Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

World Wars & Inter-war Era

180 Episodes 37 Series 175 Figures 118 Events 482 Books 3 Authors

The World Wars & Inter-war Era (c. 1914–1945) covers the conflicts, political radicalization and cultural shifts between the First and Second World Wars. Series include 1922 (transformative events of 1922), Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (the Sarajevo murder, Gavrilo Princip and conspirators), Beards (cultural, political and religious meanings of facial hair), British Fascism (development and figures of the movement) and Eva Perón / Evita (life and political symbolism of Evita). Episodes examine the Anschluss (Conquest of Austria), Hitler (historiography and early development), the Sarajevo crime of 28 June 1914, and themed bonus shows on heroism and the English Revolution. Discussed figures and events include Gerd von Rundstedt, George VI, Sir Henry Wilson, the first Zeppelin raid (1914), Langemarck moments (1914), the invasion of Denmark and Norway (1940), Nazi book burnings, the Holocaust in the Netherlands, Leonard Woolley’s excavations, the Cristero War and the French Resistance. Featured books cited include Operation Mincemeat, Sicily and the Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook.

Episodes by year

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2026

1 episode

2025

42 episodes

WWI: The Christmas Truce

Dec 25, 2025

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the 1914 Christmas Truce on the Western Front, examining what happened, who i…

The Nazis at War: The Fall of France (Part 3)

Nov 24, 2025
The Nazis at War (S4) · Part 3

This episode of The Rest Is History focuses on the climax of Germany's 1940 western campaign: the pocketing of Allied f…

The Nazis at War: Blitzkrieg (Part 2)

Nov 24, 2025
The Nazis at War (S4) · Part 2

This episode examines the pivotal year 1940, focusing on Nazi operations in Scandinavia and the opening of the Western …

The Nazis at War: Churchill’s Finest Hour (Part 4)

Nov 24, 2025
The Nazis at War (S4) · Part 4

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook conclude a four-part series on Nazi Germany in 1939–1940 by examining the Germa…

The Nazis at War: Hitler Strikes West (Part 1)

Nov 24, 2025
The Nazis at War (S4) · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a new, fourth Rest Is History series on the Nazis by examining the critica…

RIHC: Disney at War

Nov 12, 2025
Walt Disney / Disney (November 2025) · Part 4

This bonus Rest Is History episode — part of the hosts' extended focus on Disney — examines Walt Disney’s golden-age fi…

Walt Disney: The Great American Storyteller

Nov 03, 2025
Walt Disney / Disney (November 2025) · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the life, work and cultural impact of Walt Disney. They chart Disney's ri…

RIHC: Hitler’s Speeches, Monarchical U.S. Presidents, and Napoleon’s Rise to Power

Oct 29, 2025

This Rest Is History club bonus features hosts Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland in informal discussion with subscriber…

L'étranger, by Albert Camus

Oct 02, 2025
The Rest is History Book Club (With Tabby) · Part 4

Dominic Sandbrook and Tabby Syrett discuss Albert Camus's L'étranger (The Stranger / The Outsider), opening with the no…

The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Sep 04, 2025
The Rest is History Book Club (With Tabby) · Part 1

This episode is the launch of The Rest Is History Book Club. Dominic Sandbrook is joined by assistant producer Tabby to…

RIHC: The First World War: The Angels of Mons EXTRA

Sep 02, 2025

This episode examines the Angel(s) of Mons legend that circulated in Britain after the retreat of the British Expeditio…

RIHC: The Rise and Fall of Central Europe

Aug 26, 2025

Dominic Sandbrook interviews Luka Ivan Jukic about his book Central Europe, the Death of a Civilization and the Life of…

The First World War: Downfall of the Habsburgs (Part 6)

Aug 24, 2025
The First World War · Part 6

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook conclude a multi-episode survey of the First World War by focusing on the Austro-Hung…

The First World War: The Battle of the Frontiers (Part 2)

Aug 24, 2025
The First World War · Part 2

This episode examines the early weeks of the First World War on the Western Front, focusing on British and French actio…

The First World War: The Invasion of Belgium (Part 1)

Aug 24, 2025
The First World War · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a multi-episode series on the First World War, focusing in this first installmen…

The First World War: The Eastern Front Explodes (Part 5)

Aug 24, 2025
The First World War · Part 5

This episode examines the often-overlooked Eastern Front in 1914. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook contrast the chaoti…

The First World War: The Miracle on the Marne (Part 3)

Aug 24, 2025
The First World War · Part 3

This episode (the third instalment of the hosts' multi-part series) examines the Miracle of the Marne in September 1914…

The First World War: The Massacre of the Innocents (Part 4)

Aug 24, 2025
The First World War · Part 4

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the First Battle of Ypres (October–November 1914) and its brutal conseq…

RIHC: The History of Sport, Nazi Football, and World Cups

Aug 19, 2025

This is a Rest Is History bonus episode in which Tom Holland interviews football writer and historian Jonathan Wilson a…

The Lion, The Priest and the Parlourmaids: A 1930s Sex Scandal

Jul 16, 2025

This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) recounts the life, scandal and ultimate d…

The Irish Civil War: The Killing of Michael Collins (Part 2)

Jul 06, 2025
Irish Civil War (S3) · Part 2

This episode, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook with guest Ronan McGreevey (Irish Times journalist and author…

The Irish Civil War: The Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson (Part 1)

Jul 06, 2025
Irish Civil War (S3) · Part 1

This episode examines the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson in London on 22 June 1922 and its role as the…

The Irish War of Independence: Showdown in London (Part 4)

Jul 02, 2025
Irish independence struggle (1916–1921 S2) · Part 4

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook recount the 1921 negotiations that produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the partition …

RIHC: Lenin’s Russian Return, Mao’s Long March, and Fidel Castro’s Triumph

Jul 01, 2025

Dominic Sandbrook interviews historian Simon Hall about his book Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the epic jo…

The Irish War of Independence: Rise of the IRA (Part 1)

Jun 22, 2025
Irish independence struggle (1916–1921 S2) · Part 1

This episode, recorded at the Royal Irish Academy, is the first of a three-part series (1916–1921) on the Irish indepen…

The Irish War of Independence: The Violence Begins (Part 2)

Jun 22, 2025
Irish independence struggle (1916–1921 S2) · Part 2

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Professor Paul Rouse to trace the Irish revolutionary struggle fr…

The Irish War of Independence: Bloody Sunday (Part 3)

Jun 22, 2025
Irish independence struggle (1916–1921 S2) · Part 3

This episode of The Rest Is History examines ‘Bloody Sunday’ (21 November 1920) in Dublin, combining the morning IRA as…

RIHC: Famous Traitors, The Renaissance, and Post-War Revolutions

May 27, 2025

This bonus episode features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discussing recent and upcoming series work (Medici,…

RIHC: The Wife of Christ, Trump's Tariffs, and Disastrous British Defeats

May 20, 2025

This bonus episode is a listener Q&A hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. The hosts exchange favourite “unbelie…

RIHC: Hitler's Death, Nazi Germany's Surrender, and the End of the Second World War

Apr 15, 2025

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History previews the final weeks of the Second World War in Europe and the sequence o…

RIHC: The Five Eyes, Donald Trump, and the Nazi Spy

Mar 26, 2025

This Rest Is History bonus episode features journalist/filmmaker Richard Cabage discussing his book The Secret History …

RIHC: Nazi Collaborators, the Kaiser, and Assassinating Hitler

Mar 12, 2025

This episode is an interview with Stefan Malinowski about his book The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collab…

RIHC: Exposing the Heart of Darkness; Roger Casement's Fight for Humanity

Feb 26, 2025
Horror in the Congo · Part 6

John Banville joins the hosts for a bonus episode focused on Roger Casement. Banville, who has long researched and writ…

RIHC: American Presidents from FDR to Trump: Cuba, Watergate, and the Atomic Bomb (Part 1)

Feb 05, 2025

Dominic Sandbrook interviews Anthony Scaramucci in a long-form discussion that grades and contextualises twentieth-cent…

RIHC: Secret Nazi Tunnels, Europe’s Deep History, and Mysterious Frontiers

Jan 29, 2025

Dominic Sandbrook hosts a bonus Rest Is History conversation with Lewis about his book Borderlines: A History of Europe…

Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis

Jan 21, 2025

This episode tells the remarkable story of Wojtek, a Syrian brown bear who became an enlisted member of the Polish Seco…

Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3)

Jan 13, 2025
Hitler's War on Poland

This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) recounts the Nazi invasion and conquest o…

Hitler's War on Poland: The Pact with Stalin (Part 2)

Jan 13, 2025
Hitler's War on Poland · Part 2

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present the second episode of their trilogy on the Nazi war on Poland, tracing …

Hitler's War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)

Jan 13, 2025
Hitler's War on Poland · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the late-1930s escalation from Nazi foreign successes to open conquest. They op…

RIHC: Heroic Vikings, Greek Epics, and The Rules of War

Jan 08, 2025

This bonus episode features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook answering listener questions and discussing recent …

The Nazis' Road to War: Showdown in Munich (Part 2)

Jan 06, 2025
The Nazis' Road to War (S3) · Part 2

This episode (the second of a two-part Munich series) examines Neville Chamberlain’s September 1938 diplomatic missions…

The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1)

Jan 06, 2025
The Nazis' Road to War (S3) · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the Munich crisis and the lead-up to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in 1…

2024

41 episodes

RIHC: Paul McCartney, Churchill’s Roaring Lion, and Stalinist Propaganda

Dec 26, 2024

This bonus episode features photographer Chris Floyd discussing his collaboration with The Rest Is History and a short …

RIHC: Murdered Martyrs, Norse Raids, and Mysterious Stone Circles

Dec 11, 2024

In this bonus episode Tom Holland interviews historian Peter Marshall about his book Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magi…

RIHC: Frontline Photography, Beards at War, and Cassino '44

Sep 17, 2024
Beards · Part 3

In this Rest Is History bonus episode Tom Holland speaks with his brother James Holland about James's new book Casino 4…

Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1)

Sep 15, 2024
Eva Perón / Evita

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the life and early career of Eva Perón (Evita). They set Argentine context—ma…

Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2)

Sep 15, 2024
Eva Perón / Evita

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-episode study of Eva Duarte (Evita) and Juan Domingo Perón…

Lee Miller: Uncovering the Horrors of World War Two

Sep 11, 2024

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the life and career of photographer Lee Miller, from her Poughkeepsie chi…

RIHC: Asquith and the Road to War EXTRA with Robert Harris

Aug 27, 2024

Dominic Sandbrook hosts a Rest Is History bonus episode with novelist Robert Harris to discuss Harris's new novel Preci…

RIHC: Nazi Assassination Attempts, Alchemy, and The Greatest Historical Novel

Aug 20, 2024

This bonus episode features Dominic Sandbrook joined by assistant producer Tabby Syrett (Tom Holland is absent). They o…

The Food that Changed the World

Aug 14, 2024

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Professor John Dickey (UCL) about his book Delizia and the …

The Mysterious Case of the Ape Man

Aug 11, 2024

This episode examines the Piltdown Man saga: the 1912 discovery in Piltdown, Sussex, presented by amateur antiquarian C…

RIHC: The Road to the Great War EXTRA

Jul 30, 2024
The Road to the Great War · Part 1

In this bonus episode recorded on location at the Royal Albert Hall, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook reflect on their…

RIHC: King Arthur, Ancient Egypt, and Unexpected Historical Trends

Jul 23, 2024

This bonus episode features Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discussing an Ipsos international poll about which histor…

The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3)

Jul 15, 2024
The Road to the Great War · Part 4

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the diplomatic and geopolitical context in July 1914 that pushed Europe towar…

The Road to The Great War: Britain’s Fateful Choice (Part 4)

Jul 15, 2024
The Road to the Great War · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Britain’s role in the July Crisis of 1914, focusing on Sir Edward Grey and th…

The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)

Jul 15, 2024
The Road to the Great War · Part 7

This episode of The Rest Is History narrates the climactic days of the July Crisis in July 1914, tracing how diplomatic…

The Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6)

Jul 15, 2024
The Road to the Great War · Part 6

This episode is the final instalment of The Rest Is History's series on how Europe went to war, narrating the last days…

The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (Part 2)

Jul 15, 2024
The Road to the Great War · Part 5

This episode examines the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Austria-Hungary's pr…

The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)

Jul 14, 2024
The Road to the Great War · Part 3

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook begin a new mini-series tracing how the Sarajevo assassination of Archduke Fran…

RIHC: England vs Holland (Livestream)

Jul 09, 2024

This live-stream episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) surveys key moments in Anglo–…

The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4)

Jul 03, 2024
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand · Part 4

This episode of The Rest Is History, presented by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, reconstructs the events of 28 June…

RIHC: The English Revolution, History's Top Funerals, and Ottoman Oil Fields

Jul 02, 2024

This bonus Rest Is History episode is a listener Q&A in which Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss a wide range of…

The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3)

Jul 01, 2024
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand · Part 3

This episode examines the life, personality and political plans of Archduke Franz Ferdinand as a lens for understanding…

The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1)

Jun 30, 2024
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook record this episode on location in Sarajevo, tracing the life and radicalizatio…

The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2)

Jun 30, 2024
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand · Part 2

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part exploration of the 1914 assassination of Archduke Fra…

RIHC: Historic Lovers, Liz Truss; and The Seven Years War

May 07, 2024

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History features Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook answering listener questions on a …

The Habsburgs: Secrets of a Dynasty

May 01, 2024

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Archduke Eduard (Edward) Habsburg, Hungary's ambassador to the Holy See, ab…

RIHC: The Brothers Holland, Masters of the Air and Ghostly Centurions

Apr 09, 2024

This bonus episode features Tom Holland hosting with James Holland (his brother) as the guest. They discuss the origin …

RIHC: Henry VIII, Modern Villains, and H.H. Asquith

Apr 02, 2024

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History features Dominic Sandbrook hosting with Tabitha “Tabby” Syrett (assistant pro…

The History Of Chocolate

Mar 04, 2024

This episode traces the long history of chocolate from its Mesoamerican origins to its central place in modern British …

RIHC: The Greatest Holidays in History (Livestream)

Jan 31, 2024

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present a travel-themed episode offering historically-minded holiday recommenda…

RIHC: History's Greatest Knight, Kings vs. Tabloids, and Storms in Belfast

Jan 24, 2024

This bonus Rest Is History episode is an informal catch-up between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Much of the…

RIHC: The Assassination of Augustus, Pints with Churchill and the Last Supper

Jan 17, 2024

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook banter through listener questions and recent work. They discuss their recent mu…

The Nazis in Power: The War on the Jews (Ep 6)

Jan 15, 2024
The Nazis in Power (S2) · Part 6

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the escalation of Nazi anti-Semitism from early rhetorical extremism to formal …

The Nazis in Power: The Night of Broken Glass (Ep 7)

Jan 15, 2024
The Nazis in Power (S2) · Part 7

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook chart the escalation of Nazi anti‑Semitism from the relative calm aft…

The Nazis in Power: Hitler's Dream (Ep 5)

Jan 15, 2024
The Nazis in Power (S2) · Part 5

This episode examines Nazi morality and ideology: how Nazism construed race, history and biology into an internally coh…

RIHC: Nazi Apocalypse, Appeasement and Charles Dickens

Jan 10, 2024

This bonus episode finds hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook back from the festive break, exchanging notes about re…

RIHC: Undiscovered History, Byron and the Walking Dead

Jan 03, 2024

In this New Year episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook answer listener questions and reflect on 2023 and plans for …

The Nazis in Power: The Nuremberg Rallies (Ep 2)

Jan 01, 2024
The Nazis in Power (S2) · Part 2

This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, examines the Nazis' use of mass spect…

The Nazis in Power: Hitler’s Road to War (Ep 3)

Jan 01, 2024
The Nazis in Power (S2) · Part 3

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Adolf Hitler’s ideology and the calculated gambles that transformed Germany’s…

The Nazis in Power: The Night of the Long Knives (Ep 1)

Jan 01, 2024
The Nazis in Power (S2) · Part 1

This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) examines the Night of the Long Knives (la…

The Nazis in Power: The Conquest of Austria (Ep 4)

Jan 01, 2024
The Nazis in Power (S2) · Part 4

This episode examines the Anschluss — the German annexation of Austria in 1938 — tracing the political manoeuvres, key …

2023

30 episodes

RIHC: Titanic, Macbeth and True Conspiracy Theories

Dec 27, 2023

This bonus episode is a relaxed Christmas/New Year conversation between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They o…

