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Ancient to Recent is a history podcast that explores how the past continues to shape our world today. From forgotten empires and overlooked revolutions to the hidden lives of historical figures, each episode takes a deep dive into the moments that mattered and the ones that should have.
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Whether you're a casual history fan or a dedicated learner, Ancient to Recent brings you the stories that shaped the world
🎙️ New episodes every week
đź“š Based on real historical research and books
🌍 Covering everything from ancient civilisations to modern events
Whether you're a casual history fan or a dedicated learner, Ancient to Recent brings you the stories that shaped the world
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By the end of the 1920s, Stalin had a vision, to forge a new Soviet man and break the old peasant world forever. Across Ukraine, a war was declared on the countryside. Villages were torn apart, churches destroyed, families deported, and the proud independence of Ukraine’s farmers was crushed beneath the machinery of collectivisation.Through forced labor, quotas, and terror, millions were driven from their homes as the Soviet dream turned into a nightmare. Stalin’s campaign to “liquidate the kulaks as a class” would not only shatter rural life, it would lay the foundations for the famine to come.Join Joseph Parkinson as he tells the story of Stalin’s collectivisation, the destruction of Ukraine’s villages, and the ideological madness that reshaped an entire nation.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecent
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, the Haitian Revolution becomes a global imperial battlefield, and a test of what freedom truly means.Early 1793. The execution of Louis XVI drags Saint-Domingue into the wars of revolutionary Europe. Britain and Spain invade, white planters betray France to save slavery, and commissioners Sonthonax and Polverel make a desperate gamble: they proclaim emancipation to win the loyalty of the enslaved masses who hold the balance of power.As Le Cap burns and thousands seize arms for the Republic, slavery falls in Saint-Domingue, months before France itself decrees it empire-wide. Yet liberty arrives bittersweet: former slaves are forced back onto plantations as paid laborers, land remains elusive, and the dream of true independence clashes with the urgent need to rebuild an economy under siege.Into this crucible steps Toussaint Louverture. A former slave turned brilliant general, he switches from Spanish service to the French Republic, defeats rivals, crushes revolts, and begins forging an army and a proto-state. But his pragmatic alliances, with returning planters, wary French officials, and his own maroon fighters, ignite resentment. Freedom secured through French guns risks becoming a new form of bondage.We trace Louverture’s ruthless rise, the ideological battles in Paris, the betrayals among black, mixed-race, and white leaders, and the fragile victories that keep British and Spanish forces at bay, while planting seeds of future conflict.Out of ashes, proclamations, and hard-won battlefields emerges a leader who will reshape the destiny of an island and challenge the Atlantic world’s oldest hierarchies. But the shadow of a rising star in France looms: Napoleon Bonaparte.Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues its series on the only successful slave revolution in history.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#HaitianRevolution #Haiti #ToussaintLouverture #FrenchRevolution #Abolition #ColonialHistory #HistoryPodcast
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, the Haitian Revolution explodes into open war.August 1791. Across the northern plains of Saint-Domingue, plantations burn, masters flee, and thousands of enslaved men and women rise in a coordinated rebellion that shocks the Atlantic world. What had been whispers of conspiracy becomes a revolution of fire, steel, and vengeance.We follow the first days of the uprising, the secret planning, the Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman, and the brutal wave of violence that tears through plantation society. As rebel armies grow into the tens of thousands, the colony descends into chaos. Whites, free people of colour, and enslaved fighters all struggle to shape the future of the richest colony on earth.This episode explores how religion, rumour, royal politics, and revolutionary ideas fused into a movement powerful enough to shake empires. We meet figures like Dutty Boukman, Jean-François Papillon, and the shadow of Louis XVI, whose fate will soon transform the rebellion into part of a global war.Out of burning fields, shattered plantations, and impossible choices, the Haitian Revolution enters its most dangerous phase, no longer a revolt, but a struggle that will redraw the map of the modern world and prepare the stage for the rise of Toussaint Louverture.Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues its series on the only successful slave revolution in history.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#HaitianRevolution #Haiti #SlaveRevolt #ToussaintLouverture #FrenchRevolution #ColonialHistory #HistoryPodcast
