At the start of a new year many of us try to set new goals and make fresh starts – and that can apply to what podcasts we’re listening to too. Yes, there’s more new history podcasts out there than you can shake a stick at – but which ones are actually worth listening to…
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4 Spooky History Podcasts That Will Send Chills Down Your Spine
Halloween may be a few weeks away – but it is never too early to get in the mood. And how should one get in the mood? How about with a classic ghost story? Only this time the ghost stories aren’t being told around the campfire. They’re coming to you via the medium of podcasting….
International Podcast Month – Works Not Cited
Its the final instalment of my week-long feature to celebrate International Podcast Month! We round up this feature by talking to the lovely Tessa from Works Not Cited Podcast, a podcast where she shares the stories of women’s history and material culture that didn’t make it into her thesis. After graduating (virtually, of course) from William…
International Podcast Month – Past Matters Podcast
On the penultimate day of our week-long feature of #historygirls podcasts in celebration of International Podcast Month, we speak to Ploy Radford, host of Past Matters Podcast. When I told a friend from university I was setting up a history podcast, her response, in her typically blunt but well-meaning fashion, was ‘having your own podcast…
International Podcast Month – Things In Jars Podcast
Next up in my week-long feature for International Podcast Month we have one of my fave new history podcasts of 2020 – the Things in Jars Podcast. Six months ago, Assistant Curators Melissa and Poppy were busy preparing for Wordsworth Grasmere’s grand reopening. Formerly known as Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, our little Cumbrian…
International Podcast Month – For The Love of History Podcast
In the latest instalment of my week-long feature celebrating the amazing history podcasts created by members of the History Girls community, we speak to TK, creator and host of the For The Love of History Podcast. Well hello, friend! My name is TK, and I’m the creator and voice behind the “For the Love of…
International Podcast Month – Past Loves Podcast
In the latest instalment of my week-long feature to celebrate International Podcast Month, Holly from Past Loves Podcast – a podcast devoted to the greatest love stories from history – tells the Hisdoryan blog all about her podcast, including her favourite episode so far. Since I finished my undergraduate in History & Economics at the…
International Podcast Month – Sistory Untold Podcast
In the second installment of my feature about fabulous female-led history podcasts, the Hisdoryan blog shines a spotlight on the Sistory Untold Podcast – a unique podcast hosted by sisters Marva and Sabrina that looks at history through the eyes of sisterhood. A few months into the 2020 quarantine that seemed like it would never…
International Podcast Month – Hashtag History Podcast
In the first of a week-long series to celebrate International Podcast Month, the Hisdoryan blog is proud to play host to several wonderful female-led independent history podcasts who are members of the History Girls Community on Instagram. First up, we have Leah and Rachel from the Hashtag History podcast – Series 5 of this great…
Bloody Mary: On Air – A New History Podcast
It’s an exciting time to be an historian. Everywhere you look history is being rewritten, and old stories are being told to new audiences with a fresh perspective. Hamilton has put a forgotten founding father ‘back in the narrative’, Six has been ‘switching up the flow’ and making us remember that Henry VIII’s six wives…