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The Return of the Emperor (Justinian II - part 2)
Apr 27, 2026
1h 03m 27s
Mutilated and exiled (the Emperor Justinian II - part 1)
Apr 20, 2026
47m 18s
Buckingham: the most hated man in England
Mar 31, 2026
1h 18m 23s
YEAR ZERO: Jonathan Clements on the First Emperor of China
Mar 10, 2026
1h 20m 10s
The Big Hop of 1919
Feb 17, 2026
1h 16m 15s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 4/27/26 | ![]() The Return of the Emperor (Justinian II - part 2)✨ | Justinian IIByzantine history+3 | — | The Return of the Emperor (Justinian II - part 2) | CrimeaBosphorus | Justinian IIHippodrome+5 | — | 1h 03m 27s | |
| 4/20/26 | ![]() Mutilated and exiled (the Emperor Justinian II - part 1)✨ | Byzantine historyEmperor Justinian II+3 | Professor David Parnell | Netflix | Byzantium | Justinian IIByzantine Empire+3 | — | 47m 18s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Buckingham: the most hated man in England✨ | historyStuart England+4 | — | — | Stuart EnglandEngland+1 | George VilliersDuke of Buckingham+5 | — | 1h 18m 23s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() YEAR ZERO: Jonathan Clements on the First Emperor of China✨ | First Emperor of ChinaZhang Yimou+4 | Jonathan Clements | Hero | Terracotta Army | First EmperorChina+5 | — | 1h 20m 10s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() The Big Hop of 1919✨ | aviation historytransatlantic flight+3 | — | Daily Mail | — | aviationAtlantic crossing+5 | — | 1h 16m 15s | |
| 1/26/26 | ![]() Martin Luther, serfdom and the German Peasants’ War✨ | German Peasant's WarMartin Luther+3 | Lyndal Roper | Oxford University | East Germany | German Peasant's WarMartin Luther+3 | — | 1h 04m 58s | |
| 1/5/26 | ![]() World War I: The surprising victory of 1918✨ | World War Ihistorical analysis+3 | Professor David Stevenson | — | GermanyRussia | World War IArmistice+4 | — | 1h 08m 01s | |
| 12/14/25 | ![]() Ed West on 1066 and all that✨ | history1066+3 | Ed West | The Wrong Side of History | — | 1066battle of Hastings+5 | — | 54m 17s | |
| 11/24/25 | ![]() Edward I - a Great and Terrible King✨ | medieval historyEdward I+5 | — | Italian banker | — | Edward IRobert the Bruce+5 | — | 1h 06m 41s | |
| 10/29/25 | ![]() Empress Wu Zetian and the Age of Female Rule✨ | female ruleChinese history+3 | Jonathan Clements | — | — | Wu ZetianChina+5 | — | 1h 15m 26s | |
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| 10/6/25 | ![]() Napoleon III Part 2: The Power of Lust | As promised in part 1 we started the podcast by talking about some of Napoleon III’s many mistresses. Women like Harriet Howard, the Brighton bootmaker’s daughter, Virginia de Castiglione, sent by the Italians to seduce and spy on him (and welcomed with open arms!), Marguerite Bellanger and Louise de Mercy-Argenteau. His wife hated his infidelities but at least in the case of Louise she took comfort that she was a proper aristocrat! Moving on from the scandalous we talked about Napoleon... | 1h 03m 48s | ||||||
| 9/30/25 | ![]() Napoleon III Part 1: The Lust for Power | From exiled prince to emperor, Napoleon III's rise to power reads like a political thriller too wild to be true. Edward Shawcross tells the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew, a man who attempted not one but two comically failed coups before finally succeeding in becoming Emperor of France. This episode explores Louis-Napoleon's bizarre childhood as the imperial nephew raised in Swiss exile, where his mother turned their home into a shrine to Napoleon while teaching him the arts of conspir... | 1h 06m 21s | ||||||
| 9/2/25 | ![]() From Eunuchs to Corsairs: The World of Islamic Slavery | Fourteen centuries of enslavement, from the Prophet Muhammad's day to modern Mauritania. Justin Marozzi's fascinating book "Captives and Companions" has as its subject the complex history of slavery across the Islamic world, challenging simplistic narratives and revealing uncomfortable truths about power, race, and religion. Our conversation touched on how Islam didn't invent slavery but incorporated existing practices while encouraging manumission. We talked about the huge diversity o... | 1h 04m 21s | ||||||
| 8/18/25 | ![]() The Tokyo Tribunal: War Crimes, Justice, and Geopolitics | This episode looks at the courtroom drama that helped to shape Asia after World War II with Princeton University's Gary Bass. Far more than a simple account of justice served, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal represents a fascinating intersection of international law, power politics, and competing visions of history that continues to reverberate through East Asian relations today. The tribunal tried 28 Japanese leaders for crimes that began long before Pearl Harbor. Imperial Japan's expansionis... | 1h 16m 56s | ||||||
| 7/28/25 | ![]() The Pilgrimage of Grace: When England Fought the Reformation | When 50,000 northerners marched under their banners in 1536, England witnessed its largest rebellion since the Peasants' Revolt. The Pilgrimage of Grace wasn't just a protest - it threatened to undo the English Reformation completely and return the kingdom to Rome. Professor Peter Marshall, the renowned Tudor historian, tells the story of this extraordinary episode where religious devotion, political power, and regional identity collided with explosive results. Henry VIII's desperate ... | 1h 24m 40s | ||||||
