication of Childe Haro...
By 1809, Lord Byron found himself untethered and debt-ridden. Disenchanted with politics, frustrated...
Few lives from history can have contained as many strange and exciting strands as that of Lord Byron...
Music for sex, dancing, and watching the straight world go by… The explosion of Disco provides an ex...
“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, no...
“I think there is not a devil left in hell, they have all gone into the peasants… smite, stab and sl...
The Reformation, launched in 1517, stands as one of the most convulsive and transformative events of...
"Then it is I drown again, with all those dim lost faces I never understood… Include me in your lame...
“A story of horror unparalleled in the annals of the Sea.” On the 14th of April 1912, Titanic, a flo...
It is Sunday the 14th of April 1912, and the passengers of the Titanic, from the tycoons in first cl...
The drama and tragedy of the Titanic’s sinking has spawned all manner of myths about those who left ...
The Titanic was a product of the furious competition of the late Gilded Age, and no expenses were sp...
"There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience wil...
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a deity. More humble, ...
‘For if a person fatigued with long and hard labour, or with a violent agitation of the mind, takes ...
In the third century BC, a clash which had been brewing for centuries finally erupted: Rome, the rut...
“Every man is the architect of his own destiny” Long before Rome reigned over the Mediterranean, the...
“An aristocratic republic, secret and well-ordered, where individuals are subject to the harsh laws ...
“Carthago delenda est.” Carthage must be destroyed: this was the rallying cry of Cato the Elder, the...
The horrific Guildford Pub Bombings of Saturday 5th October 1974 sent shockwaves through Britain, wo...
Following a tumultuous election in February 1974, Labour’s Harold Wilson has been re-elected Prime M...
Three days after one of the most devastating IRA attacks launched upon British soil, the Conservativ...
“Who governs Britain?” Britain in the early 1970’s was a state in crisis, and by 1974, things had ne...
Geoffrey Chaucer stands as a founding father of English literature, and ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is an...
“For within the hollow crown that rounds the hollow temple of a king…” Richard II, son of the dashin...
On the 13th of June 1381, the rebel army of English peasants, led by Wat Tyler, entered London and b...
By the late 14th century, England was in decline. Already weakened by the Hundred Years’ War, both E...
Extolling his love for democracy, the Senator took on autocratic powers, during a time of emergency,...
In the late 17th century, during the glorious reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King, France was at its ap...
By November 1938 the scene in Germany was at its darkest yet, as the full scale of Hitler’s intentio...
As Hitler ramps up the German war machine, he remains obsessed with one idea: uprooting Jews from th...
“We must have a healthy people to dominate in the world”. In July 1933, Hitler’s Nazi party passed a...
By 1937, Hitler’s ever-growing ambitions were driving Europe to the brink of war. Ever restless, he ...
“No one can doubt that this world will one day be the scene of dreadful struggles for existence on t...
“We did not lose the war because our artillery gave out, but because the weapons of our mind didn’t ...
“Hitler had entered Röhm’s bedroom alone with a whip in his hand. Behind him had stood two detective...
A Pope of great renown once reigned during chaotic years for the medieval Church: she was an extraor...
“The Church was anxious to draw the attention of its members away from the old pagan feast days, and...
On the 8th of June 1948, the HMT Windrush sailed from Kingston with almost 500 migrants on board, de...
In 1854, the twenty-five year old aristocrat Roger Tichborne, heir to an impressive fortune, died in...
The Battle for Italy in 1943 proved to be one of the bloodiest and most brutal episodes of the Secon...
On the 27th of September 1964 the Warren Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson a ye...
“We can’t accept very comfortably that two nobodies, two nothings - Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby ...
“Jack, you son of a bitch, don’t do it!” Just hours after President Kennedy’s assassination, in the ...
It’s 12:31pm on Friday 22nd November 1963, and in Dallas, Texas, President John F. Kennedy lies slum...
“It wouldn't be very difficult to kill the president of the United States, you just have to be in a ...
By the late 1950s, John F. Kennedy was a rich and handsome Democratic senator with a beautiful wife ...