RIHC: Political Dynasties, Fascism and the Roman Republic

Dec 20, 2023

This is the first of a short series of festive bonus Q&A episodes. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook recap recent…

The Savage Storm: World War II and The Battle for Italy

Dec 14, 2023

This episode of The Rest Is History examines the Allied invasion of Italy in 1943 and the early consequences through th…

RIHC: Roman Sex Scandals, Courageous Leaders, and Napoleon’s Fate

Nov 08, 2023

This bonus episode is a conversational mailbag between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They open by recommendi…

RIHC: History’s Top Dictators, European Fascism, and Norman Vikings

Oct 03, 2023

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook answering listener questions…

Hitler and the Mitford Sisters (Ep 4)

Sep 24, 2023
British Fascism · Part 4

This episode examines the life and notoriety of Unity Valkyrie Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters, and her inti…

The Battle of Cable Street: Fascism Defeated (Ep 3)

Sep 24, 2023
British Fascism · Part 3

This episode — the third in The Rest Is History's series on British fascism — examines the lead-up to and fallout from …

The Birth of British Fascism (Ep 1)

Sep 24, 2023
British Fascism · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook introduce a multi-episode series on British fascism, arguing that while Britain never…

Oswald Mosley: Fascist Leader (Ep 2)

Sep 24, 2023
British Fascism · Part 2

This episode (the second in a short series on British fascism) examines the life and political trajectory of Sir Oswald…

RIHC: The Bloodiest Place in History, Hitler's Evil Rivals, and Ageing Politicians

Sep 19, 2023

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, is an informal Q&A and roundtab…

Amsterdam: Kings, Canals and Coffee Houses (Ep2)

Jul 17, 2023
Amsterdam · Part 2

This episode is a guided historical tour of Amsterdam, tracing its rise in the 17th-century Dutch Golden Age — the buil…

RIHC: Blackshirts, Relics, and the Myth of Viking Sorcery

Jul 12, 2023

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook record a conversational mailbag/bonus-style episode covering listener questions and a…

Oppenheimer: The Father of the Atom Bomb (Ep 1)

Jun 22, 2023
Oppenheimer · Part 1

This episode of The Rest Is History (part one of a multi-part look at Oppenheimer) traces Julius Robert "J. Robert" Opp…

RIHC: Dickens’ eulogy, Boris in a toga, and Indiana Jones

Jun 14, 2023

This bonus-style episode is a freewheeling Q&A between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They open by recounting…

Ireland: Home Rule, Mutiny - and Civil War? (Ep 3)

Jun 05, 2023
Ireland (S1) · Part 3

This episode examines the British side of the Home Rule crisis of 1912–1914, arguing that Edwardian Britain was poised …

Ireland: The Easter Rising, 1916 (Ep 4)

Jun 05, 2023
Ireland (S1) · Part 4

Recorded in the GPO in Dublin, this episode (the fourth and final in the series on Ireland and its relations with Brita…

RIHC: 24 hours in Amsterdam, Jesus on camera, and peeping Tom

May 31, 2023

This club bonus episode is an on-the-move conversation recorded on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. Tom Holland and Dom…

Ireland: Celts, Conquest and Cromwell (Ep 1)

May 29, 2023
Ireland (S1) · Part 1

Recorded at the GPO in Dublin with guest Professor Paul Rouse, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace roughly 800 year…

RIHC: Ireland, Cromwell, and Stanley Baldwin (livestream)

May 24, 2023

This live bonus episode is an informal Q&A and catch-up hosted by Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland. They discuss recen…

RIHC: Roman Scotland, Humanities, and Herodotus

May 17, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook preview their upcoming Dublin recordings and live show focused on Irish history…

Ronald Reagan and the American Dream (Ep 1)

Mar 06, 2023
Ronald Reagan · Part 1

This episode is the first of a multi-part series surveying the life of Ronald Reagan. Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic San…

The Real Downton Abbey

Feb 02, 2023

This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interviewing historian Lucy Lethbr…

RIHC: Colonialism vs nationalism, social darwinism, and Indian odysseys (livestream)

Jan 26, 2023

This episode is a Rest Is History Club live stream featuring hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. It opens with inf…

RIHC: The Nine Days' Queen, Lennon vs Hitler, and History in schools

Jan 18, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook record a Q&A/bonus episode addressing listener questions and preview upcoming s…

The Rise of the Nazis (Ep 1)

Jan 16, 2023
The Nazis' Rise to Power (S1) · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook open a multi-episode examination of the Nazis' rise, marking the 90th anniversary of …

The Nazis: Hitler's Triumph (Ep 3)

Jan 16, 2023
The Nazis' Rise to Power (S1) · Part 3

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the final phase of the Weimar Republic and the Nazi rise to power. Using the st…

The Nazis: Total Power (Ep 4)

Jan 16, 2023
The Nazis' Rise to Power (S1)

This episode examines the rapid consolidation of Nazi power in Germany across early 1933. Using primary accounts (notab…

The Nazis: The Beer Hall Putsch (Ep 2)

Jan 16, 2023
The Nazis' Rise to Power (S1) · Part 2

This episode, the second part of a multi-episode account of the rise of the Nazis, explains the fragile political, soci…

The Shadow of the Holocaust (Ep 2)

Jan 02, 2023

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Jonathan Friedland about his book The Escape Artist, which recounts t…

The Man Who Escaped Auschwitz (Ep 1)

Jan 02, 2023

This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interviewing Jonathan Friedland ab…

2022

39 episodes

RIHC: Señor Sandbrook de Buenos Aires, climbing volcanoes, and puddings

Dec 21, 2022

This episode is a wide-ranging mailbag and end-of-year discussion by hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They begi…

Denmark: The Great Escape

Dec 16, 2022
Great World Cup Saga · Part 30

This episode examines the rescue of Denmark's Jewish population during the German occupation in World War II. After the…

Morocco: The Rif War

Dec 14, 2022
Great World Cup Saga · Part 28

In this World Cup Marathon episode on Morocco, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the Rif War of the early 20th …

Poland: Copernicus, the Dragon and the Salt Mine

Dec 02, 2022
Great World Cup Saga · Part 16

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present a travel-style cultural and historical tour of Poland framed as its “seven wo…

Mexico: Day of the Dead

Nov 26, 2022
Great World Cup Saga · Part 10

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the history and modern mythology of Mexico's Day of the Dead (Día de Mu…

Germany: The White Rose

Nov 18, 2022
Great World Cup Saga · Part 2

This episode tells the story of Hans and Sophie Scholl and the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany. Dominic tra…

The World Cup: British Imperialism, South American rivalries, and Mussolini (Ep 1)

Nov 14, 2022
The World Cup

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook trace the early political and cultural history of the FIFA World Cup. They argu…

RIHC: Treason, Trafalgar and Teaching (livestream)

Nov 02, 2022

This live bonus episode is an informal, wide‑ranging conversation between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook recor…

Monty & Patton vs. the Nazis

Oct 27, 2022

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host Al Murray to discuss his book Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second …

RIHC: Spain, Churchill, and Producer Dom

Oct 05, 2022

Dominic Sandbrook hosts a bonus episode in which producer Dom Johnson joins as guest. They discuss Dom Johnson’s role o…

China and World War II - Part 2

Sep 19, 2022
Second Sino-Japanese War · Part 2

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Rana Mitter about China’s experience in the Second Sino-Jap…

China and World War II - Part 1

Sep 19, 2022
Second Sino-Japanese War

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Rana Mitter about China’s war with Japan and his …

The Loch Ness Monster

Sep 12, 2022

This episode treats the Loch Ness Monster as a cultural and historical phenomenon rather than a zoological puzzle. Holl…

Queen Elizabeth II - part 1

Sep 09, 2022
Life of Queen Elizabeth II · Part 1

The hosts reflect on recording the episode the day after the death of Queen Elizabeth II and consider the emotional and…

Portugal: Football, Fado, and Fascism? (Ep 4)

Sep 07, 2022
Portugal · Part 4

This episode surveys modern Portugal with a focus on cultural melancholia (saudade), the rise of fado music, and the lo…

J.R.R. Tolkien

Aug 29, 2022
J. R. R. Tolkien · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook begin a two-part episode on J. R. R. Tolkien, situating him as both a major twe…

