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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

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.

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War and military history podcast episodes

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

History's Greatest Cities Season 2

History’s greatest cities | 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

Pearl Harbor | History podcast series

Second World War

Beyond the podcast: Nuremberg

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

Beyond the podcast: Jane Austen

Salem: Investigating the Witch Trials HistoryExtra podcast series title card

Salem witch trials | History podcast series

History Behind the Headlines | A HistoryExtra podcast series

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.

The opthalmoscope revolutionised ophthalmology, allowing physicians to examine the inside of the human eye. (Image by Getty Images)

Victorian medicine: why the 19th century was a time of seismic medical change

Beyond the podcastThe Gunpowder plot

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LGBT+ history podcast episodes

Recent HistoryExtra podcasts.

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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.

Christmas feasts with Annie Gray | History podcast series

Women's history podcast episodes

A composite image showing Kent State University students protesting the Vietnam War, and pro-Democracy demonstrators marching towards Tiananmen Square in 1989

The violent history of student protest.

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

General History

A history of medicine14 surprising facts

General ancient history

Ancient history podcast episodes