History Revealed: The History of Sport: Episode 66

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History Revealed: The Man Who Redrew the Map: Episode 3

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History Revealed: Mystery of Everest: Mallory And Irvine's Climb To The Top: Episode 16

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History Revealed: The Reel story William Wallace: Episode 52

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History Revealed: Great Adventures Captain Bligh: Episode 68

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History Revealed: Merrill's Maurauders: Episode 35

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History Revealed: The Space Race: Episode 72

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History Revealed: 12 Years a Slave: Episode 45

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History Revealed: Robin Hood: Episode 17

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History Revealed: The Doomed Quest of Hernando de Soto: Episode 8

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History Revealed: Tutankhamun the Boy King: Episode 24

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History Revealed: Living with the Tudors: Episode 48

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History Revealed: Birth of Democracy: Episode 19

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History Revealed: The Extraordinary Tale of Pocahontas: Episode 47

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History Revealed: The City in the Sky: Episode 26

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History Revealed: The Vikings: Episode 55

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History Revealed: Butch and Sundance's Pan American Escapade: Episode 51

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History Revealed: The Extraordinary Tale of Gertrude Bell: Episode 53

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History Revealed: Secrets of the deep: Life on board the Mary Rose: Episode 49

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History Revealed: 2nd Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda: Episode 42

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History Revealed: Shakelton's Antarctic Rescue Mission: Episode 43

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History Revealed: Aldrin's Odyssey: Episode 73

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History Revealed: 50 Big questions about World War 1: Episode 50

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History Revealed: The Reel Story The Assasination of Jesse James: Episode 83

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History Revealed: A Man for All Seasons: Episode 62

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History Revealed: The Reel Story: All the Presidents Men: Episode 69

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History Revealed: Anne Queen of Broken Hearts: Episode 15

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History Revealed: Great Adventures Burke and Wills: Episode 60

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History Revealed: Spartacus: Episode 65

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History Revealed: Gladiators of Rome: Episode 64

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History Revealed: Great Adventurers Amelia Earhart: Episode 81

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History Revealed: The Games Reborn: Episode 2

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A History of the Olympics

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'Unsuitable for Females': The Rise of the Lionesses and Women's Football in England

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History of Football

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The Pan-Hellenic Games in Ancient Greece: The History of the Olympics and the Other Major Greek Competitions

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Marathon Man: An ancient legend inspired an Olympic champion.

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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

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Kegling Anyone?

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The Colosseum

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C. C. Pyle's Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America

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Eric Liddell: Finish the Race

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It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels

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The Games: A Global History of the Olympics

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Snowboard Cross

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Great British Cycling Legends

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Edinburgh

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Learn British English - Level 5: Advanced English, Volume 3: Lessons 1-25

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Who Do You Think You Are? Behind the Headlines: The Potato Famine: Episode 17

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Weird Facts About Curling

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The Meaning of Everything

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Summary of Simon Winchester & Soun Vannithone's The Map That Changed the World

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On the Ashes

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The World's Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero

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Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings

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The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood

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The Battle of Edgehill: The History and Legacy of the Opening Battle of the English Civil War

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1939: The Last Season

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Who Do You Think You Are? My Ancestor was a Watch and Clock Maker: Episode 42

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The Prince Who Would Be King: The Life and Death of Henry Stuart

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Cat & Kitten Tips

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The Book of Five Rings

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The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living

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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

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The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

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Razorblade Tears: A Novel

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Demon Copperhead: A Novel

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The Secret History of the World

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All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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The Overstory

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Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

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The Korean War: A History

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Mary Magdalene: Women, the Church, and the Great Deception

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Small Mercies: A Novel

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Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

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The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

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An American Marriage: A Novel

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On Palestine

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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West

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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

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Leave the World Behind: A Novel

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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

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Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

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The Story of Art Without Men

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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

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148: Ultramarathons on Christmas Day 1879: In 1879, the featured Christmas Day sports event was ultrarunning. That day, at least four ultramarathons were taking place including one on a ship

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54: The 100-miler – Part 1 (1737-1875) Edward Payson Weston: People have competed at 100 miles on foot for at least 300 years on roads, tracks and trails. A 100-mile frenzy started in 1867 led by Edward Payson Weston.

