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The History Today podcast is a monthly conversation about the world of history, featuring interviews, discussions, and other material.

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Latest episode:

In this episode History Today editor Paul Lay speaks to Edgar Feuchtwanger, who as a boy in Munich witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler at extraordinarily close range: his family lived on the same street as the soon-to-be dictator.

Edgar writes about his experience in the June issue of History Today, which is out this week. You can also read it in our new tablet edition for iPad, Android and Kindle Fire.

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Previous episodes

Charlotte Crow speaks to David Coke about his research into the history of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens.

In this edition: Tom Holland discusses his research into the early years of Islam.

In this month's edition: the death of Alexander the Great, the life of Thomas Becket and remembering the Falklands War.

In this month's edition: Hitler's dream capital, sinking the Tirpitz and the history of the night.

In this month's edition: an Englishman in the Spanish Civil War, life in postwar Germany and the Romans who made Britain.

In this month's edition we discuss the difficult legacy of the Treaty of Versailles, and the origins of the medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

In this month's edition: the myths of 1941, the Algerian war of independence, and advertising in the age of Mad Men.

In this month's edition: obscene caricatures of Madame de Pompadour, lost photographs from Captain Scott's last expedition, and Germany's Jewish soldiers in the First World War.

In this month's podcast we discuss the 1911 Chinese revolution, the Tower of London and great discoveries in medicine.

David Boyle talks about great voyages of discovery from the 1490s to the 1770s and the extent to which it is possible to tell the story from the point of view of those who were 'discovered'.


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