“There were a lot of people who wanted Kennedy dead, a lot of powerful people. There are secrets sti...
Tenochtitlan, once the glittering jewel at the heart of the mighty Aztec Empire, has fallen. Hernán ...
"Conquer or die indeed, Cortes thought… The hour of decision was at hand…" It is the spring of 1521 ...
Things have never looked bleaker for Hernán Cortés and his band of Spaniards. They are trapped, star...
“The blood flowed like water…” It is 1520 and word has reached Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan that an...
The year is 1519. Hernán Cortés and his Spanish comrades have arrived in Tenochtitlan, the capital c...
“Conquer or die! Conquer or die! Conquer or die!” Making a decision that will change the course of h...
Hernán Cortés has set sail from Cuba, eager to find the truth behind the rumours of gold on the coas...
The meeting of the controversial Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés and the formidable Emperor Monte...
Within the turmoil of the French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte stands out to his military superiors...
“I would plunge the avenging dagger, up to the hilt, in the breast of the tyrant!” Born in Corsica a...
Cook has been sent by the Royal Navy to the Pacific to track the transit of Venus from Tahiti, but a...
The greatest sea explorer of all time, James Cook was born to a humble Yorkshire family, and first s...
The setting for so many of the Arabian Nights, like the stories of Sinbad the Sailor, Ali Baba and t...
Baghdad was a place of fabulous sophistication and teeming multitudes, where terrible things could h...
“No city in the world will ever rival it for prosperity...“ Baghdad, originally a Christian village ...
A story of great myth and of huge historical significance, the foundation of Baghdad is a fundamenta...
The Mitfords were the most glamorous aristocrats on the London scene in the 1920s, with at their hea...
“You will never catch Sir Oswald admitting to anti-semitism - all he does is embody it!” Following t...
The fascists in Britain have found a leader known across the country: the sinister yet complex Oswal...
The cultural roots of fascism swirled around Britain at the turn of the 20th century, as medieval no...
The U.S. have given up on ousting the socialist President Allende through democratic means, and shif...
In the midst of the Cold War, the 1973 coup against the socialist Chilean president Salvador Allende...
In anticipation of the U.S. release of PAX, here’s the book’s introduction for you to enjoy, read by...
“Are you not entertained?!” The emblem of Rome, the Colosseum was the unsettling but glamorous home ...
“To be a boy at one of these schools was to be alternately tyrant and slave.” More gruesome even tha...
Eclectic traditions, obscure codes and cryptic ancient languages: the world of Harry Potter has capt...
“Let us advance courageously, to change the backward condition of our country, and turn it into a mo...
The father of sadism and a prophet of totalitarianism, the Marquis de Sade was a French aristocrat a...
In a swirling world dominated by miniskirts, feather boas, posh photographers, youth culture, Jimi H...
The Sixties is one of the only moments in history when Britain could claim to be the epicentre of wo...
“The mutual affection and harmony between the two had reached a degree never seen between a husband ...
One of the greatest institutions of the ancient world, the Library of Alexandria was the embodiment ...
“A cloud of black, acrid smoke hung over the area. It was a scene from a warzone, a battlefield - it...
"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.” Arguably the most celebrated speech of the 20th c...
Warning! This one isn’t for the faint-hearted… A naked, torch-carrying man, who would walk backwards...
“There’s a lot of severed heads at this villa!” The great TV sensation of the summer returns on The ...
A woman of immense influence on medieval Christendom, Catherine of Siena was one of the first female...
Mount Vesuvius' eruption in the autumn of AD79 remains one of the deadliest and best-known in histor...
Charles de Gaulle was a war hero in the First World War, and, having refused to accept his governmen...
May 1968 saw underlying tensions reach a climax in France, resulting in a period of civil unrest col...
A city which played a fundamental role in both the Dutch Golden Age and the birth of the Dutch monar...
A city built on water, Amsterdam has often set the tone of European modernity. It first gained promi...
With the French and Spanish siding with George Washington’s revolutionaries, the game is up for the ...
“O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!” Th...
