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The Rest Is History
The world’s most popular history podcast, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Join The Rest Is History Club (www.therestishistory.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. Here are some of our favourite episodes to get you started: WATERGATE/NIXON apple.co/3JrVl5h ALEXANDER THE GREAT apple.co/3Q4FaNk HARDCORE HISTORY'S DAN CARLIN apple.co/3vqkGa3 PUTIN & RUSSIA apple.co/3zMtLfX
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54. Cromwell and the Protectorate
Episode Date: May 20, 2021Did Oliver Cromwell save Britain from tyranny or was he a killjoy and military dictator? Paul Lay, author of Providence Lost: the Rise and Fall of Cro...
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53. Game of Thrones
Episode Date: May 17, 2021What, if anything, can we learn about medieval history from Game of Thrones? Or is George R R Martin’s hugely popular series of books, and the blockbu...
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51. Aztecs
Episode Date: May 13, 2021Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook talk to award-winning writer Camilla Townsend, author of the revelatory Fifth Sun. Professor Townsend used Nahuatl l...
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50. Teenagers
Episode Date: May 10, 2021“They’re wasting their money and having sex with each other.” Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explore the modern phenomenon of the teenager. Why do...
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49. Food Glorious Food
Episode Date: May 6, 2021Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook tuck into the history of British food with author Pen Vogler. They debate the origins of curry and debate our obsess...
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48. The French Revolution
Episode Date: May 3, 2021With France facing economic struggles and rising unemployment revolution was in the air. But who was in charge of the uprising and what did it achieve...
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47. The Seven Years' War
Episode Date: April 29, 2021Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by historian and broadcaster Dan Snow to discuss the biggest event of the 18th century - The Seven Years'...
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46. Culture Wars
Episode Date: April 26, 2021The battle lines are drawn as Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook get involved in this most timely of subjects. They discuss the historical significance...
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45. Top Ten Eunuchs
Episode Date: April 22, 2021Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook cross their legs and rank the best Eunuchs in history. From religious fanatics to operatic singers, they discuss the...
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42. The Wild West
Episode Date: April 12, 2021Podcasting’s answer to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - that’s Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook of course - explore the Wild West in both fact an...
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41. Persia
Episode Date: April 8, 2021It is one of the truly great civilisations in world history and yet the story of Persia has faded from view in the west. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandb...
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40. History as Entertainment
Episode Date: April 5, 2021From re-enactment to reinforcing capitalism through the board game Monopoly. Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland examine the history of games and the po...
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39. Elizabeth I
Episode Date: April 1, 2021She famously claimed to have the heart and stomach of a king and remains one of Britain’s most talked about monarchs, despite having reigned more than...
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38. Communism
Episode Date: March 29, 2021It was one of the great political ideologies of the 20th century, vying with capitalism for supremacy. Now communism has retreated from the political...
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37. Spies, with Ben MacIntyre
Episode Date: March 25, 2021History is littered with stories of espionage and its capacity to change the course of events. But does spying truly matter and has the human operativ...
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36. Our Greatest Prime Minister
Episode Date: March 23, 2021In our last episode we debated the merits of British Prime Ministers through the centuries. But who was voted the best of all by the public and why? D...
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35. The Prime Ministers’ World Cup
Episode Date: March 22, 2021Who is the greatest British Prime Minister of them all? The bookmakers have Winston Churchill favourite to lift the crown, but William Gladstone and M...