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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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83. The Berlin Wall
Episode Date: August 5, 202160 years ago this month, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began building a barrier that divided the city of Berlin. It stood until 1989 a...
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82. Sparta
Episode Date: August 2, 2021What does it mean to be a Spartan? How much of this Spartan image is real and how much is based on projections and prejudices of others? Tom and Domi...
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81. Modern Olympics - Part 2
Episode Date: July 30, 2021Tom and Dominic continue their journey through the history of the Olympics, turning their attention from post-war to the present day. They discuss C...
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80. Modern Olympics - Part 1
Episode Date: July 29, 2021In 1896 the Olympic Games were reborn in Athens. Here we look at the forgotten tales and little known facts from the start of the modern Olympics thro...
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79. Ancient Olympics
Episode Date: July 26, 2021With the Games underway in Tokyo, Tom and Dominic look back to the Ancient Olympics. They discuss the heroic but incredibly violent stories of the Gre...
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78. Statues: Parliament Square
Episode Date: July 22, 2021Statues: Parliament Square In the final part of their epic trilogy, Tom and Dominic arrive at Parliament Square to explore the statues of world leade...
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77. Statues: Whitehall
Episode Date: July 20, 2021Tom and Dominic continue their tour of London’s statues, arriving in Whitehall. War leaders, useless royals and courtesans all feature. A Goalhanger...
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76. Statues: Trafalgar Square
Episode Date: July 19, 2021In the first of a three part series Tom and Dominic take a walking tour of central London to examine the statues of Trafalgar Square and explore the s...
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75. The East India Company
Episode Date: July 15, 2021Tom and Dominic are joined by historian William Dalrymple to tell the fascinating and shocking story of the East India Company in the 18th century. Ho...
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74. The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Episode Date: July 12, 2021Henry VIII had the most notorious marital relations of any king in history. Tom and Dominic discuss the six women who became his queen. How did they i...
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73. England v Italy
Episode Date: July 9, 2021No country has enjoyed a greater influence on the English than Italy. Ahead of the European Championship final, Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland expl...
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72. The Vietnam War
Episode Date: July 8, 2021No war has divided public opinion more than the conflict in Vietnam. Andrew Preston, Cambridge University Professor of American History, joins Dominic...
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71. England v Denmark
Episode Date: July 6, 2021Ahead of the two countries’ encounter at Wembley, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Anglo-Danish history through the ages. Vikings, the destru...
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70. Children’s History
Episode Date: July 5, 2021Tom and Dominic discuss how to write history books for kids. What topics are they interested in? What will they find boring? How much detail is accept...
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69. England v Ukraine
Episode Date: July 2, 2021On the eve of a huge sporting encounter in Rome between the English and Ukrainian football teams, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the histor...
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68. The British Empire
Episode Date: July 1, 2021The British Empire: good, bad or neither? And how does its legacy shape us today? Journalist Sathnam Sanghera, author of “Empireland”, joins Tom Holla...
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67. Anglo-German Relations
Episode Date: June 28, 2021With England and Germany set to do sporting battle once again, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the historical events which have shaped the r...
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66. Ghosts
Episode Date: June 24, 2021Settle down by the fire and prepare to be haunted. Roger Clarke, author of A Natural History of Ghosts, joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to won...
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65. A Very British Scandal
Episode Date: June 21, 2021Jeremy Thorpe was the most flamboyant politician of his day. Leader of the Liberal Party for nine years he was tried at the Old Bailey for conspiracy...