History's Living Voices is the ultimate, immersive history podcast that delivers firsthand, first-person historical accounts direct from the source. In every episode, we cut out the middleman and go straight to the primary documents: personal diaries, battlefield maps with handwritten orders, private letters, and last-will-and-testaments. Through these authentic, unfiltered voices, discover the true human behind the legend. Imagine a seasoned medieval knight storyteller, having just removed his helmet, guiding you through the troop positions in an ancient manuscript, his words grounded in actual historical records—like a weathered document sealed with a critical year, such as '1776'. From the fron...
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Nov 14, 2026 · 17:12
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Nov 14, 2026 · 17:45
The year is 202 BC and the Roman Republic has spent seventeen years at war with the Carthaginians. Legendary general Hannibal, who at this point had been in Italy bringing Rome…
Nov 14, 2026 · 14:19
Many thanks to Seyed Benyamin Keshavarz (Baron Benyamin aka Getsugawa Yuzuru) for this translation, taken from: The trip to Iran and the Asia Minor : The travels of Toyokichi…
Nov 14, 2026 · 33:49
To coincide with the start of season 6 of the TV series Vikings, here we have where it all began...Uploaded 04-12-19Written in the 13th century in Iceland, the Tale Of Ragnar…
Nov 14, 2026 · 10:58
Here we have the first full description of the island east of China - what would become Japan. Straight from the 3rd century History of the Kingdom of Wei, these words give us…
Nov 14, 2026 · 28:28
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On the 30th May 1431 the French national heroine Saint Joan of Arc, canonised in 1920, was burnt alive at the stake for heresy under the instruction of the bishop Pierre…
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Whilst in prison at the end of the Thirteenth Century Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa began to hear extraordinary tales from his cell mate. That man turned out to be a…
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Nov 14, 2026 · 18:15
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Nov 14, 2026 · 21:41
This account gives us our first truly foreign perspective of life inside the Middle Kingdom - a place where the dead are fed until the living are bankrupt, and healthcare and…
Nov 14, 2026 · 36:49
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This extract from Tacitus´ Annals (116 AD) represents the oldest reference to Christianity in Roman texts that have survived to this date. In it he describes the persecution of…
Nov 14, 2026 · 39:23
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Nov 14, 2026 · 11:04
In the early Sixteenth Century a force of hundreds overcame an empire of millions.Uploaded 03-08-19This is the story of one of the most momentous events of the Spanish Conquest…
Nov 14, 2026 · 25:55
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Nov 13, 2026 · 4:45
Ahmad ibn Rustah Isfahani, better known as Ibn Rusta was a 10th-century Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan, Persia. He wrote a geographical…
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Nov 13, 2026 · 9:17
This is an extract from Procopius of Caesarea’s ‘History of the Wars of Justinian’, first written and published in the mid Sixth Century AD. It remains one of the great…
Nov 13, 2026 · 6:00
A letter from a distant land.Uploaded 21-05-19In 1246 Güyük Khan came to power in a lavish ceremony attended by many foreign dignitaries - something unthinkable for a Khan but…
Nov 13, 2026 · 7:50
One of the many horrors of the Crusades.Uploaded 07-05-19It is August 20th 1191. Just over a month has passed since the fall of the port of Acre, and the crusader king Richard…
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Nov 13, 2026 · 6:19
In 60 BC Rome was not yet an empire, but soon it would be. The momentous events of the next decades, many of which were put into motion by the famed politician Julius Caesar,…
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Nov 13, 2026 · 7:09
To coincide with the final season of Game Of Thrones, here we have an event that inspired the novel's most horrifying twist, the Red Wedding. The Massacre of Glencoe took place…
Nov 13, 2026 · 26:04
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Nov 13, 2026 · 29:54
This is the first 'century' of 16th century seer Nostradamus' prophecies, unedited and without commentary.Uploaded 03-04-20If this channel is something you like, if you think…
Nov 13, 2026 · 9:26
Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (Medieval Latin for "Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg") is a historical treatise written between 1073 and 1076 by Adam of Bremen, 11th…
Nov 13, 2026 · 1:51:23
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For your free 1 month Audible trial head over to: http://www.audible.com/VOTP or send VOTP to 500-500.-----------------This is an extract from the 1st century Periplus of the…
Nov 13, 2026 · 10:05
Here we have Xenophon (431 - 354 BC), the great ancient Greek historian, telling us how children in Spartan society were moulded into the legendary warriors famed throughout…
Nov 13, 2026 · 23:12
More from Japanese national icon Fukuzawa Yukichi. After his groundbreaking trip to America, here we have the first detailed Japanese perspective of Europe, after the Sakoku…
Nov 12, 2026 · 20:27
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Nov 12, 2026 · 36:00
One of the most famous of all medieval texts. Uploaded 24-05-19Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta, is a…
Nov 12, 2026 · 10:40
