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Empire: World History

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The rise and fall of empires and the events that shaped world history. William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the intricate stories of revolutions, imperial wars, and the people who built and lost empires. From the British Empire to the…

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408. JFK: Nixon, McCarthy, & The Dark Side of Camelot (Part 2) 2026-10-29 · 50m
407. JFK: The Kennedy Curse Begins (Part 1) 2026-10-26 · 52m
406. Norman Conquest: The First Crusade (Part 6) 2026-10-21 · 47m
405. Norman Conquest: Medieval Mafia Invade The East (Part 5) 2026-10-18 · 46m
404. Norman Conquest: Colonising Ireland (Part 4) 2026-10-14 · 49m
403. The Norman Conquests: The Battle of Hastings (Part 3) 2026-10-11 · 56m
402. The Norman Conquests: The Real Story of 1066 (Part 2) 2026-10-07 · 58m
401. The Norman Conquests: Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry (Part 1) 2026-10-04 · 56m
400. Stalin: A Poisonous Legacy (Part 6) 2026-09-30 · 50m
399. Stalin: Hitler’s Downfall At Stalingrad (Part 5) 2026-09-26 · 52m
398. Stalin: The Great Terror (Part 4) 2026-09-23 · 43m
397. Stalin: Killing Trotsky (Part 3) 2026-09-20 · 49m
396. Stalin: The Bolshevik Revolution (Part 2) 2026-09-16 · 44m
395. Stalin: The Rise of A Tyrant (Part 1) 2026-09-13 · 34m
394. Road To 9/11: Hijackers, CIA Failures, and America’s Darkest Day (Part 6) 2026-09-09 · 46m
393. Road To 9/11: Interviewing Bin Laden In The Caves of Tora Bora (Part 5) 2026-09-06 · 47m
392. Road To 9/11: Bin Laden vs Saudi Arabia (Part 4) 2026-09-02 · 43m
391. Road To 9/11: The Rise of Osama Bin Laden (Part 3) 2026-08-30 · 45m
390. Road To 9/11: The Soviet-Afghan War (Part 2) 2026-08-26 · 43m
389. Road To 9/11: Origin of Al-Qaeda (Part 1) 2026-08-23 · 55m
388. Viking Mythology: Thor, Ragnarok, & Jesus Christ (Ep 6) 2026-08-19 · 47m
387. The Vikings Invade Britain (Ep 5) 2026-08-16 · 47m
386. The Picts: Scotland’s Tattooed Warriors (Ep 4) 2026-08-12 · 46m
385. Saint Patrick: Slave, Rebel, & Ireland’s Patron Saint (Ep 3) 2026-08-09 · 55m
384. The Roman Invasion: Gods on Hadrian’s Wall (Ep 2) 2026-08-05 · 48m
383. Romans vs Druids: The War For Celtic Britain (Ep 1) 2026-08-02 · 47m
382. Empire of AI: Karen Hao On Today’s Hidden Colonialism (Ep 2) 2026-07-29 · 57m
381. Musk, Bezos & The New East India Companies (Ep 1) 2026-07-26 · 54m
380. Algerian Revolution: The Rise of Le Pen (Ep 6) 2026-07-22 · 35m
379. Algerian Revolution: Black Panthers, LSD, & Nina Simone (Ep 5) 2026-07-19 · 47m
378. Algerian Revolution: Birth of Independence (Ep 4) 2026-07-15 · 31m
377. Algerian Revolution: The Battle of Algiers (Ep 3) 2026-07-12 · 38m
376. Algerian Revolution: Repression and Rebellion (Ep 2) 2026-07-08 · 44m
375. Algerian Revolution: The French Invasion (Ep 1) 2026-07-05 · 42m
374. Ken Burns on the American Revolution and Empire 2026-07-04 · 36m
373. The Dark Truth About Mount Rushmore 2026-07-01 · 54m
372. The First British Indians: The Sisters Rejected By Queen Victoria (Ep 4) 2026-06-28 · 55m
371. The First British Indians: Last Sikh In Lahore (Ep 3) 2026-06-24 · 42m
370. The First British Indians: Saving Jews In Nazi Germany (Ep 2) 2026-06-21 · 42m
369. The First British Indians: The Suffragette Princess (Ep 1) 2026-06-17 · 54m
368. Ancient Egypt: The Origin of Abrahamic Religions? (Ep 7) 2026-06-14 · 45m
367. Ancient Egypt: “Tut-mania” And Tutankhamun’s Tomb (Ep 6) 2026-06-10 · 44m
366. Ancient Egypt: Tutankhamun The Boy King (Ep 5) 2026-06-07 · 54m
365. Ancient Egypt: Who Was Nefertiti? (Ep 4) 2026-06-03 · 51m
