Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAmerica in Korea: a failed occupation?
Episode 2375
For three quarters of a century, the Korean peninsula has been divided between two very different regimes that are bitterly opposed to each other. But did it have to be this way? In his book, A Fract…
Published on 3 months ago
The real Miss Moneypennys: the secret history of Britain's female spies
Episode 2374
From cleaners to codebreakers, women’s contributions to the history of British intelligence have often gone unrecognised and forgotten. But in actuality, female operatives penetrated enemy networks, …
Published on 3 months ago
Andrew Carnegie: life of the week
Episode 2373
How did a man who crushed unions in Gilded Age America come to see himself as humanity’s benefactor? Speaking to Elinor Evans, historian and biographer David Nasaw explores the many contradictions of…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Wages for housework: the daring 1970s campaign that challenged women's roles
Episode 2372
In the 1970s, a global group of feminist activists banded together with one demand: 'wages for housework'. Emily Callaci explores this campaign in her Cundill Prize-nominated book Wages for Housework…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Ancient Roman theatre: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2371
Who went to the theatre in ancient Rome – and what kind of spectacle would they have expected to see? And did the drama performed on stage reflect the politics, society and culture of the day? Emily …
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Haiti's first and only king
Episode 2370
Born to an enslaved mother in the British Caribbean in the tumultuous, brutal world of the late 18th century, Henry Christoph's role in the Haitian Revolution saw him rise to prominence – and was jus…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
How the Cold War made the modern world
Episode 2369
For most of the latter half of the 20th century, the world was frozen in a standoff. The Cold War era was defined by the ideological fissure between capitalism, led by the United States, and communis…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Alva Vanderbilt: life of the week
Episode 2368
Climbing to the top of Gilded Age society in 19th-century America, socialite Alva Vanderbilt made headlines for being one of the first elite women to divorce on her terms, and she later turned her am…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
How women were erased from economic history
Episode 2367
Across 12,000 years of history, prosperity has flourished in societies where women could fully participate – and faltered when they were pushed to the margins. That's what Dr Victoria Bateman argues …
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The Phoenicians: everything you wanted to know
Episode 2366
They gave us the alphabet, charted the seas by the Pole Star, and built Carthage – once Rome’s greatest rival. So why have the Phoenicians been forgotten? Speaking to Emily Briffett, historian Joseph…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago