Condensed Histories

Condensed Histories


Latest Episodes

134 - Fast 5 with Jem - The Ottomans
March 17, 2017

What do you know about the Ottoman Empire? Jem has an idea that many of our listeners will have o...

133 - More Historical Hoaxes!
March 14, 2017

As we had a great deal of fun recording our Historical Hoaxes episode last year - and as it has p...

132 - Fast 5 with Greg - Discovering New History!
March 10, 2017

Greg wants to talks about learning something new - and more than that. He has discovered a new pa...

131 - Politics and History
March 07, 2017

Should politics and history mix? Occasionally Greg makes slight political comments on the podcast...

130 - Fast 5 with Jem - The Merchant of Venice
March 03, 2017

It is a shock to Greg, but Jem visited the Globe Theatre in London to embrace Shakespeare! Has he...

129 - Kings, Tyrants and Dictators
February 28, 2017

Greg and Jem discuss politics of the past, as they try to establish whether a dictatorship can be...

128 - Fast 5 with Greg - Imagining History
February 24, 2017

Greg wants you to do him a favour and imagine history... really imagine it! The Condensed Hist...

127 - Things Your History Teacher May Have Lied About!
February 21, 2017

In this week's episode we learn about errors and oversimplifications which may have been made by ...

126 - fast 5 with Jem - A Timeline of Written History
February 17, 2017

Jem has his fast five this week, and he is looking at history itself. This is a companion piece t...

125 - The Return of Jo Clyne (And we talk about the plague!)
February 14, 2017

Jo Clyne is back on the podcast for one of our most anarchic episodes to date. The history of the...