World History Podcast

The Haiti slave revolt. (Image by Getty)

Slave revolt

30th June 1963: Some of the many hundreds of supporters of the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) and the Committee of 100 waiting outside Birch Grove, the country home of British prime minister Harold Macmillan, where he and American president John F Kennedy are having weekend talks. (Photo by Kent Gavin/Keystone/Getty Images)

Peter Hennessy on Britain in transition

Podcast Website Large Helen Fry - WWII Intelligence

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Secret listeners

Historian and writer William Dalrymple during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2017 (Photo by Martina Bocchio / Awakening / Alamy)

William Dalrymple on the East India Company

Catherine the Great: fact and fiction

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) (Photo by Getty Images)

Orlando Figes on the transformation of Europe

Henry Hemming.

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Fake news in World War Two

Daisy Dunn.

The destruction of Pompeii

Max Hastings by Fran Monks

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Max Hastings on the Dambusters

Suzie Lipscomb by Steve Sayers.

Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France

Tom Holland by Helen Atkinson

Tom Holland on Christianity’s enduring legacy

Dan Jones by Steve Sayers and Helen Castor

The Crusades, with Dan Jones

Poles watch the first of the German invasion planes over Warsaw, 1939. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Poland, 1939: World War Two begins

Brendan Simms photographed by Ian Farrell

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Hitler’s war with Anglo-America

South Vietnam 1967: Battle weary U.S. soldiers pause for a moment's rest after some of the bloodiest fighting of the Vietnam War (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)

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War trauma