
The Rest Is History
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The world’s most popular history podcast, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook. Join The Rest Is History Club (www.therestishistory.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. Here are some of our favourite episodes to get you started: WATERGATE/NIXON apple.co/3JrVl5h ALEXANDER THE GREAT apple.co/3Q4FaNk HARDCORE HISTORY'S DAN CARLIN apple.co/3vqkGa3 PUTIN & RUSSIA apple.co/3zMtLfX
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“A secret society of murderers with a king for a ringleader”. In 1885 King Leopold of Belgium; an awkward, ruthless, selfish man, was recognised as the sovereign of the Congo. Long determined to carve out his very own private colonial domain, he had alighted upon the Congo - Africa’s vast and unplundered interior. With the help of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley, who had found a way to circumnavigate the Congo’s formerly insurmountable rapids, he concocted a cunning scheme to legally make it his own, while casting himself as a civilising saviour. Yet, despite his ostensibly philanthropic motivations, Leopold’s goal was always profit. More specifically, ivory, and later rubber, and before long a thriving hub of industry had been established in the Congo, bustling with soldiers, traders and missionaries. Meanwhile and most significantly, tens of thousands of Congolese people were being beaten, coerced and essentially enslaved into harvesting and carrying the riches of their land for their European oppressors. Their treatment was barbaric, the conditions in which they were made to live grotesque, and their suffering unimaginable. It was there, in King Leopold's Congo, that for years some of the worst violations of human life in all of human history were perpetrated. A terrible, secret heart of darkness, Until, at last, a young shipping clerk in Antwerp stumbled across something that would change the course of history forever... Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss Western history’s most brutal and barbaric colonial conquest: King Leopold’s exploitation of the Congo Free State and her people. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Assistant Producer: Tabby Syrett + Aaliyah Akude Editor: Jack Meek Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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574 - 539. Horror in the Congo: The Crimes of Empire (Part 2) Thu, 13 Feb 2025
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573 - 538. Horror in the Congo: The Nightmare Begins (Part 1) Mon, 10 Feb 2025
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572 - 537. Emperors of Rome: Claudius, Paranoia and Poison (Part 4) Thu, 06 Feb 2025
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571 - 536. Emperors of Rome: Caligula, Incest and Insanity (Part 3) Mon, 03 Feb 2025
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570 - 535. Emperors of Rome: Tiberius, Slaughter and Scandal (Part 2) Thu, 30 Jan 2025
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569 - 534. Emperors of Rome: Sex Secrets of the Caesars (Part 1) Mon, 27 Jan 2025
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568 - Russian Spies, Pigeons, and The Rest Is Classified… Fri, 24 Jan 2025
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567 - 533. Wojtek: The Bear Who Beat the Nazis Thu, 23 Jan 2025
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566 - 532. Hitler's War on Poland: The Fall of Warsaw (Part 3) Mon, 20 Jan 2025
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565 - 531. Hitler's War on Poland: The Pact with Stalin (Part 2) Thu, 16 Jan 2025
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564 - 530. Hitler’s War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1) Mon, 13 Jan 2025
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563 - 529. The Nazis' Road to War: Showdown in Munich (Part 2) Thu, 09 Jan 2025
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562 - 528. The Nazis' Road to War: Hitler Prepares to Strike (Part 1) Mon, 06 Jan 2025
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561 - 527. Beethoven: Napoleon and the Music of War LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall Thu, 02 Jan 2025
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560 - 526. Mozart: History's Greatest Prodigy LIVE at the Royal Albert Hall Mon, 30 Dec 2024
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559 - 525. Charlemagne: Emperor of the West (Part 3) Wed, 25 Dec 2024
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558 - 524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2) Mon, 23 Dec 2024
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557 - 523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1) Thu, 19 Dec 2024
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556 - 522. Warlords of the West: A Clash of Ice and Fire (Part 3) Mon, 16 Dec 2024
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555 - 521. Warlords of the West: Killer Queens (Part 2) Thu, 12 Dec 2024
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554 - 520. Warlords of the West: Barbarian Heirs of Rome (Part 1) Mon, 09 Dec 2024
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553 - 519. The World's First City Thu, 05 Dec 2024
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552 - 518. Nelson: The Battle of the Nile (Part 5) Mon, 02 Dec 2024
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551 - 517. Nelson: The Hunt for Napoleon (Part 4) Thu, 28 Nov 2024
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550 - 516. Nelson: God of War (Part 3) Mon, 25 Nov 2024
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549 - 515. Nelson: Attack the French! (Part 2) Thu, 21 Nov 2024
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548 - 514. Nelson: Hero of the Seas (Part 1) Mon, 18 Nov 2024
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547 - 513. America in '68: Nixon's Great Comeback (Part 6) Thu, 14 Nov 2024
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546 - 512. America in '68: The Chicago Riots (Part 5) Mon, 11 Nov 2024
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545 - 511. America in '68: George Wallace, The First Donald Trump (Part 4) Thu, 07 Nov 2024
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544 - 510. America in '68: The Killing of Robert Kennedy (Part 3) Mon, 04 Nov 2024
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543 - 509. America in '68: The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Part 2) Thu, 31 Oct 2024
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542 - 508. America in '68: Nightmare in Vietnam (Part 1) Mon, 28 Oct 2024
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541 - 507. The French Revolution: The Marseillaise, Song of War (Part 5) Thu, 24 Oct 2024
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540 - 506. The French Revolution: Massacre at the Palace (Part 4) Wed, 23 Oct 2024
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539 - 505. The French Revolution: The Shadow of the Guillotine (Part 3) Sun, 20 Oct 2024
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538 - 504. The French Revolution: War to the Death (Part 2) Wed, 16 Oct 2024
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537 - 503. The French Revolution: Bloodbath in Paris (Part 1) Sun, 13 Oct 2024
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536 - 502. The Roman Conquest of Britain: To the Ends of the Earth (Part 4) Wed, 09 Oct 2024
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535 - 501. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Boudicca’s Reign of Blood (Part 3) Sun, 06 Oct 2024
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534 - 500. The Roman Conquest of Britain: The Empire Strikes Back (Part 2) Wed, 02 Oct 2024
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533 - 499. The Roman Conquest of Britain: Julius Caesar’s Invasion (Part 1) Sun, 29 Sep 2024
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532 - 498. Evita: The Mystery of the Missing Body (Part 5) Wed, 25 Sep 2024
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531 - 497. Evita: Death of a Martyr (Part 4) Mon, 23 Sep 2024
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530 - 496. Evita: The World's Most Powerful Woman (Part 3) Sun, 22 Sep 2024
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529 - 495. Evita: The Rise of General Perón (Part 2) Wed, 18 Sep 2024
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528 - 494. Evita: Birth of a Legend (Part 1) Sun, 15 Sep 2024
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527 - 493. Lee Miller: Exposing the Horrors of World War Two Wed, 11 Sep 2024
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526 - 492. The War on Beards: From Peter the Great to John Lennon (Part 2) Mon, 09 Sep 2024
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525 - 491. History's Greatest Beards: From Egyptian Queens to Medieval Conquerors (Part 1) Sun, 08 Sep 2024