History Podcasts

Bedside Rounds

86 episodes - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 410 ratings
Bedside Rounds is a storytelling podcast about medical history and medicine’s intersections with society and culture. Host Adam Rodman seeks to tell a few of these weird, wonderful, and intensely ...

Origin Stories

84 episodes - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 403 ratings
Explore human evolution one story at a time. This award-winning show blends storytelling with science that will change your understanding of who we are.

Historium

85 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 399 ratings
Did you ever fall asleep in history class? You’re not alone. History can be boring when focusing on only dates and statistics. Historium seeks to find the narrative of history in some of the most u...

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

141 episodes - Latest episode: 1 day ago - ★★★★★ - 378 ratings
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. Y...

Jump Street Podcast

194 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 346 ratings
Jump Street is a skating podcast about rollerblading and rollerbladers talking about their history and what is going on now in the inline/ aggressive blading world.

Variant: The Podcast

153 episodes - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 345 ratings
Geek fandom is a vast and constantly growing space, and Variant covers nearly all of it. From the perspective of hosts Arris Quinones and Tim Connolly, this weekly Podcast talks Comics, Movies, TV,...

Let's Find Out

124 episodes - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★★ - 344 ratings
Let's Find Out ASMR is here to help you nod off to something calm and interesting. Science, Philosophy, History, Maths... or personally interesting themes in each episode. ASMR just means content ...

Amazing War Stories

17 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 330 ratings
In this 3D audio series, ex-British Paratrooper and history fanatic Bruce Crompton narrates incredible tales of bravery from conflicts throughout the ages to support military institutions. All arou...

Cultivating Place

432 episodes - Latest episode: about 13 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 314 ratings
Gardens are more than collections of plants. Gardens and Gardeners are intersectional spaces and agents for positive change in our world. Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the...

Mass for Shut-ins: The Gin and Tacos Podcast

91 episodes - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 292 ratings
An unholy amalgam of politics, historical anecdotes, cocktail recipes, performances by talented people, and interviews with people who are doing interesting things with their lives.

Reverie True Crime

535 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 280 ratings
Reverie means to daydream but sometimes when we zone out, our anxiety and intrusive thoughts can creep in. We might start to think about our anxieties and worst fears. Sometimes we get caught up in...

Americana Podcast

48 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 264 ratings
Americana Podcast: The 51st State is a platform dedicated to sharing and expanding on the Americana genre's roots, reach, and definition. Each episode is told from the point of view of the musician...

Celtic Myths and Legends Podcast

42 episodes - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 263 ratings
A podcast focused on the myths, legends and folkloric creatures of the 6 Celtic Nations; Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany and the Isle of Man.

SPYCRAFT 101

223 episodes - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 250 ratings
Welcome to your clandestine classroom.

Serial Chillers Podcast

260 episodes - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 243 ratings
Each week I sit down with old friends, new friends, good friends and bad friends to tell them a story of a infamous serial killer. Throughout the show guests chime in with stories of their own that...

Service On Celluloid

85 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 236 ratings
A podcast from The National WWII Museum analyzing how World War II has been depicted on film.

L.A. Meekly: A Los Angeles History Podcast

189 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 213 ratings
L.A. Meekly is a monthly comedy podcast about Los Angeles history put out by comedians Greg Gonzalez and Daniel Zafran that battles the idea that LA has no history by delving in the weird, unbeliev...

Groundings

53 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 211 ratings
Groundings is a place where organizing, theory, and history come in contact with dialogue, experience, and storytelling. It's where the past meets the present, and political education happens. The ...

Self Evident: Asian America's Stories

66 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 206 ratings
We tell Asian America's stories to go beyond being seen. As people of all backgrounds reckon with complex legacies of race, power, culture, and identity and ask themselves, “Where do I stand?” Sel...

Rebuilding The Renaissance

279 episodes - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 202 ratings
This podcast will explore the development of the art, architecture, culture and history in Italy, from ancient Roman times through the Renaissance. Listeners will develop an understanding of Italy’...

Good Nightmare

77 episodes - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 199 ratings
A podcast about all things strange and unusual. Historical true crimes, paranormal and dark fairy tale origins. Hosted by Sarah.

Ottoman History Podcast

313 episodes - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★★ - 195 ratings
Interviews with historians about the history of the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Visit https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/ for hundreds more archived episodes.

It Happened In Hollywood

57 episodes - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★ - 193 ratings
On this podcast, Seth Abramovitch, senior writer at The Hollywood Reporter, takes you behind the scenes of the indelible pop culture moments that shaped Hollywood history — with special guests who ...

Coffee With My Ma

27 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 193 ratings
My radical activist mother Kahentinetha Horn tells me stories of her very long adventurous life, always with the sense of humour that carried herthrough.

Music Student 101

136 episodes - Latest episode: 28 days ago - ★★★★★ - 189 ratings
We are musicians, composers, engineers, teachers and students alike. The path of a musician can be challenging and uncertain but it can also be enriching and great fun! This is the path we chose ...

Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren and Barry

294 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 180 ratings
Breaking Kayfabe with Bowdren and Barry

2 Dudes and a NES: A Nintendo Podcast

184 episodes - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 175 ratings
We're 2 dudes and a NES. We record game by game podcasts about the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Fighting Through WWII Stories & History

160 episodes - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 174 ratings
Dunkirk, D-Day, North Africa, Sicily, Italy, Lancasters, POWs. Second World War Stories, Memoirs & interviews - Britain, USA, Australia, Canada … all the forces … WW2. ... Over 500 5-star ratings...

True Tales From Old Houses

130 episodes - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 173 ratings
True Tales From Old Houses is a light-hearted, entertaining, and educational show for lovers of old houses and buildings, DIYers, history buffs, and restoration and preservation junkies. Available...

Unsinkable: The Titanic Podcast

131 episodes - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★★ - 164 ratings
Welcome to Unsinkable: The Titanic Podcast, a comprehensive look at the ship, its crew + passengers, the art it has inspired, and the cultural history of its legacy (which is, of course, absolutely...