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Ancient to Recent is a history podcast that explores how the past continues to shape our world today. From forgotten empires and overlooked revolutions to the hidden lives of historical figures, each episode takes a deep dive into the moments that mattered and the ones that should have. 🎙️ New episodes every week 📚 Based on real historical research and books 🌍 Covering everything from ancient civilisations to modern events Whether you're a casual history fan or a dedicated learner, Ancient to Recent brings you the stories that shaped the world

  1. hace 4 días

    Leon Trotsky: The Last Prophet | Part 1 | Ancient to Recent | Episode 61

    One of history's greatest revolutionaries awaits his assassination. As Leon Trotsky sits inside his heavily guarded villa in Mexico City, he knows that Joseph Stalin has not forgotten him.  Once hailed as Lenin's brilliant lieutenant and commander of the Red Army, Trotsky has become the Soviet dictator's most dangerous enemy. His extraordinary journey began decades earlier on the vast plains of the Russian Empire. In this opening episode of our new series, we trace Trotsky's life from his childhood as Lev Bronstein on the Ukrainian steppe to his transformation into one of the most influential revolutionaries of the twentieth century. We explore the world of the Romanov Empire, the reforms of Alexander II, the rise of industrialisation, and the social tensions that pushed millions towards radical political ideas.  As Russia hurtles towards crisis, the young Trotsky embraces Marxism, endures imprisonment and exile in Siberia, escapes to Western Europe, and encounters Vladimir Lenin for the first time. The episode also examines the failed Revolution of 1905, the growing divisions within the socialist movement, Trotsky's first meeting with the little-known revolutionary Joseph Stalin, and the outbreak of the First World War, which would bring the Romanov dynasty to the brink of collapse. How did the son of a prosperous farmer become history's most famous revolutionary exile? Why did Trotsky believe that only revolution could save Russia? And how did the First World War create the conditions that would transform both Trotsky and the twentieth century? Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent begins the extraordinary story of Leon Trotsky, the revolutionary who helped change the world before becoming the greatest enemy of Joseph Stalin. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday 📲 YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts | @AncientToRecent #Trotsky #RussianRevolution #HistoryPodcast #SovietHistory #RussianHistory #Stalin #Lenin

  2. 25 jul

    500 Men vs an Empire: Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico | Part 4 | Ancient to Recent | Episode 60

    The conquest reaches its devastating conclusion. As Hernán Cortés launches his final assault on Tenochtitlan, one of the greatest cities on earth becomes the scene of one of history's most brutal sieges.  Thirteen brigantines dominate the waters of Lake Texcoco, while tens of thousands of Spanish and indigenous allies advance along the great causeways. Street by street, canal by canal, the fate of the Mexica Empire hangs in the balance. This episode explores the final months of the siege of Tenochtitlan, where starvation, disease and relentless warfare reduce a magnificent civilisation to ruins.  Despite overwhelming odds, Emperor Cuauhtémoc and the Mexica fight with extraordinary courage, refusing every offer of surrender as the city is systematically destroyed around them. But the story does not end with military victory. Following the fall of Tenochtitlan, we examine how New Spain was built upon its ashes.  As missionaries sought to convert millions to Christianity, indigenous communities adapted, resisted and reshaped the new colonial world in ways that continue to influence Mexico today.  We also follow Hernán Cortés after his greatest triumph, as political rivals, royal officials and the Spanish Crown gradually stripped the conqueror of the power he had fought so hard to obtain. Was the conquest truly won by 500 Spaniards alone? How much did indigenous allies determine the outcome of the war? And what lasting legacy did the fall of the Mexica Empire leave for Mexico, Spain and the modern world? Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent concludes the extraordinary story of Hernán Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday 📲 YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts | @AncientToRecent #HernanCortes #ConquestOfMexico #AztecEmpire #Tenochtitlan #Cuauhtemoc #HistoryPodcast #Conquistadors #MexicanHistory

