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Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

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Historical Blindness is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and misconceptions. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, baffling mysteries and unreliable historiography, host Nathaniel Lloyd searches for insights into modern religious belief and political culture.
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We believe that when people think historically, they are engaging in a disciplined way of thinking about the world and its past. We believe it gives thinkers a knack for recognizing nonsense; and that it cultivates not only intellectual curiosity and rigor, but also intellectual humility. Join Al Zambone, author of Daniel Morgan: A Revolutionary Life, as he talks with historians and other professionals who cultivate the craft of historical thinking.
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On Buried Bones, journalist Kate Winkler Dawson and retired investigator Paul Holes dissect some of history’s most compelling true crime cases from centuries ago. Together, they explore these very old cases through a 21st century lens. With their years of expertise and knowledge of modern forensics, they reflect on how far science has come and bring new insight to old mysteries. Together, Kate and Paul have examined many cases including the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the first time fing ...
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Historically High

Historically High

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A dive into historical topics from an elevated perspective. New episodes will be out every Wednesday. Find us on our socials:@Historicallyhi on Twitter @historicallyhighpod on Instagram. Don't forget to like, rate, subscribe, and let your friends know what they are missing.
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Historical Homos

Sebastian Hendra

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The world's only no-fucks-given guide to LGBTQ+ history. Join Bash and his brilliant guests each week as they wrench The Gayest Stories Never Told from history's deepest, darkest closets. Sign up on our website, and follow us on Instagram @historical.homos and TikTok @historicalhomos
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The Prosecutors

PodcastOne

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A true crime podcast with a different point of view. Every week, Alice and Brett bring their unique perspective as prosecutors to the most famous cold case mysteries of all time. Murder, mayhem, disappearances, you name it. If it's true crime, they're on the case. Custom case art by Hannah Hill. https://instagram.com/serious_moonlite?igshid=lhy8ijowoc9p
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Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

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Historic Royal Palaces are a team of people who love and look after six of the most wonderful palaces in the world. This fortnightly podcast brings you the history and stories of those palaces. You'll hear from our experts and the people who bring our palaces to life, as we create space to explore how history moves us, telling stories about the monarchs you know, and uncovering the lives and histories of the people you don't. Just like our palaces, this podcast is a mix of old and new. Each ...
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Historical Friction

Alice Procter, Abigail Fine, Helen Victoria Murray

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Historical Friction is a podcast about storytelling, pop culture, the past, and why we reenact it. Also sometimes bad wigs. Created by Alice Procter with Abigail Fine and Helen Victoria Murray.
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Historic Sermons

Empire of the Son

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A podcast where historic Christian sermons are brought back to life through clear, modern audio readings. Each sermon is read directly from original documents by Matthew Fisher, including Victorian Anglo-Catholic mission sermons, urban slum preaching, evangelical devotional texts, and rare parish addresses. These are primary sources—experienced as they would have sounded when first delivered
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History Notes

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

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Origins: Current Events In Historical Perspective presents short audio discussions of the historical context of some of today's most important issues. Check out origins.osu.edu for the written versions of these podcasts and more!
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Find your next historical romance obsession while getting to know the author, too! Each guest author reads an excerpt of their book, then chats with host Katherine Grant. In the time it takes you to drink your morning coffee, you can find a new author for your reading list! Hosted by award-winning historical romance author Katherine Grant
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True Crime of the Historical Kind Podcast

A True Crime Follower with a History Degree

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Every Friday, True Crime of the Historical Kind returns to the scene of the crime... We uncover the deeper story. The world that shaped the violence, and the humans that played a hand history's tragedies. Because the past may be distant, but human nature rarely is.
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Welcome to News of the Times! Step into the shadowed alleyways and gaslit parlours of the 18th and 19th centuries with News of the Times — a meticulously curated journey through historical crime. Each episode draws from authentic reports and court records, bringing you the darkly fascinating tales that gripped Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Britain. With over 500 episodes and counting, we explore true accounts of mischief, murder, and mayhem from days gone by — all delivered with a wry n ...
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Racing Back

Julian Ryder And Nick Harris

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Join legendary commentators Julian Ryder and Nick Harris as they relive a golden age of Motorcycle racing. From a time of pudding basin helmets, black leathers, push starts, frightening road circuits and wild paddock parties, to airbags, on board cameras, 225 mph plus four-strokes and floodlit circuits. From Hailwood to Rossi, Sheene to Marquez, Norton to Ducati.
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Canada’s history is full of triumphs, tensions, and turning points. Yet too often, it’s reduced to headlines or overshadowed by present-day debates. History Matters was created to give space for deeper conversations — ones that connect the past to the present, and help us see why context matters more than ever.
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For the Ages: A History Podcast

