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  • The Long Night of Prussia — From Kunersdorf to the Peaces of 1763

    The Long Night of Prussia — From Kunersdorf to the Peaces of 1763
    2026/10/13

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    In the second half of the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great survives near-catastrophe at Kunersdorf, Britain and France contest the globe from Quebec to the Caribbean, and the unexpected death of Empress Elizabeth reshapes the European balance. This long-form episode follows the twin peaces of Paris and Hubertusburg and the exhausted world that emerged from them, told for calm, immersive bedtime listening.
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    1 時間 52 分
  • The World Reversed — Kaunitz, Frederick, and the Opening of the Seven Years’ War

    The World Reversed — Kaunitz, Frederick, and the Opening of the Seven Years’ War
    2026/10/03

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    After Aix-la-Chapelle left Silesia in Prussian hands, Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz spent years reversing Europe’s alliances. This long-form documentary follows the Diplomatic Revolution of 1756, Frederick II’s invasion of Saxony, Kolín, Rossbach, and Leuthen — the opening of a war that had already begun in America and would not end in 1757. Calm, deeply researched history of a peace that satisfied almost no one.
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    1 時間 59 分
  • The Pragmatic Queen — Maria Theresa and the War of the Austrian Succession

    The Pragmatic Queen — Maria Theresa and the War of the Austrian Succession
    2026/09/22

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    In October 1740 the Habsburg emperor died without a son and left his lands to a twenty-three-year-old daughter under a paper called the Pragmatic Sanction. This long-form documentary follows Maria Theresa, Frederick II of Prussia, the seizure of Silesia, and the cluster of wars that followed until the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. A calm, deeply researched history of how a legal guarantee met an army — and how Prussia became a great power.
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    2 時間 2 分
  • The Last Rising — Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745

    The Last Rising — Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745
    2026/09/13

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    In the summer of 1745 a young Stuart prince landed among the Outer Hebrides with a handful of companions and raised a Highland army that took Edinburgh, routed a government force at Prestonpans, and marched as far south as Derby. This long-form documentary follows Charles Edward Stuart, Lord George Murray, the critical council at Derby, the battle of Culloden, and the legal and social transformation of the Highlands that followed. A calm, deeply researched history of the last major attempt to restore the Stuart dynasty to the British throne.
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    1 時間 44 分
  • The Georgia Experiment

    The Georgia Experiment
    2026/09/04

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    In 1732 a group of London Trustees tried to build a different kind of British colony on the bluff above the Savannah River: a refuge for the worthy poor, a military buffer against Spanish Florida, and a society that banned slavery and rum. This long-form documentary follows James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi and the Yamacraw, the planned town of Savannah, the Highland settlement at Darien, the failed siege of St. Augustine, and the 1742 battles at Gully Hole Creek and Bloody Marsh—then the quiet dismantling of the experiment after the Spanish threat receded. A calm, deeply researched history of how a carefully designed vision met the realities of a contested frontier.
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    1 時間 50 分
  • The Republic of Pirates

    The Republic of Pirates
    2026/08/22

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    In the summer of 1715 a hurricane destroyed the Spanish treasure fleet off the coast of Florida, scattering silver and opportunity across the Bahamas. Within months unemployed privateers and desperate sailors gathered at Nassau, turning New Providence into the nearest thing the Atlantic had to a pirate republic. This long-form documentary follows the rise of the Flying Gang, the careers of Samuel Bellamy and Blackbeard, the blockade of Charleston, the arrival of Woodes Rogers with the King’s pardon, the deaths at Ocracoke and the trials of Anne Bonny and Mary Read, and the 1724 book that transformed real outlaws into enduring legend. A calm, deeply researched history of how a brief window of lawlessness opened on the sea—and was closed.
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    2 時間 34 分
  • Blackbeard, Pirates & the South Sea Bubble | 1715–1721

    Blackbeard, Pirates & the South Sea Bubble | 1715–1721
    2026/08/18

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    The war is over, thousands of armed sailors are suddenly unemployed, and the Atlantic is carrying more wealth than ever before. Between 1715 and 1721, the Caribbean became the center of the Golden Age of Piracy. Nassau emerged as a pirate haven, Benjamin Hornigold helped build a community beyond the easy reach of British authority, and Edward Teach transformed himself into the terrifying figure history remembers as Blackbeard.

    Follow Blackbeard from the decks of Queen Anne’s Revenge to his blockade of Charleston and his final battle near Ocracoke Island. Then cross the Atlantic to London and Paris, where another kind of danger was growing. John Law’s Mississippi Company and Britain’s South Sea Company promised extraordinary riches, sending investors into speculative frenzies before two of history’s most famous financial bubbles collapsed.

    Along the way, explore the expanding Atlantic economy, the rise of modern credit and insurance, the transatlantic slave trade, colonial growth, Indigenous power, and the increasingly sophisticated governments and navies that brought the great pirate era under control.
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    1 時間 54 分
  • The Great Frost of 1709

    The Great Frost of 1709
    2026/08/17

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    Europe is exhausted. France is struggling through famine and financial crisis. The armies of the great powers have been fighting for more than a decade, and the long reign of Louis XIV is approaching its end.

    In this extended episode of Past Your Bedtime: History to Sleep To, journey through the final years of the War of the Spanish Succession, beginning with the devastating Great Frost of 1709. Follow Louis XIV and France through the bloody aftermath of Malplaquet, political upheaval in London, secret negotiations between Britain and France, and the diplomatic bargaining that produced the Peace of Utrecht.

    Then return to Versailles for the final chapter of the Sun King’s extraordinary seventy-two-year reign and the beginning of a new European order under the young Louis XV.

    It is a story of war, diplomacy, royal succession, economic exhaustion, and the emerging balance of power that would shape eighteenth-century Europe — told slowly and in rich historical detail for late-night listening.

    Get comfortable, close your eyes, and let the world of Louis XIV gradually fade into the night.
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    2 時間 15 分