10 Best Colonial History Podcasts

1. Ben Franklin's World

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This is a multiple award-winning podcast about early American history. It's a show for people who love history and who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world. Each episode features conversations with professional historians who help shed light on important people and events in early American history. It is produced by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.MORE Host Liz Covart
Producer/Network Airwave Media
Email ****@benfranklinsworld.com
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Apple Reviews 1.6KFacebook 3.8KTwitter 3.1K Avg Length 64 min Format Long form Get Email Contact Get access to full database of 2.7M podcastsCreate podcast lists, export in spreadsheet or CSV file with email contacts and start your podcast outreach in minutes.Sign Up for Free with Email Continue with Google

2. Before We Were White

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Producer/Network Brian Halpin - Before We Were White
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3. African News Review

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For long the story of the hunt has glorified the hunters, now the lions have decided to reframe the narrative. Africa talks back. With African News Review, you can expect engaging discussions and thought-provoking insights into 📌 The Scramble for Africa :Unraveling the European Colonial Divide 📌 African Leaders Who shaped History : Stories of Courage and Vision 📌 Pan Africanism : ideologies and Impact on Unity and Identity 📌 Decolonisation and the Birth of African Nations 📌 The Cold War in Africa: Proxy Battles and their Aftermath 📌 Contemporary Africa : Navigating Challeng..MORE Producer/Network Adesoji Iginla with Milton Allimadi
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Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 9 Avg Length 70 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

4. The Colonial Dept.

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Welcome to the Colonial Department, the podcast where we take long-lost stories from Philippine colonial history and bring them to life. Follow us on IG: @thecolonialdept
Producer/Network Lio Mangubat
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5. Intertwined

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Intertwined is a podcast about what happens when Indigenous people, cultures, and knowledge meet the Western world. We dive into the past and present—colonial histories, scientific research, and international efforts—to understand how these worlds have collided, clashed, and can come together. It's time to move beyond stereotypes and build new ways forward, together.-----Follow the podcast on instagram: podcast_intertwined-----Picture from Pixels (Rocketmann Team)Editing and Music from DescriptMORE Estimated listeners
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6. Australian Psyche

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Australia. The Antipodes. The gothic dungeon at the bottom of the world. A land of reversals. Where swans are black instead of white. Where colonisers brought their own dark subconscious and had it realised huge and grotesque upon the landscape. This series will examine colonial and post-colonial history to understand where we've come from and how this shapes who we are today. How did we get from there to here? And after such bloody beginnings, what spectres still haunt the Australian subconscious? Who are the Ghosts of the Australian Psyche?MORE Email ****@gmail.com
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7. History of the United States: The Colonial Period Onwards by Charles Austin Beard

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Vol. I: The Colonial Period. Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he met and eventually married Mary Ritter Beard, one of the founders of the first Greek-letter society for women, Kappa Alpha Theta. Many of his books were written in collaboration with his wife, whose own interests lay in feminism and the labor union movement (Woman as a Force in History, 1946)...MORE Producer/Network Loyal Books
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Apple Rating 4.3/5Apple Reviews 11Facebook 5.9KTwitter 254 Avg Length 13 min Format Short form Since Oct 2020 Get Email Contact

8. Three Million

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'The best history podcast I've heard in years.' - The Sunday Times 'Three million is great radio... and needs to be heard.' - The Observer. During the Second World War, at least three million Indian people, who were British subjects, died in the Bengal Famine. It was one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side. But there is no memorial to them anywhere in the world - not even a plaque...MORE Host Kavita Puri
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