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, we follow Iran through the decisive year of 1979, the moment when a crisis becomes a collapse, and a monarchy that once looked unshakeable disintegrates in a matter of weeks.As protests intensify and strikes paralyze the economy, the Iranian state begins to lose control of the streets. Police forces buckle, government authority evaporates, and law and order gives way to uncertainty, fear, and momentum. What begins as unrest becomes something far more dangerous: a revolution no longer contained by the institutions meant to stop it.At the same time, Washington is divided. Inside the Carter administration, officials argue over what the United States should do, whether to push reforms, back the Shah to the end, or prepare for a post-monarchy Iran. Some cling to the belief that the army can restore stability. Others warn that the regime is already beyond saving. As these divisions deepen, American policy becomes reactive, uncertain, and fatally slow.Meanwhile, the Shah’s last pillar of power, the Iranian military, begins to fracture. Orders are ignored, morale collapses, and commanders hesitate at the moment of decision. When the army ultimately withdraws from political conflict, the monarchy loses its final instrument of control, and the revolution surges forward uncheckedInto this vacuum steps Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Returning from exile as the symbol of resistance, he rapidly outmaneuvers rivals, overwhelms moderate voices, and transforms revolutionary energy into political power. In the chaos of state collapse, Khomeini doesn’t just return to Iran, he seizes the future of it.Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues its series on the Iranian Revolution, and traces how 1979 became the year Iran’s old order vanished, and a new one rose from the ruins.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#IranianRevolution #Iran1979 #Khomeini #Carter #CIA #Shah #ColdWarHistory #MiddleEastHistory #HistoryPodcast
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, we follow Iran at the height of its apparent power in the mid-1970s, a country awash in oil money, armed to the teeth, and ruled by a monarch who believed history itself was on his side. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Iran looked unstoppable: soaring growth rates, grand infrastructure projects, and an alliance with the United States that seemed unshakeable.But beneath the spectacle of modernity, the foundations were already cracking. Rapid development brought inflation, corruption, housing shortages, and social dislocation. The Shah’s centralized system rewarded loyalty over competence, silenced dissent, and left him increasingly isolated inside a bubble of good news and bad assumptions.This episode traces how oil wealth overheated the economy, how repression deepened mistrust, and how American policy, shaped by Cold War blind spots and wishful thinking, ailed to grasp the scale of Iran’s internal crisis. We explore the rise of mass protests, the regime’s oscillation between reform and force, and the fatal miscalculations that followed the Cinema Rex fire, Black Friday, and the collapse of state authority.As strikes spread, the economy grinds to a halt, and the Shah vacillates at the moment of decision, a once-confident regime drifts into paralysis. Meanwhile, from exile, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini emerges as the only figure capable of uniting a fractured opposition, setting Iran on a path from unrest to revolution.Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues its series on the Iranian Revolution, charting how a state that appeared strong, stable, and modern unraveled with astonishing speed.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#IranianRevolution #Iran #MohammadRezaPahlavi #javidshah #MiddleEastHistory #ColdWarHistory #HistoryPodcast #Ancie
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, we step into the glittering world of 1960s and 70s Tehran, where nightclubs, foreign visitors, and booming oil revenues gave the impression of a nation racing confidently into the modern age. At the center stood Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, a monarch determined to reshape his country through rapid modernization and centralized power.Beneath the neon lights, however, another Iran was emerging. While oil wealth transformed Tehran and empowered a new elite, millions were left behind in the countryside and swelling urban slums. Political repression, corruption, inequality, and cultural upheaval quietly eroded the regime’s foundations.This episode traces the Shah’s rise after the 1953 coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh, the consolidation of autocratic rule under Savak, and the ambitious reforms of the White Revolution. We explore how policies designed to modernize and stabilize Iran instead deepened social divisions and fueled opposition from both the secular left and the religious right.As American influence grows, oil revenues surge, and the Shah’s confidence reaches its peak, a powerful voice of resistance emerges in exile: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. What appeared to be a strong and stable state was, in reality, far more fragile than it seemed.Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent begins a new series on the Iranian Revolution, uncovering how the Shah’s Iran moved from apparent triumph to the brink of collapse.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#IranianRevolution #ShahOfIran #MohammadRezaPahlavi #MiddleEastHistory #WorldHistory #HistoryPodcast #AncientToRecent
