Random History Podcasts

A kick-ass show about the true, the good, and the beautiful.

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: alaska, art, catholic, Current Events, History, Metaphysics, ontology, Philosophy, Politics, pop culture

Everything Sucked Back Then is a comedy/history podcast hosted by Ray Harrington and Jeremy Pearson.

Categories: Comedy, History, True Crime

Tags: Comedy, Funny, historical, History, jeremy pearson, ray harrington, story, sucked, true-crime

What is ‘British-ness’? This podcast explores all aspects of British culture from the perspective of an Englishman previously based in China and Turkey. Perhaps you know Thomas already from Instagram’s @FlemingNeverDies or @JamesBond_Turkiye , both centered on Ian Fleming’s classic creation, James Bond, 007. Here, we can see a wider background of where our British hero sits.

Categories: Education, History, Society & Culture

Tags: Britain, Culture, england, Great Britain, History, ireland, Northern-Ireland, Scotland, tradition, UK, United Kingdom, Wales

A podcast dedicated to the creation, preservation, and conversation of cinema. Hosted by filmmakers Nathan Robert Blackburn and Andy Pesa.

Categories: Comedy, TV & Film

Tags: bayarea, Besties, celebrities, cineaste, cinema, Comedy, debate, Ebert, film, filmmaker, Filmmaking, Funny, History, hollywood, hulu, movie, Movies, netflix, Nolan, prime, scorsese, sf, Tarantino, tcm, theater, theatre

For the Irish historian John Bagnell Bury, history should be treated as a science and not a mere branch of literature. Many contemporary histories written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were poetic and heroic in tone, blending fact and fiction, myths and legends. They sometimes relied on sources from Shakespeare and classical poets. For Bury, the facts of history may be legendary or romantic in nature, but they should be recounted in a scholarly and non-judgmental manner, without the accompanying emotions. His aim was simply to “tell history as it happened.” A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great was first published in 1900. It went on to become a standard text in many colleges and was used as a definitive guide to our understanding of the pre-Hellenistic kingdoms. Richly supplemented with maps and columnar notes, the book deals with its subject in an academic manner, but it is a work which is easily accessible to the ordinary reader as well. There are many interesting illustrations from antiquities in the British Museum and photographs of busts from various art galleries. There are 18 chapters, portraying the beginnings of Ancient Greece in the Heroic Age. The author is also concerned about how previous histories of Ancient Greece have largely ignored the Greek presence in Persia, Asia Minor, Italy and Sicily while emphasizing the Greek history of Sparta and Athens. Later chapters deal with Athenian democracy, Pericles and the Golden Age, the advance of the Persians, the Peloponnesian war and the decline of Athenian Greece, the rise of Thebes, the Syracusan empire, the rise of Macedonia and the final conquest of Persia and East Asia. There is also an interesting chapter on Aristotle and Alexander. Aristotle’s background and how he became Alexander’s teacher, the differing visions that tutor and pupil held about the ideal city-state and the ultimate influence that these ideas had on the development of Europe are discussed in the last chapter. Bury was a young genius who became a Fellow at Trinity College Dublin at the young age of 24 and a professor at Cambridge, where he taught both history and Greek, before he was forty. His interests included medieval studies and philology. His works cover a range of subjects including Greek and Byzantine history and the role of the Church and the Papacy in the 19th century. Though some of the information in this book may be a little dated following new studies, technological advances and discoveries uncovered by the latest research, it is extremely readable and interesting. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great is a historical and interesting read. More great books at LoyalBooks.com

Categories: Arts, Society & Culture

Tags: A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, audio books, audiobook, ebooks, free audio books, History, John B. Bury, Loyal Books, loyalbooks.com, Non-fiction

The Almighty A.R. & Singodsuperior discuss Hip-Hop and life. Hailing from Baltimore, MD (Singodsuperior is currently based in Norman, OK) and being involved in Hip-Hop, academia, veganism/vegetarianism, and a litany of other walks of life, their conversations and perspectives on everything under the sun. Check it out!

Categories: Arts, Music, Society & Culture, Technology

Tags: baltimore, combat, Epstein, hip, History, hop, jack, juan, maryland, Norman, of, oklahoma, rap, university

The CineNation Podcast analyzes the histories and tropes of film genres and why we love them.