364. Ancient Egypt: The Fall of Akhenaten (Ep 3) 2026-05-31 · 53m
363. Ancient Egypt: Destroyer Of Gods – Pharaoh Akhenaten (Ep 2) 2026-05-27 · 57m
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: Heartbreak & Secret Deals 2026-05-26 · 7m
362. Ancient Egypt: Great Kings of The Bronze Age (Ep 1) 2026-05-24 · 54m
361. Louis Theroux On The Settlers, The Manosphere, & Tribalism 2026-05-20 · 49m
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: The Affair 2026-05-19 · 6m
360. Spice Wars: The Battle of the East India Companies (Ep 3) 2026-05-17 · 55m
359. Spice Wars: The Birth of New York (Ep 2) 2026-05-13 · 53m
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: The House of Mountbatten 2026-05-12 · 5m
358. Spice Wars: The Rise of the Dutch East India Company (Ep 1) 2026-05-10 · 51m
357. Liberator of Latin America: Revolutionary Hero Or Dictator? (Part 4) 2026-05-07 · 42m
The Scandal That Shaped Partition: India’s First Prime Minister 2026-05-05 · 9m
356. Liberator of Latin America: Descent Into Tyranny (Part 3) 2026-05-04 · 41m
Should The Koh-I-Noor Be Returned? Mamdani vs King Charles III EXPLAINED 2026-05-01 · 29m
355. Liberator of Latin America: Napoleon & The Legions of Hell (Part 2) 2026-04-29 · 43m
354. Liberator of Latin America: Simón Bolívar vs The Spanish Empire (Part 1) 2026-04-27 · 36m
353. Hezbollah, Hostages, & Exploding Pagers (Part 8) 2026-04-22 · 58m
352. Israel’s 1982 Invasion of Lebanon (Part 7) 2026-04-20 · 52m
351. Camp David: The Day Israel & Egypt Made Peace (Part 6) 2026-04-15 · 54m
350. 1973: The Yom Kippur War & The First Oil Crisis (Part 5) 2026-04-13 · 42m
What Is Life Like For Palestinians Under Occupation? 2026-04-09 · 13m
What Is Life Like For Palestinians Under Occupation? 2026-04-09 · 35m
349. Occupation of The West Bank (Part 4) 2026-04-08 · 48m
348. How 1967 Changed The Middle East Forever (Part 3) 2026-04-06 · 53m
Jung Chang On Life Under Mao & Being Banned From China 2026-04-02 · 20m
347. The Six Day War (Part 2) 2026-04-01 · 51m
346. From Suez To The Palestinian Liberation Organisation (Part 1) 2026-03-30 · 39m
Chairman Mao: The Cultural Revolution 2026-03-26 · 49m
Chairman Mao: The Great Leap Forward 2026-03-24 · 49m
Christiane Amanpour On Iran & Trump’s Miscalculations 2026-03-20 · 34m
343. Lebanon: Hezbollah, Israel, & Fifty Years As A Battleground 2026-03-19 · 52m
342. Iran: The Three Ayatollahs – From Revolution to Dynasty 2026-03-17 · 41m
341. Chairman Mao: The Clash With Stalin (Ep 4) 2026-03-12 · 48m
Chairman Mao: World War II, Japanese Invasion, & Massacre in Nanjing 2026-03-10 · 57m
Chairman Mao: China's Communist Uprising 2026-03-05 · 52m
Chairman Mao: Birth of A Dictator 2026-03-03 · 48m
337. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Philistines, Israelites, & Rebuilding The Ruins (Ep 6) 2026-02-26 · 57m
336. Bronze Age Apocalypse: How To Survive The End of The World (Ep 5) 2026-02-24 · 48m
Bronze Age Apocalypse: Solving The Mystery of The Collapse 2026-02-19 · 60m
334. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Did Homer Write History? (Ep 3) 2026-02-17 · 43m
333. Bronze Age Apocalypse: The Fall of Troy with Stephen Fry (Ep 2) 2026-02-12 · 52m
332. Bronze Age Apocalypse: Before The Collapse (Ep 1) 2026-02-10 · 41m
331. The Iranian Revolution: Will The Shah Return To Iran? (Ep 2) 2026-02-05 · 38m
330. The Iranian Revolution: 1979 vs. 2026 (Ep 1) 2026-02-03 · 33m
329. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Raj is Born (Part 8) 2026-01-29 · 42m
328. Indian Uprising 1857: The Reign of Terror (Part 7) 2026-01-27 · 48m
327. Indian Uprising 1857: The British Strike Back (Part 6) 2026-01-22 · 48m