In this history podcast episode of Ancient to Recent, we follow Genghis Khan as his newly united Mongol nation collides with the great settled empires to the south, beginning a cycle of conquest that would change world history forever.Having unified the steppe through blood, loyalty, and merit, Temüjin now faced a new challenge: how to sustain his people without endless civil war. The answer lay beyond the grasslands. When the Jin Dynasty demanded Mongol submission, Genghis Khan chose defiance and war.This episode explores the Mongols’ first full-scale invasion of northern China, revealing how a nomadic society of barely one million people took on a civilization of fifty million. Through speed, intelligence, psychological warfare, and ruthless pragmatism, the Mongols shattered armies, bypassed fortifications, and turned the enemy’s strength into weakness.We examine the radical nature of Mongol warfare: total mobility, flexible command, deception, terror as strategy, and the deliberate use of refugees, propaganda, and fear to collapse resistance before battle was even joined. Cities fell, dynasties bent the knee, and unimaginable wealth flowed north to the steppe.As victory brought luxury, new enemies, and internal tensions, the foundations of a world empire were laid but so too were the seeds of future conflict. This episode marks the moment the Mongols stopped being a steppe power and became a global force.Join Joseph Parkinson for Episode 32 of Ancient to Recent, as Genghis Khan leads the Mongols out of obscurity and onto the world stage.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#GenghisKhan #MongolEmpire #JinDynasty #MongolWarfare #HistoryPodcast #WorldHistory #MedievalHistory #AncientToRecent
In this history podcast episode of Ancient to Recent, we explore the early life of Genghis Khan, the rise of Temüjin, and the origins of the Mongol Empire on the Eurasian Steppe.Born into violence, betrayal, and extreme poverty, Temüjin’s childhood was defined by abandonment, hunger, and survival. After his family was cast out by their own clan, he endured slavery, exile, and constant danger in a world where loyalty meant more than blood and strength mattered more than birth.This episode follows Temüjin’s transformation from an outcast commoner into a rising leader with a radical vision for steppe society. Rejecting aristocratic privilege, he began promoting men by merit rather than lineage, forging loyalty through shared reward and protection. Former enemies were absorbed, old hierarchies dismantled, and the foundations laid for what would become the Mongol Empire.As rival tribes clashed, alliances shifted, and ancient traditions were overturned, Temüjin’s rise signaled the beginning of one of the most consequential empires in world history. This opening episode sets the stage for the Mongol conquests that would reshape Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.Join Joseph Parkinson for the first chapter in the story of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, a history podcast series exploring how one man rose from nothing to change the course of the medieval world.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#GenghisKhan #MongolEmpire #Temujin #HistoryPodcast #WorldHistory #MedievalHistory #AncientHistory #AncientToRecent
By early 1867, the Second Mexican Empire was fighting for its life. French troops had gone, Republican armies were closing in from every direction, and Maximilian’s authority barely extended beyond a shrinking patchwork of territory. Yet rather than flee, abdicate, or negotiate, the emperor chose to stand and fight, taking everything on honour, loyalty, and a belief that destiny had not yet abandoned him.This episode follows the empire’s final months, from Maximilian’s fateful decision to take personal command of his army, to the desperate march toward QuerĂ©taro and the brutal siege that followed. Outnumbered, undersupplied, and surrounded, imperial forces fought with surprising ferocity as Maximilian, an emperor with no military training, revealed unexpected courage under fire.As starvation, betrayal, and internal collapse took hold, opportunities for escape slipped away one by one. A last chance at freedom was lost to hesitation, while treachery from within finally opened the gates to Republican victory. Captured, tried by a military tribunal, and abandoned by the international community that had once sustained his throne, Maximilian placed his faith in clemency, and gravely misjudged his fate.The episode concludes with the trial and execution of Maximilian, alongside his loyal generals MiramĂłn and MejĂa, and reflects on the wider consequences of the empire’s fall: the triumph of Juárez, the hard realities facing postwar Mexico, and the enduring human cost of foreign intervention, ideology, and civil war.Join Joseph Parkinson for the dramatic conclusion to the story of the Second Mexican Empire, where honour collides with reality, illusion gives way to defeat, and history delivers its final, unforgiving verdict.