The New York Historical

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Explore the rich and complex history of the United States and beyond. Produced by The New York Historical, host David M. Rubenstein engages the nation’s foremost historians and creative thinkers on a wide range of topics, including presidential biography, the nation’s founding, and the people who have shaped the American story. Learn more at nyhistory.org.
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Harlem Queen

Yhane Washington Smith

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"Harlem Queen" is a Black historical fiction audio drama based on the life and times of Black, woman, "gangster" Madame Stephanie St. Clair during the Harlem Renaissance (the story takes place around 1926-32). Madame St. Clair had a powerful impact on building the Harlem community underground and aboveground and defining the Harlem Renaissance. Our goal is for you to be entertained, educated, empowered and uplifted after hearing this amazing story! Written and independently produced by Yhane ...
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History Declassified goes beyond the headlines and into the overlooked chapters of the past. From forgotten operations to untold decisions that shaped the modern world, we uncover the stories left out of the textbooks — thoughtfully, factually, and in full context. A podcast from Option 3 Media.
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Historical Jesus

Historical Jesus

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Monumental saga of the life and times of Galilean, Jesus of Nazareth, as well as the faith, religion, and church founded to honor and disseminate his acts and teachings. Join host Mark Vinet on this exciting and fascinating journey through time exploring and focusing on the interesting, compelling, wonderful, tragic, intriguing, and inspiring stories of the Bible and the many great works of Christian theology, literature, architecture, music, and art inspired by the words and deeds of Jesus ...
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The White House 1600 Sessions

The White House Historical Association

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The White House Historical Association presents The 1600 Sessions, a podcast that explores the history, untold stories and personal accounts of America's most iconic residence and office – The White House.
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Long-time besties, and history and film enthusiasts, Brick and Birdy bring you tantalizing facts and inaccuracy drama as they explore a new period film each episode. Listen in as they discuss, and sometimes rage, about the making of the film, the history the film is set against, and all other relevant, and maybe not so relevant, matters as they see fit. You could almost say, they’ll be in their period.
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Loreplay

Dayna Pereira

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Dayna Pereira is the sarcastic solo host of Loreplay, serving up paranormal stories, haunted history, creepy folklore, and weird legends with a playful twist. Equal parts storyteller and skeptic, she blends dark humor, spooky vibes, and a love for the bizarre into binge-worthy episodes for fans of ghost stories, urban legends, and true crime with a paranormal twist.
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Hometown History

Shane Waters

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Discover forgotten stories from small-town America that never made it into history books. Hometown History is the podcast uncovering hidden American history—overlooked events, local mysteries, and untold tragedies from communities across the nation. Every week, meticulous research brings pre-2000 small-town stories to life in 20-minute episodes. From forgotten disasters to local legends, hidden chapters to pivotal moments, each episode explores a different town's overlooked history. Perfect ...
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You Are There