326. Indian Uprising 1857: India’s Joan of Arc – Rani of Jhansi (Part 5) 2026-01-20 · 64m
325. Indian Uprising 1857: The Siege of Lucknow (Part 4) 2026-01-15 · 54m
324. Indian Uprising 1857: Massacre and Revenge in Kanpur (Part 3) 2026-01-13 · 53m
323. Indian Uprising 1857: The Rebels March On Delhi (Part 2) 2026-01-08 · 53m
322. Indian Uprising 1857: The Mutiny (Part 1) 2026-01-06 · 51m
321. Exploding Rum-filled Coffins, Anglo-Indian Sisterhood, & Julia Margaret Cameron 2026-01-01 · 50m
320. Photos That Shook The World: Exposing Leopold in The Congo 2025-12-30 · 46m
319. Heist of St Nicolas: The Medieval Mafia Who Stole Santa (Part 2) 2025-12-25 · 32m
318. Heist of St Nicolas: Raiding Santa's Tomb (Part 1) 2025-12-23 · 32m
317. Churchill's Photographer: From Escaping Genocide to MLK 2025-12-18 · 48m
316. Hitler's Photographer: Nazi Secrets, Eva Braun, & Escaping Justice 2025-12-16 · 47m
Introducing: The Rest Is Science 2025-12-12 · 13m
315. Controversy, Colonialism, & V.S. Naipaul 2025-12-11 · 44m
314. Rudyard Kipling: Villain or Visionary? (Part 3) 2025-12-09 · 48m
313. Rudyard Kipling: Escaping India & Writing The Jungle Book (Part 2) 2025-12-04 · 34m
312. Rudyard Kipling: Son of Empire (Part 1) 2025-12-02 · 26m
311. Cricket In India: Beating The Brits At Their Own Game (Part 2) 2025-11-27 · 41m
310. The Origin of The Ashes & The Killer Cricket Scandal (Part 1) 2025-11-25 · 49m
309. Tintin, Nazis, & Soviets 2025-11-20 · 46m
308. Asterix and Obelix, Babar The Elephant, & Colonial Cartoons 2025-11-18 · 47m
307. Austen vs Brontë: Unmasking Slavery Heiresses 2025-11-13 · 42m
306. Joseph Conrad: From Russian Exile To The Heart of Darkness 2025-11-11 · 60m
305. Orwell: Dark Secrets, The CIA, & His Forgotten Failures (Part 4) 2025-11-06 · 60m
304. Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984 & Totalitarian Dystopia (Part 3) 2025-11-04 · 48m
303. Orwell: Fighting Fascism In The Spanish Civil War (Part 2) 2025-10-30 · 41m
302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist In India & Burma (Part 1) 2025-10-28 · 43m
301. Gaza: The First Arab-Israeli War & The Creation of The Gaza Strip (Part 11) 2025-10-22 · 48m
300. Gaza: The 1948 War (Part 10) 2025-10-20 · 52m
299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Part 9) 2025-10-15 · 49m
298. Gaza: The British Occupation of Palestine (Part 8) 2025-10-13 · 50m
297. Gaza in WW1: A Rematch For Gallipoli (Part 7) 2025-10-08 · 44m
296. Ottoman Gaza: Gunpowder Conquests & Rising Nationalism (Part 6) 2025-10-05 · 57m
295. Crusader Gaza: Saladin & Richard The Lionheart (Part 5) 2025-10-01 · 49m
294. Gaza & The Islamic Conquest (Part 4) 2025-09-29 · 41m
293. The Gaza Erotic Literature Festival: Byzantine Gaza (Part 3) 2025-09-24 · 42m
292. Ancient Gaza: From The Assyrians to The Romans (Part 2) 2025-09-22 · 43m
291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines (Part 1) 2025-09-17 · 49m
290. Medieval India’s Alexander The Great: The Cholas (Part 2) 2025-09-15 · 38m
289. Medieval India’s Game of Thrones: The Cholas (Part 1) 2025-09-10 · 43m
288. Suez Crisis: The End of The British Empire (Part 5) 2025-09-08 · 43m
287. Suez Crisis: Lies, Cyanide Pills, & Soviet Tanks (Part 4) 2025-09-03 · 44m
286. Suez Crisis: Hungary Revolts & Britain Bombs Egypt (Part 3) 2025-09-01 · 46m
285. Suez Crisis: The Secret Meeting Between Israel, Britain & France (Part 2) 2025-08-27 · 40m
284. Suez Crisis: The British Imperialist vs The Arab Nationalist (Part 1) 2025-08-25 · 42m
283. Partition: East Pakistan Becomes Bangladesh (Part 6) 2025-08-20 · 55m
282. Partition: The Birth of The Kashmir Conflict (Part 5) 2025-08-18 · 50m
281. Partition: Why Was India Split In Two? (Part 4) 2025-08-13 · 54m