The Lord of the Rings

Aug 29, 2022
J. R. R. Tolkien · Part 2

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (the episode is t…

RIHC: Cambridge, Crusaders, and Tolkien

Aug 24, 2022
J. R. R. Tolkien

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook answering listener questions…

RIHC: Stanley Baldwin's birthday, Tory MPs and Wagatha Christie (livestream)

Aug 04, 2022

This episode is an informal live mailbag-style conversation between Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. They open with l…

Pigeons

Aug 01, 2022

This episode of The Rest Is History explores the cultural, technological and military roles of pigeons across history. …

Stalingrad: Pavlov's House and the Red Army (Ep 2)

Jul 25, 2022
Stalingrad

This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interviewing Ian McGregor about th…

The Battle of Stalingrad (Ep 1)

Jul 25, 2022
Stalingrad

This episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) welcomes Ian McGregor to discuss the Batt…

George Orwell

Jul 14, 2022

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Professor Robert Coles to discuss the life, politics and literary…

Gone with the Wind

Jul 07, 2022
American Civil War (1861 to 1865) · Part 5

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Sarah Churchwell about her book The Wrath to Come: Gone wit…

RIHC: The Sixties, Ramsay MacDonald, and Gabriele D'Annunzio

Jun 15, 2022

This bonus episode is a wide-ranging, informal discussion between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Dominic begi…

The First Fascist

Jun 09, 2022

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Lucy Hughes-Hallett about her biography The Pike, exploring the life …

Australian Prime Ministers: Edmund Barton - Robert Menzies

May 23, 2022
Australian Prime Ministers · Part 1

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Australian political history, prompted by a recent Australian general electio…

RIHC: Pub Quizzes, Unstoppable Podcast Guests, and the Most Brutal Nations in History

May 18, 2022

This Rest is History Club bonus episode features Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook answering listener feedback and disc…

Agatha Christie

May 16, 2022

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine Agatha Christie’s life, work and enduring popularity, treating her as a…

RIHC: Dwile flonking, Anglo-Saxons, and the sober historian

May 11, 2022

This members-only Rest Is History Club episode is an informal, wide-ranging conversation between Tom Holland and Domini…

History's Biggest Questions with Dan Carlin (Part 1)

May 09, 2022
Crossover with Dan Carlin · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome podcaster Dan Carlin for a two-part special in which they ask ten large…

Operation Barbarossa

May 05, 2022

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by guest James Holland for a detailed discussion of Operation Barbarossa. …

England & Englishness

Apr 28, 2022

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Jason Cowley about his book Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England…

RIHC: Heroism (Livestream)

Apr 27, 2022

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the idea of heroism across cultures and epochs. They trace the Greek co…

Merlin, Magic and the British

Apr 11, 2022

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Dr. Francis Young about his book Magic in Merlin's Realm: A…

RIHC: Clement Attlee's taxi, Tom's waning whiggery and Farewell to the Horse

Feb 16, 2022

This members-only bonus episode is a wide-ranging Discord-driven discussion between hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandb…

RIHC: Augustus, Appeasement, and a life of hiccups

Jan 18, 2022

This bonus episode of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) is a wide-ranging listener-feedback…

1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1

Jan 13, 2022
1922 · Part 1

This episode of The Rest Is History examines 1922 as a pivotal year marking the emergence of modernity in culture and p…

1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 2

Jan 13, 2022
1922 · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part tour of 1922, surveying political, cultural and geopolitica…

2021

27 episodes

3 Jan: Martin Luther and J.R.R. Tolkien

Dec 25, 2021
12 (or 13) Days of Christmas · Part 11

This episode of The Rest Is History (3 January) is part of the hosts' multi-day anniversary series. Tom Holland opens d…

30 Dec: The Battle of Wakefield and Emperor Karl I

Dec 25, 2021
12 (or 13) Days of Christmas · Part 7

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their "12 Days of Christmas" mini-series by marking annivers…

Cricket

Dec 09, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook host a wide-ranging episode on the history and cultural meaning of cricket, with gues…

Rasputin

Dec 06, 2021

This episode of The Rest Is History examines the life, influence and legend of Grigoriy Efimovich Rasputin. Tom Holland…

Tutankhamun

Nov 27, 2021

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss the enduring allure of Tutankhamun, tracing it from Howard Carter's dramatic …

Civil War

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the causes, warning signs and historical patterns of civil wars, drawing on e…

Paris

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook welcome French journalist Agnès Prairie for a wide-ranging, whistle-stop histor…

The Second Reich

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Katja Heuer about Prussia, the emergence of Germany and the…

Christmas

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the history and evolution of Christmas, from questions over the histori…

Causes of the First World War

Nov 27, 2021

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the causes of the First World War, weighing contingent moments against struct…

Weird Wars

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland present a themed episode surveying ten “weird” or unusual wars from antiquity t…

The Kings of Comedy

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by comedian Al Murray to discuss the intersection of comedy and hist…

A Royal Row

Nov 27, 2021

This special edition of The Rest Is History (hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook) reacts to the high-profile interv…

What If?

Nov 27, 2021

This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Dominic Samrook and Tom Holland, explores counterfactual history — the w…

England v Ukraine

Nov 27, 2021
England Games at the European Cup (November 2021)

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook record a special episode on Anglo–Ukrainian relations prompted by an England–Uk…

Spies, with Ben MacIntyre

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian and author Ben McIntyre about the real history of espionage…

Modern Olympics - Part 1

Nov 27, 2021
The Olympics · Part 2

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the origins and early history of the modern Olympic movement. Drawing on Davi…

1940

Nov 27, 2021

This episode of The Rest Is History brings James Holland (guest) to discuss the pivotal year 1940. Tom Holland and Domi…

Children’s History

Nov 27, 2021

This episode of The Rest Is History features hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discussing how to write and teach …

The Western Front

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Professor Gary Sheffield about the Western Front and the prevailing m…

End of the First World War & Remembrance

Nov 27, 2021

This Remembrance Day episode examines how the end of the First World War was commemorated and how those rituals — armis…

Hitler, with Ian Kershaw - part 2

Nov 27, 2021
Hitler with Ian Kershaw · Part 2

In this episode (Hitler — part two) hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook speak with Sir Ian Kershaw about Adolf Hitl…

Fascism

Nov 27, 2021

Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland discuss the nature, origins and appeal of fascism. They argue fascism is primarily a …

England v Denmark

Nov 27, 2021
England Games at the European Cup (November 2021)

This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, traces Anglo‑Danish relations from th…

Hitler, with Ian Kershaw - part 1

Nov 27, 2021
Hitler with Ian Kershaw · Part 1

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview Sir Ian Kershaw about Adolf Hitler, focusing on historiographical iss…

England v Germany

Nov 27, 2021
England Games at the European Cup (November 2021)

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook survey Anglo‑German relations across the centuries, prompted by a contemporary …

Statues: Whitehall

Nov 27, 2021
Statues · Part 3

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook walk down Whitehall and around central London examining statues, debating wheth…

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Portugal

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Royal Albert Hall Orchestral Shows

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Herbert Henry Asquith

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Ramsay MacDonald

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Thomas Mann

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Virginia Woolf

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Wilhelm Keitel

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Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

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Erwin Rommel

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Andrew Bonar Law

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Erskine Childers

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Fedor von Bock

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Harry S. Truman

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Helmut von Moltke

4 episodes

James Joyce

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John Redmond

4 episodes

Julius Streicher

4 episodes

Lee Miller

4 episodes

Leni Riefenstahl

4 episodes

Ludwig Beck

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Pablo Picasso

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Raymond Poincaré

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Sigmund Freud

4 episodes

Sir Henry Wilson

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William Joyce

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Alexander von Kluck

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Charlie Chaplin

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Franz Halder

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3 episodes

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George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

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Hans Scholl

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Marcel Proust

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Raymond Asquith

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Richard Haldane

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3 episodes

Sir Edward Carson

3 episodes

Sir John French

3 episodes

Stefan Zweig

3 episodes

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3 episodes

Walter von Reichenau

3 episodes

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3 episodes

Agatha Christie

2 episodes

Alexander Watson

2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

Edward Carson

2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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1 episode

