Aspects of History interviews historians and authors on the past – from the ancient world right up to the modern day. In each episode, we seek to get to the bottom of a story or scrutinise a figure from history. There are bonus episodes too, from current events to anniversaries.
Site
RSS
Apple
Recent rankings
Latest chart positions across Apple Podcasts and Spotify rankings.
Shared links between episodes and podcasts
Links found in episode descriptions and other podcasts that share them.
When his queen Eleanor of Castile died in 1290, how did Edward I demonstrate his love for the woman 'whom in life we dearly cherished, and whom in death we cannot cease to love'. Joining Aspects of History today for a fascinating and wide-ranging conversation, history titan Alice Loxton adeptly explains how she followed, quite literally, in Edward's grief-stricken footsteps not just to commemorate his grief but to celebrate love.
Alice Loxton Links:
Website: https://aliceloxton.com/
Eleanor: A 200-Mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen
Nathen Amin Links:
Website: www.nathenamin.com
Substack: https://nathenamin.substack.com/
Aspects of History Links:
Website: www.aspectsofhistory.com
Email: History@aspectsofhistory.com
Aspects of History on Instagram
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Books of the Year with the Gang
Saturday, December 6, 2025 • Duration 01:28:20
Hello and welcome to the Aspects of History 2025 books of
the year podcast.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Body Snatching with History Rage
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 • Duration 37:53
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries there was huge demand among medical practitioners for corpses on which to practices and perform. With the demand so came the suppliers in the form of body snatchers. These were highly motivated and well organised groups who solved the supply problem by taking the freshly buried dead and selling them to desperate surgeons.
Joining today is Paul Bavill from the History Rage podcast as discusses the practice, the economic rewards and the quantities. Paul joins me as part of the Podcast Show Live preparations at the Imperial War Museum on Saturday 1st November. Do get your tickets and I’ll see you there.
Links
History Rage Podcast
IWM Live
Ollie Links
Email me: History@aspectsofhistory.com
Ollie on Twitter / X
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Christendom vs. the Caliphate with Simon Mayall
Friday, October 11, 2024 • Duration 57:48
On the 11th September 1683, at the great city of Vienna, the armies of the Ottoman Empire were preparing to storm the city, but their scouts to the west noticed a vast cavalry force approaching. The next day Christian horsemen (Poles, Lithuanians, Germans of the Holy Roman Empire and Cossacks) swept down upon the troops of the Caliph and swept them away in one of the most stunning military victories of all time. But what lay at the heart of this clash between Christendom and the Caliphate, West vs. East, Christianity vs. Islam?
Joining to discuss is historian of the Middle East Simon Mayall. We talk about the past’s influence on today’s fanatics, the conquests of Spain and the Levant by the Moors and the Crusaders and much much more.
Episode Links
The House of War: The Struggle between Christendom and the Caliphate
Aspects of History Links
Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99
Ollie on X
Aspects of History on Instagram
Check out Badlands Ranch: badlandsranch.com/AOH
Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ovid with Fiona Forsyth
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 • Duration 37:45
Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman poet much of whose life coincided with the reign of Augustus. He was the most famous poet during this time, a genuine superstar, and his works dealing with sex, violence and mythology have meant he continues to attract study, translations and books today - Metamorphoses being his most famous work.
Joining me today is Fiona Forsyth, author of Poetic Justice, who discusses the poet’s life, his work and his legacy, as well as a recommended translation.
Episode Links
Poetic Justice
Metamorphoses, transl. Stephanie McCarter
Ovid Banished from Rome, JWM Turner
Aspects of History Links
Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com
Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99
Ollie on X
Aspects of History on Instagram
Check out Badlands Ranch: badlandsranch.com/AOH
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Naples 1944 with Keith Lowe
Friday, October 4, 2024 • Duration 45:10
Within months of the allies liberation of Naples in October of 1943 the city was plunged into the horrors of disease, starvation, prostitution and racketeering. How did this happen, who was responsible, what about the mafia and what was the impact on a city that is despised by the rest of Italy, and itself views the world very differently from other Mediterranean cities.
Joining is Keith Lowe, author of Naples 1944, an account of the chaos that resulted from what was supposed to be a release from the misery of occupation.
