World History Podcast

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From Nelson to Churchill: challenging British heroes with Afua Hirsch

Young Nazi supporters wave flags in the Saar territory in Germany, 1934. (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Nazi Germany, but were afraid to ask

Doctors tending to a patient, 14th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval disease and medicine

Original Gutenberg Bible, Beinecke Library, Yale Univeristy. (Photo by Alamy)

General ancient history

The history of the Bible

The pirate John Avery and his crew capture the the Moghul emperor Aurangzeb 's ship in the Indian ocean in the late 17th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Henry Avery: the legendary 17th-century pirate

English author, poet and philosopher Geoffrey Chaucer, c 1343, Bodleian Library (Photo by Getty Images)

The cosmopolitan Chaucer

Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Civil War, but were afraid to ask

Man and woman using a long-handled wooden paddle to bake bread in an oven, 15th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval food

Two members of the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces)

Second World War

Indian soldiers at Dunkirk

Clash between the English Temeraire and the French Redoutable ships during the Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

9 podcasts about war and military history to listen to right now

King John II made prisoner at the Battle of Poitiers by the English during the Hundred Years War, 1356. Illustration

Medieval prisoners of war

David Olusoga in the Bristol house featuring in series 3 of A House Through Time (Photo by BBC–Twenty Twenty Productions–Mark Bourdillon)

David Olusoga on A House Through Time

First Crusade, Siege of Antioch, c1097,14th-century illustration (Photo by Getty Images)

Everything you ever wanted to know about the crusades, but were afraid to ask

Two fighting Irishmen with axes, one hitting another in the head. Illustration after the Roy manuscript, 13th century (Photo by Getty Images)

Saturday lecture: Medieval crime and violence

Annie Gray photographed at her home in East Anglia (Photo by Ian Farrell)

Cooking for Churchill