280. Partition: The Creation of Pakistan (Part 3) 2025-08-11 · 42m
279. Partition: How Dubai Almost Became Part of India (Part 2) 2025-08-06 · 41m
278. Partition: India’s Break With Burma (Part 1) 2025-08-04 · 47m
277. America Drills Through Hell’s Gorge (Part 5) 2025-07-30 · 42m
276. The Biggest Corruption Scandal in French History (Part 4) 2025-07-28 · 32m
The Great Fire of London 2025-07-24 · 12m
275. The Battle To Build The Panama Canal (Part 3) 2025-07-23 · 42m
274. Pirates of Panama: Francis Drake Strikes Spain's Empire (Part 2) 2025-07-21 · 50m
273. Panama’s Brutish Conquistador Who Found The Pacific and Lost His Head (Part 1) 2025-07-16 · 46m
272. Solving The Mystery of America's Lost Colony 2025-07-15 · 46m
271. Canada’s Dark Secret: Stolen Children, Unmarked Graves, & Survival Stories (Ep 5) 2025-07-09 · 49m
270. The Day The Brits Burned The White House (Ep 4) 2025-07-07 · 51m
269. Colonising Canada: The Truth Behind ‘The Last of The Mohicans’ (Ep 3) 2025-07-02 · 58m
268. Colonising Canada: Why Does Quebec Speak French? (Ep 2) 2025-06-30 · 51m
267. Colonising Canada: Kidnapping, Scurvy, & Fool’s Gold (Ep 1) 2025-06-25 · 44m
266. American Greenland: Nazis, Secret Nuclear Bases, & Trump (Ep 4) 2025-06-23 · 43m
265. Danish Greenland: Eradicating Inuit Culture (Ep 3) 2025-06-18 · 41m
264. Viking Greenland: Mysteries of the Lost Norse Settlers (Ep 2) 2025-06-16 · 40m
Murder in the Congo, The Cuban Missile Crisis, & India in the UN (EXTRACT) 2025-06-15 · 22m
263. Viking Greenland: Erik The Red & Horny Zombies (Ep 1) 2025-06-11 · 43m
262. Berlin Blockade: Airlift Across The Iron Curtain (Ep 2) 2025-06-09 · 40m
261. Race To Berlin 1945: A Devastated City Divided (Ep 1) 2025-06-04 · 58m
260. Yalta: Signing Away The Fate of The World (Ep 5) 2025-06-02 · 54m
259. Eastern Europe & “The Great Betrayal” (Ep 4) 2025-05-28 · 43m
258. The Big Three & The Big Carve Up (Ep 3) 2025-05-26 · 40m
257. Churchill, FDR, & Mind Games at Yalta (Ep 2) 2025-05-21 · 42m
256. Stalin & 8 Days That Changed The World (Ep 1) 2025-05-19 · 38m
255. Victorian Narcos: From Opium To Fentanyl (Ep 9) 2025-05-14 · 48m
254. Victorian Narcos: Fire Monkeys, Iron Gunships, & Peasant Warfare (Ep 8) 2025-05-12 · 51m
253. Victorian Narcos: Drug Dealers Lead Britain to War (Ep 7) 2025-05-07 · 43m
252. Victorian Narcos: Selling Drugs To The Queen (Ep 6) 2025-05-05 · 51m
251. Victorian Narcos: Flooding China With Indian Opium (Ep 5) 2025-04-30 · 55m
250. Victorian Narcos: Banished From Beijing (Ep 4) 2025-04-28 · 34m
249. Victorian Narcos: Doomed Envoy to China (Ep 3) 2025-04-23 · 37m
248. Victorian Narcos: Sex, Drugs, & The Opium Agency (Ep 2) 2025-04-21 · 44m
247. Victorian Narcos: Tea Starts A Drug War (Ep 1) 2025-04-16 · 37m
246. Ireland Transformed: From Banning Condoms to Exporting Viagra 2025-04-14 · 54m
245. Inside The Good Friday Agreement with Alastair Campbell 2025-04-09 · 55m
244. The Troubles: IRA Secrets Exposed (Ep 4) 2025-04-07 · 47m
243. The Troubles: London Bombings, Hunger Strikes, & The Graveside Grenade (Ep 3) 2025-04-02 · 54m
The Troubles: Bloody Sunday & The British Army in Belfast (Ep 2) 2025-03-31 · 39m
241. The Troubles: War in the Streets of Northern Ireland (Ep 1) 2025-03-27 · 43m
240. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Irish Civil War (Ep 3) 2025-03-25 · 62m
239. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Rise of The IRA (Ep 2) 2025-03-20 · 60m
238. Ireland’s Fight For Freedom: The Easter Rising (Ep 1) 2025-03-18 · 55m
237. The Great Famine: The Irish Exodus to America (Ep 2) 2025-03-13 · 44m
236. The Great Famine: The Blight Strikes Ireland (Ep 1) 2025-03-11 · 41m
