30 Best Australian History Podcasts

1. Forgotten Australia

Since episode one, which chronicled the Spanish Flu's spread in Australia in 1919, Forgotten Australia has been telling the stories we didn't hear in history class. From the weekend Melbourne went mad and our forgotten Titanic hero, to Australia's greatest Aboriginal tracker and the murder wave that shocked Sydney in 1932, this is history as you've never heard it before. Forgotten Australia is created by Michael Adams, a Sydney-based writer, author, and television producer.
Podcast play.acast.com
Host Michael Adams
Producer/Network Forgotten Australia
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 5.5KTwitter Followers 116 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 49 min Since Nov 2018 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. In Black and White

From alleyway gangsters to cold war spies to eccentric entrepreneurs, Australian history is full of colorful but forgotten characters. Host Jen Kelly talks with experts, historians, and yarn spinners to uncover the untold stories of some of our most interesting and offbeat ancestors. Produced by Jonty Burton and Elouise Tynan.
Podcast heraldsun.com.au
Producer/Network Herald Sun
Email ****@heraldsun.com.au
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 427.3KTwitter Followers 365KInstagram Followers 102.7K Frequency 13 episodes/quarter Avg Length 31 min Since May 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

3. Living History with Mat McLachlan

Historian Mat McLachlan brings Australian history to life in this engaging, educational, and entertaining podcast. From the ancient age to the modern world, take a trip through time with Living History!
Podcast shows.acast.com
Producer/Network Mat McLachlan
Email ****@livinghistorytv.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Facebook Followers 10KTwitter Followers 3.4K Frequency 2 episodes/week Avg Length 41 min Since Nov 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

4. Mr Mitchell History Podcast

How often do you start a new educational podcast only to lose focus 10 minutes into the monologue? A history teacher is joined by two co-hosts who probably think that the Second Gulf War was when Tiger Woods faced off against Mickleson in the 2001 Masters. This is a light-hearted podcast designed to make important moments in modern history digestible for the common man and to make you sound like you know what you're talking about the next time you need to sound smart.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Producer/Network Cameron Mitchell
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 106 Frequency 4 episodes/month Avg Length 57 min Listen on Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

5. True Blue History Podcast

Inspired by the people and events that have shaped Australian history and character, with his authentically Australian down to earth approach, Adam Blum explores and shares their stories. Learn how in the past and more recently, service, sacrifice, and grit have and continue to play a central role in Australia's True Blue History.
Podcast truebluehistory.libsyn.com
Producer/Network Adam Blum
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 670Twitter Followers 65 Frequency 2 episodes/month Avg Length 120 min Since Apr 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

6. Australian Histories Podcast

The Australian Histories Podcast aims to take a fresh look at some of the brilliant stories from Australia's past. The podcast content will be presented as a series of themed stories rather than a straightforward chronological structure. The stories recounted may be mixed up a bit in the Australian history timeline, but I have put a timeline on the webpage, to help you navigate backward & forwards, as we explore each themed episode & note where each story fits in.
Podcast australianhistoriespodcast.com.au
Host Jenny
Producer/Network Australian History retold by AHP
Email ****@australianhistoriespodcast.com.au
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 711Twitter Followers 2KInstagram Followers 990 Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 61 min Since May 2018 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

7. Archive Fever

Archive Fever is a new Australian history podcast featuring intimate conversations with writers, artists, curators, fellow historians, and other victims of the research bug. In each episode, co-hosts Clare Wright and Yves Rees talk to archive addicts about what kind of archives they use, how often they use them when they got their first hit. Join us as we ask: what madness is this?
Podcast podtail.com
Producer/Network Clare Wright and Yves Rees
Email ****@latrobe.edu.au
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 291.1KTwitter Followers 43.4KInstagram Followers 45.2K Frequency 9 episodes/year Avg Length 40 min Since Sep 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

