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  • The Fatimid Caliphate

      909-1171
    The Fatimid Caliphate also known as the Fatimid Empire, was a caliphate extant from the tenth to the twelfth centuries CE under the rule of the Fatimids, an Isma'ili Shi'a dynasty. The Fatimids traced their ancestry to the Islamic prophet Muhammad's daughter Fatima and her husband Ali, the first Shi'a imam.  Originating during the Abbasid Caliphate, the Fatimids initially conquered Ifriqiya (roughly present-day Tunisia and north-eastern Algeria). They extended their...
    The Fatimid Caliphate

  • Ancient Carthage

      Podcast
    Ancient Carthage was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state and then an empire. Founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC, Carthage reached its height in the fourth century BC as one of the largest metropolis in the world.  It was the centre of the Carthaginian Empire, a major power led...
    Ancient Carthage

  • An Introduction to Cuneiform

      Podcast
    In this podcast Professor Jacob Dahl of Wolfson College, University of Oxford, provides an introduction to the origins and significance of cuneiform. Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system (dating from c. 3500 BC to c. 100 AD) and represents a transformational turning point in the development of human civilisation. An...
    An Introduction to Cuneiform

  • The Fall of the Crusader States

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University) provides and introduction to the fall of the Crusader states from the Fourth Crusade to the fall of Jerusalem in 1291. Dr Morton illustrates how the Crusaders were able to regain control of Jerusalem in the early 13th century but lost it...
    The Fall of the Crusader States

  • The Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BC)

      Podcast
    The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by Cyrus and the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC,...
    The Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BC)

  • Ancient Egypt – The Old Kingdom (2700-2200 BC)

      Podcast
    This podcast will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about this popular area of history and wants that information from one of the world’s leading academics on the subject. Most of us have read an article, watched a documentary or visited a museum that has an ancient Egyptian artefact of...
    Ancient Egypt – The Old Kingdom (2700-2200 BC)

  • The Hittites & the Hittite Empire (1650-1190 BC)

      Podcast
    The Hittites were an Anatolian people who played an important role in establishing first a kingdom in Kussara (before 1750 BC), then the Kanesh or Nesha kingdom (c. 1750–1650 BC), and next an empire centered on Hattusa in north-central Anatolia (around 1650 BC). This empire reached its height during the mid-14th century BC under Šuppiluliuma I, when it encompassed an area that included most of...
    The Hittites & the Hittite Empire (1650-1190 BC)

  • Ancient Nubia and the Kushite Civilisations (2500BC-400AD)

      2500BC to 400AD
    In this podcast Dr Shadia Taha of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, looks at the long and fascinating history of Ancient Nubia and the Kingdom of Kush. The Kingdom of Kush is divided into three kingdoms: The Kingdom of Kerma (2500BC to 1500BC), the Napatan Empire (1100BC to 590BC) and the Kingdom...
    Ancient Nubia and the Kushite Civilisations (2500BC-400AD)

  • Espionage in the 20th and 21st centuries

      Podcast
    In this podcast Trevor Barnes looks at the development of global intelligence and security services from their early origins to the present day. He examines at the role these services had during the two World Wars, the signficance of espionage in the development of the Cold War and the importance and...
    Espionage in the 20th and 21st centuries

  • Alexander the Great

      The Man the Myth
    In this podcast Professor Thomas Harrison of the University of St Andrews provides and introduction to Alexander the Great.
    Alexander the Great

  • Chinese relations with the USA & USSR after 1945

      Podcast
    In this podcast, Dr Jim Hoare discusses the impact of the Second World War in increasing tensions between the Chinese communists and nationalists. He also explains the USA’s support for the nationalist Chiang Kai Shek, and therefore why the USA chose to recognise Taiwan over China until the 1970s. Hoare...
    Chinese relations with the USA & USSR after 1945

  • The Chinese intervention in the Korean War

      Podcast
    In this podcast, Dr Jim Hoare (SOAS), examines the Chinese involvement in the Korean War. This podcast was produced as part of the Korean War Teacher Fellowship programme, and the Historical Association is delighted to be working with the World History Digital Education Foundation sponsored by the Korea Foundation on this programme as part of a...
    The Chinese intervention in the Korean War

  • The Songhay Empire 1450-1591

      The Sonni and Askia Dynasties
    In this podcast Dr Toby Green of King's College London examines the history of the Songhay (Songhai) Empire, which dominated the Western Sahel region of West Africa during the 15th-16th centuries.
    The Songhay Empire 1450-1591