235. The Viceroy, The Psychopath, and The Merchant: The Irish in Empire (Ep 3) 2025-03-06 · 52m
234. Battle of the Boyne: Clash of Two Kings (Ep 2) 2025-03-04 · 41m
233. Blood and Betrayal: Oliver Cromwell's Irish Invasion (Ep 1) 2025-02-27 · 40m
Legacy: Genghis Khan 2025-02-26 · 8m
232. Colonising Ireland: The First Plantations (Ep 2) 2025-02-25 · 39m
231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1) 2025-02-20 · 38m
230. Britain’s Last Colony: Trump, Brexit, and Russia-Ukraine (Ep 2) 2025-02-18 · 39m
229. Britain’s Last Colony: The Second World War, Forced Deportations, and 9/11 (Ep 1) 2025-02-13 · 33m
The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Prisoner of War (Ep 2) 2025-02-11 · 43m
The Man Who Lived A Thousand Lives: Taming Nature (Ep 1) 2025-02-06 · 35m
226. The Rise and Fall of East India Company Painting (Ep 2) 2025-02-04 · 38m
225. Painting the Empire: Art of the East India Company (Ep 1) 2025-01-30 · 42m
224. Empire in Your Garden 2025-01-28 · 45m
223. Empire of Plants: From Kew Gardens to Botany Bay 2025-01-23 · 39m
222. The Downfall of the Mughals (Ep 3) 2025-01-21 · 48m
221. War of Succession: The Battle That Shook India (Ep 2) 2025-01-16 · 53m
220. Battle of Brothers: The Puritan vs The Mystic (Ep 1) 2025-01-14 · 44m
219. Building The Taj Mahal: Love, Loss, & Splendour (Ep 2) 2025-01-09 · 49m
218. Creator of The Taj Mahal: Shah Jahan’s Rise to Power (Ep 1) 2025-01-07 · 42m
217. Zebras and Zodiacs: Jahangir’s Art Revolution 2025-01-02 · 48m
216. Seeds of British India: England’s First Ambassador to the Mughal Court 2024-12-31 · 54m
215. Jahangir: A World of Light And Darkness 2024-12-26 · 46m
214. The Empire of Frankincense & Myrrh 2024-12-24 · 45m
213. How Three Wise Men Became Three Kings 2024-12-19 · 42m
212. Who Were The Three Wise Men? 2024-12-17 · 43m
211. A Beautiful World: The Art of Akbar 2024-12-12 · 47m
210. Akbar the Great: Revolutionising Religious Tolerance 2024-12-10 · 43m
209. Akbar the Great 2024-12-05 · 48m
208. Humayun Reconquers India 2024-12-03 · 52m
207. The Stargazing Hippie vs The Lion King 2024-11-28 · 35m
Introducing... The Rest Is Classified 2024-11-27 · 14m
206. Babur: Guns, Gardens & Diamonds 2024-11-26 · 41m
205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi 2024-11-21 · 42m
204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor 2024-11-19 · 51m
203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland 2024-11-14 · 42m
202. Long John Silver: The Truth Behind Treasure Island 2024-11-12 · 41m
201. The Raj at War 2024-11-07 · 38m
200. The East India Company’s Global Manhunt 2024-11-05 · 44m
199. Robbing the World’s Wealthiest Dynasty 2024-10-31 · 41m
198. The Pirate Trial of the Century 2024-10-29 · 41m
197. The Pirate Hunter 2024-10-23 · 41m
196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror 2024-10-21 · 40m
195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean 2024-10-16 · 40m
194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money 2024-10-14 · 39m
193. Empire of Numbers: The Indian Origin of Arabic Numerals 2024-10-09 · 44m
192. Native American Chiefs, the Founding of Canada, and the KKK: Scots in America 2024-10-07 · 39m
191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa 2024-10-02 · 43m
190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India 2024-09-30 · 51m
189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand 2024-09-25 · 61m
188. Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Pretender 2024-09-23 · 52m
187. The Birth of Britain 2024-09-18 · 53m
186. Scotland: A Nation in Crisis 2024-09-16 · 53m
185. The God Kings of Angkor Wat 2024-09-11 · 53m
184. The Buddhist Merlin 2024-09-09 · 33m