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1 episode

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1 episode

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1 episode

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1 episode

H. P. Lovecraft

1 episode

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1 episode

John Maynard Keynes

1 episode

Joseph Page

1 episode

Leon Trotsky

1 episode

Leonard Woolley

1 episode

Leslie R. Groves

1 episode

Lázaro Cárdenas

1 episode

Marie Curie

1 episode

Mohammad Mossadegh

1 episode

Oliver Baldwin

1 episode

Pius XII

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Ted Heath

1 episode

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First World War (WWI - 1914–1918)

90 episodes

Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1914, Sarajevo)

22 episodes

Anschluss / Annexation of Austria (March 1938)

19 episodes

Great Depression (1929 onward)

19 episodes

Holocaust (1941–1945, Europe)

17 episodes

Spanish Civil War (1936–1939, Spain)

14 episodes

Battle of the Somme (1916)

13 episodes

Bolshevik Revolution / October Revolution (1917)

13 episodes

Dunkirk evacuation / Operation Dynamo (May–June 1940)

13 episodes

German invasion of the Soviet Union / Operation Barbarossa (1941)

13 episodes

Munich Agreement / Appeasement (1938)

13 episodes

Night of the Long Knives (30 June 1934, Germany)

13 episodes

Easter Rising (24–29 April 1916, Dublin)

12 episodes

Irish War of Independence (1919–1921)

12 episodes

Beer Hall Putsch / Munich Putsch (November 1923)

11 episodes

German invasion of Poland (1 September 1939)

10 episodes

Irish Civil War (1922–1923, Ireland)

10 episodes

Battle of Britain (1940)

9 episodes

D-Day / Normandy landings (6 June 1944)

9 episodes

Treaty of Versailles (1919)

9 episodes

Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)

8 episodes

London Blitz (The Blitz, 1940–1941)

8 episodes

1936 Summer Olympics (Berlin)

7 episodes

Phoney War (1939–1940)

7 episodes

Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945)

6 episodes

German Revolution (1918–1919)

6 episodes

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass, 1938)

6 episodes

Allied invasion of Italy (1943–1945)

5 episodes

Anglo-Irish Treaty (6 December 1921)

5 episodes

Austro-Hungarian attack on Belgrade (30 July 1914)

5 episodes

Battle of the Marne (1914, France)

5 episodes

July Crisis (1914)

5 episodes

20 July plot / Operation Valkyrie (20 July 1944)

4 episodes

Attack on Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941)

4 episodes

Auschwitz (Auschwitz-Birkenau)

4 episodes

Battle of Arnhem / Operation Market Garden (1944, Netherlands)

4 episodes

Battle of Cable Street (1936, East End of London)

4 episodes

Battle of Mons (1914)

4 episodes

Battle of the Frontiers (August 1914)

4 episodes

Bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937)

4 episodes

First Battle of Ypres (October–November 1914, Ypres, Belgium)

4 episodes

German invasion of Belgium (1914)

4 episodes

Nuremberg Laws (1935)

4 episodes

Outbreak of the Second World War (1939)

4 episodes

Remilitarisation of the Rhineland (1936)

4 episodes

Russian Civil War (1918–1923)

4 episodes

Weimar Germany (1919–1933)

4 episodes

Abdication of Edward VIII / Abdication crisis (1936)

3 episodes

Anglo–German naval arms race / Dreadnought arms race (early 20th century)

3 episodes

Annexation of the Sudetenland (1938)

3 episodes

Assassination of Sir Henry Wilson (22 June 1922)

3 episodes

Austria-Hungary declaration of war on Serbia (28 July 1914)

3 episodes

Battle of France (1940, German conquest of France)

3 episodes

Battle of Monte Cassino (1944, Italy)

3 episodes

Battle of Okinawa (1945)

3 episodes

Bombing of Rotterdam (May 1940)

3 episodes

British General Strike (1926)

3 episodes

Christmas Truce (1914, World War I)

3 episodes

Day of Potsdam (21 March 1933)

3 episodes

Fall of Singapore (1942)

3 episodes

Government of Ireland Act (1920)

3 episodes

Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922, Asia Minor)

3 episodes

Home Rule crisis (1912–1914)

3 episodes

Invasion of Denmark and Norway (April 1940)

3 episodes

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (1939)

3 episodes

Nuremberg rallies (1930s Germany)

3 episodes

Outbreak of the First World War (1914–1918)

3 episodes

Russian general mobilization (July 1914)

3 episodes

Soviet–Finnish Winter War (1939–1940)

3 episodes

Trinity test (16 July 1945, New Mexico)

3 episodes

VE Day (Victory in Europe Day, 8 May 1945)

3 episodes

Weimar hyperinflation (early 1920s)

3 episodes

Western Front (World War I, 1914–1918)

3 episodes

1930 FIFA World Cup (Uruguay)

2 episodes

American Prohibition (1920–1933)

2 episodes

Anzio landings (January 1944)

2 episodes

Ardennes Offensive / Battle of the Bulge (December 1944)

2 episodes

Battle of Jutland (31 May–1 June 1916)

2 episodes

Battle of Łódź (1914, Łódź, Poland)

2 episodes

Bloody Sunday (21 November 1920, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland)

2 episodes

Collapse of Austria-Hungary (1918)

2 episodes

Danish rescue of Jews (1943, Denmark)

2 episodes

Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb (1922)

2 episodes

Firebombing of Tokyo (1945)

2 episodes

German federal election (5 March 1933)

2 episodes

German invasion of the Netherlands (May 1940)

2 episodes

German presidential election (1932)

2 episodes

Hunger Winter (1944–1945, Netherlands)

2 episodes

Irish Home Rule / 1912–1914 Irish crisis

2 episodes

Italy's entry into World War I (May 1915)

2 episodes

Kindertransport (1938–1939, rescue of Jewish children to Britain)

2 episodes

Liberation of Paris (August 1944)

2 episodes

March on Rome (1922)

2 episodes

Nazi seizure of power (1933)

2 episodes

Nuremberg Rally (1934, Nuremberg)

2 episodes

Operation Avalanche (Salerno landings, 1943)

2 episodes

Operation Sea Lion (planned German invasion of Britain, 1940)

2 episodes

Reichstag fire (1933, Berlin)

2 episodes

Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)

2 episodes

Spanish flu pandemic (c.1918–1920)

2 episodes

White Rose resistance (1942–1943, Germany)

2 episodes

1934 FIFA World Cup (Italy)

1 episode

1938 FIFA World Cup (France)

1 episode

1945 United Kingdom general election (5 July 1945)

1 episode

Angels of Mons (1914, myth/legend)

1 episode

Collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1918)

1 episode

Dardanelles Campaign / Gallipoli (1915)

1 episode

Disestablishment of the Church in Wales (1920s)

1 episode

FIFA World Cup

1 episode

Gallipoli (Gallipoli campaign)

1 episode

Great Game (19th–early 20th century Russian–British rivalry)

1 episode

Holodomor / Soviet famine (early 1930s)

1 episode

Japanese American internment (1942–1945)

1 episode

Mexican Revolution (1910–1920)

1 episode

Pacific War / Pacific Theater (World War II, 1941–1945)

1 episode

Potsdam Conference (July 1945)

1 episode

Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)

1 episode

Women's suffrage in the UK (1918 and 1928)

1 episode

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Mein Kampf

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18 episodes

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

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July Crisis

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6 episodes

Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

Author: Tom Holland

6 episodes

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5 episodes

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4 episodes

Ulysses

Author: James Joyce

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Munich

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3 episodes

On the Origin of Species

Author: Charles Darwin

3 episodes

Tarka the Otter

Author: Henry Williamson

3 episodes

The Escape Artist

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Author: Ronan Fanning

3 episodes

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3 episodes

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3 episodes

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The War in the West

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3 episodes

biography of Hitler

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Diaries of Victor Klemperer

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2 episodes

English Journey

Author: J. B. Priestley

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Fatherland

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

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Author: Gary Sheffield

2 episodes

Henry IV, Part I

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

In the Shadow of the Sword

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

King Solomon's Mines

Author: H. Rider Haggard

2 episodes

Love in a Cold Climate

Author: Nancy Mitford

2 episodes

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Author: George Orwell

2 episodes

Oh What a Lovely War

Author: Joan Littlewood

2 episodes

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Author: Tom Holland

2 episodes

Precipice

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

Richard II

Author: William Shakespeare

2 episodes

Ring of Steel

Author: Alexander Watson

2 episodes

The Adventures of Pinocchio

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2 episodes

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Author: Geoffrey Chaucer

2 episodes

The Cicero Trilogy

Author: Robert Harris

2 episodes

The Iliad

Author: Homer

2 episodes

The Intellectuals and the Masses

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2 episodes

The Law of Blood, Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

Author: Johann Chaputet

2 episodes

The Lion and the Unicorn

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2 episodes

The Northumbrians

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The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio — Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War

