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History is rarely as simple as we remember it.

Holistic History Pod explores the people, events and ideas that shaped our world — uncovering the connections, contradictions and overlooked stories that conventional accounts can leave behind.

Each documentary-style series takes a subject and follows it in depth, combining compelling storytelling with careful historical research and contemporary primary sources. From British social and industrial history to slavery, empire, revolution, war and the struggle for political and social change, Holistic History looks beyond isolated events to understand the wider forces that shaped them.

Recent series have explored the extraordinary connection between the American Civil War and the Lancashire Cotton Famine, and the history of convict leasing and the chain gang following the abolition of slavery in the United States.

The aim is not simply to tell you what happened, but to ask why it happened, who experienced it, and how its consequences reached far beyond its own time.

If you enjoy thoughtful, narrative history that goes beyond the familiar version of the past, subscribe to Holistic History Pod.

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