Episode list

S1.E1 ∙ Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck: Pretenders to the Throne?

S1.E2 ∙ What Was a French Silversmith Doing in the Mongol Capital of Karakorum?

S1.E3 ∙ Papal Abdication

S1.E4 ∙ Henry II and the Accidental Invasion of Ireland

S1.E5 ∙ Olaudah Equiano

S1.E6 ∙ Hungry Heretics and Hoarding Homosexuals

S1.E7 ∙ Zombies in Thietmar of Merseburg

S1.E8 ∙ Cruel Mind and Deadly Malice

S1.E9 ∙ Heresy and You: The Example of Alice Rowley

S1.E10 ∙ Drinking in Medieval England

S1.E11 ∙ Pre-Historic Runners and the 'Fall' of the Neanderthals

S1.E12 ∙ The French Revolution Countdown, Part I

S1.E13 ∙ Using "The Moonstone" to Reveal British Opinions on the Indian Mutiny

S1.E14 ∙ And It Cried 'Here! Here! Here!': King Edmund's Martyrdom by Vikings and the Miraculous Talking Head

S1.E15 ∙ Science, Plague, and Pericles: Reconstructing the Face of Myrtis

S1.E16 ∙ The French Revolution Countdown, Part II

S1.E17 ∙ Tulipmania!

S1.E18 ∙ Occupy Alcatraz: How an Infamous Prison Gave Rise to Native American Autonomy

S1.E19 ∙ Unclean? Lepers and Leprosy in the 13th Century

S1.E20 ∙ Getting Skinny: A Brief History of Dieting

S1.E21 ∙ Racing in the Ancient Olympic Games

S1.E22 ∙ Who's That Guy? or How Simon de Montfort Earned a Relief in the U.S. House of Representatives

S1.E23 ∙ Kids These Days! Cultural Reactions to The Sorrows of Young Werther

S1.E24 ∙ Let Me Entertain You: Amusements in Medieval Towns

S1.E25 ∙ Resolving Conflict through Defenestration: The Odd Customs of Prague

S1.E26 ∙ Napoleon, Part I: The Man

S1.E27 ∙ The Husband-Killing She-Wolf: The Life of Joanna of Naples

S1.E28 ∙ Royal Baby Names

S1.E29 ∙ The Reformation Was Global: Akbar, the Mughal Empire, and Divine Faith

S1.E30 ∙ Mozart, the Runaway Priest, and the Emperor's Opera

S1.E31 ∙ The Mau Mau Insurgency

S1.E32 ∙ The Origin of the Marathon: Linking Past to Present

S1.E33 ∙ Napoleon, Part II: Life in Napoleonic Society

S1.E34 ∙ Confucius and Jesus Have TONS in Common! How the Jesuits Sold the Chinese on Christianity

S1.E35 ∙ Power to the People: Popular Protest in Late Antique Ravenna

S1.E36 ∙ The Strategic Failure of the Habsburg Chin

S1.E37 ∙ A Sickness in Their Hearts: Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico

S1.E38 ∙ Medieval Gift Elephants

S1.E39 ∙ Criminalizing Sex in Early Modern England

S1.E40 ∙ Queer Women in the Golden Age of Mysteries

S1.E41 ∙ The Many Reformations of 16th Century Europe

S1.E42 ∙ The Only Running Footman

S1.E43 ∙ Cheating on Jesus: Bigamy in the Medieval Catholic Priesthood

S1.E44 ∙ Living Memory: The Fall of the Berlin Wall

S1.E45 ∙ Reformation Propaganda

S1.E46 ∙ Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part I: The Abduction

S1.E47 ∙ Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Part II: Australia and New Zealand

S1.E48 ∙ Secret Santa: The Story of Santa Claus

S1.E49 ∙ Historical Ad Campaigns

S1.E50 ∙ King Arthur's Christmas: Christianity, Paganism, and Community