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#SecondMexicanEmpire #MaximilianOfMexico #BenitoJuarez #QuerĂ©taro #MexicanHistory #HistoryPodcast #19thCenturyHistory #AncientToRecent
By late 1865, the Second Mexican Empire was beginning to unravel. French support, once the foundation of Maximilian’s throne, was wavering, Republican resistance was intensifying, and pressure from a resurgent United States threatened to turn Mexico into a flashpoint for international conflict. Yet at the very moment the empire required decisive leadership, Maximilian seemed increasingly detached from reality.This episode traces the slow collapse of imperial support abroad and unity at home. As Napoleon III liberalised his regime in France, Republican voices turned against the Mexican adventure, exposing the human and financial cost of the war. With the American Civil War over and the Monroe Doctrine reasserted, Washington made clear it would tolerate no European monarchy in the Americas, forcing France toward withdrawal and leaving Maximilian dangerously exposed.At the heart of the episode is Maximilian’s fatal indecision. While French troops prepared to leave, finances disintegrated, and Republican forces gained momentum, Maximilian vacillated between abdication and defiance. His wife, Empress Carlota, launched a desperate mission to Europe to save the throne, only to descend into paranoia and mental collapse as every door closed before her.As conservative forces manipulated imperial loyalty, foreign diplomats meddled recklessly, and Maximilian convinced himself that destiny demanded he stay, the final chance to escape disaster slipped away. What remained was an empire sustained by illusion, honour, and pride, facing enemies on all sides and standing on the edge of catastrophe.Join Joseph Parkinson as the Second Mexican Empire enters its terminal phase, where abandonment, self-deception, and international realpolitik combine to seal Maximilian’s fate, and prepare the ground for a final, bloody reckoning.🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#SecondMexicanEmpire #MaximilianOfMexico #NapoleonIII #EmpressCarlota #BenitoJuarez #MexicanHistory #USForeignPolicy #HistoryPodcast
At the height of his power, Emperor Maximilian believed he could reconcile monarchy with liberal reform and heal a nation torn apart by decades of war. By the end of 1864, the Second Mexican Empire stretched to the U.S. border, Republican forces were on the run, and French troops appeared to have secured the throne. Yet the empire’s greatest victories concealed its deepest weaknesses.This episode explores Maximilian’s fatal balancing act. Determined to rule as an enlightened monarch, he alienated Mexican conservatives who demanded a return to privilege, confronted a Catholic Church unwilling to compromise, and frustrated French officials desperate for financial reform. Progressive laws were proclaimed with fanfare, but the machinery of government ground to a halt, leaving reform trapped on paper while the war grew ever more brutal.As guerrilla violence escalated and unity within the imperial camp collapsed, events beyond Mexico’s borders began to dictate the empire’s fate. The American Civil War was nearing its end, the Monroe Doctrine was reasserted, and the United States emerged stronger than ever, ready to challenge any European monarchy in the Americas.Join Joseph Parkinson as the Second Mexican Empire reaches its high-water mark, tracing the moment when Maximilian seemed closest to victory and when the forces that would destroy his throne were already closing in.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent...#SecondMexicanEmpire #MaximilianOfMexico #MexicanHistory #CatholicChurch #NapoleonIII #BenitoJuarez #USCivilWar #HistoryPodcast
