.Lucy Ward 🇺🇦 joins the Can't Make This Up: A History Podcast to talk about her new book THE EMPRESS AND THE ENGLISH DOCTOR: buff.ly/39ApLoi

More than 600 years before Galileo was excommunicated and imprisoned by Catholic Inquisition for saying "The Earth Turns" (1633), Muslim scientist Al-Biruni (b. 973) had perfectly detected movements of sun, earth and moon. British Library Or. 8349, f. 31v #archaeohistories

🚨EARLY EDITION 🚨 Next week’s episode is available now for supporters of the podcast over on Patreon. I’m joined by David Hendy to talk about his new history of the BBC as the famous UK broadcast service turns 100 years old!👇 patreon.com/CMTUHistory

If you’re a fan of true crime, this is huge news! We covered Whitey Bulger on the podcast a couple years ago when I spoke with casey sherman and Dave Wedge about their book “Hunting Whitey” In case you missed it, you can give it a listen here👇 open.spotify.com/episode/6VOXga…

If you've read "The Count of Monte Cristo," you might vaguely recall a subplot centered on the death of a warlord in (or near) Greece. I break down the real-life history behind Dumas' novel, as well as a Delacroix painting and a Rossini opera, in the latest episode of The Siècle history podcast.

📻 NEW EPISODE 📺 Historian David Hendy joins me on the podcast to discuss his new book “The BBC: A Century on Air.” We talk about the Corporation’s journey from its humble beginnings in Savoy Hill to become a cultural institution throughout the UK 🇬🇧 open.spotify.com/episode/5sYoj5…

The most eastern Roman inscription ever found: In the late first century AD, the centurion Lucius Julius Maximus of the Twelfth 'Thunderbolt' Legion carved this inscription into a rock near what is today Baku, Azerbaijan. Lucius and his Legio XII Fulminata had apparently been