10 Podcasts like The Industrial Revolutions
10 podcasts like The Industrial Revolutions picked by Podyssey's community of podcast lovers.
Dave Broker
The story of how a primate species created a world full of skyscrapers, airplanes, nuclear weapons, and vaccines. From the mass production of cotton weaving in the first industrial revolution of the 18th Century, to the digital revolution of today, t...Show More
Podcasts like The Industrial Revolutions
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas
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43:04 | Sep 12th, 2019
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In the 500th edition of the programme, Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the philosophical idea of free will. Free will - the extent to which we are free to choose our own actions - is one of the m...Show More
Download the latest documentaries Investigating global developments, issues and affairs.
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26:59 | Mar 27th, 2019
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Romanians are the second largest foreign nationality in the UK. Why did they come and will they stay? One politician famously once said he "would not like to live next door to Romanians." But now they...Show More
In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our ...Show More
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Show 50 - Blueprint for Armageddon I
3:07:20 | Oct 30th, 2013
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The planet hadn't seen a major war between all the Great Powers since the downfall of Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815. But 99 years later the dam breaks and a Pandora's Box of violence engulfs the planet...Show More
4. The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Bowery Boys Media
New York City history is America's history. It's the hometown of the world, and most people know the city's familiar landmarks, buildings and streets. Why not look a little closer and have fun while doing it?
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The City in Flames: The Great Fire of 1835
43:00 | Dec 4th, 2020
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PODCAST This month marks the 185th anniversary of one of the most devastating disasters in New York City history -- The Great Fire of 1835. This massive fire, among the worst in American history, d...Show More
A weekly podcast tracing the history of the Roman Empire, beginning with Aeneas's arrival in Italy and ending with the exile of Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Now complete!
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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Each week we take a topic that people a...Show More
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234: You Have The Right to Remain Silent: A History of the Miranda Warning
35:17 | Mar 23rd, 2018
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BackStory is a weekly public podcast hosted by U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, Nathan Connolly and Joanne Freeman. We're based in Charlottesville, Va. at Virginia Humanities. There’s the histo...Show More
Join Holly and Tracy as they bring you the greatest and strangest Stuff You Missed In History Class in this podcast by HowStuffWorks.
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The Kallikaks and the Eugenicists
41:17 | Aug 9th, 2017
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Spurred by the same fears, prejudices and societal issues that were driving the progressive movement in general, the eugenics movement in the U.S. focused on identifying, sequestering and even sterili...Show More
8. Russian Rulers History Podcast
Mark Schauss
First we follow the Russian rulers from Rurik to Putin then take to recounting all aspects of Russian history.
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Episode 207 - Back to the Beginning
0:00 | Jan 10th
Today, I will be returning to the beginning of the podcast with a rerun of episode 1, but with lots more new history to share about Russian before there were Russians.
9. The History Chicks
The History Chicks /Wondery
Two women. Half the population. Several thousand years of history. About an hour. Go.
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2:00:13 | Apr 9th, 2018
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Louisa May Alcott fictionalized (and sanitized) her childhood reality in her novel Little Women; she left out life in a commune, starvation, 19th century action thriller stories, and becoming the fami...Show More
Historical themes, events and key individuals from Akhenaten to Xenophon.
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