Episode Links
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos
The Skin, by Curzio Malaparte
DDT
Aspects of History Links
Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99
Ollie on X
Aspects of History on Instagram
Check out Badlands Ranch: badlandsranch.com/AOH
Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Henry V with Dan Jones
Friday, September 27, 2024 • Duration 50:13
On the 25th October 1415 Henry V led the English army onto the field of Agincourt. There he defeated the flower of French chivalry to win perhaps the finest victory of the medieval period, made famous by Shakespeare’s play. But who was Henry V? Brilliant general, skilled politician or simply a warmonger? And is there a figure from the past that he most resembles?
Dan Jones, the author of a new biography of Henry joins to answer these and many more questions as we try to get to the bottom of who Henry V was.
Episode Links
Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King, Dan Jones
YouTube video of young Henry's surgical procedure to remove the arrowhead
Aspects of History Links
Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99
Ollie on X
Aspects of History on Instagram
Check out Badlands Ranch: badlandsranch.com/AOH
Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Film Club: A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Thursday, September 26, 2024 • Duration 01:20:34
Our Operation Market Garden series concludes with a chat on the 1977 classic directed by Richard Attenborough.
Joining is Roger Moorhouse, author of The Forgers, and film maker Tim Hewitt.
Links
ChatDMZ - Market Garden
A Bridge Too Far on IMDB
A Bridge Too Far on Wikipedia
Dirk Bogarde Interview
Ollie on X
Tim on X
Roger on X
Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99
Aspects of History on Instagram
Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com
Check out Badlands Ranch: badlandsranch.com/AOH
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Operation Market Garden with Gordon Corrigan & Philip Blood
Friday, September 20, 2024 • Duration 01:23:50
At 3 o’clock in the afternoon on the 20th September 1944 in Nijmegen, Holland, men of the 504th regiment, US 82nd Airborne embarked in canvas rowing boats and began an amphibious assault that was one of the most heroic in military history. Facing the well defended objective on the north end of the Nijmegen bridge over the river Waal, 134 men were killed or wounded in the crossing, more than half the force, but the attack was a success and the bridge was captured. The road to Arnhem was the final jigsaw in Operation Market Garden. Or was it?
Joining me are two historians to discuss the operation as a whole, from the airborne forces tasked with capturing Eindhoven, Nijmegen and Arnhem, to XXX corps and the German troops facing them. Gordon Corrigan takes the allied side, and Philip Blood the German.
Episode Links
It Never Snows in September, Kershaw
Sky Warriors, David
A Bridge Too Far, Ryan
Airborne Carpet, Farrar-Hockley
Arnhem 1944, Middlebrook
Arnhem, Beevor
Arnhem: Black Tuesday, Murray
Aspects of History Links
Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99
Ollie on X
Aspects of History on Instagram
Check out Badlands Ranch: badlandsranch.com/AOH
Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Operation Market Garden: Black Tuesday with Al Murray
Tuesday, September 17, 2024 • Duration 48:20
On Sunday the 17th September 1944 the 1st Airborne Division began dropping into Arnhem to begin a battle that remains iconic to this day. Within 2 days progress was proving difficult and on Tuesday the 19th, Black Tuesday, things had come to a head. The commander, Roy Urquhart had gone missing, his subordinates were squabbling over command, only 1 battalion had made it to the objective, Arnhem Bridge, and the paras had come up against stiff resistance.
Continuing our Operation Market Garden special, historian and comedian Al Murray joins to talk about that most heroic of failures, the Battle of Arnhem, and focusing on one day when success or failure was decided.
Al Murray Links
Arnhem: Black Tuesday
Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War
Aspects of History Links
Latest Issue out - Annual Subscription to Aspects of History Magazine only $9.99/£9.99
Ollie on X
Aspects of History on Instagram
Check out Badlands Ranch: badlandsranch.com/AOH
Get in touch: history@aspectsofhistory.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple Podcasts
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
21/08/2026
#90
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
18/08/2026
#98
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
17/08/2026
#81
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
09/08/2026
#86
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
05/08/2026
#99
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
03/08/2026
#73
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
02/08/2026
#58
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
31/07/2026
#83
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
30/07/2026
#94
🇬🇧 Great Britain - books
29/07/2026
#99
Spotify
No recent rankings available
Related Shows Based on Content Similarities
Discover shows related to Aspects of History, based on actual content similarities. Explore podcasts with similar topics, themes, and formats, backed by real data.