Modern History Podcasts

DidThisHappen.com is the brainchild of Grant Baciocco, the co-creator and head writer of the popular, family friendly podcast The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd. It was created to open a dialogue between children and their teachers about famous historical figures and moments. Our listeners are encouraged to do their own research into the people and […]

Covering topics about a particular technology advanced from ideas of the ancients… to the “dream realized” in our time.

Because history shouldn’t be silent. Footnote is a look at all people, places and events that never quite made it into history class.

Tim Harford presents a series of talks inspired by ideas in anthropology, culture and the social sciences

The BBC World Services wide range of documentaries from 2013.

The story of our times told by the people who were there.

This series remembers Nelson Mandela, the global statesman who delivered South Africa from the oppression of Apartheid, who sadly passed away on December 5th 2013.

The story of our times told by the people who were there.

The story of our times told by the people who were there.

The story of our times told by the people who were there.

Ten short podcasts on quirky aspects of eighteenth-century life. This series of short podcasts offers an alternative history of the eighteenth century. Ten poems were chosen that illustrate the everyday and the extraordinary, the comic and the serious aspects of the period. Each talk begins with a poem, and shows its significance: how a satire […]

Great Speeches in History is a podcast devoted to the great thinkers, statesman and other public orators that have graced us throughout history with their words. Each week LearnOutLoud.com will offer up a new speech in audio format. Please visit www.learnoutloud.com for more educational audio and video.

Throughout history great orators have been able to capture a shift in the zeitgeist, and tap into an audience’s emotions. Speeches by John. F. Kennedy and Winston Churchill are considered among the greatest speeches of all time; but what made their speeches greater than the sum of their parts – and how did their structure […]

Drawing on new research, Peter White presents a history of disability in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Pop the Left

Sovereign Hill is an outdoor, activated museum in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. We tell the exciting story of the Australian goldrushes. These podcasts feature experts exploring topical themes in Victorian and goldrush history.

Regina Jonas (1902-1944), who is now widely recognised as the world’s first female rabbi, was ordained in Nazi Germany in 1935. However, for many years after her death at Auschwitz, she remained a largely forgotten figure until the discovery of her papers in the early 1990s. This collection explores Jonas’ story, which raises important issues […]

The BBC World Services wide range of documentaries from 2012.

Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field: Professor Roger […]

Supported by a Wellcome Trust Public Engagement grant (2006-2008) in the History of Medicine to Professor Tilli Tansey (QMUL) and Professor Leslie Iversen (Oxford), the History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London presents a series of podcasts on the history of neuroscience featuring eminent people in the field: Professor Richard […]

Computers play a huge part in almost all of our lives, but how did these machines become so powerful and important? And what were some of the earliest models like? This collection of videos takes us through the Four Generations of computers, starting with Colossus, the world’s first electronic computer (launched in 1944), and finishing […]

The BBC World Service’s wide range of documentaries from 2011.

What makes a ‘nation’ and what makes peoples strive for nationhood? This unit will provide you with an introduction to studying political ideas by looking at how people who see themselves as nations challenge the existing order to assert their right to a state of their own. This study unit is just one of many […]

The unit will examine the Enlightenment. To help understand the nature and scale of the cultural changes of the time, we offer a ‘map’ of the conceptual territory and the intellectual and cultural climate. We will examine the impact of Enlightenment on a variety of areas including science, religion, the classics, art and nature. Finally, […]

In this unit you will be introduced to a variety of Delacroix’s work and see how his paintings relate to the cultural transition from Enlightenment to Romanticism. You will study Delacroix’s early career, his classical background, the development of Romantic ideas and their incorporation into his work. You will have the opportunity to study some […]

In this unit you’ll explore art history. Look around you, it’s likely that wherever you are you’ll be able to see some images, it’s also likely that many of these image will be intended to have some sort of effect on you. Here you will be exploring the power of images via a study of […]

The Global and Imperial History Research Seminar is chaired by Professor Judith Brown (Beit Professor of Commonwealth History), Professor John Darwin (Beit Lecturer of Commonwealth History), and Dr Jan-George Deutsch. The seminar meets each Friday afternoon during term, where a visiting, usually, scholar’s recent research is presented. Those present then engage with both the historical […]

LearnOutLoud’s Biography Podcast will explore the lives of notable people throughout history. Whether it be World Leaders, Political activists, spiritual luminaries, great artists or every day people, this podcast will be a showcase for their story.

