Podcasts

The Ultimate Samurai Warlord: Oda Nobunaga, Japan's First Great Unifier

Oda Nobunaga, samurai warlord. He’s one of Japan’s most infamous and consequential figures, known to many as Japan’s first ‘Great...

The Real Mutiny on the Bounty: Revenge in Paradise (Part 2)

Mutineers, manhunts, uninhabited tropical islands and...SHIPWRECKS! The second part of the story of the Mutiny of the Bounty is even wilder than...

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...

The Fall of Mark Antony: From Caesar to Cleopatra

After the death of his patron Julius Caesar, the Roman world was Mark Antony’s for the taking. His triumph over Caesar’s assassins at Phillipi...

The REAL Bridgerton: Georgian Drugs & Alcohol

The third season of Bridgerton is out and we are back in sexy scandalous Georgian society. But while we watch, we're taking a step back to ask:...

Travel Guide to the Middle Ages

If you are planning - or dreaming of - your next holiday, have you stopped to wonder whether our medieval counterparts did exactly the same thing?...

The Preacher Too Radical for Luther

The mid-15th to mid-16th centuries in Europe was an era of political, social, and religious unrest, when the Roman Catholic Church was being...

The Rise of Mark Antony

Mark Antony; the headstrong bad boy, a feared commander, lover and traitor memorably depicted by Richard Burton. His story is intertwined with...

Real History of the Knights Templar

Why are the Knights Templar surrounded by myths and legends? Is there any truth to the tales of the Holy Grail or that the Knights survived? Why...

The History of Baseball

Where did baseball come from? Why is every stadium unique? And how do you make it to the Hall of Fame? 

For half the year, baseball...

Sex Work in Colonial Australia

From the first fleet of convict ships arriving in Australia in 1788, sex work was a central part of the new society British colonialists were...

Whisky: The Medieval Elixir

Did you know we have our medieval ancestors to thank for whisky? It wasn’t exactly a medieval invention but the process of making distilled...