| 7/9/25 | ![]() Byzantium and the First Crusade | The ever excellent Professor David Parnell (of Belisarius and Antonina fame) came on to talk about the First Crusade. And given his interest in the Eastern Roman Empire we spent a lot of time talking about it from that angle. When Emperor Alexius I found his thousand-year-old empire crumbling under Turkish advances in the late 11th century, he asked the West for help. He got more than he could have expected! What followed was extraordinary. Pope Urban II's call at the Council of Clermo... | 1h 13m 18s | ||||||
| 6/19/25 | ![]() Shattered Jewels - Japan's Path to War (3 and final) | What makes a nation launch an attack it cannot hope to win? Admiral Yamamoto, who planned the Pearl Harbor attack, warned Japan's leadership they would have only six months before America would mobilize its entire continent to destroy them. He was right, but his warning was ignored. The episode starts with a discussion about the controversial Yasukuni Shrine and museum, where we gain insight into how Japan's military establishment viewed their expansionist ambitions. This museum is not just ... | 1h 24m 29s | ||||||
| 6/11/25 | ![]() Manchuria to Pearl Harbor: Japan's Path to War (2) | How did Japan become embroiled in one of history's deadliest conflicts? The answer lies not in December 1941, but decades earlier. Jonathan Clements returns to unravel the forces that propelled Japan down a path to war with the world's greatest industrial power. Following Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War, the country emerged with new confidence only to face the humiliation of the Triple Intervention, when European powers forced them to surrender their hard-won territories. This... | 1h 04m 26s | ||||||
| 6/3/25 | ![]() An Alien Game: Japan's Path to War (1) | The transformation of Japan from hermit kingdom to imperial power happened with breathtaking speed. When American Commodore Perry's "black ships" steamed into Tokyo Bay in the 1850s, they shattered Japan's 250-year isolation with technology that seemed to come "from 200 years in the future." This technological gap created a constitutional crisis that would ultimately topple the Tokugawa Shogunate and usher in the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Jonathan Clements guides us through this pivotal per... | 1h 09m 15s | ||||||
| 5/2/25 | ![]() How England Nearly Conquered France & Why They Failed | The Hundred Years' War shaped medieval Europe's political landscape for over a century—but what really caused this epic conflict between England and France? In this illuminating conversation, former UK Supreme Court Justice and acclaimed medieval historian Lord Jonathan Sumption cuts through myths and misconceptions to reveal the war's true origins. Contrary to popular belief, the war didn't begin as a simple grab for the French crown. Instead, it stemmed from a complex constitutional crisis... | 1h 00m 52s | ||||||
| 4/9/25 | ![]() Imperial Twilight: How Trade, Tea, and Opium Led to War | The story of the Opium War is one of history's most consequential yet widely misunderstood conflicts. Professor Stephen Platt joined me to unravel the fascinating web of events that led Britain and China into a collision that would reshape Asia and the global balance of power for centuries to come. Far from being a simple tale of drug dealers backed by imperial force, Stephen reveals cultural misunderstandings, diplomatic failures, and economic pressures eventually converging with devastatin... | 1h 18m 03s | ||||||
| 3/17/25 | ![]() Suleiman's curse - with Christopher de Bellaigue | I spoke to Christopher before about his book the Lion House. That was part 1 of a trilogy on the life of Suleiman the Magnificent. Christopher is back to talk about part 2: The Golden Throne - the Curse of a King. From the intricate power dynamics of the Ottoman court to bloody naval battles in the Mediterranean, "The Golden Throne" recreates the world of Suleiman the Magnificent at the height of his reign. We discover an empire where Christian slaves could rise to the highest positions of po... | 1h 13m 52s | ||||||
| 2/14/25 | ![]() Anton Howes on Salt (and on much, much more!) | Anton Howes writes the brilliant Age of Invention substack. We were supposed to talk about the history of salt and its powerful impact on people and states. We certainly did talk about that but also a lot more! - history's efflorescences - Henry VIII's ruthless tax grabs - The feebleness of England (until suddenly . . .) - Rebel space colonies - The Spanish and English Armadas - Lot's wicked daughters - The Roman (non) Industrial Revolution And amidst all our digressions I mentioned the film ... | 1h 18m 38s | ||||||
| 1/15/25 | ![]() Tiberius - a good emperor, a broken man | In this episode Professor Ed Watts and I look at the brilliant career and sad life of the Emperor Tiberius. We try to understand how this most capable and intelligent man came to be seen by history as one of the most monstrous of the Roman emperors. In researching for the podcast I came across a really stirring defence of Tiberius in the shape of a monograph by Norman Douglas. On looking into who Norman Douglas was I discovered that he was a great literary figure of the first half of the 20t... | 1h 16m 13s | ||||||
| 12/27/24 | ![]() Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 2 | This is part 2 of my podcast with Jonathan Clements on Japan's Christian century. In this episode we get on to the rebellion itself. Sensitive listeners may want to brace themselves! | 58m 21s | ||||||
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