podcast

Empire: World History

by Goalhanger

322. India’s Greatest Rebellion: The 1857 Mutiny (Part 1)

06.01.2026 • 00:50:58

Secret messages are being passed from city to city inside chapattis, rebellion is in the air. When Indian soldiers in the East India Company army hear...

321. Exploding Rum-filled Coffins, Anglo-Indian Sisterhood, & Julia Margaret Cameron

01.01.2026 • 00:50:02

How did Julia Margaret Cameron - Virginia Woolf's great aunt - become one of the most influential photography artists of her time? Who were the Anglo-...

320. Photos That Shook The World: Exposing Leopold in The Congo

30.12.2025 • 00:46:05

How did one woman take on the brutal colonial King Leopold II in Congo with her camera? Who was Alice Seely Harris and why should we remember her name...

319. Heist of St Nicolas: The Medieval Mafia Who Stole Santa (Part 2)

25.12.2025 • 00:32:23

Who were the Italian sailors who stole the bones of St Nicolas from his church in Turkey in 1087? How was the mythology of St Nicolas combined with Ge...

318. Heist of St Nicolas: Raiding Santa's Tomb (Part 1)

23.12.2025 • 00:32:21

The original Santa Claus, Saint Nicolas, was a real bishop from Myra in modern-day Turkey, whose tomb there was popular with pilgrims, but 700 years a...

317. Churchill's Photographer: From Escaping Genocide to MLK

18.12.2025 • 00:48:25

Who was Karsh and how did he become one of the most famous portrait photographers of the 20th century? How did Karsh escape from the Armenian Genocide...

316. Hitler's Photographer: Nazi Secrets, Eva Braun, & Escaping Justice

16.12.2025 • 00:47:14

Who was Heinrich Hoffman and how did he use his photography to promote Adolf Hitler and Nazism? When did Hoffman introduce Hitler to Eva Braun? What l...

Introducing: The Rest Is Science

12.12.2025 • 00:13:22

Forget what you think you know about reality. The Rest Is Science is a mind-bending new show from Goalhanger that tears down familiar ideas… time,...

315. Controversy, Colonialism, & V.S. Naipaul

11.12.2025 • 00:44:16

Who was V.S. Naipaul and why was he so controversial? How did Naipaul alter the way in which writers and readers saw the world, and in particular how ...

314. Rudyard Kipling: Villain or Visionary? (Part 3)

09.12.2025 • 00:47:36

Should we still read Kipling today? What family tragedy did Kipling face in the later half of his life? How did he fan the flames of jingoism during a...