Podcast episodes about history
Single episodes that tell one story completely — no forty-part series required.
HMS Wager: Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
The Tragedy of HMS Captain
6. Troy
1. Greatness
SYMHC Classics: Unearthed! USS Indianapolis
196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror
SYMHC Classics: Henry Every
Britain's Bloodiest Mutiny
USA: We Have Ways - Tuskegee Airmen
Critical Error: Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster
The Gunpowder Plot (Repeat)
189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand
1. Roman Britain - The Work of Giants Crumbled
Ernest Shackleton
Jason and the Golden Fleece
Trapped Under the Sunken Titanic
USA: We Have Ways - The Real Saving Private Ryan
Disaster Favours the Daring: Shipwreck at Honda Point
Finding Richard III
Show 63 - Supernova in the East II
2. The Bronze Age Collapse - Mediterranean Apocalypse
Sunday Pick: How to think critically about history — and why it matters (w/ David Ikard)
How Boudica Took On The Roman Empire
Summer Reboot - The Pig War of 1859
What to look for
History podcasting rewards the long form. Where most topics suffer past ninety minutes, this one often needs it.
Why episodes, not shows
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