183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia 2024-09-04 · 49m
182. The Lady Macbeth of China 2024-09-02 · 51m
181. The Dragon Empress: China’s Game of Thrones 2024-08-28 · 34m
180. Gold & God: Connecting India & Ancient Rome 2024-08-26 · 41m
179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere 2024-08-21 · 42m
178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon 2024-08-19 · 55m
177. The Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson, Americanisation, and Operation Rolling Thunder 2024-08-14 · 57m
176. The Vietnam War: The Rise of Ho Chi Minh 2024-08-12 · 62m
175. The CIA vs Fidel Castro 2024-08-07 · 54m
174. The Cuban Revolution 2024-08-05 · 57m
173. The Korean War: Dividing the Peninsula 2024-07-31 · 51m
172. The Birth of North Korea 2024-07-29 · 47m
171. The Bengal Famine: Chaos in Calcutta 2024-07-24 · 44m
170. The Bengal Famine: A Disaster on the Horizon 2024-07-22 · 44m
169. Freedom Fighters Betrayed: Colonising the Philippines 2024-07-17 · 42m
168. Teddy Roosevelt Takes on the Old World 2024-07-15 · 50m
167. Paradise Lost: The Taking of Hawaii 2024-07-10 · 47m
166. How To Hide An Empire 2024-07-08 · 40m
165. A Massacre at Dawn 2024-07-03 · 51m
164. How the West was Won: The Truth Behind the Westerns 2024-07-01 · 50m
163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American 2024-06-26 · 42m
162. The Oregon Trail & the Gold Rush 2024-06-24 · 47m
161. The Trail of Tears 2024-06-19 · 41m
160. Native Nations vs Thomas Jefferson 2024-06-17 · 46m
159. The American Revolution: Building The New Rome (Ep 4) 2024-06-12 · 39m
158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep 3) 2024-06-10 · 59m
157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2) 2024-06-05 · 51m
156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1) 2024-06-03 · 47m
155. The Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin (Ep 5) 2024-05-30 · 39m
154. The Founding Fathers: John Adams (Ep 4) 2024-05-29 · 31m
153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton (Ep 3) 2024-05-28 · 23m
152. The Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson (Ep 2) 2024-05-27 · 40m
151. The Founding Fathers: George Washington (Ep 1) 2024-05-22 · 57m
150. Worlds Colliding: Seizing Settlers in New England 2024-05-20 · 40m
149. Pocahontas: Kidnapped in Virginia 2024-05-15 · 49m
148. America: The Empire of Liberty 2024-05-13 · 45m
147. Queen Victoria: Empress of India (Ep 4) 2024-05-08 · 48m
146. Queen Victoria: The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets (Ep 3) 2024-05-06 · 49m
145. Victoria & Albert (Ep 2) 2024-05-01 · 59m
144. The Making of Queen Victoria (Ep 1) 2024-04-29 · 54m
143. Isabella of Castile: The Spanish Inquisition, the Conquest of Granada, and Columbus 2024-04-24 · 55m
142. Isabella of Castile: Uniting Spain 2024-04-22 · 47m
141. Nur Jahan: The Most Powerful Mughal Woman 2024-04-17 · 39m
140. Nur Jahan: The Light of the World 2024-04-15 · 43m
139. Mrs Genghis Khan 2024-04-10 · 47m
138. The Graceful Reed: Ruling the Islamic Empire 2024-04-08 · 43m
137. Empress Theodora: Making Heaven on Earth 2024-04-03 · 56m
136. Empress Theodora: From the Brothel to the Throne 2024-04-01 · 42m
135. Helena: Queen of the World and Finder of the One True Cross 2024-03-28 · 57m
134. Cleopatra: The Would-Be Empress of Rome 2024-03-26 · 42m
133. Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile 2024-03-21 · 47m
132. Journey to Nalanda and the Library of Jewels 2024-03-19 · 47m
131. Buddhism Goes to China 2024-03-14 · 36m
130. India meets Rome: Making the Image of the Buddha 2024-03-12 · 46m
129. Ashoka: The Great Buddhist Emperor of India 2024-03-07 · 51m