“Last night three cargos of tea were emptied into the sea. This morning a man of war sails. This is ...
“America, late the strength, now the foe to Britain, dismembered, torn, I fear forever lost to Engla...
“Who drinks the water I shall give him, will have a spring inside him welling up for eternal life.” ...
The most important object in the universe, but also a somewhat invisible presence in the Bible, the ...
Following the use of the atomic bomb in Japan and the end of the Second World War, Oppenheimer pushe...
“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” This was J. Robert Oppenheimer’s reaction to the f...
It’s 1895, and with the libel case brought against the Marquess of Queensbury having collapsed, Osca...
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” As his most popular work, The Importance of Being Earne...
A mysterious death on the Nile, an unconventional love affair, a Roman-Greek hero turned God - the s...
The Easter Rising began in Dublin's General Post Office on Easter Monday, 24th April 1916, with Patr...
The year is 1912. The bitter arguments about Home Rule for Ireland are reaching boiling point. But w...
At the start of the 19th century, the kingdoms of Britain and Ireland were officially 'united' with ...
“In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty;...
A grubby, secretive cabal of devil worshippers that run the world, or a fraternity of like-minded in...
What did "demos" really mean to the Athenians? Why were women such a crucial part of Athenian democr...
It's 1649 and a new republic has been declared, the Commonwealth of England. It's an age of 17th cen...
In 1885, H. Rider Haggard’s brother offered him a wager: five shillings if he could write a book hal...
It’s 1647, and in New England, where puritan settlers live in fear of God’s wrath and a hostile indi...
Born on the Western edge of an empire that stretched all the way to India, Herodotus was a Greek his...
What was the most calamitous coronation of all time? Which ceremony does Tom think is the most borin...
Whether it’s London descending into a riot, a bad hangover with Samuel Pepys, or a royal lacking dis...
The roots of the coronation ritual are fabulously ancient: certain elements of the ceremony are vest...
Few years in European History saw as much change and turmoil as 1848: across the continent, from Vie...
“It is 105 degrees in Saigon, and rising.” This announcement, made through U.S. Armed Forces radio o...
It's 1975, and in the final act of the Vietnam War, the U.S. have ordered all remaining civilian and...
Rin Tin Tin, born on the Western Front in 1918, became one of the biggest movie stars of the silent ...
The German Democratic Republic was born in the ashes of the Second World War, and described itself a...
The Black Prince has gained lands in Aquitaine and Gascony through his brutal and thorough attacks. ...
As the spectre of the Black Death haunts Europe, a more tangible foe terrorises the French king and ...
State of the art military technology. Blind battle commanders. Iconic kingly lines. Tom and Dominic ...
Dynastic turmoil, inconvenient treaties with Scotland, tales of knights, longbows and the golden age...
A story spanning modern-day Ghana, Angola, and Benin, historian Luke Pepera joins Tom and Dominic to...
It's 1718, an English Quaker lands in Barbados. He is soon horrified to discover the treatment of pe...
From claims that the alphabet was originated by Atlantians, Francis Bacon using the story as a model...
Majestic palaces, untold riches, and indeterminable power... the story of Atlantis is a tale as old ...
Have humans always been haunted by fears of a climate apocalypse? Or is that a modern phenomenon? Is...
Warmonger or nuclear disarmer? Ronald Reagan’s presidency survived an assassination attempt, the AID...
His Hollywood career drying up, Ronald Reagan works both for the Screen Actors Guild and General Ele...
Ronald "Dutch" Reagan was born in 1911 to a humble family of Illinois, his father an FDR-loving demo...
Christopher Columbus caused debate in his own time, and remains a controversial figure today: some a...
Columbus returns to the remnants of his first voyage to the "Indies", having convinced Isabella and ...
Having convinced the Catholic Monarchs to fund his journey across the Atlantic, Columbus sets sail w...
A controversial figure both now and in his time, Tom and Dominic discuss Columbus and his drive for ...
In this second episode on perhaps the most notorious assasination in world history, Tom and Dominic ...
“He was trapped - he couldn’t get up. There was blood everywhere. The faces were coming closer, the ...