  3. 18 jul

    500 Men vs an Empire: Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico | Part 3 | Ancient to Recent | Episode 59

    The splendour of Tenochtitlan soon gives way to horror. As the Spaniards settle into the heart of the Mexica capital, they are overwhelmed by its wealth, its markets and its astonishing organisation. Yet beneath the city's beauty lies an uneasy calm. Surrounded by tens of thousands of warriors, Cortés knows one wrong move could mean annihilation. This episode explores the fragile relationship between Hernán Cortés and Emperor Moctezuma II as diplomacy slowly gives way to suspicion, violence and betrayal. After taking Moctezuma prisoner in one of history's boldest political gambles, the Spaniards find themselves increasingly isolated. Religious tensions deepen, human sacrifice horrifies the Europeans, and the arrival of a rival Spanish expedition threatens to destroy Cortés's entire enterprise. While Cortés marches to confront his enemies on the coast, disaster strikes in Tenochtitlan. A massacre during a sacred Mexica festival ignites a full-scale uprising, trapping the Spaniards inside the city and bringing the conquest to the brink of collapse. Could Cortés still control events from afar? Did Moctezuma truly lose the loyalty of his own people, or has history accepted the Spanish version too readily? And when the conquistadors attempt to flee the city under cover of darkness, will any of them escape alive? Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues the extraordinary story of Hernán Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday 📲 YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts | @AncientToRecent #HernanCortes #ConquestOfMexico #AztecEmpire #Tenochtitlan #Moctezuma #LaNocheTriste #HistoryPodcast #Conquistadors

  4. 12 jul

    500 Men vs an Empire: Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico | Part 2 | Ancient to Recent | Episode 58

    From the mountain passes, the Spaniards finally see it. A vast city shimmering across a great lake. Towering pyramids. Broad causeways. Thousands of canoes. To many of Cortés's hardened veterans, Tenochtitlan appears less like a city than a dream. But before they reach the Aztec capital, they must first understand the empire they have entered.  This episode explores the astonishing rise of the Mexica from impoverished outsiders to masters of Mesoamerica, the immense power of Emperor Moctezuma II, and the fragile political order that held his empire together. As Cortés marches inland, he acquires indispensable allies, forges an alliance with the fiercely independent Tlaxcalans, and exploits the deep divisions within the Mexica Empire.  Along the way come some of the conquest's most controversial moments, including the massacre at Cholula, before the Spaniards finally enter one of the greatest cities on Earth and come face to face with Moctezuma himself. How did a few hundred Spaniards persuade thousands of indigenous allies to join their cause?  Was Moctezuma paralysed by superstition, or carefully playing a diplomatic game?  And when Cortés first gazed upon Tenochtitlan, did he see the richest prize in the world, or a magnificent trap from which there would be no escape? Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues the story of Hernán Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday 📲 YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts | @AncientToRecent #HernanCortes #ConquestOfMexico #AztecEmpire #Tenochtitlan #Moctezuma #HistoryPodcast #Conquistadors

  5. 4 jul

    500 Men vs an Empire: Hernán Cortés and the Conquest of Mexico | Part 1 | Ancient to Recent | Episode 57

    Out of the eastern horizon, strange white shapes drift across the water. Not canoes. Not trading vessels. Floating mountains. What the peoples of the Americas witness that day will change their world forever, and it begins nearly three decades before Hernán Cortés ever sets foot in Mexico. This episode traces the origins of one of history's most consequential collisions: Christopher Columbus's desperate campaign to win royal backing for a voyage into the unknown, the fall of Muslim Granada and the expulsion of Spain's Jewish community that reshaped a kingdom's finances and ambitions, and the brutal, disease-ravaged colonisation of Hispaniola and Cuba that followed.  Along the way, a young adventurer named Hernán Cortés cuts his teeth in the conquest of Cuba, before defying his own governor's orders and sailing west into legend. What began as rumours of gold and vast stone cities beyond the horizon becomes the opening act of the conquest of Mexico.  Why did Spain gamble everything on Columbus's voyage? How did Europe's first moral debates over indigenous rights take shape? And what drove Cortés to risk disgrace, poverty, or death rather than turn back? Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent begins the story of Hernán Cortés and the conquest of Mexico. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday 📲 YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts | @AncientToRecent #HernanCortes #ConquestOfMexico #AztecEmpire #ChristopherColumbus #SpanishEmpire #Conquistadors #HistoryPodcast

  6. 27 jun

    The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann | Part 5 | Capture, Trial & Legacy | Ancient to Recent | Episode 56

    In the conclusion of Ancient to Recent's Eichmann series, Israeli Mossad agents make their move, seizing Adolf Eichmann on a quiet Buenos Aires street and smuggling him out of Argentina under a forged identity. Inside the Mossad safe house, Eichmann is confronted with the evidence against him and slowly admits who he is. But with his family, former SS associates and Argentina's far-right networks closing in, the operation enters its most dangerous phase. What follows changes history. Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, the first to place the Holocaust itself at the centre of an international courtroom, forces the world to confront the full scale of Nazi crimes and the human beings behind every statistic. How did Israel survive the diplomatic fallout?  What did Eichmann say in his defence? And what legacy did the trial leave behind? Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent concludes the story of one of the twentieth century's most consequential intelligence operations. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday📲 YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts | @AncientToRecent #AdolfEichmann #Mossad #Holocaust #WorldWarII #Israel #Argentina #HistoryPodcast

