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The Rest Is History
The Rest Is History
Goalhanger

The world’s most popular history podcast, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Join The Rest Is History Club (www.therestishistory.com) for ad-free listening to... more

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Episodes

The Last Viking: The Saga of Harald Hardrada (Part 1)

“I swear I will not flee from this fight. I will triumph, or I will die!” In the 1066 game of... more

30 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
The Road to 1066: Countdown to Conquest (Part 4)

In the triumvirate of 1066, William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada, and Harold Godwinson, the latter has above all endured as... more

27 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 1 minute
The Road to 1066: Rise of the Normans (Part 3)

Born into a world of treachery, violence and death, William of Normandy defied all expectations, forging a legacy that lasts... more

24 Mar 2025 · 59 minutes
The Road to 1066: Revenge of the Vikings (Part 2)

Following the bloody St Brice’s Day Massacre, of the 13th of November 1002, which saw King Æthelred brutally exterminating the... more

20 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1)

The Norman Conquest of 1066, culminating in the legendary Battle of Hastings, is perhaps the greatest turning point in the... more

17 Mar 2025 · 1 hour,
The French Revolution: The Execution of the King (Part 4)

The second revolution that engulfed France over the course of 1792 reached its climax in December, with an astonishing, world-changing... more

13 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
The French Revolution: The Monarchy Falls (Part 3)

“From this place and from this day forth commences a new era in the world’s history, and you can all... more

10 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
The French Revolution: The First Feminist (Part 2)

In the summer and Autumn of 1792 - with the Prussians bearing down on Paris, the streets thronged with the... more

06 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 1 minute
The French Revolution: The September Massacres (Part 1)

‘Still more traitors, still more treason…" It is 1792 and France has been at war since April; it is not going... more

03 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 2 minutes
Death in the Amazon: Aguirre, the Wrath of God

“Anyone who even thinks of abandoning this mission will be cut up into a thousand pieces…I am the wrath of... more

27 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 9 minutes