Thought by some as the first genocide in Europe, the Albigensian Crusade was the bloodiest crusade i...
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In today's episode, Tom and Dominic look at the story of how the vast majority of Denmark's Jewish p...
Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Charles Darwin's time in Ecuador, where his observation of Finc...
In today's episode, Tom and Dominic discuss the Rif War, predecessor to the Spanish Civil War, set i...
Today, Tom and Dominic are in Islamic Spain discussing Roman conquests, melancholy Emirs and vibrant...
A little known story. Serbia, the home to one of the first great civilisations. They had the first w...
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In today's episode, Tom and Dominic explore the origins of the motion-picture camera, a device inven...
In today's episode, Tom and Dominic discuss the history of Japan through six characters, with leadin...
Join Tom and Dominic as, for the first time ever, they dip their toes into the Dutch republic. They ...
Why are there Welsh speakers born in Argentina? Join Tom and Dominic to understand the fascinating a...
Today, Tom and Dominic are in 16th century Calvinist Geneva, where Michael Servetus is being condemn...
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On the Day of the Dead you eat pan de muerto and exchange calaveras with your friends. This celebrat...
In today's World Cup special, Anglo-American relations are at their most tense, as the USA and Engla...
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In 1963, with the influence of the Cuban Revolution strong in South America, the left wing guerrilla...
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Join Tom and Dominic as they continue the World Cup series by discussing the Costa Rican Civil War. ...
In today’s Australian-themed World Cup episode, Tom leads us through the incredible true story of th...
“Since the conquest of Poland, 300,000 Jews have been murdered in this country in the most bestial w...
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Was the Battle of Trafalgar the most decisive battle of the 19th century? Join Tom and Dominic as th...
Tom and Dominic welcome film critic Muriel Zagha to discuss the home of cinema, France, and its hist...
In the final instalment of our series on Young Churchill, learn how Churchill escaped a prisoner of ...
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How were the bonnets, corsets, and empire line dresses of the Regency period expressive of a revolut...
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Written in stages between 1937 and 1949, The Lord of the Rings is one of the best-selling books ever...
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Grand villas on the Bay of Naples, engraving names on Egyptian singing statues, and sightseeing tour...
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On today's pod Tom and Dominic are joined by Stonehenge expert Mike Pitts to discuss all the big que...
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After centuries of Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s relationship being told and fictionalised by Plutarch...
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In today's episode, Tom and Dominic talk to Sara Read about the history of childbirth. Sara unveils ...
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In the second part of our Australian PMs trilogy, Tom and Dominic explore Chinese Communist conspira...
In the wake of Anthony Albanese's victory in this weekend's Australian election, Tom and Dominic hav...
The longest reigning monarch in British history, Elizabeth II acceded to the throne 70 years ago. To...
Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist in history. Coinciding neatly with the 'Wagatha Christi...
Could the West have lost the Cold War? Would we be happier if we didn't study history? Would you pre...
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"The destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans: a thrilling, terrible, and blood-soaked story." Followi...
Crucifixions were a form of public execution so heinous that the Romans themselves were reluctant to...
Richard II, Prince Charles, and Tony Blair. From Merlin, to the middle ages to the modern day, the m...
China's Cultural Revolution under Chairman Mao was one of the most staggeringly brutal events in rec...
In the final part of our Falklands series, Tom and Dominic discuss the legacy of the war in both the...
In the third episode of our Falklands War mini-series, the story heats up. The most controversial ep...
In the second episode of our Falklands War mini-series, Britain is faced with an Argentine occupatio...
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PART 2. Tom and Dominic are back with Helen Thompson for a second episode on the history of oil, its...
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PART 2. 'An almost sacral figure' in the words of Tom Holland, Genghis Khan has become the paramount...
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Tom and Dominic explore what Edward Gibbon called “the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in th...
With eastern Europe apparently on the brink of war and Vladimir Putin citing history as pretext, wha...
Want to know more about the history of the Vikings in the East and how it relates to modern day Russ...
