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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 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
Elizabeth I’s Sorcerer: Angels and Demons in Renaissance Europe

In Tudor England, during the reign of Elizabeth I, there lived in the very heart of her court a magician,... more

24 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 5 minutes
Heart of Darkness: Fear and Loathing in the Congo

“The horror! The horror!” Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ - the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Apocalypse Now’ - is one... more

20 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 16 minutes
Horror in the Congo: A Conspiracy Unmasked (Part 3)

Exposing the dark pit of human suffering, cruelty and corruption that had long been secretly festering in King Leopold’s Congo,... more

17 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 6 minutes
Horror in the Congo: The Crimes of Empire (Part 2)

“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”. In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish... more

13 Feb 2025 · 1 hour,
The Rest Is History
The Road to 1066: Anglo-Saxon Apocalypse (Part 1)
The Rest Is History