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The Red and the Black

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The Republic

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The Road to Wigan Pier

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

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2 episodes

The World of Yesterday

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2 episodes

Thunder at Twilight

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2 episodes

Timaeus

Author: Plato

2 episodes

1491 - New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

1493 - Uncovering the New World Columbus Created

Author: Charles C. Mann

1 episode

15 Decisive Battles of the World

Author: Edward Creasy

1 episode

1944

Author: Jay Winnick

1 episode

31 Days: Gerald Ford, the Nixon Pardon and a Government in Crisis

Author: Barry Werth

1 episode

A Certain Sense of France

Author: Julian Jackson

1 episode

A Christmas Carol

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

A Circle of Sisters

Author: Judith Flanders

1 episode

A Distant Mirror

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

A History of New York

Author: Washington Irving

1 episode

A History of the Crusades

Author: Stephen Runciman

1 episode

A History of the World

Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry

1 episode

A Man for All Seasons

Author: Robert Bolt

1 episode

A Man in Havana

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

A Monstrous Commotion: The Mysteries of Loch Ness

Author: Gareth Williams

1 episode

A Murder Is Announced

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A New System of Domestic Cookery

Author: Maria Rundell

1 episode

A Night to Remember

Author: Walter Lord

1 episode

A Place of Greater Safety

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

A Pocket Full of Rye

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Author: James Joyce

1 episode

A Room with a View

Author: E. M. Forster

1 episode

A Social History of the Third Reich

Author: Richard Grunberger

1 episode

A Traitor to His Class

Author: H.W. Brands

1 episode

A Treatise on the One-Humped Camel in Health and Disease

Author: Arnold Spencer Lees

1 episode

A Visit from St. Nicholas (The Night Before Christmas)

Author: Clement Clarke Moore

1 episode

Achtung Panzer!

Author: Heinz Guderian

1 episode

Acts of the Apostle s

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Adventure in Time, the Fall of the Aztecs

Author: Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

Aftermath

Author: Harold Jena

1 episode

Agent Sonya

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Agent Zigzag

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

American Prometheus

Author: Kai Bird; Martin J. Sherwin

1 episode

American Way of Death

Author: Jessica Mitford

1 episode

Among the Thugs

Author: Bill Buford

1 episode

An Officer and a Spy

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

And Then There Were None

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Angry Aztecs

Author: Matthew Restel

1 episode

Animal Farm

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Annals of the Four Masters

Author: Mícheál Ó Cléirigh, Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, Fearfeasa Ó Maol Chonaire, Cú Choigríche Ó Duibhgeannáin

1 episode

Antony and Cleopatra

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Appointment with Death

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

April 1865

Author: Jay Winnick

1 episode

As You Like It

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Aubrey–Maturin series

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Auschwitz and the Allies

Author: Martin Gilbert

1 episode

Austerlitz

Author: W.G. Zabold

1 episode

Autobiography of the executioner of Paris (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Charles-Henri Sanson

1 episode

Avedon at Work in the American West

Author: Laura Wilson

1 episode

Babbitt

Author: Sinclair Lewis

1 episode

Beyond Black

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Bhagavad Gita

Author: Traditional Attribution or Various

1 episode

Biography of Eamonn de Valera

Author: David McCullough

1 episode

Biography of Eva Perón

Author: Nicholas Fraser and Marisa Navarro

1 episode

Biography of General Hague

Author: Gary Sheffield

1 episode

Biography of Hitler

Author: Ian Kershaw

1 episode

Biography of Hitler by Alan Bullock (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Alan Bullock

1 episode

Biography of Peter the Great

Author: Robert K. Massey

1 episode

Biography of Rasputin (title not given in transcript)

Author: Douglas Smith

1 episode

Biography of Robert Peel

Author: Douglas Hurd

1 episode

Biography of Stanley Baldwin

Author: Keith Middlemass and John Barnes

1 episode

Biography of Unity Mitford (1977) — subtitle 'The Frivolity of Evil'

Author: David Price-Jones

1 episode

Biography on William II

Author: Christopher Claes

1 episode

Black Diaries

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

Bleak House

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Blood and Iron

Author: Katja Heuer

1 episode

Blood on the Snow

Author: Robert Service

1 episode

Book on Dunkirk (referred to)

Author: Max Hastings

1 episode

Books on the Third Reich (referred to)

Author: Richard Evans

1 episode

Borderlines: A History of Europe Told from the Edges

Author: Lewis

1 episode

Bournville

Author: Jonathan Coe

1 episode

Brideshead Revisited

Author: Evelyn Waugh

1 episode

Brighton Rock

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

Britain's War Machine

Author: David Edgerton

1 episode

Bulldog Drummond (series)

Author: H. C. McNeile (pen name: Sapper)

1 episode

Casement report

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

Central Europe, The Death of a Civilization and the Life of an Idea

Author: Luka Ivan Jukic

1 episode

Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Story of Modern Romania

Author: Paul Kenyon

1 episode

China at War

Author: Hans van der Ven

1 episode

Chioccolati e Tabacco, A Iuno Ecclesiastico e Naturale

Author: Tomas Hurtado

1 episode

Churchill biography (unspecified)

Author: Andrew Roberts

1 episode

Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War

Author: Al Murray

1 episode

Confessions

Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo

1 episode

Constellation Genius

Author: Kevin Jackson

1 episode

Copenhagen

Author: Michael Frayn

1 episode

Countrymen

Author: Bo Lidegaard

1 episode

Critias

Author: Plato

1 episode

Culture and Imperialism

Author: Edward Said

1 episode

Dance of the Furies

Author: Mike Nyberg

1 episode

Dane-Geld

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Das Kapital

Author: Karl Marx

1 episode

De Cioccolatis Potu

Author: Francesco Maria Brancadio

1 episode

De Senatu Romano

Author: Jan Zamoyski

1 episode

Dear England

Author: Gareth Southgate

1 episode

Death Comes as the End

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Death on the Nile

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Delizia: The Epic History of Italians and Their Food

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

Departure of the Fourth Camerons

Author: Hewitt Macintosh

1 episode

Der Stürmer (newspaper)

Author: Julius Streicher (editor)

1 episode

Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek

Author: Chiang Kai-shek

1 episode

Diaries of Nella Last

Author: Nella Last

1 episode

Disturbing the Water

Author: Peter Wise

1 episode

Dombey and Son

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Down and Out in Paris and London

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker

1 episode

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Author: Hannah Arendt

1 episode

Enigma

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Eurasia

Author: Bruno Massange

1 episode

Evil Under the Sun

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Farewell to the Horse

Author: Ulrich Rapp

1 episode

Five Days in London

Author: John Lukacs

1 episode

Flashman at the Charge

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Flashman in Ethiopia

Author: George MacDonald Fraser

1 episode

Florentine Codex

Author: Bernardino de Sahagún

1 episode

Fortress Malta and Island Under Siege

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Foucault's Pendulum

Author: Umberto Eco

1 episode

Four Quartets

Author: T. S. Eliot

1 episode

George Orwell: English Rebel

Author: Robert Coles

1 episode

Ghosts of Empire

Author: Kwasi Kwarteng

1 episode

God's Englishman

Author: Christopher Hill

1 episode

Gone with the Wind

Author: Margaret Mitchell

1 episode

Goodbye to All That

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

Great Hatred

Author: Ronan McGreevey

1 episode

Greenmantle

Author: John Buchan

1 episode

Grim Glory: Pictures of Britain Under Fire

Author: Edward R. Murrow

1 episode

Gulliver's Travels

Author: Jonathan Swift

1 episode

Hannibal and the Carthaginians

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

Heart of Darkness

Author: Joseph Conrad

1 episode

Hell to Pay

Author: DM Jeanne Greco

1 episode

Henry V

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 1

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 2

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Henry VI, Part 3

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Heretics and Believers

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

Heroic Failures and the British

Author: Paul L. F. H. B. McCarthy

1 episode

Historical novels about Marius and Sulla

Author: Colleen McCulloch

1 episode

History of the English-Speaking Peoples

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

History of the Mafia

Author: John Dickey

1 episode

History of the Middle Ages

Author: Mark Gregory Pegg

1 episode

Hitler's Table Talk

Author: Heinrich Heim, Henry Picker, Hans Müller and Martin Bormann

1 episode

Homage to Catalonia

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

How Britain Brought Football to the World

Author: Stuart Laycock and Philip Laycock

1 episode

How the Irish Invented Chess!