With Russia seemingly on the brink of invading Ukraine, here's an episode from our archives on the h...
We've all been to some terrible ones, but what is the most disastrous party in human history? Not at...
On today's episode Tom and Dominic are joined by Friend of the Show, Professor Andrew Preston, to ta...
On today's episode Tom and Dominic are joined by Andrew Preston, a Cambridge University professor wh...
Happy Valentine's Day! Have you ever wondered why we send each other cards and go out to Carluccio's...
Did you think smuggling in Britain was confined to the Jamaica Inn and the beaches of the Cornish co...
In the second of two episodes on the Vikings in the East, Tom and Dominic investigate their role in ...
In this week's episode, Tom and Dominic take a look at the actions, influence and brutalisation of t...
How devastating were European arrivals to the Americas in terms of deaths and the introduction of ne...
The way we die has been utterly transformed. There have been around 10,000 generations of human bein...
Greatest city on earth. Den of iniquity. Imperial oppressor. Wealth and power. The ancient city of B...
Tune in to hear the second part of The Rest Is History's take on the execution of Charles I and its ...
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What happened to Gordon at Khartoum? Described by Dominic as the 'greatest media event of the Victor...
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Today Tom and Dominic are joined by historian Dan Jackson to talk about one of the greatest inventio...
Who killed the Princes in the Tower? The inspiration behind Shakespeare's Richard III, their murder ...
Who killed the Princes in the Tower? The inspiration behind Shakespeare's Richard III, their murder ...
In part 2 of this centennial episode, Tom and Dominic cover the triggering of the Irish Civil War, t...
2022 marks 100 years since one of the most important years in modern history. In part 1 Tom and Domi...
Julius Caesar upended the Roman Republic on this day (maybe) over 2000 years ago. Tom explains every...
A key battle in the history of England and a forgotten uprising in 17th century London round off our...
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Tom analyses the historical importance of Solomon Northup's story, made famous by Steve McQueen's '1...
Luther's excommunication from the Catholic church and the birth of the author of Lord of the Rings h...
The conquest of the kingdom of Grenada by Christian forces reclaimed southern Spain from the Moors, ...
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It's New Year's Eve - switch off the Hootenanny and tune in to hear Dominic recount extraordinary ta...
Tom dissects the Battle of Wakefield and the subsequent fall of Richard, Duke of York, while Dominic...
Tom takes us through the murder of Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, while Dominic look...
In a suitably festive edition, Tom recounts the biblical story of King Herod's massacre of babies in...
How the English's fondness for Portuguese fortified wine began, and the unlikely story of the voyage...
Was Wenceslas good? Was he a king? And Dominic remembers the popular Victorian light opera maestros'...
To kick off our 12 Days of Christmas mini-series, Tom and Dominic remember the birth of the Holy Rom...
Fan favourite Rachel Morley from Friends of Friendless Churches is back to count down her top ten ch...
Join Tom and Dominic in this festive special as they retrace the steps of Scrooge, Bob Cratchit and ...
Now mostly overlooked by history, Burgundy was a major political and cultural power in western Europ...
From their origins in the 1930's running parallel to the rise of fascism in Europe, to the Adam West...
How did a game played by peasants in the English countryside as early as the 17th century evolve int...
The peasant who became one of the most influential figures in the final days of the Russian Empire i...
Where did Neanderthals come from? How are they related to homo sapiens? And why are they no longer w...
“God is too late, you have begun, now I will finish it.” Swash-buckling hero or sacrilegious tyrant?...
America's Central Intelligence Agency is a mysterious organisation which has used covert methods to ...
Elizabeth II. Henry V. William the Conqueror. All pretenders, according to our twitter poll to find ...
Oliver Cromwell. Queen Victoria. George V. All contenders for the title of England's greatest monarc...
After an intense tournament featuring sixteen of the finest Kings and Queens this island has to offe...
"Discovered this territory, 1770". So reads the inscription on a statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park...
1973: Major oil-producing nations led by Saudi Arabia quadruple the price of oil overnight, sending ...
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On the anniversary of the day the guns fell silent on the Western Front, we look at the last moments...
