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Sources used in the History Podcast database (please contact me if you spot a good one I'm missing!):

American History Tellers (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
American History Hit (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
Witness History (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
HistoryPod (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
Not Just the Tudors (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
Dan Snow's History Hit (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
Lives Less Ordinary (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
The Rest Is History (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
Short History Of... (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
Oh What A Time... (most recent episode = 22 Jun 2026)
Gone Medieval (most recent episode = 19 Jun 2026)
Throughline (most recent episode = 18 Jun 2026)
Real Dictators (most recent episode = 17 Jun 2026)
The Inquiry (most recent episode = 16 Jun 2026)
Great Lives (most recent episode = 2 Jun 2026)
Pax Britannica: A History of the British Empire (most recent episode = 18 May 2026)
In Our Time: History (most recent episode = 30 Apr 2026)
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs & Dictators (most recent episode = 22 Dec 2025)
BackStory (most recent episode = 14 Aug 2025)
Winds of Change (most recent episode = 30 Jun 2025)
15 Minute History (most recent episode = 1 Apr 2025)
The History of Witchcraft (most recent episode = 9 Dec 2024)
The Weird History Podcast (most recent episode = 30 Sep 2024)
The History of the Cold War Podcast (most recent episode = 2 May 2023)
Dictators (most recent episode = 2 Dec 2022)
History Today Podcast (most recent episode = 18 Dec 2020)
The Guardian Long Read (most recent episode = 18 Dec 2020)
Historical Figures (most recent episode = 25 Dec 2019)
Things We Forgot to Remember (most recent episode = 4 Jul 2012)


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