Categories: TV & Film

Tags: America, analysis, cinema, classic, Culture, directing, director, film, Filmmaking, Filmography, Genre, History, hollywood, Movies, screenwriting, script, subgenre, writing

The Time Bubble is the only podcast where the guests get to travel in time! If you could live any three days of your life over again, which would you choose? If you could be anyone else for a day, past or present, who would it be? And if you could go anywhere in space and time, where would you go?

Categories: Society & Culture

Tags: alternate universe, coming of age, History, Jason Ayres, nostalgia, reincarnation, science-fiction, time-travel, travel, Turn back time

My husband, the 8th Earl of Carnarvon, and I have the enormous privilege and pleasure of living in, and taking care of, my husband’s family home, Highclere Castle, which is better known to many people as the setting for the popular television programme “Downton Abbey”. Thanks to this series, our home has, over the last few years, become one of the most well-known and iconic houses in the world. My Podcast is my way of trying to share the stories and heritage of this wonderful building and estate, and all the people and animals that live and work here, so that you can get to know and love it as I do.

Categories: History, Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: art, community, Downton Abbey, gardens, hampshire, Highclere, History, Horticulture, hospitality, Lady Carnarvon, tourism, Visitor Attraction

Hairy is a podcast about scary real-life stories told by people who lived them.

Categories: History, Society & Culture, True Crime

Tags: combat, documentary, drama, History, Podcast, scary, thriller, true-crime, veterans, Vietnam, war

A 31-day journey with the heroes of the Reformation.

Categories: Religion & Spirituality

Tags: 163859, Biography, Desiring God, here we stand, History, John Piper, Luther, Martin Luther, Protestant, Reformation, theology

Music obsessive Joel Freimark (AKA thedailyguru) brings you in-depth music news & commentary, compelling artist interviews, and brutally honest music reviews spanning the entire spectrum and history of music.

Categories: Music

Tags: History, music, music commentary, music history, music news, New Music, News, reviews

Testimonies which crafted history. Second World War history

Categories: Education, History

Tags: 2ww, History, hitler, nazis, poland, second world war

Made You Think is a podcast by Nat Eliason, Neil Soni, and Adil Majid where the hosts and their guests examine ideas that, as the name suggests, make you think. Episodes will explore books, essays, podcasts, and anything else that warrants further discussion, teaches something useful, or at the very least, exercises our brain muscles.

Categories: Business, Society & Culture

Tags: Books, business, History, learning, Philosophy, Psychology

I think that if you want to understand the world we live in today, it helps to understand the important events of history. In this series, we are going to look at major events, people, documents, places, books, and ideas that have shaped history, and thus shaped our modern world.

Categories: Education, History

Tags: Education, History, history analysis, history narrative, modern world, perspective

Stable Scoop is the Horse Radio Network’s Equestrian Roundtable show tackling important horsey topics great and small. Hosted by Glenn the Geek, the panelists will be HRN Hosts, equine thought leaders and listeners from around the horse world. Every two weeks new panelists will bring topics to the table for discussion. The longest running podcast on the Horse Radio Network at over 12 years.

Categories: Kids & Family, Leisure, Sports

Tags: History, horse, pony, story

This subject explores Ancient Roman epic poetry, the literary genre which deals with grand mythical narratives involving heroes, gods, war, and love affairs. Epic was the most prestigious literary form in the ancient world. Roman poets adapted and developed Greek epic, particularly influenced by the Homeric Iliad and Odyssey. Roman epics similarly deal with divine and heroic material, but Roman poets also weave contemporary and topical themes into the mythical subject matter. The primary text for this subject is Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which tells many comic tales of the gods in love and encounters between heroes and monsters through a series of transformations. Epics which influenced Ovid will also be studied, such as the Greek epics of Homer, the early Roman epics of Naevius and Ennius, and Virgil’s Aeneid, which was the most significant influence on Ovid. We shall also consider Ovid as a major influence upon Western artists and writers, from Shakespeare to David Malouf.

Categories: Education

Tags: Aeneid, ancient history, History, La Trobe, poetry, rhiannon evans, roman epics, Roman history, roman poetry, Rome, university, virgil

Welcome to Improbable Walks, the travel podcast that brings you to the streets of Paris, wherever you are. Every episode, we discover a new street in the City of Light, strolling into the hidden history and stories of Paris, block by block. Your host is Canadian writer and long-time parisienne, Lisa Pasold. To support this podcast, please become a patron at Patreon

Categories: Arts, History, Society & Culture

Tags: armchair tour, armchair travel, City of Light, france, History, paris, parisian, storytelling, travel, walking