Dennis Humphrey

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You Are There , taking you back to the early days of radio and the great events of world history told as if a reporter was reporting from the event, and you are there.
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Step into the shadows with Steph and Jill, where paranormal history meets hilarious banter. Each episode, we discuss the history of how places came to be, the spirits said to linger there, and the creepy experiences from people. But don’t worry… we keep it light with our offbeat humor and playful banter, making sure things never get too scary. It’s the perfect mix of eerie and entertaining.
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With an avid interest in true crime I want to share the stories from my home country of Ireland with you. Let's visit the darker side of the Emerald Isle together. https://facebook.com/irelandcrimesandmysteries https://www.instagram.com/irelandcrimesandmysteries https://twitter.com/IrelandCrimes https://www.tiktok.com/@nuleseire
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The Sagadahoc Settlement—also known as the Popham Colony—was established in 1607 and was located in the present-day town of Phippsburg, Maine, near the mouth of the Kennebec River. It was founded a few months after its rival, the colony at Jamestown. The Popham Colony was the second settlement in the region that would eventually become known as New…
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Brick and Birdy have sped back to the French Renaissance and try to figure out what's real and what's Fairy-tales in the cult classic, semi-historical, and forever iconic Ever After: A Cinderella Story from 1998. In fact, they get so lost in the weeds and partying with Leonardo da Vinci that we've had make an intermission, so this PART TWO, so if y…
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In the aftermath of the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, the violence faded from view...but the consequences did not. In Part III, we examine what followed the destruction of the Baker–Fancher party in southern Utah Territory. Tracing the fate of the surviving children, the immediate efforts to manage the massacre narrative, and the long delay be…
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The Wheelbarrow Murder: The Case That Led to Hereford’s Last Execution (1903)News of the Times | Episode 599 | 1903#HistoricalTrueCrime #VictorianCrime #EdwardianHistory #TrueCrimeUK #NewsOfTheTimesTonight’s episode opens our Firsts and Lasts of January series with a case that shook rural Herefordshire — and ended with the final execution ever carr…
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Archaeology can offer us new discoveries into the Tower of London's medieval past, as well as insights into the lives of the community that lived and worked there. In 2019, and in the summer of 2025, we undertook one of the most important excavations at the Tower for a generation, just outside the Chapel of St Peter Ad Vincula. Now for the first ti…
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April 19, 1775. The first shots of the American Revolution echoed across Lexington Green—but the story didn’t end there. In this cinematic episode of Historical USA, historian Lisa Weakland uncovers the powerful, emotional, and often overlooked moment known as Parker’s Revenge—when Captain John Parker, dying of tuberculosis, led the men of Lexingto…
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In this week's episode, Paul and Kate head to 1914 San Antonio, Texas where a wealthy man's wife has an accident and becomes bedridden. After hiring nurses and caregivers, a murder takes place that has multiple suspects pointing fingers. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4buCoMc Se…
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We here at Historically High will admit, we have been a little critical of the French. I mean historically, like the British they've started a lotta shit. WW2 was a different scenario. Germany steam rolled what was supposed to be the most powerful army in Europe at the time. France sought a way to try and preserve some semblance of itself by signin…
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As we head into the new year, I'm sharing a little of what you can expect from the Historical Romance Sampler! Look forward to new episodes starting in February, more updates on book bans in the USA, and a new game! Thank you so much to everyone who has listened to the podcast so far. I'm celebrating over 13,000 downloads on podcast apps and 36,000…
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To access the extended version of this episode, join our Patreon. Our community awaits with legs open and lips parted 🤤 www.patreon.com/historicalhomos – Do all Christians hate gays? Amazingly: no. Despite how annoying we all are. In fact, millions and millions of Christians ARE themselves...very gay. So why is it that we automatically associate Ch…
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In this episode of the Canadian Institute for Historical Education podcast, host Allan Williams speaks with distinguished historian Nicholas Rogers, Research Professor Emeritus at York University and author of numerous works on eighteenth-century Britain and the Atlantic world. The conversation centers on Rogers’s recent article in the Canadian His…
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In this episode of Historically Thinking, we begin not with a historian’s voice, but with the voice of a seventeenth-century woman. Lady Frances Culpeper Berkeley—born in England, twice widowed, and married in 1670 to Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia—speaks from the midst of crisis. Jamestown has burned. Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion has fr…
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In my annual holiday special for 2025, I examine discrepancies in the gospels relating to Jesus's lineage and parentage, as well as the gospel authors' use of common biblical tropes, their incorporation of prophecy and philosophy, and early church apologists' embrace of comparisons between Christ and pagan mythology, to demonstrate that, though Jes…
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A Yuletide treat! This year, we at Historical Friction have plenty of cheeses for you meeces, as Alice, Helen, and Abigail finally discuss The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992). Directed by Brian Henson, this film stars Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, Kermit the Frog as Bob Cratchit, a few other humans, and the entire Muppet cast! From how the Muppe…
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George Whitefield — the famous Calvinistic Methodist preacher of the Evangelical Revival — takes us back to Genesis 3:15: the first promise of a Saviour, spoken in the shadow of the Fall, before the Bible has even left Eden. In this sermon, Whitefield traces the “enmity” God places between the serpent and the woman, and between their two seeds — an…
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Jane Austen Birthday CelebrationThe Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 331 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: The social structures in Jane Austen’s novels in which same-sex relationships could develop A tour through the sapphic potential in each of Austen’s works A survey of Austen-inspired sapphic historical fiction, dem…
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Because the American Revolution was being fought on American soil, the soldier’s family was often involved in the war in some way, too – no matter if they were Patriots or Loyalists. Sometimes this took the form of sons and fathers fighting in battles side by side or in separate areas. Sometimes, this meant that wives followed their husbands and ca…
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