In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria crossed the Atlantic to claim a crown forged in diplomacy, ambition, and illusion. What awaited him in Mexico was not the enlightened monarchy he imagined but a nation exhausted by war, divided by ideology, and pushed to the breaking point by foreign intervention.This episode follows Maximilian and Carlota as they enter Mexico City in triumph, unaware that beneath the flags and cheering crowds lay political traps, conservative factions demanding vengeance, and relentless Republican resistance. Guided by French bayonets and pressured by Napoleon III, Maximilian attempted to rule as a liberal monarch. Instead, he found himself squeezed between a reactionary clergy, a skeptical people, and a war that refused to end.From the fragile plebiscite engineered to legitimize his rule, to the bitter disputes between French generals and Mexican monarchists, the Second Mexican Empire rose quickly but its foundations were already crumbling. Meanwhile, far to the north, the outcome of the American Civil War would determine the fate of the entire enterprise.Join Joseph Parkinson as he continues the gripping saga of the Habsburg experiment in the Americas, exploring the peak of Maximilian’s empire, its grandeur, its contradictions, and the storm gathering just beyond the horizon.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#UScivil war #SecondMexicanEmpire #Habsburg #MexicoHistory #BenitoJuarez #NapoleonIII #HistoryPodcast
In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria took the throne as Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, believing he could unite a fractured nation and build a modern empire. Instead, he stepped into one of the most violent political storms of the 19th century.Backed by Napoleon III’s French army, opposed by Benito Juárez and the Mexican Republican forces, Maximilian struggled to rule a country divided by civil war, foreign intervention, and economic devastation. His liberal reforms alienated the conservatives who invited him, while the Republicans saw him as a foreign usurper.As the American Civil War ended, the United States enforced the Monroe Doctrine, pressuring France to withdraw. Abandoned by Europe and betrayed by his allies, Maximilian faced the rising Republican tide alone. His wife Charlotte (Carlota) descended into madness as she fought to save the collapsing empire, pleading with the courts of Europe.The final act came at Querétaro in 1867, where Maximilian made a last stand before facing a firing squad—an ending that transformed him from emperor to tragic legend.This series tells the story of the Second Mexican Empire, a gripping account of ambition, idealism, and the fatal collision between European monarchy and Mexican nationalism.Join Joseph Parkinson as he explores how the Second Mexican Empire rose, unraveled, and crashed into the reality of Mexican resistance.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent#Maximilian #MaximilianOfMexico #SecondMexicanEmpire #BenitoJuarez #NapoleonIII #Mexico #MexicoHistory #HistoryPodcast #AncientToRecent
At Nuremberg in 1945, the last leaders of the Third Reich faced judgment before the world. Hermann Goering arrived determined to turn the courtroom into his personal stage, launching a defiant performance that briefly revived the shattered pride of his fellow Nazis, but could not save him from the evidence closing in around him.Psychologists Douglas Kelley and Gustave Gilbert battled to decode the “Nazi mind,” uncovering competing portraits of Goering’s vanity, charm, self-deception and ruthless ambition. Rudolf Hess descended into delusion and farce, Robert Ley hanged himself in his cell, and the remaining defendants crumbled as Allied film crews exposed the full horror of the camps.As the verdicts approached, the myth of the Reich collapsed. Goering begged for a soldier’s death, was denied, and on the eve of his execution carried out one final act of manipulation: the cyanide suicide that stole the Allies’ final justice.This episode brings the Nuremberg story to its conclusion, a sobering, intimate look at how a regime built on violence and fantasy finally met the truth.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @https://linktr.ee/ancienttorecent#NurembergTrials #HermannGoering #WorldWar2 #HolocaustHistory #NaziGermany #RudolfHess #DouglasKelley #GustaveGilbert #HistoryPodcast #AncientToRecent
In 1945, the Allies seized the top surviving Nazi leaders and locked them inside a secret U.S. prison known as Ashcan. At the center of it all was Hermann Göring, Reichsmarschall, head of the Luftwaffe, Hitler’s chosen successor, and the highest-ranking Nazi to face justice.Inside Mondorf-les-Bains, a young U.S. Army psychiatrist, Dr. Douglas Kelley, began a groundbreaking mission: to uncover the psychology behind the men responsible for World War II, the Holocaust, and the machinery of genocide.In this episode, Joseph Parkinson explores: Göring’s dramatic capture and delusions of grandeurLife inside Ashcan: barbed wire, constant surveillance, and collapsed Nazi egosKelley’s early interviews, Rorschach tests, and attempts to decode the “Nazi mind”Shocking revelations about Göring’s drug addiction, vanity, charm and ruthlessnessHow the Allies prepared the world for the Nuremberg Trials, the most important trial in modern historyThis episode reveals the strange, chilling intimacy between a doctor seeking answers and a criminal convinced of his own greatness.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecent#HermannGoering #NurembergTrials #WorldWar2 #WW2History #Nazis #DouglasKelley #NaziLeadership #HolocaustHistory #HistoryPodcast #AncientToRecent
