I’d recommend BBC 4 In Our Time .It has episodes about history, litterature and science and every episode has exeptional quests. The specialists are professors and lecturers from British universities and for me the best thing is that they are from different cultural backrounds. For example in episode about Shikh empire one researcher is from Punjabi. Or that Iranian scholar says in Alexander the Great episode that in her culture Alexander is not ”great”. Or that episode about the Highland Clearances is recorded in Univerty of Glasgow.

Unobscured and Cabinet of Curiosities both by Aaron Mahnke. Unobscured is about the in depth history behind the Salem Witch Trials, and there's so much more to it than I ever thought! He makes it so interesting. Cabinet of Curiosities is a little less historical, but very interesting short little tales that sometimes come from history that are bizarre, weird, or unbelievable.

Behind The Bastards with Robert Evans. He has a different co-host weekly, and talks about interesting and usually not well known facts about the bastards in history. The one about Hitler will make you laugh (if you're as immature as I am anyways).

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby by Liv. The host is a little dorky, but honestly she told some of the most well known Greek myths in such a way that I couldn't get enough (and I'm into history and myths). Also, who among us isn't a little dorky? I know I am.

Revolutions by Mike Duncan. The host is honestly a bit dry. But you don't need to make jokes or go off on tangents for me to listen. And if you're like me and you just want to know the juicy interesting historical facts about different revolutions in great detail, then this podcast has got it going on. I have fallen asleep many a night to this host's soothing voice.

Historical Figures hosted by couple Carter and Vanessa. They talk about famous ppl from history and little known facts about the person. It's super interesting. The hosts are very VERY dry, and when they try to make jokes or riff off each other it just sounds weird. They're like a 1950's square couple trying to be hep. But once you get over that, it's a super interesting listen, and their other podcast (Cults) is hands down my favorite of all time. So they're doing something right.

I would recommend the British History Podcast. Jamie Jeffers, the podcaster, does a well researched show. He’s not afraid to say”we don’t know” when historical sources are lacking. He’s doing a very deep dive. I studied humanities and history in college and am not afraid to say I learned about rulers in Anglo-Saxon England I had never heard of. His episodes on Penda are fantastic.

Rex Factor is also good. Rex Factor just finished their second season. They go through and rank the Kings and Queens of England in season one and the Kings and Queens of Scotland in season two. They give a bio of each ruler and then rank them on some funny named, but great summation categories. For example, their effectiveness in war is called “Battleyness.”

I can second the above recommendation for Revolutions by Mike Duncan. His coverage of the French Revolution is definitely worth listening to. He breaks down the total craziness that happened during the various iterations of the revolution.

well, this subreddit has its own podcast with a variety of topics and guests discussing their field. And the discussion link for each episode has sources mentioned in the episodes.

if this doesn't fit in with the focus of this forum, you might try r/askhistory

ok, moving on to recommendations, i already see several favorites here, but one more is

The Early and Often podcast - it charts the history of voting in america from the very beginning, starting from the first colonies and the native american systems of government. although it focuses on voting, it also explores the politics and culture of the areas it describes, and it really gives a solid background for how american culture(s) ended up the way it has, one of the most solid and interesting explorations of early american history i've seen.

and every episode somehow manages to be an exciting little story too, as well as being informative.

links to episodes and full transcripts can be found here - https://earlyandoftenpodcast.tumblr.com/

I have to recommend The History of Byzantium with Robin Pierson. He does a great job of following the narrative history of the Byzantine Empire, is well researched, and goes into some analysis of his sources. At the end of each century(ish) Robin goes over listener questions about various specific topics. This is ongoing and just wrapped up the reign of Basil II in 1025.

He was inspired by Mike Duncan's The History of Rome which is sort of the godfather of narrative history podcasting. The early episodes are admittedly choppy, but he developed into a really engaging story teller and a lot of the work is based on primary sources, but he doesn't discuss them as much. He now has a book out The Storm Before the Storm which is great pop history about the decay of the Roman Republic.

These day's Mike is working on Revolutions where he covers various political revolutions in chronological order beginning with the English Civil War and he's worked up to the Mexican Revolution now with plans to do Russia next year. I have to say that this is really excellent. His coverage of the French Revolutions really helps keeping everything in order.

Finally, I am and working on my own podcast covering The History of Persia. I'm starting with the origins of the Achaemenid Empire in the 6-7th century BCE and hope to go all the way to the Islamic conquest of the Sassanids. It's a narrative, and at least to start I'll be using a similar model to Byzantium. I'll also be discussing the primary sources and why they're difficult to work with in a narrative. Mods, please PM me to tell me if this is inappropriate and I'll remove this last part.

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BBC Radio 4 “Great Lives” is good for some people specific history. They have a ‘celebrity’ nominate a person and then a specialist on that field or person comes in to discuss the life of the nominated person. They cover a range of people from throughout history.

One little-known gem on the british civil war(s), "Past Tense." It's got a good balance of depth, context and story-telling, covering what I've always found to be quite a dense and complicated period that resists being summarized. I've never found anyone else who makes the story quite so clear!

Hey, I wanted to throw in a word for the Ottoman History Podcast, which I regularly listen to. The podcast is a series of academic interviews on a wide variety of Ottoman and Ottoman-adjacent subjects, including the history of the wider Muslim world and the post-Ottoman mid-east. One of the things I love about it is the sheer variety of subjects they go over.

As an example, you can check out two recent episodes, including one on smoking Hashish in the Ottoman Empire during the 1800s and another on the intrigue-filled history of the Cheif Harem eunichs which explores the powerful political roles played by a number of palace slaves (primarily from Ethiopia/Sudan) in the history of the empire.