Empire

    How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today?William Dalrymple and Anita Anand explore the stories, personalities and events of empire over the course of history.

  • 205. Babur: The Taking of Delhi (Ep 2)

  • 204. Babur: The First Mughal Emperor (Ep 1)

  • 203. Captain Hook, Peter Pan & The Dark Side of Neverland

  • 202. Long John Silver: The Truth Behind Treasure Island

  • 201. The Raj at War

  • 200. The East India Company’s Global Manhunt

  • 199. Robbing the World’s Wealthiest Dynasty

  • 198. The Pirate Trial of the Century

  • 197. The Pirate Hunter

  • 196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror

  • 195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean

  • 194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money

  • 193. Empire of Numbers: The Indian Origin of Arabic Numerals

  • 192. Native American Chiefs, the Founding of Canada, and the KKK: Scots in America

  • 191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa

  • 190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India

  • 189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand

  • 188. Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Young Pretender

  • 187. The Birth of Britain

  • 186. Scotland: A Nation in Crisis

  • 185. The God Kings of Angkor Wat

  • 184. The Buddhist Merlin

  • 183. The Poet Kings: Taking Hinduism to Southeast Asia

  • 182. The Lady Macbeth of China

  • 181. The Dragon Empress: China’s Game of Thrones

  • 180. Gold & God: Connecting India & Ancient Rome

  • 179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere

  • 178. The Vietnam War: Nixon, Vietnamisation, and the Fall of Saigon

  • 177. The Vietnam War: Lyndon Johnson, Americanisation, and Operation Rolling Thunder

  • 176. The Vietnam War: The Rise of Ho Chi Minh

  • 175. The CIA vs Fidel Castro

  • 174. The Cuban Revolution

  • 173. The Korean War: Dividing the Peninsula

  • 172. The Birth of North Korea

  • 171. The Bengal Famine: Chaos in Calcutta

  • 170. The Bengal Famine: A Disaster on the Horizon

  • 169. Freedom Fighters Betrayed: Colonising the Philippines

  • 168. Teddy Roosevelt Takes on the Old World

  • 167. Paradise Lost: The Taking of Hawaii

  • 166. How To Hide An Empire

  • 165. A Massacre at Dawn

  • 164. How the West was Won: The Truth Behind the Westerns

  • 163. The Tattooed Girl: From Mormon to Native American

  • 162. The Oregon Trail & the Gold Rush

  • 161. The Trail of Tears

  • 160. Native Nations vs Thomas Jefferson

  • 159. The American Revolution: Building The New Rome (Ep 4)

  • 158. The American Revolution: Life, Liberty & The Pursuit of Happiness (Ep 3)

  • 157. The American Revolution: The Shot Heard Around the World (Ep 2)

  • 156. The American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation (Ep 1)

  • 155. The Founding Fathers: Benjamin Franklin (Ep 5)

  • 154. The Founding Fathers: John Adams (Ep 4)

  • 153. The Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton (Ep 3)

  • 152. The Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson (Ep 2)

  • 151. The Founding Fathers: George Washington (Ep 1)

  • 150. Worlds Colliding: Seizing Settlers in New England

  • 149. Pocahontas: Kidnapped in Virginia

  • 148. America: The Empire of Liberty

  • 147. Queen Victoria: Empress of India (Ep 4)

  • 146. Queen Victoria: The Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets (Ep 3)

  • 145. Victoria & Albert (Ep 2)

  • 144. The Making of Queen Victoria (Ep 1)

  • 143. Isabella of Castile: The Spanish Inquisition, the Conquest of Granada, and Columbus

