Journey Through Time
Forgotten stories from history and how they shaped the way we live today. Hear about the ordinary people from history and the extraordinary impact they’ve had on the present. Hosted by historians David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell, Journey Through Time will show how everyday actions have the most remarkable unintended consequences that ripple through time. From the first woman to run for President to the unknown story of how the world came to the brink of nuclear war in 1983, this podcast is for everyone, not just history lovers. To hear more Goalhanger podcasts, go to www.goalhanger.com
Episodes
December 21, 2025 • 38 mins
What does the hysteria around white women sleeping with Black GIs tell us about race and class in wartime Britain? Why were Black GIs banned from marrying their British sweethearts? What was the sad fate of many of the mixed raced babies left behind as a result of this encounter?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga tell the final chapter in the story of Black GIs in the UK.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
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December 17, 2025 • 28 mins
What happened when Black GIs went on strike over their violent treatment at the hands of the white Military Police? Why did the American Army start fighting itself in the heart of a British city? How did the Ministry of Information stop the British public from hearing about this violence?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they tell the story of the Park Street Riots, the forgotten American mutiny on the streets of Bris...
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December 14, 2025 • 35 mins
How did an altercation over the wrong uniform lead into a full scale gun battle with Americans shooting their fellow soldiers on the streets of Bamber Bridge? What caused the Black GIs to mutiny? How did this violence forever change the US army?
Listen to Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they tell the story of Americans firing on Americans in the village of Bamber Bridge.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
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December 10, 2025 • 40 mins
How did the American army try to enforce segregation by stealth on British towns? Why did the British public perceive the white American GIs as ‘over paid, over fed, over sexed and over here’? How did Churchill respond to the growing tensions in British towns as a result of the ‘friendly invasion’?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell tell the story of when the American army brought racial segregation to the UK during World War T...
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December 7, 2025 • 34 mins
What happened when 1.5 million American GIs, including 130,000 African Americans, were stationed in the UK during WWII? How did the Jim Crow segregation laws work in the American army? What was surprising about how the Brits reacted when America tried to export this segregation to the UK?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga look at the forgotten story behind the ‘friendly invasion’ in WWII.
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December 4, 2025 • 11 mins
Forget what you think you know about reality. The Rest Is Science is a mind-bending new show from Goalhanger that tears down familiar ideas… time, randomness, beauty, it will reveal just how bizarre the world truly is.
Join Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (aka Vsauce) twice a week to explore big, small and surprising questions as they deep dive into theories, concepts, objects and thoughts and take us on...
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December 3, 2025 • 41 mins
How did Harriet Tubman free over 750 enslaved people in the Combahee River Raid? Despite her valiant efforts in the Civil War, why did Harriet have to fight the government to have enough money to live on? What does her legacy say about the politics of today?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell look at the final chapter in Harriet’s extraordinary life.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
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November 30, 2025 • 42 mins
What surprising tactics did Harriet use to avoid detection on her many missions to rescue enslaved people in the south? Who was John Brown, the fierce abolitionist willing to use violence to further his cause? Why was Harriet involved in the Harpers’ Ferry raid, one of the causes of the Civil War?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they look at how Harriet Tubman brought so many people to safety.
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November 26, 2025 • 42 mins
Why did Harriet Tubman risk her freedom and become the only formerly enslaved person to return to the slaveholding south? How did the secret Underground Railroad guide people north to freedom? Why did the entire country suddenly become slave-catching territory in September 1850? What did this mean for those who thought they were safe in the North?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell explore the famous Underground Railroad.
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November 23, 2025 • 41 mins
Who was Harriet Tubman? How did Harriet make the perilous journey escaping north to freedom? What was the Underground Railroad, the secret chain of people guiding enslaved people to safety?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they explore the early years of abolitionist, spymaster, and activist Harriet Tubman.
Social Producers: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
Head of History: Dom Johnson
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November 19, 2025 • 49 mins
How many people were slaughtered in the street-to-street battle for Paris known as the ‘bloody week’? Why did the German Chancellor help the French government start a civil war? Who were the ‘Petroleuses’, the mythical wild-eyed working class women accused of setting the city on fire?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell relive the brutal final days of the Paris Commune.
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November 16, 2025 • 33 mins
How many of the radical reforms that the Paris Commune implemented in their 72 day existence influence French laws to this day? Why did the communards tear down a statue of Napoleon III and outlaw morning croissants? How did an attempt to take the Archbishop of Paris hostage backfire badly on the radicals?
Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga explore what this short-lived radical government of Paris managed to achieve.
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November 12, 2025 • 32 mins
How did pet dogs, street rats, and the zoo’s elephants make their way onto the menu of Parisian fine dining restaurants? Why did Paris feel so slighted by the national government when they surrendered to the Germans? How did defiant Parisian children and housewives defy the national guard and spark a revolution that would lead to the Paris Commune?
David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell relive the Siege of Paris and the fight for P...
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November 9, 2025 • 41 mins
What was the Paris Commune of 1871? How was the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, trying to radically reshape the map of Europe? How did the resulting Franco-Prussian war set the scene in Paris for one of the most radical political experiments of the nineteenth century?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they look at the days leading up to The Paris Commune, the working class revolution that shook the world.
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November 5, 2025 • 45 mins
How did the remaining conspirators manage to blow themselves up? Why is the defeat of the Gunpowder Plot still celebrated 400 years later? What are the parallels between this plot and the 7/7 bombings?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they relive how the gunpowder plotters met their grisly end.
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November 4, 2025 • 56 mins
Once Parliament was blown up, how were the plotters planning on seizing power? How did the King manage to stop the plan to blow up parliament just in time? What is the Monteagle Letter and why is this one of English history’s greatest unsolved mysteries?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga telling the story of how Guy Fawkes was discovered minutes away from lighting the fuse to blow up Westminster.
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November 2, 2025 • 31 mins
How did a series of plots to depose and kill King James I ultimately fail? Who was Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the Gunpowder Plot? Why was Guy Fawkes recruited into the secret group meeting at a pub in central London?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell looking at how Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators started to hatch the Gunpowder Plot.
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October 29, 2025 • 35 mins
As Queen Elizabeth I lay dying, why were the nation’s high profile Catholics rounded up and imprisoned? Why has history overlooked James I, the first king of Scotland and England? Who were the small group of wealthy Catholic men so angry with the new king that they ultimately planned to blow up Parliament?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga on their first of four episodes looking at the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
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October 28, 2025 • 44 mins
How did the executions for witchcraft finally come to an end? What does a community do to reckon with the aftermath of all this violence? Why have the Salem Witch Trials become shorthand for the prosecution of outsiders and dissidents for centuries?
Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell for the final chapter in the story of The Salem Witch Trials.
Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden
Producer: Alice Horrell
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October 22, 2025 • 54 mins
Now the witch trials have been set up, what evidence is used to send many innocent people to their death? Why are young women shrieking and convulsing at the sight of those accused? Finally, what are Sarah’s tips for surviving an allegation of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts?
Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they explore the dramatic courtroom scenes of the Salem Witch Trials.
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