In the second part of our Alexander the Great special, we head to the limits of the known world, bur...
Alexander the Great is the most charismatic conqueror in history. Tom and Dominic, in the first of a...
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Oh, to be Dutch in the seventeenth century. Or Roman in 150 AD. Or British in the 1990's. Tom and Do...
Curator and art historian Aparna Andhare gives Tom and Dominic her selection of the ten buildings th...
How did the existence of dinosaurs come to be discovered, & what role have they played in the popula...
Did the industrial revolution really improve people’s lives? And why was Britain first to industrial...
Despite his overwhelming lead in the polls, President Richard Nixon’s paranoia leads to the criminal...
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The world’s most famous classicist, Professor Mary Beard, joins Tom and Dominic to discuss how the l...
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Something wicked this way comes. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take a deep dive into the real hi...
In today’s episode, Tom and Dominic are joined by Dr Eleanor Barraclough as they sail across the Atl...
As Angela Merkel bows out of German politics, Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explore the surprisi...
The fictional British agent James Bond returns to our cinema screens this week, but what do the hist...
Writer and critic Tomiwa Owolade joins Dominic and Tom to discuss the story of post-war Africa, from...
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the Persi...
In 480 BC, 300 Spartans made a famous stand at Thermopylae, as hordes of Persian soldiers, led by Xe...
Tom Holland is joined by Ali Ansari to discuss the most influential mistresses in history. The defin...
There are estimated to be around 16 thousand churches in England alone. But which are the finest in ...
On the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, four commercial airliners were hijacked above the US ...
The rise of social media is the central subject of our second instalment with tech pioneer Marc Andr...
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland are joined by tech pioneer Marc Andreessen. Has the internet been ...
The year is 1983, and on November the 8th the world is the closest it’s ever been to nuclear destruc...
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are live at the Chalke Valley History Festival to discuss the cult...
The slaughter and bloodshed on the Western Front in World War One helped shape the narrative of the ...
From the Ice Age to the Winter of Discontent, climate and weather have hugely impacted historical ev...
Even the memory of them is enough to make most people shudder. As thousands of British students wait...
“A war begun for no wise purpose.” This description of the First Anglo-Afghan War, fought in the ear...
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Once there was darkness and then there was light. What was the Enlightenment and why did it matter? ...
In the first of a two-part series exploring the history of Afghanistan, Tom Holland and Dominic Sand...
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60 years ago this month, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began building a barrier that...
Tom and Dominic continue their journey through the history of the Olympics, turning their attention ...
With the Games underway in Tokyo, Tom and Dominic look back to the Ancient Olympics. They discuss th...
In the final part of their epic trilogy, Tom and Dominic arrive at Parliament Square to explore the ...
In 1896 the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens. Here we look at the forgotten tales and little know...
Tom and Dominic continue their tour of London’s statues, arriving in Whitehall. War leaders, useless...
Henry VIII had the most notorious marital relations of any king in history. Tom and Dominic discuss ...
Tom and Dominic are joined by historian William Dalrymple to tell the fascinating and shocking story...
No country has enjoyed a greater influence on the English than Italy. Ahead of the European Champion...
In the first of a three part series Tom and Dominic take a walking tour of central London to examine...
No war has divided public opinion more than the conflict in Vietnam. Andrew Preston, Cambridge Unive...
On the eve of a huge sporting encounter in Rome between the English and Ukrainian football teams, To...
Tom and Dominic discuss how to write history books for kids. What topics are they interested in? Wha...
Ahead of the two countries’ encounter at Wembley, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Anglo-Da...
The British Empire: good, bad or neither? And how does its legacy shape us today? Journalist Sathnam...
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Jeremy Thorpe was the most flamboyant politician of his day. Leader of the Liberal Party for nine ye...
Settle down by the fire and prepare to be haunted. Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of Ghos...
In the second part of our examination of Adolf Hitler, Sir Ian Kershaw joins Dominic Sandbrook to di...
Who was Muhammad, where did he come from and what was the historical context for his life? Tom Holla...