In 1932–33, Ukraine faced one of the deadliest tragedies of the 20th century, the Holodomor. Stalin’s regime seized food, blacklisted entire villages, sealed Ukraine’s borders, and used starvation as a weapon to crush resistance. Millions died as the Soviet state destroyed Ukrainian culture, language, and identity.In Episode 23, Joseph Parkinson uncovers how the famine was engineered, how the OGPU enforced it, and why the Holodomor stands as a defining crime of the Soviet Union. From grain requisitions to the cultural purges, this episode reveals how Stalin turned Ukraine into a laboratory of terror.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecent#Holodomor #UkraineHistory #Stalin #SovietUnion #HistoryPodcast #UkrainianRevolution
In the aftermath of revolution, Ukraine lies in ruins. The Bolsheviks have won the Civil War but for Lenin, victory is not enough. From the brutal terror of the Cheka to forced grain seizures and man-made famine, Ukraine becomes the testing ground for a new kind of tyranny.As millions starve and resistance is crushed, a new figure rises from the shadows: Joseph Stalin. His plan for collectivization will turn Lenin’s famine into something far darker, the Holodomor.Join Joseph Parkinson as he continues the story of Ukraine’s struggle for survival under Lenin and Stalin, the birth of Soviet power, and the seeds of one of history’s greatest tragedies.🎧 New episodes every Friday📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecentSponsored by World of Whisky – Some things only get better with age. With World of Whisky, you can own a share of Scotland’s most iconic export. You must be over 18. Investing carries risks. Drink responsibly. Invest responsibly. This is not financial advice.👉 Learn more: https://tr.ee/ZaBoYD#sponsored #publication
In the spring of 1917, as the Russian Empire collapses under the weight of war and revolution, Ukraine dares to dream of freedom. From the hopeful marches through Kyiv’s sunlit streets to the bitter struggle against Bolshevik armies, this is the story of how Ukraine first tried to forge its own destiny.But revolution brings chaos. Armies rise and fall, cities burn, and hunger stalks the land. The Rada’s dream of democracy gives way to dictatorship and civil war, as Lenin, Trotsky, and a young Stalin descend on Ukraine to reclaim the empire’s breadbasket at any cost. What began as a national awakening will end in terror, famine, and the iron grip of Soviet rule.Join Joseph Parkinson as he traces the birth of the modern Ukrainian nation—and the origins of the tragedy that would become the Holodomor.🎧 New episodes every Friday at 8 PM CET📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecentSponsored by World of Whisky – Some things only get better with age. With World of Whisky, you can own a share of Scotland’s most iconic export. You must be over 18. Investing carries risks. Drink responsibly. Invest responsibly. This is not financial advice.👉 Learn more: https://tr.ee/ZaBoYD#sponsored #publication
As the smoke of Hastings clears, William the Conqueror’s work has only just begun. From the burning towns of Sussex to the frozen wastes of Northumbria, England descends into chaos. The Godwinsons rise from exile to challenge the Norman invader, rebellions erupt from Devon to York, and the Vikings return one last time to stake their claim.But William answers rebellion with terror, slaughter, famine, and fire in a campaign so brutal it will be remembered as the Harrying of the North. This is the dark aftermath of 1066, when England’s old world died, and a new one was born in blood. 🎧 New episodes every Friday at 8 PM CET📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecentSponsored by World of Whisky – Some things only get better with age. With World of Whisky, you can own a share of Scotland’s most iconic export. You must be over 18. Investing carries risks. Drink responsibly. Invest responsibly. This is not financial advice.👉 Learn more: https://tr.ee/ZaBoYD
The stage is set. As Edward the Confessor’s reign falters and his death throws England into crisis, two rivals begin their march toward destiny. In Normandy, Duke William proves himself against France and Anjou, crushing enemies and securing alliances that will one day fuel his claim to the English crown. In England, Harold Godwinson rises in the shadow of his father, steering the Godwin dynasty through rebellion, betrayal, and uneasy power.From deadly feuds with the Welsh to Harold’s fateful storm-driven arrival in Normandy, this is the story of two men on a collision course. As Halley’s Comet blazes across the sky and England reels from Viking invasion, the crown lies waiting for whoever dares to seize it.🎧 New episodes every Friday at 8 PM CET📲 Follow on Spotify, YouTube & Instagram @AncientToRecentSponsored by World of Whisky – Some things only get better with age. With World of Whisky, you can own a share of Scotland’s most iconic export. You must be over 18. Investing carries risks. Drink responsibly. Invest responsibly. This is not financial advice.👉 Learn more: https://tr.ee/ZaBoYD
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