  7. 20 jun

    The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann | Part 4 | The Trap is Set | Ancient to Recent | Episode 55

    In this episode of Ancient to Recent we continue the story of the hunt for Adolf Eichmann as Mossad agents close in on one of the most wanted fugitives in the world. After years of rumours, false leads and dead ends, investigators finally begin to uncover compelling evidence that Adolf Eichmann is living in Argentina under the alias Ricardo Klement.  What follows is a tense race against time as Israeli intelligence works to confirm his identity before he can disappear once again. In this episode we follow the remarkable detective work that leads Mossad from a modest house on Chacabuco Street to the dusty suburb of Don Torcuato, where a series of small breakthroughs gradually transforms suspicion into certainty. Meanwhile, investigators uncover crucial links between Eichmann's family, his hidden past and the life he has built in exile.  Through covert surveillance, secret photography and painstaking intelligence work, the net slowly begins to tighten around one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. As Mossad director Isser Harel, investigator Zvi Aharoni and prosecutor Fritz Bauer push the operation forward, difficult questions emerge.  Can Israel legally capture Eichmann on foreign soil? What risks will the operation pose to relations with Argentina and West Germany? And what happens if the mission fails? The episode follows the final preparations for one of the most daring intelligence operations in modern history, as a small team of agents arrives in Buenos Aires and begins planning the capture of a man who has spent fifteen years evading justice. With surveillance complete, safe houses secured and the operation date set, the hunt enters its most dangerous phase. Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues its series on the hunt for Adolf Eichmann, following the extraordinary events that led to one of the most famous captures in intelligence history. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday 📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent #AdolfEichmann #Mossad #Holocaust #WorldWarII #Argentina #HistoryPodcast #TrueHistory #AncientToRecent

  8. 13 jun

    The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann | Part 3 | Closing the Net | Ancient to Recent | Episode 54

    In this episode of Ancient to Recent we continues the story of the hunt for Adolf Eichmann as a handful of determined investigators begin closing in on one of the most wanted men in the world. As Eichmann settles into life in Argentina under a false identity, survivors, prosecutors and Nazi hunters refuse to let his crimes be forgotten. From Buenos Aires to Frankfurt and Tel Aviv, a growing network of individuals becomes convinced that one of the architects of the Holocaust is still alive and living in exile. In this episode we explores the remarkable efforts of Lothar and Silvia Hermann, whose chance encounter with Eichmann's family provides the first credible lead in years.  Meanwhile, West German prosecutor Fritz Bauer takes extraordinary risks to keep the investigation alive, while Israeli intelligence begins to weigh whether the elusive fugitive can finally be brought to justice. The episode follows the parallel investigations that gradually converge on a modest house in a Buenos Aires suburb, where suspicion grows that Adolf Eichmann may be hiding in plain sight. Yet as evidence remains frustratingly elusive, false leads, bureaucratic obstacles and public indifference threaten to derail the search. As Nazi hunter Tuvia Friedman, Mossad director Isser Harel and a small group of determined investigators intensify their efforts, Eichmann grows increasingly complacent, convinced that he has escaped justice forever. But with the walls slowly closing in, the hunt is about to enter its most dramatic phase. Join Joseph Parkinson as Ancient to Recent continues its series on the hunt for Adolf Eichmann, following the extraordinary investigation that would ultimately lead to one of the most famous manhunts in modern history. #ad This episode includes paid promotion in partnership with Ground News. Go to https://groundnews.com/ancient to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and compare how different outlets report the same story. 🎧 New episodes every Saturday 📲 Follow on YouTube, Spotify & Instagram @AncientToRecent #AdolfEichmann #Holocaust #WorldWarII #NaziGermany #Argentina #HistoryPodcast #paidpartnership #publicidad

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Ancient to Recent is a history podcast that explores how the past continues to shape our world today. From forgotten empires and overlooked revolutions to the hidden lives of historical figures, each episode takes a deep dive into the moments that mattered and the ones that should have. 🎙️ New episodes every week 📚 Based on real historical research and books 🌍 Covering everything from ancient civilisations to modern events Whether you're a casual history fan or a dedicated learner, Ancient to Recent brings you the stories that shaped the world

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    Joseph Parkinson | Ancient to Recent
  • Años de actividad
    2025 - 2026
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