European History Podcasts

This series features podcasts of papers from the 7th Annual Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference which took place from August 18-19 2017 at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. The conference was generously supported by: the College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies, NUI Galway; the School of Humanities, NUI Galway; the Moore Institute, […]

A comprehensive review of European History

Tyrants Through History is look at the most infamous leaders throughout history. I will go into great detail on how these leaders ruled their countries, what laws they enacted, and what wars they started. If you ever wondered how a tyrant could stay in power without being overthrown or killed, well this podcast if for […]

Listen as Zach & J.C. discuss some of the lesser-known elements of reformation history and theology.

The Reign After Show recaps, reviews and discusses episodes of The CW’s Reign. Show Summary: Queen of Scotland Mary Stuart travels to France with four ladies-in-waiting to secure her politically strategic engagement to the king’s son, Prince Francis. Mary and Francis share a mutual attraction, even though he has reservations about the wisdom of an […]

These podcasts are geared to students of World History and AP European History

In this series some of the major participants in the Irish folk music revival, as well as a number of the leading scholars in the field, reflect on developments in Irish music over the course of the twentieth century. Series Editor: PJ Mathews. Scholarcast theme music by: Padhraic Egan, Michael Hussey and Sharon Hussey. Development: […]

Two brothers debate which randomly assigned notable figures were more bada**. Angela Davis or Boudica? Who is the Baddest Ass of these rebellious leaders?

An exploration of crashes, manias, and other interesting stops along the brief history of finance. In studying these moments we can get a better understanding of where we are today. The past is prologue.

The podcast that attempts to explore and explain the origins of common expressions in a manner that isn’t nearly as boring as this description.

Historian Bettany Hughes goes beyond the delights of teas and topiary to explore ten inspiring National Trust sites. Join Bettany as she travels around some of the most splendid sites in England, guided by our experts, to investigate their deep-rooted connections to Europe and the wider world. ————————————————————— Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more […]

In this series, Michael Burden, David Kennerley and Susan Valladares from the University of Oxford discuss the fashion for staging historical dramas in British and American theatres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The series accompanies the Bodleian Library’s exhibition on this theme and the podcasts include descriptions and discussions of many of […]

Age 5 to 9. Explore The Great Fire of London through music, dance and drama activities.

Discover the lives of women who have made an impact on the city and university. This is the first series which was released in 2016. For current episodes, released monthly, visit our iTunes feed (https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/women-in-oxfords-history/id1317847547?mt=2) or search for ‘Women in Oxford’s History’.

Podcasts from the 6th Annual Tudor and Stuart Ireland Interdisciplinary Conference which took place on August 19-20 2016 at the Moore Institute, NUI Galway. The conference was supported by: an NUI Galway President’s Award for Research Excellence (to Prof. Steven Ellis); the Moore Institute, NUI Galway; the School of Humanities, NUI Galway; the Discipline of […]

The journey to becoming who you are can seem impossible, yet, at the same time, it appears inevitable. Yalla!

Welcome to Hidden Histories, hosted by Helen Lewis. In each series we explore a subject that the textbooks hid, held-back or hijacked, starting with “The Great Forgetting: women writers before Austen”. For more, head to newstatesman.com/podcast. ————————————————————— Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Greeting, folks! Welcome to the official “Bookworm History” podcast, where we talk about the great stories behind great books, interesting and out of the way places to connect with history, and random bits of trivia and fun facts! Basically it’s a celebration of all things nerdy and fascinating. So take a listen! I hope you […]

The Stories From 1916 Podcast tells the less well-known stories from Ireland’s revolutionary period. We use first hand accounts and archive material to tell the stories of ordinary men and women who did extra-ordinary things during this interesting period in Irish history. A significant portion of this is possible due to the Military Witness Statement […]

Cosmopolitanism, derived from the ancient Greek for ‘world citizenship’, offers a radical alternative to nationalism, asking individuals to imagine themselves as part of a community that goes beyond national and linguistic boundaries. Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in cosmopolitanism in the humanities and social sciences, especially within philosophy, sociology and politics. Cosmopolitanism, […]

Check us out on iTunes! Take a peek inside the University of Edinburgh’s Research Collections. Join host Chloe Medghalchi as she explores unique items from various collections: Art, Anatomy, Geology, Musical Instruments, The Roslin Institute, the Lothian Health Services archives, and the university’s archives.

An inside look at research outside the classroom.

Hannah Fry looks back at 75 years of computing history to reveal the UK’s lead role in developing the technologies we rely on today

This series of six lectures introduces six plays from the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. Once popular and now little-known, they can tell us a lot about what their first audiences enjoyed, aspired to and worried about – from immigrants in early modern London to the role of women in the household, from what religious changes […]

Welcome to the Pigshed, our cosy little hovel far out in the flatlands of East Anglia. Come in and share some tales rooted in the history and myth of this distinctive corner of the British Isles. Mind the pigs. Our stories are inspired by the hidden history of Norwich.

James Corbett of corbettreport.com presents a weekly podcast series, “The Well-Read Anarchist.” In this series, James will read the major works of the great anarchist philosophers, from the foundational anarchist writers of the early 19th century right through to the contemporary thinkers of the 21st century. Joining us along the way will be a range […]

Enjoy a personal journey of the exhibition with the audio guide providing an additional and compelling insight into the events, emotions and relationships of Napoleon and those closest to him. Narrated by accomplished actor Rachael Blake, the private world of Napoleon and Josephine is brought to life in this program., translated into Australian sign language […]

Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum, explores 600 years of Germany’s complex and often challenging history using objects, art, landmarks and literature.

