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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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 · 35m
What Is Life Like For Palestinians Under Occupation? 2026-04-09 · 13m
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
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