After the Huns, before the Mongols, the Second Turkic Qhaganate ruled the Steppe.Uploaded 23-08-19Here we have an extract from an ancient memorial stone found in the very centre…
Nov 12, 2026 · 22:12
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Nov 12, 2026 · 6:58
Cities built by Alexander the Great, carriages of gold, warring states, animals bred to create a special thread...fantasy mixes with truth in this fascinating insight into the…
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Nov 12, 2026 · 5:15
Ahmad ibn Rustah Isfahani, better known as Ibn Rusta was a 10th-century Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan, Persia. He wrote a geographical…
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By the end of his reign, Genghis Khan was the most powerful man in history. As he oversaw his vast empire, there was one final enemy he found himself facing - his own mortality.…
Nov 12, 2026 · 24:07
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Nov 12, 2026 · 12:05
A Roman account of a legendary rebellion.Uploaded 31-05-19Differing accounts relay us his origins; supposedly born in Thrace (modern day Bulgaria) to a tribe called the Maedi,…
Nov 12, 2026 · 15:13
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Nov 12, 2026 · 8:00
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Nov 12, 2026 · 6:41
This is an extract from the first recorded work of literature in history. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Written in around 2100 BC.Uploaded 08-08-18We are starting from the beginning.…
Nov 12, 2026 · 28:35
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Nov 12, 2026 · 7:54
Discovered in 2013 by Egyptologist Pierre Tallet and his team and called "the greatest discovery in Egypt in the 21st century", "The Diary of Merer" gives us an incredible…
Nov 12, 2026 · 6:55
As requested in our poll a few days ago, here we have some more Icelandic saga for you!Uploaded 14-06-19Though not supposedly the first European to see America (that honour goes…
Nov 12, 2026 · 16:18
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Nov 11, 2026 · 20:04
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Nov 11, 2026 · 5:45
In the 7th century BC the Neo-Assyrian empire was the most powerful in the known world. Stretching from the heartlands of modern day Iraq to the fertile shores of the…
Nov 11, 2026 · 30:33
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Nov 11, 2026 · 22:33
Starting Vikings Month off with a bang.Uploaded 01-12-19Here we have Ibn Fadlan's detailed description of the "Rusiyyah", a group of Viking people he encountered on the shores of…
Nov 11, 2026 · 7:54
In 796 the Frankish and Mercian kingdoms were two of the most powerful states in Western Europe. 100 years later they barely clung on to existence against an onslaught of…
Nov 11, 2026 · 28:45
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Nov 11, 2026 · 20:14
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Nov 11, 2026 · 17:16
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Nov 11, 2026 · 18:10
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Nov 11, 2026 · 4:19
Ahmad ibn Rustah Isfahani, better known as Ibn Rusta was a 10th-century Persian explorer and geographer born in Rosta district, Isfahan, Persia. He wrote a geographical…
Nov 11, 2026 · 6:32
Whilst in prison at the end of the Thirteenth Century Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa began to hear extraordinary tales from his cell mate. That man turned out to be a…
Nov 11, 2026 · 20:46
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Nov 11, 2026 · 9:19
Here we have the words of Hanno the Navigator, famed Carthaginian explorer and one of the earliest accounts of West Africa that has survived to the present day.Uploaded…
Nov 11, 2026 · 10:16
Here we have the words of Captain James Cook as he describes what happened when European culture met Maori for the first time - with deadly results.Uploaded 19-10-19This is a…
Nov 11, 2026 · 27:57
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Nov 11, 2026 · 24:32
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Nov 11, 2026 · 11:46
In the late Ninth Century a Norseman arrived at King Alfred of Wessex’s court. The stories he told the king were recorded for posterity by a court scribe.Uploaded 18-10-18This is…
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Nov 11, 2026 · 23:49
Written aboard the Niña during the long journey home (and finished in Lisbon) here we have Christopher Columbus' first letter announcing the results of his monumental journey…
Nov 11, 2026 · 8:00
This is an extract from Julius Caesar's 'Commentaries on the Gallic Wars', first published between 58 and 49 BC.Uploaded 12-07-19In 60 BC Rome was not yet an empire, but soon it…
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Nov 10, 2026 · 11:31
Here we have some musings from the proto-historian Herodotus in his inimitable style.Uploaded 11-06-19Speaking to us from two and a half thousand years ago, Herodotus regales us…
Nov 10, 2026 · 10:38
This is an extract from Procopius of Caesarea’s ‘History of the Wars of Justinian’, first written and published in the mid Sixth Century AD. It remains one of the great…
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Nov 10, 2026 · 6:19
Whilst in prison at the end of the Thirteenth Century Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa began to hear extraordinary tales from his cell mate. That man turned out to be a…
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In recognition of the enthusiasm surrounding last week's video on China's perspective, here we have a video exploring the reverse.Uploaded 23-10-19There are however very few…
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