Top History Podcasts

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

An audio dramatisation of July 1914 Countdown to War by Sean McMeekin.....

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....

Legendary sprinter Michael Johnson embarks upon a personal journey through the history of protest in sport....

Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed fictional character of all time, and he has been reimagined....

As long as there have been humans, there have been LGBTQI+ people. From an 18th century gentleman’s servant known as 'Princess Seraphina', to a lesbian punk rocker in Malaysia, challenging her country’s homophobic laws today; queer life always finds a way....