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82: Roller Skating Ultra Distances – 1885 Six Days: In 1885 a six-day ultra-distance roller skating race was held in Madison Square Garden. Ultrarunners participated. The event ended in tragedy.

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154: The American Championship Belt – 1879: The American Championship Belt Six-Day Race was held in April 1879 in Madison Square Garden with 40 entrants, running around a track for six days.

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91: Six-Day Race Part 1: The Birth (1773-1870): The six-day race, running/walking as far as you can in six days, had its birth nearly 250 years ago in England, started by Foster Powell in 1773 who ran 400 miles in six days from London to York and back.

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“Absent, caught fire” and other great moments from Scotland’s cricket heritage

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58: The 100-miler – Part 5 (1902-1926) London to Brighton and Back: Numerous 100-mile races were held from London to Brighton and back during the early 1900s by the Surrey Walking Club. The Brotherhood of Centurions was founded in 1911.

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The First Cricket Tour to Australia and the ss Great Britain

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57: The 100-miler – Part 4 (1900-1919) 100-Mile Records Fall: Ultrarunners from Chicago, race 100 miles from Milwaukee to Chicago from 1905-1916. The story of the 1906 Tarahumara mountain trail 100 in Mexico.

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How professionals save soccer – but not cricket – from public school amateurs, explains sports historian Richard Sanders

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8: The 50-Miler History: The early history of the 50-mile ultramarathon in America. The Road Runners Club of America and Ted Corbitt helped reestablish 50-milers in America during the 1960s. and way to prepare to run England's London to Brighton 52-miler.

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Talking with MCC's Head of Heritage and Collections Neil Robinson

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145: The Lake Waramaug 100K: The Lake Waramaug 100K ultramarathon in Connecticut, was the first 100K ultramarathon established in America, in 1974. The top ultrarunners in America competed

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156: The Second English Astley Belt Race – 1879: In April 1879 a six-day foot race was held in London, England, where 13 ultrarunning world records were broken by George Hazael and Blower Brown.

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153: The 3rd Astley Belt Six-Day Race (1879): The Third Astley Belt six-day race was held in Madison Square Garden in 1879 and was the most impactful ultramarathon in the history of the sport.

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43: Walking Backwards Around the World – Part 6: In 1931, Plennie Wingo, of Texas attempted go around the world walking backwards. The sport of walking/running backwards has existed for more than 200 years.

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The Royal Navy at the time of the Great Fire of London: Charles II's Navy

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335-Transporting Obelisks: In the 1800s, France, England, and the United States each undertook to move a massive Egyptian obelisk.

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18: 1,000 Milers – Part 2 – The Barclay Match: Running or walking 1,000 miles by covering one mile, each hour for 1,000 consecutive hours is known as the Barclay Match. This bizarre contest began in 1809, in England.

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6: The Last Day Run (1965-1972)

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The British Museum or Greece: Who should lose their marbles?: The Greek PM has said there has been 'progress' in talks

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Episode 447: Burke & Hare Part 1

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Freak Ships of the Nineteenth Century IV: The Cleopatra

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Freak Ships of the Nineteenth Century I: Monitors

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119. Crystal Palace Football Club: How It Began

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Grave Matters in Edinburgh | Ep. 10: In 1836, seventeen tiny coffins were found on the hillside of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh, Scotland, adding to the mystery and legends of that location. A new theory emerged in the 1990's as to their purpose, and it would center on the infamous 19th...

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Wilf Wooller – the man at so many great moments of Welsh cricket

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Away Game: Burke and Hare - The Anatomy Murderers

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Roman Treasures of Iron Age Scotland

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41: Around the World on Foot – Part 4 – The Bizarre: In 1908 an Englishman attempted to walk around the world wearing an iron mask. In 1900-07 a man pushed his wife and daughter in a baby carriage for 20,000 miles.