78. Les Cathares

Le 26 avril 1986, à 1h23 du matin, le réacteur n°4 de la centrale de Tchernobyl explose. En quelques secondes, le pire accident nucléaire civil de l'Histoire !40 ans après, voici le récit complet de cette nuit : l'expérience qui tourne au désastre, les milliers de liquidateurs en ...  Show more

Pendant 6 mois 1/2 (du 17 juillet 1942 au 2 février 1943), la bataille de Stalingrad a opposé les forces de l'Union soviétique à celles du Troisième Reich et de ses alliésCette confrontation a visé à prendre ou à conserver le contrôle de cette ville stratégique et surtout symboli ...  Show more

Was the Catholic Church Europe’s first revolutionary group? How are the Cathars linked to the genesis of genocide? Where does the term crusade come from? Listen as Tom and Dominic discuss the real history around the mysterious group known as the Cathars. *The Rest Is History Liv ...  Show more

In the fourth century AD, the Christian faith exploded out of Palestine, overwhelming the paganism of Rome, converting the Emperor Constantine in the process. Almost a thousand years later, all of Europe was controlled by Christian rulers, and the religion was deeply ingrained ...

The popes of Rome emerged from the humblest of beginnings. The first was a fisherman, charged with spreading the word of God under the watchful eye of a pagan Roman Empire. But just a few centuries later, the papacy had flourished into one of the wealthiest, most powerful inst ...

Christianity's inroads into the pagan north of England began with the marriage of Æthelburh of Kent to King Edwin of Northumbria. A condition of their marriage was Edwin's conversion to Christianity. But most of the things we know about this period come from the ...