A new history channel and podcast covering the history and historical stories from parts of the world which don't always get as much attention with Joseph Keen.
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Polynesian Navigators: The Greatest Seafarers in History?
Send us Fan Mail The ancient Polynesians stand among history’s greatest seafarers. By around 1100 BC, they had already crossed vast expanses of the Pacific, settling remote islands such as Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. In the centuries that followed, they pushed even farther, reaching places like Easter Island, Vanuatu, New Zealand and off the coast of Africa in Madagascar. This was known as the Austronesian expansion. Joseph Keen explains how they went about achieving this. Episode also on YouTube...
12 Apr 2026
A History of Iran: From Ancient Empires to the Medieval World
Send us Fan Mail EXPLAINER: Recent tensions involving the United States, Israel, and Iran have once again drawn global attention to a region with a long and complex past. But today’s events are only the latest chapter in a much deeper story. To understand Iran’s place in the world, we need to look back thousands of years—through the rise of ancient Persian empires, periods of conquest and the foundations laid during the middle ages that continue to shape the region today. Joseph Keen explains...
6 Apr 2026
Did Neanderthal Men Prefer Human Women? New DNA Study Reveals Ancient Secrets
Send us Fan Mail In the long stretch of prehistory, humans weren’t alone. One of the groups they shared the world and sometimes their lives with were the Neanderthals. Now, a new DNA study suggests those encounters followed a pattern and most often, it was Neanderthal men and human women who got together and interbred. This left a genetic signature that is still found in then DNA of many of us today. It provides a clue as to how our species evolved, how cultures may have collided, and how eve...
17 Nov 2025
The history behind the War in Sudan
Send us a text In October 2025, the city of El Fasher in North Darfur fell to the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary organisation which has been engaged in a vicious civil war against the Sudanese armed forces. The United Nations says thousands have fled El Fasher since the RSF takeover. Over the course of the war the BBC says more than 150,000 people have died and about 12 million have fled their homes since the conflict broke out in April 2023. So how did we get here? The northeast Africa...
30 Oct 2025
London, Slavery and the Slave Trade
Send us a text As part of UK Black History Month, History from a New Perspective has been exploring London's historic relationship with the Transatlantic slave trade. This is a short episode which explains how the city's wealth grew as a result of slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas. The episode also explores how Britain later abolished the slave trade and slavery. Joseph Keen visited the 'London, Sugar and Slavery: 1600-present' exhibition at the London Museum Docklands. Also available...
30 Sept 2025
Could an ancient Tamil settlement rewrite India’s history?
Send us a text Buried deep beneath coconut groves in South India’s Tamil Nadu state lies Keeladi, an ancient settlement whose 2,500-year-old remains are igniting a fierce debate over India’s history. Archaeologists, politicians and linguists have clashed over what Keeladi means — for identity, heritage and the story we tell about the past. India’s first major civilisation, the Indus Valley, thrived between 3300 and 1300 BCE in the north and central regions. After its decline, the Vedic ...
1 Sept 2025
A history of Mexico's Aztecs in their own words
The US FBI recently returned a 500-year-old stolen document to Mexico. The manuscript was penned by Hernán Cortés, a man who helped pave the way for Spanish colonisation of the Americas and bring about the end of the Aztec Empire. The Aztec empire lasted until the 16th century in what is now Mexico with Spain’s conquest leading to its collapse in 1521. The civilisation has often been linked to the practice of human sacrifice. Scholars have traditionally relied on European sources to document ...
10 Aug 2025
Tattoos revealed on a 2,300 year old Siberian ice mummy
Archaeologists have used high-resolution scans to produce images of tattoos found on an ancient woman in an ice cave. This woman was part of the Pazyryk people, a nomadic Scythian culture (documented by the Ancient Greek historian, Herodotus) which existed between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC in the area of modern day Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and North Western China. The “Ice mummies” were found in the Altai mountains of Central Asia in the 19th century. Joseph Keen has been speaking to D...
28 Jul 2025
Algeria's fight for freedom from France 1954-1962
In 1830, French forces invaded Algeria leading to over a century of colonial rule. The North African nation was even treated as an integral part of France known as “Algerie Francaise.” By 1 November 1954, Algeria’s National Liberation Front or FLN began a major war of decolonization from France, which eventually led to the deaths of somewhere between 400,000 to 1.5 million people. The struggle was famously depicted in the 1966 film “Battle of Algiers.” By 5 July 1962, the country had ac...
13 Jul 2025
Why don't we know more about the history of Africa?
Want to learn more about the history of the African continent? From the ancient Nubian kingdoms of Sudan and Egypt to Mansa Musa's medieval Mali, to modern-day Ghana, we'll explore the rise and fall of civilizations and the lasting legacies they left behind. Joseph Keen spoke to Luke Pepera is a writer, broadcast, anthropologist, historian and author of "Motherland: A Journey through 500,000 Years of African Culture and Identity." Luke's Book: https://www.waterstones.com/book/motherland/luke...
18 Jun 2025
Explore the FASCINATING World of History!
This episode explores world history from ancient times to the modern era, spanning every continent, offering a broad overview.
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