Author: Brian Nugent

1 episode

I, Claudius

Author: Robert Graves

1 episode

Ian Kershaw's biography

Author: Ian Kershaw

1 episode

In Flanders Fields

Author: John McCrae

1 episode

In Portugal

Author: Aubrey Bell

1 episode

In Pursuit of Love

Author: Nancy Mitford

1 episode

Inverting the Pyramid

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

Italy

Author: James Holland

1 episode

J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

Author: Tom Shippey

1 episode

Jeeves stories

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

Joseph and His Brothers

Author: Thomas Mann

1 episode

Journal entries on the Battle of Stalingrad

Author: Vasily Grossman

1 episode

Journey to a War

Author: W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood

1 episode

Just William (series)

Author: Richmal Crompton

1 episode

King Leopold's Ghost

Author: Adam Hochschild

1 episode

L'étranger (The Stranger / Outsider)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

La Peste (The Plague)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Author: D.H. Lawrence

1 episode

Ladybird books

Author: L. Du Garde Peach (and various)

1 episode

Landscape and Memory

Author: Simon Schama

1 episode

Last Waltz in Vienna

Author: George Clare

1 episode

Latest novel (about plague)

Author: Orhan Pamuk

1 episode

Le Premier Homme (The First Man)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

Leaders

Author: Richard Nixon

1 episode

Leading German biography of Hitler (unnamed in transcript)

Author: Joachim Fest

1 episode

Left Bank, Art Passion and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940 to 1950

Author: Agnès Prairie

1 episode

Les Misérables

Author: Victor Hugo

1 episode

Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco

Author: Anonimo Veneziano

1 episode

Life and Fate

Author: Vasily Grossman

1 episode

London Fields

Author: Martin Amis

1 episode

Look Back in Anger

Author: John Osborne

1 episode

Looking at History

Author: R. J. Unstead

1 episode

Magic in Merlin's Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Making Mary Poppins

Author: Todd James Pierce

1 episode

Martin Chuzzlewit

Author: Charles Dickens

1 episode

Mary Poppins

Author: P. L. Travers

1 episode

Master and Commander (Patrick O'Brian series)

Author: Patrick O'Brian

1 episode

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Memoirs (unspecified)

Author: Paul Schmidt

1 episode

Memoirs of Milita Maschmann

Author: Milita Maschmann

1 episode

Middlemarch

Author: George Eliot

1 episode

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Author: Tom Holland

1 episode

Modern Times and Modern Places, Life and Art in the 20th Century

Author: Peter Conrad

1 episode

Moses and Monotheism

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

Moses the Egyptian

Author: Jan Asman

1 episode

Mrs Dalloway

Author: Virginia Woolf

1 episode

Murder in Mesopotamia

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Murder on the Orient Express

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

My Early Life

Author: Winston Churchill

1 episode

My Fight for Irish Freedom

Author: Dan Breen

1 episode

Naples '44

Author: Norman Lewis

1 episode

Not Just Pictures

Author: Chris Floyd

1 episode

Notre Dame, the Soul of France

Author: Agnès Prairie

1 episode

On Savage Shores

Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock

1 episode

Ones and Rebels

Author: Jessica Mitford

1 episode

Operation Columba: The Secret Pigeon Service

Author: Gordon Carrera

1 episode

Operation Mincemeat

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Ostara

Author: Jörg Lanz

1 episode

Our Island Story

Author: H. E. Marshall

1 episode

Oxford English Dictionary

Author: Various

1 episode

Pan Tadeusz

Author: Adam Mickiewicz

1 episode

Peace

Author: Rupert Brooke

1 episode

People's History of Love

Author: James Meek

1 episode

Phineas Finn

Author: Anthony Trollope

1 episode

Pilgrim's Progress

Author: John Bunyan

1 episode

Poems (1907)

Author: Illaer Belloch

1 episode

Pompeii

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain

Author: Dan Jackson

1 episode

Portrait of Fouché

Author: Steven Schweig

1 episode

Question moral si il cioccolato che branta l'auno ecclesiastico

Author: Antonio de Leon Pinelo

1 episode

Recessional (poem)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the 1916 Rising

Author: Royal Commission

1 episode

Rerum Novarum

Author: Pope Leo XIII

1 episode

Restless Republic

Author: Anna Kaye

1 episode

Revolution by Reason

Author: John Strachey

1 episode

Richard III

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

Richard Nixon: The Life

Author: John A. Farrell

1 episode

River Kings

Author: Kat Jarman

1 episode

Rumours of Angels, a Legend of the First World War

Author: David Clarke

1 episode

SSGB

Author: Len Deighton

1 episode

Salammbô

Author: Gustave Flaubert

1 episode

Savage Storm

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Schindler's List

Author: Thomas Keneally

1 episode

Scissors and Paste

Author: Arthur Griffith

1 episode

Scouting for Boys

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

1 episode

Servants: A Downstairs View of 20th Century Britain

Author: Lucy Lethbridge

1 episode

Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest

Author: Matthew Restall

1 episode

Shakespeare in 1606

Author: James Shapiro

1 episode

Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

Shooting an Elephant

Author: George Orwell

1 episode

Short story about the assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Sicily

Author: James Holland

1 episode

Sinn Féin Rebellion Handbook

Author: Anonymous

1 episode

Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead

Author: Stanley Brands

1 episode

Soviet Communism and New Civilization

Author: Sidney Webb; Beatrice Webb

1 episode

Spare

Author: Prince Harry

1 episode

Spy Among Friends

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

Storm of Steel

Author: Ernst Junger

1 episode

Storm's Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Author: Peter Marshall

1 episode

Suite Française

Author: Irène Némirovsky

1 episode

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Author: Laura Thompson

1 episode

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Author: Thomas Hardy

1 episode

Testament of Youth

Author: Vera Brittain

1 episode

That Printer of Udels

Author: Harold Bell Wright

1 episode

The 9/11 Wars

Author: Jason Burke

1 episode

The Aenach Talchean

Author: T.H. Nally

1 episode

The Aeneid (standardized)

Author: Virgil

1 episode

The Age of Decadence

Author: Simon Heffer

1 episode

The Age of Illusion

Author: Ronald Blythe

1 episode

The Alteration

Author: Kingsley Amis

1 episode

The Beautiful and the Dam

Author: Scott Fitzgerald

1 episode

The Best and the Brightest

Author: Hal Blastam

1 episode

The Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Author: Rebecca West

1 episode

The Box of Delights

Author: John Maysfield

1 episode

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

Author: Matthew Gabriel

1 episode

The Burning of the World

Author: Bela Zomberi Moldavan

1 episode

The Children of Ashen Elm

Author: Neil Price

1 episode

The Christmas Truce

Author: Carol Anne Duffy

1 episode

The Code of the Woosters

Author: P. G. Wodehouse

1 episode

The Commissar Vanishes

Author: David King

1 episode

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Author: William Shakespeare

1 episode

The Constellation of Genius

Author: Kevin Jackson

1 episode

The Da Vinci Code

Author: Dan Brown

1 episode

The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s

Author: Piers Brendon

1 episode

The Day of the Jackal

Author: Frederick Forsyth

1 episode

The Death of a Hero

Author: Richard Aldington

1 episode

The Definitive History of Northumbria

Author: Dan Jackson

1 episode

The Descent of Man

Author: Charles Darwin

1 episode

The Devils

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

Author: Anne Frank

1 episode

The Disney Version

Author: Richard Schickel

1 episode

The Donkeys

Author: Alan Clark

1 episode

The Dream of the Celt

Author: Roger Casement

1 episode

The Eagle Unbowed

Author: Halik Kochanski

1 episode

The Earliest Englishman

Author: Arthur Smith Woodward

1 episode

The Edge of the World: How the North Sea Made Us

Author: Michael Pye

1 episode

The End of History

Author: Francis Fukuyama

1 episode

The Fall of the House of Habsburg

Author: Edward Crankshaw

1 episode

The Fatal Path

Author: Ronald Fanning

1 episode

The Fateful Year

Author: Mark Bostridge

1 episode

The Fortress

Author: Alexander Watson

1 episode

The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Houston Stewart Chamberlain

