Podcast Episodes

Profumo Affair (1963)

Season 1 Episode 13

This Winter: the original Season 1 collection - the episodes that started it all.

In our latest episode of Sleep with History we plunge into the tumu…

18 hours ago

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Greece joins the European Union (1981)

Season 1 Episode 10

This Winter: the original Season 1 collection - the episodes that started it all.

From a Europe recovering from World War II to the fledgling Greece e…

1 week ago

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Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

Season 1 Episode 7

This Winter: the original Season 1 collection - the episodes that started it all.

Listen to the story of life and legacy of one of the most monumenta…

2 weeks ago

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Opium Wars and the establishment of European spheres of influence in China (19th century)

Season 1 Episode 4

This Winter: the original Season 1 collection - the episodes that started it all.

In this episode we draw the curtains back on Britannia's potentiall…

3 weeks ago

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The Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)

Season 1 Episode 1

This Winter: the original Season 1 collection - the episodes that started it all.

In this first episode of Sleep with History we'll traverse the batt…

4 weeks ago

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Founding of the City of Constantinople (330 CE)

Season 4 Episode 100

In the twilight of a faltering Roman Empire, the foundations of Constantinople were set, a city born from the vision of Constantine the Great amidst …

1 month ago

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Building of the Panama Canal (1904-1914)

Season 4 Episode 98

As twilight enfolds the isthmus of Panama, a slender bridge of land whispered with the dreams of navigators and conquerors, we transcend time to trac…

1 month ago

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Marco Polo and His Journeys to the East (1271-1295)

Season 4 Episode 95

As dusk settled across the medieval landscape, cities like Venice blossomed into thriving hubs of commerce and culture, their streets echoing with th…

1 month, 1 week ago

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The Crusades: Conflict and Commerce in the Middle Ages (1095-1291)

Season 4 Episode 93

As dusk settles over a Europe in the throes of transformation, we find ourselves weaving through the dense kaleidoscope of the Crusades, a period not…

1 month, 1 week ago

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The Rise of the Zulu Kingdom under Shaka Zulu (1816-1828)

Season 4 Episode 91

In the quiet hours before the storm of empire, the land that would be called KwaZulu Natal lay tranquil, a mosaic of pastoral tribes under starlit Af…

1 month, 1 week ago

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