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History of medicine podcast episodes

A montage of moments and faces from history.

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What are the best history podcasts? These picks are the perfect way step into the past

A cloth covered in chloroform is being held over the patient's face and carbolic spray worked by a steam apparatus is creating an antiseptic atmosphere.

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Put these events in orderDiscoveries in the history of medicine

Dr Martin Luther King Jr speaking before crowd of 25,000 Selma To Montgomery, Alabama civil rights marchers, in front of Montgomery, Alabama state capital building.

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Black history podcast episodes

HistoryExtra podcast | Listen now to history podcasts

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Beyond the Podcast

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War and military history podcast episodes

A selection of illustrations of medical procedures, including childbirth and someone vomiting, around a circular chart that depicts flasks of different coloured urine

Marvellous medieval medicine: why their curious cures were better than you think. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Conspiracies | History podcast series

The Voynich Manuscript is written in a unique alphabet that has thus far defeated some of the world’s greatest codebreakers. (Photo by Alamy)

History's greatest mysteries | podcast series

Ilustration of a pair of hands holding a book called 'Summer Reading 2025'. There is a bookshelf in the background

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28 of the best history summer reads for 2025

History's Greatest Cities Season 2

History’s greatest cities | Podcast series

Beyond the podcastMagna Carta

Pearl Harbor | History podcast series

Beyond the podcastElizabeth I

Second World War

Beyond the podcast: Nuremberg

Beyond the podcast: Jane Austen

History's Greatest Scandals : The Victorians | A HistoryExtra podcast series

A man in a black long sleeved top, beige trousers and brown shoes sitting on a low wooden bench. He is leant on his knees, with his hands held together. Behind him, there is a river covered in lily pads and a bank of large trees

The overlooked history of Muslims in Europe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Salem witch trials | History podcast series

History Behind the Headlines | A HistoryExtra podcast series

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Podcast seriesLife Lessons from History

Beyond the podcast: Pompeii

Princes in the Tower HistoryExtra podcast series title card

Princes in the Tower | Exclusive history podcast series

Week four quiz: medicine and health in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Beyond the podcastThe Gunpowder plot

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Witches history podcast episodes

The surgeon Robert Liston prepares to cut open a patient in the first half of the 19th century. Known as the “fastest knife in the west end”, Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds. For most patients, however, the agony was more prolonged. (Wellcome Library, London)

"An enlightened turn": how medicine (and the vaccination) developed in Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Recent HistoryExtra podcasts. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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LGBT+ history podcast episodes