Tom Holland
Wednesday 14th May 2025
The Rest is History is the world’s most popular history podcast. Come and meet the co-presenter and co-author of the books that accompany what has become a genuine phenomenon, Tom Holland and hear more about his weekly attempts to distill the entirety of human history or as much as can be squeezed into fifty minutes.
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The Rest Is History
'An idiosyncratic ride through history' THE INDEPENDENT
''Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age' THE TIMES
The Rest Is History is a history podcast co-hosted by popular historian Tom Holland and historian and author Dominic Sandbrook. The secret of its success? "First and foremost, because people are bored with history being told in a hand-wringing, pious, judgmental and moralistic way – they want it brought to life by people who are genuine enthusiasts and love the past."
The Rest is History is the highest-ranked UK history podcast on both Spotify and Apple and in the top 10 in the US charts. With over 400 editions ‘in the can’, the Wall Street Journal estimates that it gets 11 million downloads a month, 1.2 million monthly YouTube views and attracts over 45,000 paying subscribers. Seven out of ten listeners are under 40.
The accompanying books capture the flavour and huge scope covered by the podcast… a whistle-stop tour through the past – from Alexander the Great to Tolkien, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate, and taking on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn’t even think to ask: Did the Trojan War actually happen? What was the most disastrous party in history? Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius? How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill’s cover?
