The Siege of Constantinople | Part 2 | The Gathering Storm | Ancient to Recent | Episode 42
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, the stage is set for one of history’s most brutal sieges as the Ottoman Empire and Byzantium move toward their final confrontation.Born into uncertainty and raise...
21 Mar 35min
The Siege of Constantinople | Part 1 | The Queen of Cities | Ancient to Recent | Episode 41
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, Joseph Parkinson begins a new series on the long road to the fall of Constantinople.For centuries the great city stood as the heart of the Byzantine Empire, a wea...
14 Mar 38min
The Haitian Revolution | Part 5 | Napoleon’s Gamble | Ancient to Recent | Episode 40
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, Napoleon Bonaparte launches one of the largest overseas expeditions of the age to crush Toussaint Louverture and restore French control over Saint-Domingue.In 180...
7 Mar 39min
The Haitian Revolution | Part III | Liberty in Chains | Ancient to Recent | Episode 38
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, the Haitian Revolution becomes a global imperial battlefield, and a test of what freedom truly means.Early 1793. The execution of Louis XVI drags Saint-Domingue i...
21 Feb 42min
The Haitian Revolution | Part II | Fire in the Cane Fields | Ancient to Recent | Episode 37
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, the Haitian Revolution explodes into open war.August 1791. Across the northern plains of Saint-Domingue, plantations burn, masters flee, and thousands of enslaved...
14 Feb 40min
The Haitian Revolution | Part I | Slavery, Sugar, and the World That Broke | Ancient to Recent | Episode 36
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, we begin one of the most radical and world-changing revolutions in history: the Haitian Revolution.At the end of the eighteenth century, the French colony of Sain...
7 Feb 40min
The Shah and the Iranian Revolution | Part 3 | Revolution, Coup and the Flight of the Shah | Ancient to Recent | Episode 35
In this episode of Ancient to Recent, we follow Iran through the decisive year of 1979, the moment when a crisis becomes a collapse, and a monarchy that once looked unshakeable disintegrates in a matt...
1 Feb 1h
