The producers of some of the world’s most popular history podcasts have announced a new show with historians David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell.
Journey Through Time will be available on podcast platforms and YouTube from Thursday 20 March.
David Olusoga said: “Like the programs I make on TV, this show will uncover the sorts of history that didn’t take place in parliament or palaces. What Sarah and I are going to do is explore how political decisions, new technologies and the random chaos of the past played out on the street, within the home or on the battlefield.”
In the first two episodes of Journey Through Time, David and Sarah will tell the story of one of the most devastating terrorist attacks on New York City, which is almost forgotten today: the 1916 Black Tom explosion. They will explore how the incident led to the creation of America’s modern security state and America’s entry into the First World War.
In upcoming episodes, David and Sarah uncover the remarkable story of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president in the United States in 1872; track the path of the Great Storm of 1703, the most violent weather event ever recorded in England; and follow the scandalous 1906 murder of American architect Stanford White. They’ll revisit the Great Exhibition of 1851; explore the true story of Bass Reeves, the formerly enslaved man who became one of the most legendary US Marshals of the American West; and uncover the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, two women who defied the British Empire to become pirates in the Caribbean.
David Olusoga is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester and presenter of acclaimed history TV programmes including A House Through Time and Civilisations.
Sarah Churchwell is an author, broadcaster and Chair of Public Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
Journey Through Time is produced by Goalhanger, the production company behind podcasts including The Rest Is History with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook and We Have Ways of Making You Talk with Al Murray and James Holland.
