Neil Oliver: News, Comment, History

A million years of history, travelling across the British Isles & around the world, over 3 million downloads – the mind of an historian and why history matters right now! To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shir...

Marking a moment in history when the world turned on its axis and was changed forever, the First World War directly affected millions of people and we are still living with its repercussions today. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check...

‘…in the sky above Lockerbie, Scotland a cataclysmic event takes place which opens a door leading from the world of before to the world of after…..’ To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & other chann...

‘….the line separating good and evil passes right through every human heart – and through all human hearts!’ In this episode it’s now 1973 as we travel with Neil to Russia and Paris as a book that lifts a corner of the Iron Curtain is published - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com htt...

Strange bedfellows come together to change the world! In this week’s episode it is 1969 and Neil takes us to California in the United States of America to meet a group of unlikely collaborators - the US Military and a gang of West coast, acid dropping, tech utopians – as they build the internet. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.c...

The endeavour, the controversy and good luck to Mr Gorsky! In this week’s episode Neil takes us on a journey to the moon. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins make the incredible voyage into the unknown – ‘…one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind’ To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon....

One greatest speeches of the 20th Century – this week we travel with Neil to Washington in the United States of America as Baptist minister and Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King, stands before up to ½ million people and tells them his dream. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   We...

A great blast like the sweeping hand of a wrathful god! This week we travel with Neil to meet Tomi San in the aftermath of the atomic explosion at Nagasaki. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & oth...

Beyond politics, beyond ideologies, beyond battles – this week it’s 1945 and Neil takes us to southern Poland to a moment in history humanity must never forget. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs &...

Only the English Channel stands between Britain and defeat! This week it’s the summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain is raging as we travel with Neil to the Royal Air Force’s Fighter command at Uxbridge to meet Pug Ismay and Winston Churchill as they witness a day like no other!   To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com http...

The day of days. Evil coming our way! This week Neil takes us to 1933 when Adolf Hitler, the charismatic leader of the National Socialists, begins his final assent to ultimate power!   To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my...

Heroism, bravery & reaching for the stars - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine climb Mount Everest. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & other channel merchandise, https://neil-oliver.creator-spr...

Questions swirl around the most lethal pandemics in history - the Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world’s population, but the Spanish Flu, which started in 1918, killed more people. This week as the First World War is still being fought, Neil travels to Kansas in the United States of America to meet the person who is said to be ‘patient zero’. To help support this podcast & get e...

A sealed train speeds through war-torn Europe to deliver revolution to Russia. This week it’s 1917 and we’re travelling with Neil to St Petersburg as Lenin arrives and the world is turned on its head! To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - ch...

Your country needs you! This week we travel with Neil and the Pals Battalions to France. It’s 7.30 a.m. on the first day of the battle of the Somme, the deadliest day in British military history. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check o...

Beyond the dreams of avarice! In this episode George Reynolds and his team of prospectors discover the world’s largest oil field, and as the black gold begins to flow unbelievable wealth, and oil’s by-products totally transform the world. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https...

Two magnificent men and their flying machine change the world and our relationship to it. In this episode, it’s 1903, and we travel with Neil to Kitty Hawk in North Carolina to meet Orville and Wilbur Wright. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   S...

A chronic gambler who suffered epileptic seizures all his life and faced the firing squad for disseminating banned literature. This week we travel with Neil to the year 1876 and meet Dostoyevsky as he changed the world of literature. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://ww...

In this episode Neil takes us to Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1800s to meet a forgotten scientific hero, the physicist, James Clerk Maxwell. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & other channel mer...

In this episode we travel with Neil to London, England as the rules of a sport, that will go viral around the world, are being set down in stone. Philosophy of belonging, passion and sometimes brutality – the ‘Beautiful Game’ is born! To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://ww...

In this episode we travel to America in 1861 as the new nation begins ripping itself apart. This week Neil draws a devastatingly tragic portrait of Sullivan Ballou as he marches towards the first major battle of the American Civil War - the First Battle of Bull Run. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neil...

This week we are with Neil in London, England as a document that is just 23 pages long, but is destined to change the world is about to be printed – it’s by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and came to be known as the Communist Manifesto. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www....

This week we travel with Neil to Paris in 1838 as Louis Daguerre exposes human nature and it's consequences like never before. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & other channel merchandise, https://nei...

The most dangerous man in Britain changes the world forever! This week it’s 1836 and we’re stepping ashore with Neil in New South Wales, Australia to meet Charles Darwin. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs...

This week we travel with Neil to Jamacia as Samuel Sharpe, an eloquent and passionate man, calls on his fellow slaves to rise up and seek their freedom! To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver   My Website https://www.neiloliver.com   Check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & other channel me...