History Podcasts

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10 American presidents

10 USP is a podcast about 10 landmark American Presidents by Roifield Brown. Each show features an expert narrator giving their take on the life of the president.

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12 Byzantine Rulers

Lars Brownworth's classic podcast (1st episode in 2004)

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Africa: A history

Travis Dow, podcast creator extraordinaire, explores the cultural, anthropologic and geographical history of Africa.

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American Biography

Thomas Daly's podcast on figures, often lesser known, from American history

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Bohemican

Pete Collman, originally from Hawaii, now an expat in Prague, delivers this podcast about Czech history.

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British History

Jamie Jeffers's podcast about Britain through the ages

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History of Alchemy

Travis Dow looks at the history of alchemy and it's influence on science.

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History of China

Chris Stewart's podcast on the history of China

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History of Germany

Another podcast from Travis Dow; this time on the history of Germany.

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History of India

Kit Patrick's podcast on the history of India

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History of Pirates

Craig Buddy's podcast doesn't appear to have new episodes after May 2017

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History of Rome

Mike Duncan's History of Rome podcast recorded from 2007-2013

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History of the Papacy

Steve Guerra is the host of the History of the Papacy Podcast, which began in 2013.

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History of the 20th Century

Mark Painter takes an interdisciplinary approach to include art, culture, music, science and religion, as well as war and politics.

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History of the World

Now defunct, but downloads are still available.

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History of….

Jamie Redfern takes on a variety of historical topics. He has several podcasts that can be linked to from his site or google+ page

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In Our Time

BBC 4's long-standing show with Melvin Bragg

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Norman Centuries

Lars Brownworth's podcast covering Normans in France, England and Italy.

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Our Fake History

Sebastian Major and Beth Lorimer serve up a podcast about myths people think are history and history that might be hidden in myths

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Revolutions

A weekly podcasting exploring great political revolutions from Mike Duncan.

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Russian Rulers

Mark Schauss's podcast on Russian history

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Talking history

Benjamin & Adam Ashwell discuss the Italian reunification in the 19th century.

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The History of Byzantium

Robin Pierson continues the story of the Roman empire. This podcast was created to continue the narrative from Mike Duncan's history of Rome podcast

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The Secret Cabinet

"Secret Cabinet" refers to historic artifacts that are somehow disturbing or deviant. This is the English version where Travis Dow translates the original German podcast by Der Buddler.

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Twilight Histories

Jordan Harbour mashes history and the Twilight Zone

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When Diplomacy Fails

Zack Twamley, historian from County Wicklow, examines causes and implications of conlicts from 1500 to the present.

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Wittenberg to Westphalia

Originally intended as a history of The Thirty Years War, the scope of the project grew to now include the entire Early Modern Period of European History; from Benjamin Jacobs.

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