Yesterday

The hidden history of US immigration detention

The roots of immigration detention in the US stretch back over a century. Speaking to Elinor Evans, historian Brianna Nofil explores how the US built a vast migrant detention regime. From jailing Chinese migrants in 1900s upstate New York to the private prison boom of the 1980s a ... Show More

47m 46s

Jan 13

Emperor Hirohito: life of the week

While most of the other surviving Axis leaders were put on trial following the end of the Second World War, Japan's Emperor Hirohito never faced justice and, instead, continued to reign until his death in 1989. Debate continues about how far he was personally responsible for Japa ... Show More

42m 2s

Jan 12

Secrets of the Romans' spectacular success

How did a muddy settlement on the banks of the river Tiber grow into the greatest empire the world had ever seen? Who was the more diabolical: Caligula or Nero? And was there really such a thing as Pax Romana? Speaking with Spencer Mizen, Edward Watts answers some of the most int ... Show More

38m 57s

Jun 2023

5 Assassinations That Changed History

Assassins have been plotting, murdering, and executing for thousands of years—from the famed Ides of March to forgotten British Prime Ministers. Their reach across history is inconceivable. But what motivates an assassin, and have their murderous ways ever helped them achieve the ... Show More

41m 49s

Jan 2023

4 Royal Assassinations

Assassination – the murder of a prominent person, often for political motives. These calamities shock the world and can change the course of history. But as we will learn from the following shocking accounts, violence can only beget more violence. And the aspirations of assassins ... Show More

23m 18s

Apr 2023

Assassins vs Templars: Assassins' Deeds

Poisoned blades, a gun, a dagger to the heart - assassinations & killings for political gain have taken place for as long as societies have existed. Just as in the games, we have evidence of assassinations from Ancient Egypt to the American Revolution to the Victorian Age. ... Show More

32m 2s

Apr 2023

Rise of the Assassins

This is a special episode from a series we made in collaboration with Ubisoft, the makers of Assassin's Creed. In <a href="https://lnkd.in/eEEqtiwq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Assassins vs Templars</a>, we're immersing ourselves in the real hi ... Show More

34m 22s

Jun 2019

The Anunnaki Pt. 2: Space Kings

Zechariah Sitchin found evidence to suggest that aliens meddled in the affairs of the ancient Egyptians, and may have even influenced the stories of the Bible. But back in the 1970s, skeptics began to question his writings. Parcasters - This week on Assassinations we cover an ass ... Show More

45m 37s

Nov 2018

Introducing Assassinations

People who defied society. Bullets that defiled bodies. Deaths that define history. Assassinations recounts the lead-up, the fall-out, and impact of history’s most dramatic deaths. Within each story, we explore the people who picked the target, pulled the trigger, or poured the p ... Show More

1m 12s

Dec 2023

398. JFK: The Mystery is Solved (Part 7)

In this landmark edition of The Rest is History, Dominic and Tom reveal the astonishing solution to the mystery that has fascinated so many people for the last sixty years. In thrillingly definitive detail, they explain just who killed President Kennedy and why he did it. Step ... Show More

51m 21s

Nov 2023

392. JFK: The Road to the White House (Part 1)

“There were a lot of people who wanted Kennedy dead, a lot of powerful people. There are secrets still being held and I never bought for a minute that Oswald operated alone.” The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on 22nd November 1963 is one of history’s most ... Show More

47m 54s

Assassinations: from the ancient world t...