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2026 First episode About Writesides of History Podcasts Cinematic, sourced history stories adapted for listening. Every episode leads back to its evidence.
Publisher Writesides of History
Category history
Language en
Explicit No
First episode 14 Sept 2026
Latest episode 17 Sept 2026 Latest episodes 18 episodes in the feed.
17 Sept 2026
The Five Admiralties: Why the Republic Had No Single Navy Why the Dutch Republic fought its wars with five separate navies, and why no province would ever give its own board up.
17 Sept 2026
Cape Rachado, 1606: The Battle Both Sides Won An eight-day running battle off Malacca that the Portuguese won on the day, and the Dutch turned into a victory weeks later.
17 Sept 2026
Jaffa, 1192: The Truce That Ended a Crusade What Richard and Saladin actually agreed after three years of war: a coast, a pilgrimage, and a city that stayed out of reach.
17 Sept 2026
Cyprus, 1191: The Island Richard Took and Sold A usurper nobody defended, an island taken in fifteen days, and a conquest that outlasted every crusader state on the mainland.
17 Sept 2026
Talheim, 5000 BC: The Pit That Changed the Argument A pit of thirty-four bodies in a German village turned an argument about whether Neolithic farmers fought at all into a question about how often.
17 Sept 2026
The Third Generation: The Attacks Nobody Answered For How the last phase of the Red Army Faction killed bankers and officials with precision, and why almost nobody was ever convicted for it.
17 Sept 2026
Abrolhos, 1631: A Victory Decided by a Cable Sixteen Dutch ships against a fleet twice their size off Brazil: an admiral who chose the sea, and a battle both sides could claim.
17 Sept 2026
Jebel Sahaba: The Oldest Massacre, Looked at Again For fifty years a Nile cemetery was the oldest known massacre. A new look at the same bones turned one event into a generation of raiding.
17 Sept 2026
Sickles on the Masts: Rome's Sea Battle Against the Veneti How a Roman fleet beat the Atlantic sailing ships of the Veneti with hooked poles, and what Caesar did to the people afterwards.
17 Sept 2026
Arsuf, 1191: The Charge Richard Never Ordered How a rearguard that broke ranks without orders forced Richard's hand, and why the charge that followed broke Saladin's army without destroying it.
16 Sept 2026
Mandela and de Klerk: Negotiating the End of Apartheid Four years of crisis, compromise and restraint between Mandela's release and South Africa's first democratic election.
16 Sept 2026
Meiji: The Samurai Who Abolished the Samurai How a coup in the emperor's name dissolved Japan's warrior class, and why men of that class carried it out.
16 Sept 2026
After the Fire: How Nero Rebuilt Rome After the Great Fire of 64 AD, Rome wrote new rules for how a city could be built, and Nero claimed the cleared ground for a palace.
16 Sept 2026
Akhenaten: The King Who Turned Egypt Toward the Sun How a pharaoh abandoned Amun, built a capital on empty ground and routed every approach to the sun god through himself.
15 Sept 2026
1798: The Rebellion Before the Union How a non-sectarian republican ideal rose without coordination, descended into violence and helped end Ireland’s parliament.
15 Sept 2026
Bell Beaker: The Cup That Crossed a Continent A small prehistoric vessel reveals two different journeys: ideas spreading between communities and people moving across Europe.
15 Sept 2026
Apollo-Soyuz: The Handshake Above the Cold War How two incompatible spacecraft—and two Cold War rivals—built an interface for cooperation in orbit.
14 Sept 2026
The Fourth Crusade: The Army That Turned on Constantinople How debt, promises and momentum carried a crusading army to the walls of Constantinople.
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