  • 142. Isabella of Castile: Uniting Spain

  • 141. Nur Jahan: The Most Powerful Mughal Woman

  • 140. Nur Jahan: The Light of the World

  • 139. Mrs Genghis Khan

  • 138. The Graceful Reed: Ruling the Islamic Empire

  • 137. Empress Theodora: Making Heaven on Earth

  • 136. Empress Theodora: From the Brothel to the Throne

  • 135. Helena: Queen of the World and Finder of the One True Cross

  • 134. Cleopatra: The Would-Be Empress of Rome

  • 133. Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile

  • 132. Journey to Nalanda and the Library of Jewels

  • 131. Buddhism Goes to China

  • 130. India meets Rome: Making the Image of the Buddha

  • 129. Ashoka: The Great Buddhist Emperor of India

  • 128. The Life of the Buddha

  • 127. Inventing Curry: The British Taste for India

  • 126. Punch & Chilli: The East India Company at the Table

  • 125. The Origin of the Houthis

  • 124. Saddam Hussein vs The Ayatollah

  • 123. Hezbollah: The Party of God

  • 122. Iran & Saudi Arabia: The Rivalry that Split the Islamic World

  • 121. The Fall of the Shah of Shahs

  • 120. The Iranian Revolution: The Rise of Ayatollah Khomeini

  • 119. The Last Shah

  • 118. Iran's First Revolution

  • 117. Nader Shah: The Sword of Persia

  • 116. Isfahan: The City of Dreams

  • 115. The Great Conversion: How Iran became Shia

  • 114. The Persian Renaissance

  • 113. Timur: Scourge of God

  • 112. Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation

  • 111. Shackleton: The Hero of Antarctica

  • 110. Antarctica: The Continent that wouldn’t be Conquered

  • 109. The Endeavour: Into the Unknown

  • 108. The Endeavour & the Great Southern Continent

  • 107. China's Greatest Admiral: The Story of Zheng He

  • 106. The Rise of Islam

  • 105. The Last Great War of Antiquity

  • 104. How Persian Religion Changed the World

  • 103. Alexander the Great: Defeating Darius

  • 102. Alexander the Great: The Conquest of Persia

  • 101. Salamis: Athens’ Revenge

  • 100. Thermopylae: Xerxes, Leonidas, and the 300

  • 99. Marathon and the Rise of Greece

  • 98. Darius the Great: Ruling from India to the Mediterranean

  • 97. Cyrus the Great: Building the First Superpower

  • 96. Empires of Iran

  • 95. The History of Putin's War

  • Welcome to the Empire Club

  • 94. The Bloody History of Russia & Ukraine

  • 93. Murdering the Romanovs: The End of a Dynasty

  • 92. Killing Rasputin

  • 91. Lenin and The Rise of the Bolsheviks

  • 90. The Russian Revolution: Overthrowing the Tsar

  • 89. The Final Act of the Great Game

  • 88. The Russo-Japanese War: Asia Strikes Back

  • 87. Tolstoy: War and the Russian Empire

  • 86. Crushing the Khans: Russia Seizes the Centre of the World

  • 85. The Russian Conquest of America

  • 84. A Tale of Two Nurses: Seacole & Nightingale

  • 83. The Charge of the Light Brigade

  • 82. Crimea: The War on Repeat

  • 81. The Graveyard of Empires

  • 80. 1842: The Retreat from Kabul

  • 79. Invading Afghanistan: The Return of a King

  • 78. The Battle of the Spies

  • 77. The Great Game Begins

  • 76. The Empress & The General

  • 75. Catherine the Great: The Golden Age

  • 74. Peter the Great: The First Emperor

  • 73. Ivan the Terrible and the Founding of Russia

  • 72. The Russian Empire and the Great Game

  • 71. Nazis, reparations, and laws 'just for the English to see'

  • 70. The Haitian Revolution, Dutch royals, and what happened to the Caribs?

  • 69. A Reckoning with Slavery

  • 68. The Long Death of Slavery

  • 67. Slavery's Demise

  • 66. Wilberforce and the Fight for Freedom

  • 65. When the Enslaved Took on Napoleon

  • 64. The Black Spartacus

  • 63. Creating Sierra Leone: The Land of the Free

  • 62. When Slaves Fought for the British Empire

  • 61. The Black Abolitionist

  • 60. Britain's Most Famous Slave

  • 59. Francis Barber: Abolition, the Navy, and the Enlightenment

  • 58. Dr Johnson's Black Heir

  • 57. Tacky's Revolt: An Atlantic Slave War

  • 56. Tacky's Revolt: Causes of the Rebellion

  • 55. The Fall of the Royal African Company

  • 54. Royal African Company: Slavery Inc

  • 53. Barbary Corsairs: Raiding the British isles

  • 52. The Slave who Ruled

  • 51. Vikings: Slavs to Slaves

  • 50. Rome: A Slave Society

  • 49. The Dawn of Everything

  • 48. The History of Slavery

  • 47. Rebels Against the Raj

  • 46. The Mau Mau, the court case, and the hidden documents

  • 45. Successors to the Romans, progressive harems, and living Ottomans

  • 44. The Legacy of the Ottomans, Queen of the Desert, and giant turbans

  • 43. The Birth of Saudi Arabia

  • 42. The Fiery End of the Ottoman Empire

  • 41. The Rise of Ataturk

  • 40. Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

  • 39. Lawrence of Arabia and the Arab Revolt

  • 38. Sykes-Picot: Carving up the Middle-East

  • 37. The Armenian Genocide: Death Marches

  • 36. The Armenian Genocide: Road to the Deportations

  • 35. Gallipoli: Death at the Cliff Edge

  • 34. The Sick Man of Europe

  • 33. Lady Mary: Our Woman in Constantinople

  • 32. The Greatest Ottoman Adventurer

  • 31. Conquering the Night: The History of Coffee

  • 30. Sultanas to Slaves: Voices from the Harem

  • 29. The Tudors and the Turks

  • 28. The Battle of Lepanto

  • 27. The Siege of Cyprus

  • 26. Suspicion and Sorrow in Suleiman's Court

  • 25. Suleiman the Magnificent

  • 24. The Fall of Constantinople

  • 23. The First of the Ottomans

  • 22. Byzantium and the Rise of the Turks

  • 21. The Ottoman Empire

  • 20. Nationhood, the Indian constitution, and the railways

  • 19. Federal India, indentured labour, and naked yogis

  • 18. The Empire Implodes

  • 17. Rishi Sunak's Ancestry: Indians in East Africa

  • 16. Partition

  • 15. The Last Viceroy of India

  • 14. Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  • 13. The Patient Assassin

  • 12. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

  • 11. Queens and the Koh-i-Noor

  • 10. Killing for the Koh-i-Noor

  • 9. The Curse of the Koh-i-Noor

  • 8. The Koh-i-Noor Diamond

  • 7. Mahatma Gandhi

  • 6. Queen Elizabeth II & Empire

  • 5. The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

  • 4. Between Two Massacres: 1857-1919

  • 3. Mutiny, Uprising, and Rebellion

  • 2. Company Rule in India

  • 1. The East India Company

  • Trailer

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