128. The Life of the Buddha 2024-03-05 · 55m
127. Inventing Curry: The British Taste for India 2024-02-29 · 43m
126. Punch & Chilli: The East India Company at the Table 2024-02-27 · 52m
125. The Origin of the Houthis 2024-02-22 · 57m
124. Saddam Hussein vs The Ayatollah 2024-02-20 · 51m
123. Hezbollah: The Party of God 2024-02-15 · 48m
122. Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World 2024-02-13 · 51m
121. The Fall of the Shah of Shahs 2024-02-08 · 51m
120. The Iranian Revolution: The Rise of Ayatollah Khomeini 2024-02-06 · 41m
119. The Last Shah 2024-02-01 · 52m
118. Iran's First Revolution 2024-01-30 · 57m
117. Nader Shah: The Sword of Persia 2024-01-25 · 55m
116. Isfahan: The City of Dreams 2024-01-23 · 52m
115. The Great Conversion: How Iran became Shia 2024-01-18 · 53m
114. The Persian Renaissance 2024-01-16 · 44m
113. Timur: Scourge of God 2024-01-11 · 42m
112. Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation 2024-01-09 · 57m
111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica 2024-01-04 · 39m
110. Antarctica: The Continent that wouldn’t be Conquered 2024-01-02 · 43m
109. The Endeavour: Into the Unknown 2023-12-28 · 45m
108. The Endeavour & the Great Southern Continent 2023-12-26 · 52m
107. China's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He 2023-12-19 · 42m
106. The Rise of Islam 2023-12-14 · 45m
105. The Last Great War of Antiquity 2023-12-12 · 48m
104. How Persian Religion Changed the World 2023-12-07 · 53m
103. Alexander the Great: Defeating Darius 2023-12-05 · 41m
102. Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Persia 2023-11-30 · 50m
101. Salamis: Athens’ Revenge 2023-11-28 · 49m
100. Thermopylae: Xerxes, Leonidas, and the 300 2023-11-23 · 54m
99. Marathon and the Rise of Greece 2023-11-21 · 45m
98. Darius the Great: Ruling from India to the Mediterranean 2023-11-16 · 51m
97. Cyrus the Great: Building the First Superpower 2023-11-14 · 55m
96. Empires of Iran 2023-11-09 · 8m
95. The History of Putin's War 2023-11-07 · 54m
Welcome to the Empire Club 2023-11-06 · 12m
94. The Bloody History of Russia & Ukraine 2023-11-02 · 52m
93. Murdering the Romanovs: The End of a Dynasty 2023-10-31 · 47m
92. Killing Rasputin 2023-10-26 · 48m
91. Lenin and The Rise of the Bolsheviks 2023-10-24 · 60m
90. The Russian Revolution: Overthrowing the Tsar 2023-10-19 · 56m
89. The Final Act of the Great Game 2023-10-17 · 58m
88. The Russo-Japanese War: Asia Strikes Back 2023-10-12 · 50m
87. Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire 2023-10-10 · 54m
86. Crushing the Khans: Russia Seizes the Centre of the World 2023-10-05 · 46m
85. The Russian Conquest of America 2023-10-03 · 54m
84. A Tale of Two Nurses: Seacole & Nightingale 2023-09-28 · 54m
83. The Charge of the Light Brigade 2023-09-26 · 50m
82. Crimea: The War on Repeat 2023-09-21 · 59m
81. The Graveyard of Empires 2023-09-19 · 54m
80. 1842: The Retreat from Kabul 2023-09-14 · 50m
79. Invading Afghanistan: The Return of a King 2023-09-12 · 55m
78. The Battle of the Spies 2023-09-07 · 50m
77. The Great Game Begins 2023-09-05 · 53m
76. The Empress & The General 2023-08-31 · 52m
75. Catherine the Great: The Golden Age 2023-08-29 · 51m
74. Peter the Great: The First Emperor 2023-08-24 · 61m
73. Ivan the Terrible and the Founding of Russia 2023-08-22 · 53m
72. The Russian Empire and the Great Game 2023-08-15 · 37m
71. Nazis, reparations, and laws 'just for the English to see' 2023-08-10 · 37m
70. The Haitian Revolution, Dutch royals, and what happened to the Caribs? 2023-08-08 · 41m
69. A Reckoning with Slavery 2023-08-01 · 57m
68. The Long Death of Slavery 2023-07-25 · 48m
67. Slavery's Demise 2023-07-20 · 51m