This podcast tells history from the point of view of people who were there.

The history of the sterilisation of women with learning disabilities is highly controversial and remains, to a large extent, a secret. Preventing intellectually disabled women from having children was actively canvassed across the Western world in the early 20th century as a solution to the ‘problem of mental deficiency’. In some countries, dark, forbidding institutions […]

This album Investigates recent debates in sociology, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, and explores the nature of social identity, ‘socialisation’, subjectivity and personhood. The case studies explore the value and relevance of different theoretical frameworks for understanding identity by applying the main concepts in real situations. The material is taken from The Open University course D853 […]

The coexistence of multiple religious communities has been a source of both opposition and diversity since the very foundation of human civilization. This album explores the interaction of competing communities in compelling depth, highlighting periods and cities that experienced turbulence, and occasionally harmony, from such an intermingling of beliefs and ideas. A huge historical range, […]

The range and flexibility of the Oxford course provide opportunities for rewarding study which might include, for example, Tolstoy’s and Dostoevsky’s novels, Pushkin’s poetry, or the latest writing from contemporary Russia; the history of the Russian language and its development up to the present day; material from the Russia of Ivan the Terrible or Peter […]

A series of short video journals documenting my visit to the Nebraska Renaissance Faire at Scary Acres in Omaha in May of 2007. Interviews with various merchants and performers and other silliness. Recorded in HD (but then converted down to teeny tiny online format).

This Week in History Class for March 31. Stay tuned for more student involvement in future episodes!

A lecture in English delivered by Sh. Bilal Philips in which he explains the origin of the so-called Christmas.

Twentieth-century Famines as Economic History by Cormac O Grada (University College, Dublin) was presented as the Tawney Lecture at the Economic History Society’s 2007 annual conference at the University of Exeter.

Lectures from History 132 (US since 1865), taught at the University of Alaska Southeast, spring semester 2007. Survey of the political, social, cultural and economic history of the United States since the Civil War.

Murray Rothbard died before he could write the third volume of his famous History of Economic Thought, which would cover the birth and development of the Austrian School, through the Keynesian Revolution and Chicago School. With this six-lecture course, however, the History of Economic Thought is complete. Download the complete audio of this event (ZIP) […]

A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. — S. McGaughey From the Introduction, “The editor begs leave to inform the public that only persons who can produce proper evidence of their demise will be admitted to Who Was Who. Press Agent notices or complimentary comments are absolutely excluded, and those […]

“Famous Affinities of History” is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, George Sand and other famous people of all times (even those of royal blood are not spared), are […]

One death can change the world. At least, that’s what assassins believe. Assassinations recounts history’s most dramatic deaths. Through little-known facts, “what-ifs?” and examining assassin’s motives, we examine how one murder can alter the course of history. Assassinations is a Spotify Original from Parcast.

Channing’s best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” Mowatt is a distinguished LibriVox volunteer, widely known for his continued devotion both to regularly producing the LibriVox Community Podcast and to regularly creating more and more history audiobooks for the public domain, […]

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I invite you to accompany me as we explore the relationship between people and objects, throughout history and across cultures. We’re on a journey to retrace how humankind has found itself facing a deluge of objects, threatening our very existence as a species on this planet.

Not all spies look like James Bond and Ethan Hunt. Most of them look like ordinary people, which makes them all the more dangerous… So what does it really take to be a spy? Every week, we cover a real-life spy mission: the stakes, the deception, the gadgets, and how it changed the course of […]