No state in America captures the imagination quite like California. With its glitz and glamour and a...
He was “the embodiment of modern political evil” according to historian Sir Ian Kershaw. In this fir...
Does the Magna Carta enshrine the liberties of every free-born Englishman? Or is it now irrelevant? ...
Competition for top deity hots up as we look back on the knock out stages of the Rest is History Wor...
In one of the most anticipated contests of the year, sixteen gods battled for the crown of ultimate ...
It may just be the most popular city on earth. Throughout history Paris has maintained a grip on the...
He remains one of the great characters in all history. But was he depraved, corrupt and evil? Or an ...
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Did Oliver Cromwell save Britain from tyranny or was he a killjoy and military dictator? Paul Lay, a...
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Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook tuck into the history of British food with author Pen Vogler. They...
With France facing economic struggles and rising unemployment revolution was in the air. But who was...
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by historian and broadcaster Dan Snow to discuss the bi...
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook talk to award-winning writer Camilla Townsend, author of the revel...
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The battle lines are drawn as Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook get involved in this most timely of ...
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook cross their legs and rank the best Eunuchs in history. From religi...
It is perhaps the best known year in English history. But why has it endured in the national conscio...
It is arguably the most important year in modern history. With the British Expeditionary Force trapp...
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From re-enactment to reinforcing capitalism through the board game Monopoly. Dominic Sandbrook and T...
She famously claimed to have the heart and stomach of a king and remains one of Britain’s most talke...
It was one of the great political ideologies of the 20th century, vying with capitalism for supremac...
History is littered with stories of espionage and its capacity to change the course of events. But d...
In our last episode we debated the merits of British Prime Ministers through the centuries. But who ...
Who is the greatest British Prime Minister of them all? The bookmakers have Winston Churchill favour...
March 20th marks the annual Feast day of the Northumbrian Saint Cuthbert. But why should we care abo...
It has been described as the most universal cultural mode there has ever been, but is football a wor...
Counterfactuals are the great what ifs of history. Imagine the Nazis winning World War 2, or the Rom...
It emerged from the Prussian victory over France in 1870 and was destroyed by the First World War le...
With the British monarchy under intense scrutiny following an interview with Harry and Meghan conduc...
Has America taken over the world? Did the dollar and Hollywood enable the US to replace the British ...
Comedian Al Murray joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to discuss the history of comedy as well ...
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook ask why Tutankhamun remains the best known of the Egyptian pharaoh...
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Everything you wanted to know about sex in the 18th and 19th Century but were afraid to ask. Hallie ...
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England has long been divided by an invisible line somewhere north of Watford and south of the Merse...
Why does Pompeii continue to hold such a fascination for so many people? And which secrets are still...
From the Great Wall of China to the Berlin Wall, history is littered with the building of barriers a...
Is the author’s responsibility to the quality of the novel or the truth of history? What makes a gre...
What is fascism and where did it come from? No one admits to being a fascist yet it continues to be ...
Stephen Fry is our guest on The Rest is History as he tells Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook about ...
History is littered with conspiracy theories, from Popish plots to JFK’s assassination. But what mak...
As Britain leaves the EU, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook look at the best & worst comparisons fro...
Is Christmas an ancient ritual or was it invented by Dickens? Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland disc...
Whose fault was it? Does the question even make sense? Are wars always somebody's "fault"? Was it re...
Social media has colonised the world but is it really a new phenomenon? Tom Holland and Dominic Sand...
Can we truly learn from history? And if we can - do we? It’s one of the big questions this week as T...
It’s been described as the most legendary story ever told. But did the Trojan War actually happen? A...
As a new series of The Crown arrives on Netflix, returning viewers to the 1980s, we look back at the...
Plague, pestilence and statue smashing are back in business. Has 2020 turned out to be the 17th Cent...
What are the conditions needed for a civil war to start? Could we see a modern industrial nation tur...
Recorded hours after Joe Biden was named President of the United States, we ask if Donald Trump is a...
How did certain people come to be called ‘the Great’? Is the notion of great men and women outmoded?...
