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Take a deep dive into History’s biggest moments with Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook. Explore the stories of History’s most brutal rulers, deadly battles, and world-changing events. From the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the Nazi conquest of Europe, and Hitler’s evil master plan for world domination, to the French Revolution, the sinking of the Titanic, or the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Tom and Dominic bring the past to life with gripping storytelling and expert analysis, as they unpack the high-drama moments that shaped our world. Join The Rest Is History Club: Unlock the...

The eighth book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.

History is full of villains, catastrophes, and world-changing turning points — and Dr. Nathan Pali is here to unpack all of it. Whether it's the brutal rulers who bent nations to their will, Hitler's chilling blueprint for world domination, the drama of the French Revolution, or the tragic sinking of the Titanic, Dr. Nate takes you straight to the heart of the action with expert insight and storytelling that makes the past feel anything but distant.

The Rest is History podcast is place we explore the Ottomans, Persians, and the grim realities of the slave trade. It is a study of how greed, ego, and gunpowder reshaped the globe. They peel back the layers of colonial myths to reveal the human stories underneath, making complex geopolitical shifts feel like a gripping conversation between friends rather than a lecture.

And the Rest Is History takes listeners on a traveling circus from Paris to Beirut, Baghdad, and beyond, introducing them to spies and terrorists, arms dealers and crooks, and along the way reveals a few surprises about the secret underbelly of recent history you won’t find in WikiLeaks. This book pinpoints precisely when the era of “fake news” actually began in America, and will change the way you think about journalism and journalists.

History is full of villains, catastrophes, and world-changing turning points — and Dr. Nathan Pali is here to unpack all of it. Whether it's the brutal rulers who bent nations to their will, Hitler's chilling blueprint for world domination, the drama of the French Revolution, or the tragic sinking of the Titanic, Nate takes you straight to the heart of the action with expert insight and storytelling that makes the past feel anything but distant.

Enter the secretive world of spies, espionage, and covert operations. Hosted by former CIA analyst turned spy novelist, David McCloskey, and veteran security correspondent, Gordon Corera, this podcast unravels real-life spy stories, intelligence secrets, and the hidden power struggles shaping global events. From Cold War espionage to modern-day intelligence agencies like the CIA, MI6, and Mossad, explore the world of double agents, classified missions, and the shadowy figures who operate in them. Whether you're a true crime addict, a thriller fan, or fascinated by spy stories, this is the ...

What if you could stand where history happened and hear the full story? Historian Dr. Nathan Pali does exactly that — travelling the world to bring history's greatest moments to life. From the Colosseum in Rome and the Great Wall of China, to the battlefields of Waterloo and the legendary Tomb of Tutankhamun, Nate explores the real people, places, and events behind the moments that shaped our world.

The Rest Is Noise takes the listener inside the labyrinth of modern music, from turn-of-the-century Vienna to downtown New York in the '60s and '70s. We meet the maverick personalities and follow the rise of mass culture on this sweeping tour of 20th-century history through its music.

In this sound bath experience, renowned sound therapist, meditation teacher, and author Sara Auster harnesses the power of peaceful sounds and quiet guidance to help calm your mind and relax your body before bed. Linger softly in the pre-slumber state as Sara helps you access a gentle transition into restful sleep. She will guide your breathing while playing a variety of soothing, overtone-emitting instruments, including tuning forks, crystal singing bowls, and more. Sara has specially designed these recordings with the intention for rest and, ultimately, sleep.

History left its mark on every corner of the world — and historian Dr. Nathan Pali is going to find it. From the towering grandeur of the Great Wall of China to the haunting silence of Tutankhamun's tomb, from the Colosseum's roaring past to the blood-soaked fields of Waterloo, Nate travels to the places where history actually happened. On location across the globe, he unpacks the stories of the battles, the monuments, the heroes and the villains that built the world we live in today.

The Rest Is Crime is a true crime and history podcast about the murders, conspiracies, and betrayals history usually leaves out.History remembers victories, emperors, and turning points. This podcast focuses on everything else—the crimes, cover-ups, scandals, and acts of violence that quietly shaped civilizations.Each episode uncovers a real case from ancient history, telling the full story behind historical murders, political assassinations, poison plots, court conspiracies, and betrayals from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Persia, China, and beyond. These are not legends or rumors—they are ...

Highlighting the eclectic legacy of Shifty Records, South Africa's fiercely independent cult record label operating through the dark days of apartheid into the democratic era. Presented by Shifty founding members Warrick Sony and Lloyd Ross, each episode features a classic album or noteworthy artist from the Shifty catalogue.

A podcast to talk about the intersection of three of my favorite things: hauntings, history…and theatre. Each month, I will talk to the people who work at and caretake each state's most haunted theatre spaces. I’ll get the stories behind the curtains about the legends and the lore. And then I’ll investigate each location with the people who the building knows, in order to learn more about the who and the why behind each haunt.

We spend a third of our lives in bed, but how much do we really understand about what happens when we go to sleep? What's the right amount? Why do we experience jet lag? Is snoring normal? Enter Dr. Meir Kryger, a world authority on the science of sleep, with a comprehensive guide to the science of slumber that combines detailed case studies and pragmatic advice.

Hosted by Melbourne Fringe Creative Director Simon Abrahams and State Library Victoria Curator Kate Rhodes, this podcast unpacks some of the ideas and dilemmas that lie at the heart of Fringe's past, present and future.

For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and...

**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction** This is the definitive history of Britain’s tumultuous relationship with Europe – as it’s never been told before. 'Powerful, precise, morally engaged, wonderfully alert to character, context and the greater purpose of political...

Britain has been defined by its conflicts, its conquests, its men and its monarchs. To say that it's high time it was defined by its women is a severe understatement. Jenni Murray draws together the lives of 21 women to shed light upon a variety of social, political, religious and cultural aspects of British history. In lively prose Murray reinvigorates the stories behind the names we all know and reveals the fascinating tales behind those less familiar.