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Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate

The Warring States period brought Japan to its knees. It was a time of turbulence and treachery, with rival warlords fighting bitterly for control...

The First Irish

Over 10,000 years ago, many believe Ireland was a place where hunter-gatherers roamed. A place where the earliest human communities exchanged...

Gangsters of the Seas | Teaser

The new season of "Echoes of History" features Ubisoft's new game: "Skull and Bones". Inspired by this adventure where players write their own...

The Plague of Athens

In 430 BC, in the midst of the Peloponnesian War, the powerful city-state of Athens was struck down by a disastrous plague. Athenians fell sick...

Swearing: A F**king Long History

Have you ever wondered where the &%@! swear words come from? Well today, Kate is going Betwixt the Sheets to find out.

Linguist...

President Zachary Taylor

Once the most popular man in America, hero of the Mexican-American war Zachary Taylor is our twelfth President and the subject of this...

Ireland's Bloodiest Murders: Maamtrasna Murders

One summer night in 1882 the Maamtrasna Valley in the West of Ireland became forever notorious when three generations of the Seoige (Joyce) family...

Harold Godwinson

All this month on Gone Medieval, Dr. Eleanor Janega and Matt Lewis uncover the stories of the protagonists and events that led up to the Battle of...

Elizabeth I's Spymaster, Walsingham

For anyone studying the politics of the 1570s-80s, it would be hard to avoid Elizabeth I’s ‘spymaster’ Sir Francis Walsingham, who seemingly...

Jericho

The ancient city of Jericho is often thought to be the oldest continuously inhabited settlement in the world. Made famous by the biblical tale of...

The Ancient Origins Of Sex

Going back hundreds of thousands of years, bumping uglies had to start somewhere.

What was the first sexual position? Was sex even for...

The WW2 Witch Trial of Hellish Nell

What made a working class woman from Edinburgh become such a threat to British intelligence services during the Second World War, that they tried...

The Tet Offensive: Turning Point of the Vietnam War?

January, 1968. Fighting in Vietnam has been ongoing since the 1950s. Ho Chi Minh and the leaders of the communist forces in Hanoi have concocted a...

Tower of London: Most Infamous Prisoners

From William Wallace and King Henry VI, to Anne Boleyn and Sir Walter Raleigh, London's iconic Tower of London has held some of history's most...

How to Survive in Ancient Rome

This episode contains a reference to animal cruelty

Would you be able to survive in ancient Rome?

Today, Tristan Hughes is joined by...

Medieval Werewolves, Ghosts & Zombies

How did Medieval people fight against the Undead? What motivated their Ghosts? And why do stories of Werewolves persist until today?

Anthony...

Princes in the Tower: The Tudor Pretenders?

The unsolved mystery of what happened to the Princes in the Tower - Edward V and Richard, Duke of York - is possibly English history’s greatest...

3. Thomas Cochrane: From Disgrace to Freedom Fighter

3/3. After a meteoric rise to fame, Cochrane finds himself in front of a court and stripped of his titles for fraud on the London Stock Exchange....

Napoleon's Penis & Other Iconic Body Parts From History

Perhaps without you realising it, history is marked by iconic body parts.

From Frida Khalo’s monobrow, to Queen Victoria's swollen armpit,...

The Romanovs

The Romanov family were the first imperial dynasty to rule Russia, reigning from the early seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution of...

The Tudors & the American West Coast

In the summer of 1579, Francis Drake had to land in a ‘fair and good bay’ on the western coast of the New World when his ship - The Golden...