419 Episodes

  1. Interview with Professor Tom Birkett on "Runes: A Concise History"

    Published: 1/1/2026

  2. How Alexander the Great's Soldiers Spent Their Money

    Published: 12/25/2025

  3. Two Murders at the Dawn of History (Lost Worlds Audiobook Preview)

    Published: 12/18/2025

  4. Past Lives: Nanaya'ila'i and the Bleeding Edge of the Assyrian Empire

    Published: 12/15/2025

  5. The Economic Life of Megakles, Farmer of Classical Athens

    Published: 12/11/2025

  6. Doing History through Movies: Interview with Dr. Jason Herbert

    Published: 12/4/2025

  7. Listen to Patrick's New History Podcast, Past Lives

    Published: 12/3/2025

  8. Why Was Classical Athens So Rich?

    Published: 11/27/2025

  9. Patrick's New History Show, Past Lives, Launches December 3rd!

    Published: 11/21/2025

  10. Why the Hundred Years War Actually Lasted Two Hundred Years: Interview with Professor Michael Livingston

    Published: 11/20/2025

  11. The Phoenicians, the Greeks, and the Iron Age Mediterranean

    Published: 11/13/2025

  12. Love, War, and Diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age: Interview with Professor Eric Cline

    Published: 11/6/2025

  13. Building the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings

    Published: 10/30/2025

  14. The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter Brannen

    Published: 10/23/2025

  15. Living and Working in Imperial Babylonia

    Published: 10/16/2025

  16. The Ancient Economy from Assyria to Augustus

    Published: 10/9/2025

  17. Interview with Dr. Owen Rees (Book, The Far Edges of the Known World releases 9/30/25)

    Published: 10/2/2025

  18. Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly Low

    Published: 9/25/2025

  19. Alexander's Successors and the Danube Frontier

    Published: 9/11/2025

  20. The Celts Invade Greece

    Published: 9/11/2025

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