History of the World podcast

Any opportunity for everybody to enjoy a debrief episode where we talk in further depth about the experience of making t... Read more

848 - 1070 - From humble beginnings in the far south, the Chola initially took advantage of territorial expansion before... Read more

This episode essentially talks about the history of history writing, and what history writing has meant for the wider wo... Read more

In this week's magazine episode, we will be looking at what chimpanzees can teach us about how our ancestral species com... Read more

In this week's magazine we look back at Europe as the Western Roman Empire fell, the Battle of Cannae when Hannibal's Ca... Read more

In this episode, we'll be looking back at the paleoanthropologist Eugene Dubois; the relationship between the Mycenaeans... Read more

The complete journey from the beginnings of human occupation right through to the aftermath of the death of King Rama IX... Read more

The History of the World podcast is five years old, so we go back and listen to an excerpt from the first ever episode, ... Read more

1942 - 1945 - Easy Company were such a closely knit unit of men, that they have been referred to as a "band of brothers"... Read more

1532 - 1624 - With the advent of transatlantic seafaring came the opportunity for Spain to become great. Queen Elizabeth... Read more