LGBTQ+ History: With the team from the Logbooks Podcast
Tash Walker and Adam Zmith join me to talk about the Logbooks Podcast, a history of LGBTQ+ life in the UK....
Histoire et sciences humaines audios
Constitutional law and legal history scholar Carlton Larson talked to Dan during Christmas about treason in the...
We're very pleased to bring you this special 'Lockdown Learning' episode of the podcast, featuring the brilliant Dr...
Toxis: A History of Nerve Agents
In 2018, the British city of Salisbury crashed into newspaper headlines worldwide when former Russian military...
He's made history. Donald Trump has become the only President in US history to be impeached not once but twice. Three...
On 18 January 1871 as the Siege of Paris raged a couple of miles away King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed...
Indonesian Cave Art: A Dramatic New Discovery
It’s a paradox for the ages, breaking news about people who lived and died thousands of years ago. This...
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Marissa Roth, Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist, joins me on the podcast to talk about her pictures of the 1992...
Cornelia Sorabji: India's first woman lawyer
Cornelia Sorabji was the first woman lawyer working in India. She helped women living in purdah or seclusion in the...
The story of the remarkable mission to land on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn. The large mysterious moon has a...
Adolf Hitler made his first attempt to overthrow democracy in Germany in Munich in 1923. It started at a beer hall...
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The Turner Diaries - America's manual of hatred
Following the assault on the US Capitol earlier this month, Amazon banned The Turner Diaries, a racist novel blamed...
John Dalton’s Anomalous Color Vision
John Dalton is far more famous for his work in atomic theory. But he wrote one of the first thorough descriptions of...
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Down the Lane takes the reader on an eye-opening look at the parts of Niagara Falls they don't tell you about in...
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Episode 144: A Murder of Crows and Princes
In the second half of the 1400s, there is written evidence of word play and new word formations within English. These...
The Aeneid, by Virgil, is one of the great world epics. Inspired by, and modeled after, the Odyssey, it's the story...
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Ten years ago, we met (literally MET!) to record our first episode. It's been a journey, and we thought as a...
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My special guest tonight is Shane Sirois who is a paranormal investigator and says that he has a 100% success rate of...
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Searching for freedom after the Holocaust
Rosie Whitehouse tells the story of a group of Holocaust survivors who sailed to Palestine in 1946, in defiance of...
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19th January 1920: Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union
The organization now boasts more than 1.2 million members and continues to provide legal support where individual...
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Goose Green: A Veteran Remembers
John Geddes joined the Parachute Regiment as a teenager in the late 1970s. Within a couple of years he was plunged...
When Spain's parliament was stormed
In February 1981 armed Civil Guards tried to take control of the Spanish parliament. For 18 hours they held 350...
Behind the Scenes Minis: O. Henry and Rudolph
On today's episode, Tracy and Holly discuss their levels of familiarity with O. Henry and have a food digression....
Paul begg - jack the ripper interviews #1
Hugely respected, extensively quoted and widely regarded as the 'bible' of Ripper studies, The Complete Jack the...
210-Russian Legends: Dragons, Dragons Everywhere
The story of Dobrynya the dragon slayer from Russian folklore is the tale of a young man finding his heroic destiny,...
Let's shine the spotlight on Mrs. Claus, she's not the one-dimensional support character most imagine.
LIAM 519 – Hold Them In The Light
You cannot remain in the light while holding someone else in darkness. You cannot feel inner peace, joy, and love...
My special guest tonight is Thomas Bauerle who's here to discuss his book about hauntings in Japan. Buy the book....
Episode 173: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
The Memory Palace is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX. A note on notes: We’d much rather you just...