Pax Britannica is a narrative history podcast covering the empire upon which the sun never set. Shortlisted for the 2023 Independent Podcast Awards, Pax Britannica follows the events which created an empire that dominated the globe. Hosted by Dr Samuel Hume, a historian of British Imperial history, Pax Britannica aims to explain the rise and eventual fall of the largest empire in history. After all, how peaceful was the 'British Peace'? more

The podcast for military history geeks and people with a passion for good stories. We focus on British and Commonwealth military history from the birth of the redcoat era through to modern warfare. more

History is...a matter of fact or perspective? School Leader and author of the 'Stories to be tolled' poetic narratives, Tracy DW attempts to explore this question through her podcast series. By inviting you to share her learning journey through discussing evidence about a range of historical topics and inviting you the listener to reflect on potential answers, Tracy DW advocates a more global approach to understanding history and presents learning about Britain's colonial past in a way that is thought provoking and engaging. more

The Victorians were the first truly world wide, high speed, high tech civilisation, but they are often misunderstood. Your host, Chris Fernandez-Packham, will bust popular myths, cover events around the world, and focus on a people centric history. You will see how the Victorians shaped the world, changing it from the age of horse, musket, cannon and sail to the age of steam, rifle and iron in this monthly podcast with regular special episodes and bonus content. You will learn about Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens, Volcanoes, Famines, great art, geography and so much more.You will discover how the Victorians changed our landscapes, and mastered new energy forms that have led us to move from being a part of the natural world to shapers of it. You will learn how the modern world was created by the actions of the Victorians. You will learn how the Victorians gave birth to our modern understanding of weather, climate, history and even time and space. more

Throughout its reign, the British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Today the Empire's loot sits in museums, galleries, private collections and burial sites with polite plaques. But its history is often messier than the plaques suggest.In each episode of this global smash hit podcast, Walkley award-winning journalist, author and genetic potluck, Marc Fennell, takes you on the wild, evocative, sometimes funny, often tragic adventure of how these stolen treasures got to where they live today. These objects will ultimately help us see the modern world — and ourselves — in a different light.This is a co-production between the ABC and CBC Canada. more

The Sun Never Set on the British Empire... until it did. Dr Samuel Hume explores the history of Indian Independence with captivating narrative and joined by expert guests. If you love learning about the past, and discovering why the world is the way it is, then listen to Winds of Change. more

From workhouse girls to colonial Governors, and from Tangiers to Tasmania, Kate O'Malley and Abie Philbin Bowman uncover the fascinating stories of Irish people whose lives were shaped by their service in, or agitation against, the British Empire. more

Bring Out Your Dead: Latin America vs. the British Empire, the only podcast telling the complex history of British Imperialism in Latin America. Join Gruff and Chris in an auditory picture painting of a forgotten history. In this podcast we will unpack the deep-rooted history of European colonialists and resistance figures as they fight for control and influence across South and Central America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

In this series we focus on Britain's colonial past and consider whether the country might be ready for a Truth And Reconciliation Commission, as a way to unite us and improve our relationship to the wider world.We hear deeply personal stories that look at both the risks and healing potential of facing the past, exposing hidden histories and finally hearing the truth. Drawing on transformative justice models from around the world, and most recently in Europe, we consider how these could be adapted to fit Britain's history of Empire. We encourage constructive conversations on how and where we should start, when covering several hundred years of history, on an empire that spread across the world.We interview mediators, International UN lawyers, TRC Commissioners and investigators, human rights activists, victims, perpetrators, 'Heirs of Slavery' historians, authors, artists, and psychotherapists. We talk to the descendants of both those that have benefited and others that have suffered from the enduring legacy of the Empire. Hearing new evidence recently uncovered in the dusty attics of ancient British homes. We widen the narrative, bringing back little known stories from across Britain's former colonies, and explore how these often conflicting narratives can be reconciled with the official story that Britain holds. We explore whether transformation is possible, discussing how to turn the page, correct the record and speak truth to power. We also hear remarkable stories of reconciliation, restitution and gestures of repair, and consider the arguments for reparations, with creative solutions for how these might be delivered.The podcasts are also a call for action, There is a link below to the global petition calling for an official British TRC to be established, If you agree please sign and share .https://chng.it/mjksWP7bBB Your host is Tamara Gordon. In 1996  she made a multiple award winning film on South Africa's Truth and reconciliation Commission for the BBC. Returning to the UK she held the hope that one day Britain might be courageous enough to attempt the same. She also returned to embark on her own personal search for truth to find her birth father, after being interracially adopted into Britain as a baby. However what she uncovered was a conflicted family story of Empire, which left her painfully divided. Her ancestors had both benefitted and been oppressed by this past that they shared. Having seen what was possible in South Africa she was hopeful they could reconcile their past in the present, bringing both sides of her family back together, centuries on. The story of which is also told across this series. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

A podcast about the convicts that were transported to Australia. Each episode offers a glimpse into life as a convict and a broader insight into the convict system. Presented by Jennifer Twemlow, author of 'Convict Sydney: the real-life stories of 32 prisoners'. more

