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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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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...
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34. St Cuthbert’s Day
Episode Date: March 20, 2021March 20th marks the annual Feast day of the Northumbrian Saint Cuthbert. But why should we care about this largely forgotten figure from the 7th cent...
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33. The Beautiful Game
Episode Date: March 18, 2021It has been described as the most universal cultural mode there has ever been, but is football a worthwhile object of study for historians? Sports jou...
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32. What if?
Episode Date: March 15, 2021Counterfactuals are the great what ifs of history. Imagine the Nazis winning World War 2, or the Roman Empire never falling. Is this a valid form of h...
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31. The Second Reich
Episode Date: March 11, 2021It emerged from the Prussian victory over France in 1870 and was destroyed by the First World War less than fifty years later. German historian Katja...
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30. A Royal Row
Episode Date: March 9, 2021With the British monarchy under intense scrutiny following an interview with Harry and Meghan conducted by Oprah Winfrey, Tom Holland and Dominic Sand...
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29. Americanisation
Episode Date: March 8, 2021Has America taken over the world? Did the dollar and Hollywood enable the US to replace the British empire as the dominant international influencer? A...
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28. The Kings of Comedy
Episode Date: March 4, 2021Comedian Al Murray joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to discuss the history of comedy as well as the funny side of history. Has comedy changed t...
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27. Tutankhamun
Episode Date: March 1, 2021Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook ask why Tutankhamun remains the best known of the Egyptian pharaohs. They examine the discovery of the tomb by Howar...
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26. Witches
Episode Date: February 25, 2021Suzannah Lipscomb joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to discuss the history of witches and witchcraft. Why did society see witches as a threat an...
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25. Empires
Episode Date: February 22, 2021Is the age of empires over? And are they always a bad thing? Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland explore empires through history, examining the modern a...
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24. Sex in the City
Episode Date: February 18, 2021Everything you wanted to know about sex in the 18th and 19th Century but were afraid to ask. Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Covent Garden Ladies and...