(Samantha) During his coronation ceremony Charles III will sit on a chair built by Edward I over 725 years ago to house the Stone of Destiny (also called the Stone of Scone), that he had recently stolen from the Scots. Tune in today to learn more about the Stone of Destiny, where it comes from, and why it mattered so much that a bunch of students from Glasgow bothered to steal it in 1950.
Easter Rising, Part II: Aftermath
Easter Rising, Part I: Origins
Disney and the Space Race
Evelyn Nesbit and the Crime of the Century
The Eleven Lost Days
After Napoleon: Josephine Divorced
Medieval Animal Trials
Sherlock Holmes in Popular Culture
The Great Medieval Canon Law Forgery
The Origins of "I Am A Man"
Apples in America
Hospitals in the Victorian City
Papal Residences: The Lateran, The Vatican, and Castel Gandolfo
The Royal Teeth of Louis XIV
The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
The Invention of Canning
Big History?
Comic Books and Thrill-Killers? An Interview with Mariah Adin
Independence from Whom? The American Revolution and Europe
Nuts: James Mulligan, Anthony McAuliffe, and the Notion of Surrender
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Irish Songs with Ken Murray
History Obscura
Historycal: Words that Shaped the World
The Rest Is History
Everything Everywhere Daily