1 episode

The Frozen Deep

Author: Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens

1 episode

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

Author: David Goldblatt

1 episode

The Gardener

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

The Ghost

Author: Robert Harris

1 episode

The Great God Pan

Author: Arthur Machen

1 episode

The Great and Holy War

Author: Philip Jenkins

1 episode

The Greek Army

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

The Guns of August

Author: Barbara Tuchman

1 episode

The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times

Author: Eduard Habsburg

1 episode

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

1 episode

The Happy Death (L'Amour Heureuse)

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

The Haunted Wood

Author: Sam Leith

1 episode

The Hidden Hand Presidency

Author: Fred Greenstein

1 episode

The Histories

Author: Herodotus

1 episode

The Hitler Myth

Author: Ian Kershaw

1 episode

The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration

Author: Stefan Malinowski

1 episode

The IRA and Its Enemies

Author: Peter Hart

1 episode

The Imagination of an Insurrection

Author: William Erwin Thompson

1 episode

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author: Oscar Wilde

1 episode

The Insurrection in Dublin

Author: James Stevens

1 episode

The Interpretation of Dreams

Author: Sigmund Freud

1 episode

The Invasion of 1910

Author: William Le Quex

1 episode

The Jungle Book

Author: Roger Kipling

1 episode

The King's English

Author: Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler

1 episode

The Landlady

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

1 episode

The Last Kingdom

Author: Bernard Cornwell

1 episode

The Last of the Mohicans

Author: James Fenimore Cooper

1 episode

The Leopard

Author: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

1 episode

The Light Ages

Author: Seb Falk

1 episode

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad

Author: Ian McGregor

1 episode

The Lighthouse of Stalingrad, The Hidden Truth, Center of World War Two's Greatest Battle

Author: Ian McGregor

1 episode

The Little Mermaid

Author: Hans Christian Andersen

1 episode

The Little Stranger

Author: Sarah Waters

1 episode

The Lives of the Engineers

Author: Samuel Smiles

1 episode

The Lord of the Flies

Author: William Golding

1 episode

The Lord of the Rings

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

1 episode

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

Author: Sophy Roberts

1 episode

The Lost World

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

1 episode

The Magic Mountain

Author: Thomas Mann

1 episode

The Making of Western Christendom

Author: Peter Brown

1 episode

The Man in the High Castle

Author: Philip K. Dick

1 episode

The Marvelous Land of Snugs

Author: E. A. Wyke-Smith

1 episode

The Meaning of Cricket

Author: John Houghton

1 episode

The Mediterranean Diet

Author: Ancel Keys

1 episode

The Merceau Investigation

Author: Kamel Daud

1 episode

The Morbid Age

Author: Richard Overy

1 episode

The Mousetrap

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Moving Finger

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Murder Machine

Author: Patrick Pearse

1 episode

The Murder of Michael Collins

Author: Paddy Cullivan

1 episode

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Myth of Sisyphus

Author: Albert Camus

1 episode

The Natural History of Chocolate

Author: Monsieur de Kélu

1 episode

The Nazi Conscience

Author: Claudia Koons

1 episode

The New Statesman (magazine)

Author: Various

1 episode

The Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce, AD 300 to 900

Author: Michael McCormick

1 episode

The Piltdown Man Hoax Case Closed

Author: Miles Russell

1 episode

The Pity of War

Author: Niall Ferguson

1 episode

The Plumed Serpent

Author: D. H. Lawrence

1 episode

The Power and the Glory

Author: Graham Greene

1 episode

The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup

Author: Jonathan Wilson

1 episode

The Pursuit of Love

Author: Nancy Mitford

1 episode

The Radetzky March

Author: Joseph Roth

1 episode

The Reconstruction of Nations

Author: Timothy Snyder

1 episode

The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities

Author: Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook

1 episode

The Road to Sarajevo

Author: Vladimir Dedier

1 episode

The Roman Army

Author: Peter Connolly

1 episode

The Roman Revolution

Author: Syme

1 episode

The Saint's Life

Author: author not specified in transcript

1 episode

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy, 1943

Author: James Holland

1 episode

The Scarlet Pimpernel

Author: Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1 episode

The Secret Adversary

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

The Secret History

Author: Procopius (Procopius of Caesarea)

1 episode

The Secret History of the Five Eyes: The Untold Story of the International Spy Network

Author: Richard Cabage

1 episode

The Sleepwalkers

Author: Chris Clarke

1 episode

The Spanish Holocaust

Author: Paul Preston

1 episode

The Spy and the Traitor

Author: Ben McIntyre

1 episode

The Strange Death of Liberal England

Author: George Dangerfield

1 episode

The Tailor of Panama

Author: John le Carré

1 episode

The Taxis of the Marne

Author: Jean Dutour

1 episode

The Third Reich

Author: Michael Burley

1 episode

The Three Impostors

Author: Arthur Machen

1 episode

The Tin Drum

Author: Günter Grass

1 episode

The Tragedy of Central Europe

Author: Milan Kundera

1 episode

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Author: B. Traven

1 episode

The Troublesome Priest

Author: Jonathan Tucker

1 episode

The Untouchable

Author: John Banville

1 episode

The Vantage Point

Author: Lyndon B. Johnson

1 episode

The Very Dark Ages: Why the Middle Ages Were Terrible, Nothing Good Happened, and People Lived in Mud

Author: ComebackZinc

1 episode

The Violent Effigy

Author: John Kerry

1 episode

The Wages of Destruction

Author: Adam Tooze

1 episode

The War in the West, Germany Ascendant, 1939 to 1941

Author: James Holland

1 episode

The War of the End of the World

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

1 episode

The White War

Author: Mark Thompson

1 episode

The World Turned Upside Down

Author: Christopher Hill

1 episode

The Wrath of the Black Shirts

Author: Martin Pugh

1 episode

The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells

Author: Sarah Churchwell

1 episode

The Year of the French

Author: Thomas Van Lingen

1 episode

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Author: Michael Chabon

1 episode

Third Reich, New History

Author: Michael Burley

1 episode

Thomas Cromwell novels (by Hilary Mantel)

Author: Hilary Mantel

1 episode

Three Men in a Boat

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

1 episode

Three Men on a Bummel

Author: Jerome K. Jerome

1 episode

Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the epic journeys that changed the world

Author: Simon Hall

1 episode

Thunder of Twilight

Author: Frederick Morton

1 episode

Times Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust and the Music of Remembrance

Author: Jeremy Eichler

1 episode

Tom Brown's School Days

Author: Thomas Hughes

1 episode

Towards the Flame

Author: Dominic Levin

1 episode

Travelling Around the World

Author: Franz Ferdinand

1 episode

Treasure Island

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

1 episode

Twilight of the Godlings

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain's Supernatural Beings

Author: Francis Young

1 episode

Ulster (poem)

Author: Rudyard Kipling

1 episode

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

1 episode

Victory 45: The End of the War in Eight Surrenders

Author: Al Murray; James Holland

1 episode

Virtual History

Author: Alvin Jackson

1 episode

Vivid Faces

Author: Roy Foster

1 episode

Voitek the Bear, Polish War Hero

Author: Eileen Orr

1 episode

Walt Disney: The Biography

Author: Neil Gabler

1 episode

Watching the Door

Author: Kevin Myers

1 episode

When William Came

Author: Sarkey

1 episode

White Noise

Author: Don DeLillo

1 episode

Who Are We Now? Stories of Modern England

Author: Jason Cowley

1 episode

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Why the Allies Won the Second World War (approx.)

Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien

1 episode

Winnie-the-Pooh

Author: A. A. Milne

1 episode

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Author: Wisden

1 episode

Witness for the Prosecution

Author: Agatha Christie

1 episode

Works of H. P. Lovecraft (including the Call of Cthulhu stories)

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

1 episode

Worlds of Arthur

Author: Guy Howsor

1 episode

Wuthering Heights

Author: Emily Brontë

1 episode

the assassination of Field Marshal Henry Wilson MP as Ireland's Sarajevo

Author: Ronan McGreevey

1 episode

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