66. Wilberforce and the Fight for Freedom 2023-07-18 · 55m
65. When the Enslaved Took on Napoleon 2023-07-13 · 52m
64. The Black Spartacus 2023-07-11 · 48m
63. Creating Sierra Leone: The Land of the Free 2023-07-06 · 45m
62. When Slaves Fought for the British Empire 2023-07-04 · 49m
61. The Black Abolitionist 2023-06-29 · 49m
60. Britain's Most Famous Slave 2023-06-27 · 37m
59. Francis Barber: Abolition, the Navy, and the Enlightenment 2023-06-21 · 52m
58. Dr Johnson's Black Heir 2023-06-20 · 46m
57. Tacky's Revolt: An Atlantic Slave War 2023-06-15 · 45m
56. Tacky's Revolt: Causes of the Rebellion 2023-06-13 · 50m
55. The Fall of the Royal African Company 2023-06-08 · 47m
54. Royal African Company: Slavery Inc 2023-06-06 · 41m
53. Barbary Corsairs: Raiding the British isles 2023-05-30 · 52m
52. The Slave who Ruled 2023-05-23 · 57m
51. Vikings: Slavs to Slaves 2023-05-16 · 51m
50. Rome: A Slave Society 2023-05-09 · 57m
49. The Dawn of Everything 2023-05-04 · 57m
48. The History of Slavery 2023-05-02 · 16m
47. Rebels Against the Raj 2023-04-27 · 42m
46. The Mau Mau, the court case, and the hidden documents 2023-04-25 · 51m
45. Successors to the Romans, progressive harems, and living Ottomans 2023-04-20 · 39m
44. The Legacy of the Ottomans, Queen of the Desert, and giant turbans 2023-04-18 · 46m
43. The Birth of Saudi Arabia 2023-04-11 · 60m
42. The Fiery End of the Ottoman Empire 2023-04-06 · 49m
41. The Rise of Ataturk 2023-04-04 · 52m
40. Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict 2023-03-28 · 50m
39. Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt 2023-03-21 · 60m
38. Sykes-Picot: Carving up the Middle-East 2023-03-14 · 60m
37. The Armenian Genocide: Death Marches 2023-03-09 · 38m
36. The Armenian Genocide: Road to the Deportations 2023-03-07 · 42m
35. Gallipoli: Death at the Cliff Edge 2023-02-28 · 63m
34. The Sick Man of Europe 2023-02-21 · 58m
33. Lady Mary: Our Woman in Constantinople 2023-02-14 · 56m
32. The Greatest Ottoman Adventurer 2023-02-07 · 48m
31. Conquering the Night: The History of Coffee 2023-01-31 · 54m
30. Sultanas to Slaves: Voices from the Harem 2023-01-24 · 58m
29. The Tudors and the Turks 2023-01-17 · 54m
28. The Battle of Lepanto 2023-01-12 · 50m
27. The Siege of Cyprus 2023-01-10 · 42m
26. Suspicion and Sorrow in Suleiman's Court 2023-01-03 · 39m
25. Suleiman the Magnificent 2022-12-27 · 44m
24. The Fall of Constantinople 2022-12-20 · 63m
23. The First of the Ottomans 2022-12-13 · 39m
22. Byzantium and the Rise of the Turks 2022-12-13 · 46m
21. The Ottoman Empire 2022-12-13 · 7m
20. Nationhood, the Indian constitution, and the railways 2022-12-01 · 39m
19. Federal India, indentured labour, and naked yogis 2022-11-29 · 47m
18. The Empire Implodes 2022-11-22 · 53m
17. Rishi Sunak's Ancestry: Indians in East Africa 2022-11-15 · 54m
16. Partition 2022-11-08 · 53m
15. The Last Viceroy of India 2022-11-01 · 54m
14. Muhammad Ali Jinnah 2022-10-25 · 66m
13. The Patient Assassin 2022-10-18 · 54m
12. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary 2022-10-11 · 65m
11. Queens and the Koh-i-Noor 2022-10-06 · 42m
10. Killing for the Koh-i-Noor 2022-10-04 · 58m
9. The Curse of the Koh-i-Noor 2022-09-29 · 42m
8. The Koh-i-Noor Diamond 2022-09-27 · 52m
7. Mahatma Gandhi 2022-09-20 · 63m
6. Queen Elizabeth II & Empire 2022-09-13 · 39m
5. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 2022-09-06 · 47m
4. Between Two Massacres: 1857-1919 2022-08-30 · 42m
3. Mutiny, Uprising, and Rebellion 2022-08-23 · 52m
2. Company Rule in India 2022-08-16 · 51m
1. The East India Company 2022-08-16 · 63m
Trailer 2022-08-12 · 1m
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