With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of the French--Calcutta at the mercy of the Nabob of Bengal--and English influence apparently at the point of extinction in India--and which ended in the final triumph of the English, both in Bengal and Madras. There were yet great battles to be fought, great efforts to be made, before the vast Empire of India fell altogether into British hands; but these were but the sequel of the events described. (Summary by G. A. Henty) more

Historian Dan Snow investigates the 'how' and 'why' of history's defining moments. From the Colosseum of Ancient Rome and the battlefields of Waterloo to the tomb of Tutankhamun, Dan journeys across the globe to share the greatest stories from the past that help us understand the present. New episodes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. You can get in touch with us at ds.hh@historyhit.com A podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts The Ancients, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war through the lives of people who experienced it. For many modern citizens of the United States, 'the cause of America' that gave birth to a new nation in 1776 and the heroic stories we tell ourselves about its founding remains 'in great measure the cause of all mankind.' But for the people who lived through it, the revolutionary era upended their lives in ways they could have never imagined. The crisis that engulfed the Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century inspired British Americans, Indigenous nations, enslaved Africans and African Americans, Europeans, and other peoples to question their loyalties, challenge authority, seek freedom, and resist revolutionary change. Worlds Turned Upside Down is narrated and written by Dr. Jim Ambuske. more

'The best history podcast I've heard in years.' - The Sunday Times 'Three million is great radio... and needs to be heard.' - The Observer. During the Second World War, at least three million Indian people, who were British subjects, died in the Bengal Famine. It was one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side. But there is no memorial to them anywhere in the world - not even a plaque. Can three million people disappear from public memory? From the award-winning creator and presenter of Partition Voices and Three Pounds in My Pocket, this is the story of the 1943 Bengal Famine in British India - the forgotten story of World War Two. For the first time it is told by those who were there - farmers and fishermen, artists and writers, colonial British and everyday citizens. Nearly all of the testimony in the series has never been broadcast before. Eighty years on, those who lived through it are a vanishing generation. Time is running out to record their memories. more

Le podcast sur la rencontre des deux mondes! Venez découvrir l'histoire de la colonisation Européenne en Orient, Vasco de Gama, la British East India Company, les missionnaires français et plus encore! more

Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanelles in March, 1915, he had visions of 'trekking up the Gallipoli Peninsula with the Navy bombarding a way for us up the Straits and along the coast-line of the Sea of Marmora, until after a brief campaign we entered triumphantly Constantinople, there to meet the Russian Army, which would link up with ourselves to form part of a great chain encircling and throttling the Central Empires. . . We little appreciated the difficulties of the task,' he continues, in potent understatement.Gillam's charge was shepherding supplies--food and munitions--from beach depots to the trenches for a brigade of 4000 men. Since it was his first experience with 'real war,' he decided to keep a diary, which he did from the day he landed at Gallipoli (April 25, 1915) until he was evacuated at the end of the campaign in January 1916. He aptly states in the preface to the published version of his diary: 'those who desire to survey the whole amazing Gallipoli campaign in perspective must look elsewhere than in these pages. Their sole object was to record the personal impressions, feeling, and doings from day to day of one supply officer to a Division whose gallantry in that campaign well earned for it the epithet 'Immortal.'As the campaign intensifies, Gillam's entries mature. Early on (May 30), a sample entry: 'This afternoon I ride . . . to Morto Bay, and on the way have a delightful cross-country canter. I have difficulty, though, in making my mare jump trenches. She jumped hurdles at Warwick race-course like a bird.' A month later, on June 30, 'The smell of dead bodies is at times almost unbearable in the trenches, and chloride of lime is thrown over them. I know of no more sickly smell than chloride of lime with the smell of a dead body blended in.' Another month, and respect for the Turks, and also for the rugged terrain of the peninsula is evident (August 29): 'Behind me, purple Turkish hills, every point of which is held by the enemy. Then in between our line and the hills the scrubby low-lying country. . . I look at it hopelessly--for I know now, as we all do, that the conquest of the Peninsula is more than we can hope for. All that is left to us is to hang on day by day. . . Death in various forms walks with us always . . .'Today, the Turkish Government maintains a war memorial and cemeteries at the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park. Memories are very much alive there. Preserved trenches and the sad graves of many, many soldiers from both sides of the conflict are made especially poignant by the beauty of the setting-- the sea and high hills beyond.(Summary by Sue Anderson) more

Poppy and Joe are in the attic with their Grandpa, looking inside his Memory Box.Grandpa shows them his collection of memorabilia from the First World War, and remembers those in the army, navy and airforce that served Britain. more

Explore the fascinating rise of the British Empire at its zenith, the largest empire in history. This concise volume delves into its evolution during the long 18th century, from 1714 through the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars. It begins with the prosperity fostered by Sir Robert Walpoles ministry (1721-1742) and follows the Empires expansion through the military prowess of Lord Clive in India. Under the dynamic leadership of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, the British triumphed in the Seven Years War (1756-1763) and, despite the challenges posed by the loss of American colonies and years of warfare with France, the British navy emerged as the sovereign force of the seas. By the early 19th century, the Empire was a vast dominion upon which the sun never set. (Summary by Pamela Nagami, M.D.) more