Lars Brownworth, author of “Lost to the West” and creator of the “12 Byzantine Rulers” podcast presents “Norman Centuries”, a podcast on the Normans. While popular Norman history focuses on the regions of France and England, Norman Centuries covers the lesser known Italian Normans as well. Visit us at http://NormanCenturies.com/

This series features recordings of papers from the 2014 Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference which took place from August 29-30 2014 in NUI Maynooth. The conference was generously supported by UCD School of History and Archives, UCD Research, Marsh’s Library, Graduate Studies at NUI Maynooth, and the Department of History at NUI Maynooth. 28 papers […]

Part of a series of lectures by academics in the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow addressing the question of Scotland’s historic Britishness from different disciplinary perspectives.

Admiral Lord West tells the story of the Royal Navy during the 20th century.

The Richard III Podcast examines the life and times of King Richard III, offering details on aspects of this most controversial of English kings.

Antoine Compagnon, born on July 20, 1950 in Brussels, has been professor of “Modern and Contemporary French Literature: history, criticism, and theory” at the Collège de France since 2006. He has also been Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York since 1985, holding the “Blanche W. Knopf” chair since 1991. […]

This Scholarcast series hosts eight lectures by major scholars on literary and cultural transactions across the Irish Sea, and which focus on the Irish Sea as an ‘inner waterway’ of the British and Irish Isles. Copyright UCD 2012. All rights reserved. Scholarcast theme music by: Padhraic Egan, Michael Hussey and Sharon Hussey. Series produced by […]

In this subject, students examine the emergence, consolidation and development of Russian state and society in a hitherto ‘wild’ region in eastern Europe. The formative phase in the political, social and intellectual history of the Tsardom of Muscovy is traced. The focus is on the interplay of strange dichotomies like those between autocracy and oligarchy, […]

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Andrew Dilnot, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, brings to life the numbers that highlight the patterns and trends that have transformed Britain

In this course, we will use the anthropological approach and methodology to understand witch-hunts and persecution. We start by looking at magic, witchcraft and sorcery and explaining the persistence of related beliefs and practices. As we will see the basic idea of witch persecution is that we have an image of a witch (or sorcerer) […]

A history of science in Britain from the Restoration to the present day. Weaving science back into everyday life, Lisa Jardine shows how the concerns of the scientist are the concerns of us all

The Invisible Tour Guide is a new show from world famous art historian and clever clogs, Professor Byron Frump. This ten part series will take you on an unofficial tour of some of Ireland’s finest museums, gallerias and historic monuments. Let Professor Frump be your free and discrete guide to the unseen Ireland, as you […]

International conference organised by Ertegun Scholar Manuel Muhlbacher and his college advisor Nicholas Cronk. Imprisoned during his lifetime and sanctified in the twentieth century, the Marquis de Sade has attracted considerable critical interest during the last decades. He was a favourite of literary theory in the sixties and seventies, while more recent scholarship has begun […]

This a podcast on the history of the German people

Podcasts from the History Faculty. Today the University is one of the world’s most encompassing centres for the study of history. The faculty has about a hundred permanent teaching staff, nearly twelve hundred undergraduates, and almost five hundred graduate students attracted from many countries. Historians also abound in other departments. At their service is the […]

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In this subject, students investigate the development of literature for children from the traditional literatures of myth and legend, folk and fairy tales, through early publishing, to the emergence of genres of adventure, fantasy and realism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Place, space and geography in historical and social studies.

This series features recordings of research papers from the Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference which took place on August 31st and September 1st 2012 in University College Dublin. The conference was supported by UCD Research Seed Funding, UCD School of History and Archives and The Society for Renaissance Studies. The podcast series is in association […]

James Naughtie profiles 60 public figures nominated to mark the diamond jubilee

Enjoy a personal journey of the exhibition with the audio guide providing an additional and compelling insight into the events, emotions and relationships of Napoleon and those closest to him. Narrated by accomplished actor Rachael Blake, the private world of Napoleon and Josephine is brought to life in this program. Captioned edition.

Series of annual radio lectures on significant contemporary issues, delivered by leading figures from the relevant fields

The Irish Revolution was a module taught by renowned historian Professor Michael Laffan in the School of History and Archives, UCD from the mid-1970’s until his retirement in 2010. The course covers a tumultuous period in Irish history and examines the interaction of different groups (in particular unionists, moderate and radical nationalists, and the British), […]

Enjoy a personal journey of the exhibition with the audio guide providing an additional and compelling insight into the events, emotions and relationships of Napoleon and those closest to him. Narrated by accomplished actor Rachael Blake, the private world of Napoleon and Josephine is brought to life in this program.

Originally a weekly podcast about psychology’s past, including interviews with notable historians of psychology. Now an occasional episode in a variety of formats including interviews, discussions, and reviews.

Making a selection of objects from the British Museum and collections across the UK, Neil MacGregor uncovers the stories they tell about Shakespeare’s world.

Antoine Compagnon, born on July 20, 1950 in Brussels, has been professor of “Modern and Contemporary French Literature: history, criticism, and theory” at the Collège de France since 2006. He has also been Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York since 1985, holding the “Blanche W. Knopf” chair since 1991. […]

Will Gompertz enters the Royal Collection to examine some of the objects that have adorned, defined and described the story of a thousand years of the British monarchy.