Podcasts

Surprising History of Redheads: From Prehistoric Gingers to Ed Sheeran

Boudica. Elizabeth I. Ed Sheeran. The history of the redhead goes back thousands of years, and it fluctuates from prejudice in medieval Europe, to...

Henry II & Thomas Becket: A Doomed Friendship

It's 1163; Thomas Becket has cast off the shackles of his working class roots to become King Henry II's right-hand man. He is appointed to the...

President Grover Cleveland: Panic in the Second Term

What caused the economic panic of 1893? In this episode we are delving into the event that made Grover Cleveland's second term so different from...

Birth of the Iron Age

It’s the end of the 12th century BC, and a once remarkable Near eastern world lay in ruin. Drought, warfare, famine, earthquakes, plague - all...

Tutankhamun's Curse

Untimely deaths followed the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter. Coincidence or ancient curse? When the tomb of King Tutankhamun was...

The First Japanese Visitor to Elizabethan England

In November 1588, a 21-year-old Japanese man called Christopher met Queen Elizabeth I. On the way, he had already become the first recorded...

Britain's Secret Atomic Tests in Australia

During the 1950s, in the remote expanses of Australia's outback, the British government conducted a series of clandestine nuclear tests. These...

Was Scott's Antarctic Expedition Sabotaged?

In the winter of 1911, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his party set out into the frozen heart of Antarctica. Battling blizzards and treacherous...

Pope vs. Emperor: An 11th Century Crisis

When you think of drama in the medieval period the appointment of bishops would not naturally come to mind. But the Investiture Controversy is...

Queer London & The Post-War Moral Panic

In the wake of the Second World War, a moral panic swept through Britain around a rise in homosexuality.

London was the heart of this scare...

Communism in America

The history of the United States' relationship with communism is one littered with fear and persecution. So where did the American Communist Party...

Zionism in Texas

What do you know about Galveston, Texas? Perhaps you've heard about the disastrous hurricane of 1900, perhaps not. This was also likely the case...