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Title: Big Ol' List of Useful Podcasts: HSC Modern History
Post by: darcyynic on December 16, 2018, 09:58:28 pm
Hello my budding modern historians!

Podcasts are INCREDIBLE resources for study – I relied on them heavily during my HSC. Not only are they great for consolidation of content, but they also enabled me to study while I wasn't studying – I listened to them on my way to work, while I was cooking, before school, when I went for walks, during my free time, etc. I get bored really quickly, so I listened to podcasts which related to my schoolwork whenever I was doing something else. Ultimately, it enabled me to consolidate vast amounts of content without having to sit at my desk for hours on end.

I made a list of podcasts for Ancient so I thought I better not leave Modern out! Modern was indeed my favourite subject during the HSC (sorry Ancient fans), so I have an enormous list of podcasts which relate to the HSC Modern History syllabus. While I haven't studied the new syllabus + all of the electives, I have listened to podcasts relating to some of them post-HSC. I also studied Germany as my nationality study and much of its content overlaps with the new core.

Core: Power and Authority

Hitler’s Early Rise and the Night of the Long Knives (Stuff You Missed in History Class): https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/night-of-long-knives.htm
How Hitler’s Propaganda Machine Worked (Stuff You Missed in History Class): https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/how-hitlers-propaganda-machine-worked.htm
Who Wore the Pink Triangle? (Stuff You Missed in History Class): https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/who-wore-the-pink-triangle.htm
Kristallnacht (Stuff You Missed in History Class): https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/kristallnacht.htm
Opposing the Nazis (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/opposing-the-nazis/
Did Any Germans Resist Hitler? (Stuff You Missed in History Class): https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/did-any-germans-resist-hitler.htm
Hitler in History (In Our Time): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00546wh
Young Hitler (ABC Conversations): https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/conversations-paul-ham-2018/9935968
The Nazi Games and Jesse Owens (Stuff You Missed in History Class):
https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-nazi-games-and-jesse-owens.htm
Looking Closely at Leni Riefenstahl (NPR): https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10698820

Conflict in Europe

The Munich Conference (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/the-munich-conference/
The Second World War (History Extra Podcast):
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/the-second-world-war/
Churchill’s Darkest Hour (History Extra Podcast):  https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/churchills-darkest-hour/
The Evacuation of Dunkirk (Stuff You Missed in History Class): https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/dunkirk-part-two.htm
Blitzkrieg (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/blitzkrieg/
The Battle of Britain (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/the-battle-of-britain/
Operation Barbarossa (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/operation-barbarossa/
Germany’s World War Two (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/germanys-world-war-two/
Britons under Nazi rule (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/britons-under-nazi-rule-second-world-war-hitler-channel-islands-potato-peel/
The Big Questions of the Holocaust (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/the-big-questions-of-the-holocaust/
The Aftermath of the Second World War (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/the-aftermath-of-the-second-world-war/
The Prime Minister and the Prof (Revisionist History): http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/15-the-prime-minister-and-the-prof

The Cold War / Nuclear Age

Entirety of The History of the Cold War Podcast: https://www.historyofthecoldwarpodcast.com
What’s Mutually Assured Destruction? (Stuff You Missed in History Class): https://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/whats-mutual-assured-destruction.htm
(Blitz) The Destroyer of Worlds (Hardcore History): https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/show-59-blitz-the-destroyer-of-worlds/id173001861?i=1000380386551&mt=2
Stalin (A Brief History of Everything): https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/stalin/id1126658376?i=1000408975335&mt=2
Cold War Summits (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/cold-war/cold-war-summits/
1983: the Cold War almost goes nuclear (History Extra Podcast): https://www.historyextra.com/period/1983-the-cold-war-almost-goes-nuclear/

Best of luck with Modern! It is a fantastic subject and incredibly rewarding if you put in the hard yards.

Darcy Campbell :)
Title: Re: Big Ol' List of Useful Podcasts: HSC Modern History
Post by: owidjaja on December 17, 2018, 11:19:37 am
Really loving these resources :)

Would it be alright if I were to add them to the Modern History Reading & Resource List?
Title: Re: Big Ol' List of Useful Podcasts: HSC Modern History
Post by: darcyynic on December 17, 2018, 11:23:05 am
Really loving these resources :)

Would it be alright if I were to add them to the Modern History Reading & Resource List?

Of course!! I should have just posted it in that thread. :)
Title: Re: Big Ol' List of Useful Podcasts: HSC Modern History
Post by: Joseph41 on December 17, 2018, 11:34:06 am
Awesome work!