On the 10th September 1989, the Hungarian government announced the opening of the border with Austria to allow thousands of East Germans to leave the Communist ...

On the 8th September 1888, the very first Football League games were played in ...

The Nazi German Luftwaffe launched the first of 57 consecutive days and nights of bombing raids on London in what became known as the ...

Shortly after midnight on the morning of the 6th September 1972, nine Israeli Olympic athletes were killed by Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group in the Munich ...

On the 4th September 1957 a group of nine black schoolchildren were prevented from entering the previously segregated Little Rock Central High School by the Arkansas National Guard acting on the orders of Governor Orval ...

Beginning at a bakery in Pudding Lane, the catastrophic fire blazed for more than three days and destroyed over 13,000 houses, churches and government ...

After more than four years that have seen me writing and reading nearly half a million words (and telling hundreds upon hundreds of historical stories) I am in need of a very long break!

The last of my new episodes is published today, although the podcast feed itself will continue to release 'reruns' of previous episodes every day for the foreseeable future.

Thank you for all your support, subscriptions, and engagements over the past four years. I hope that you have enjoyed the daily history podcast and that you will continue to visit the back-catalogue of well over 700 different ...

The Battle of the Bogside began in Derry, Northern Ireland, marking one of the first major conflicts of The ...

On the 4th August 1693, legend says that French Benedictine monk Dom Pérignon invented ...

On the 30th July 1792, a group of volunteer soldiers from the city of Marseille were the first to introduce and sing “La Marseillaise” in ...