  • The Rise of American Empire, 1865-1920

      Podcast
    In this extensive podcast series, Dr Alex Goodall of UCL looks at the growth of the United States as an international power from the end of the American Civil War through to the early twentieth century. This was a critical period for understanding the United States rise to superpower status in the twentieth...
    The Rise of American Empire, 1865-1920

  • The Sasanian Empire

      Podcast
    The Sasanian Empire (224–651 AD) represents one of the high points in the history of Iranian civilisation, with Sasanian cultural influence spreading far beyond the territory that it controlled, influencing regions as distant as Western Europe, Eastern Africa, China and India.  Following the defeat of the Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD), Ardashir I of the House of Sasan established an...
    The Sasanian Empire

  • Crusader Criminals

      Podcast
    Steve Tibble explores the hidden world of crime during the Crusades, revealing how violence and lawlessness—driven largely by dislocated young men—were more central to the chaos in the Holy Land than religious conflict.
    Crusader Criminals

  • The Meiji Restoration

      Podcast
    The Meiji Restoration was a political event that restored imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ruling emperors before the Meiji Restoration, the events restored practical power to, and consolidated the political system under, the Emperor of Japan. The Restoration led to enormous changes in Japan's political and social structure and...
    The Meiji Restoration

  • Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the Griffith Institute

      Podcast
    Tutankhamun (c. 1341 BC – c. 1323 BC), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.  Tutankhamun acceded to the throne around the age of nine following the short reigns of his predecessors Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten. He married his half-sister Ankhesenpaaten, who was probably the mother of his two infant daughters. During his reign...
    Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the Griffith Institute

  • Ancient Elam (3200-539BC)

      Life before the Achaemenid Empire
    In this podcast, Dr Parsa Daneshmand of University College London, provides an introduction to Ancient Elam.  Elam was an ancient civilization centred in the far west and southwest of modern-day Iran, stretching from the lowlands of what is now Khuzestan and Ilam Province as well as a small part of southern Iraq. Elamite states were among the...
    Ancient Elam (3200-539BC)

  • The End of the Vietnam War

      Podcast
    The Vietnam War was one of many conflicts born partly out of the tumultuous global shift of the end of European Empires for which the Second World War had acted as a catalyst. What marked the Vietnam War out from some of the other political changes in the Indo-Chinese and...
    The End of the Vietnam War

  • Technology and Innovation in the Medieval Near East

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Nicholas Morton (Nottingham Trent University) discusses the role the Near East played in the development and transmission of technology and innovation during the medieval period. Dr Morton looks examines the significance of gunpowder, the navigational compass and maritime chart, and also how the changing civilisations of the medieval Near East...
    Technology and Innovation in the Medieval Near East

  • The Spice and Silk routes in the late medieval era

      Podcast
    The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.  The spice trade involved historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe. Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, nutmeg, star anise, clove, and turmeric were known and used...
    The Spice and Silk routes in the late medieval era

  • Vietnam and the Vietnam War (1954-1968)

      Podcast
    In July 1954, France and the Viet Minh signed the Geneva Peace Accord, which resulted in dividing Vietnam along the 17th parallel into a northern section, under the control of the communists, led by Ho Chi Minh, and a southern section, led by the Catholic anticommunist Ngô Đình Diệm who was backed...
    Vietnam and the Vietnam War (1954-1968)

  • Developments in Indochina after World War II

      Podcast
    French Indochina, officially known as the Indochinese Union, was a grouping of French colonial territories in Southeast Asia until its demise in 1954. It comprised Cambodia, Laos (from 1899), the Chinese territory of Guangzhouwan (from 1898 until 1945), and the Vietnamese regions of Tonkin in the north, Annam in the centre, and Cochinchina in the south. The capital for most of its history (1902–1945) was Hanoi; Saigon was the capital from...
    Developments in Indochina after World War II

  • The Mali Empire (1226-1670)

      Podcast
    In this podcast Professor Kevin MacDonald (University College London) examines the history of the Mali Empire, discusses the importance of using both oral history and archaeology to construct this history and also reflects upon the empire’s legacy. The Mali Empire was an empire in West Africa from c. 1226 to 1670. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita (c. 1214...
    The Mali Empire (1226-1670)