8. The History Listen

New and compelling stories from Australia and around the world, told by some of our most popular and trusted historians. Step inside a time machine for an immersive journey through history, where stories of people, places, and events bring the past vividly into our present world.
Podcast abc.net.au
Host Kirsti Melville
Producer/Network ABC listen
Email ****@abc.net.au
Facebook Followers 283.7KTwitter Followers 97.2KInstagram Followers 62.8K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 30 min Since Jan 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

9. The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem

In 'The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem' podcast, join host Adam Spencer as they delve into the fascinating history of the Australian startup ecosystem. From the earliest tech companies to the success stories of today, this series covers it all.
Podcast podcasts.apple.com
Host Adam Spencer
Email ****@welcometodayone.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5 Frequency 1 episode/year Avg Length 41 min Listen on Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

10. Australian Military History

Listen to episodes and learn more about Australian Military History. Focusing on specific events, people, and groups throughout the history of Australia at arms.
Podcast shows.acast.com
Producer/Network Warwick O'Neill
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 727 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 31 min Since Mar 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

11. Shrine of Remembrance

Talks and lectures are held at the Shrine of Remembrance and selected offsite venues. Speakers include academics, historians, authors, veterans, and other experts who present on a range of topics relating to Australian military history. As well as being available online and as a podcast, talks, and lectures are open to the general public.
Podcast shrineofremembrance.libsyn.com
Producer/Network Shrine of Remembrance
Email ****@shrine.org.au
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 36.1K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 26 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

12. People's History of Australia

People's History of Australia is a podcast and blog looking at Australian history from the perspective of ordinary people fighting together for a better life.
Podcast peopleshistory.com.au
Producer/Network People's History of Australia
Email ****@peopleshistory.com.au
Apple Rating 4 / 5Facebook Followers 4.9KTwitter Followers 2K Frequency 1 episode/quarter Avg Length 56 min Since Feb 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

13. The Zest Is History

Welcome to The Zest Is History, a brand new podcast from Melissa Mason and Josie Rozenberg-Clarke (former hosts of All Aussie Mystery Hour). Each week, they will spin you a 100% legit and maybe 80% researched yarn from Australia's weird, wild, and obviously zesty history.
Podcast shows.acast.com
Producer/Network Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke and Melissa Mason
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 365Twitter Followers 33Instagram Followers 1.7K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 66 min Since May 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

14. Let's Save The Governor-General!

Two Aussies and a Pom discuss Australian politics, be it reviewing recent events or discussing certain figures and moments that have shaped Australian political history.
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Hosts Phoebe Rose, Tatts, Clancy Reckons
Producer/Network Save General
Email ****@gmail.com
Twitter Followers 72 Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 85 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

15. Dig

The Fine Cotton ring in was one of the biggest scandals in Australian horseracing history. It involved a motley crew of small-time crooks, a bottle of women's hair dye and a spray-painted horse. It was an epic fail. Dig, the ABC's history podcast, takes a fresh look at an iconic story from Australia's not-so-glorious past.
Podcast abc.net.au
Host Jo Lauder
Producer/Network ABC listen
Email ****@abc.net.au
Facebook Followers 35.9KTwitter Followers 137.6KInstagram Followers 393.8K Frequency 1 episode/month Avg Length 25 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

16. Stories From Sydney

A fortnightly history podcast about the people, places, and events that have shaped the city of Sydney and its surrounds. Stories from Sydney is hosted and produced by Alistair and Jed, amateur historians and sometimes Sydney enthusiasts, although obviously not too enthusiastic since neither of them currently live there.
Podcast storiesfromsydney.podbean.com
Producer/Network storiesfromsydney
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 308Instagram Followers 404 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 53 min Since May 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

17. Australian Naval History Podcast

The Australian Naval History Podcast explores naval history in Australia. Each week, military history experts discuss a different aspect of Australian naval history.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Producer/Network UNSW Canberra
Email ****@adfa.edu.au
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 8.6KTwitter Followers 2.8K Since Oct 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

18. South Australian Museum Podcast

Delve behind the scenes at the South Australian Museum, a natural history museum in Adelaide, SA. Hear from scientists, researchers and curators about how objects are collected and what happens once they're in the Museum.
Podcast soundcloud.com
Producer/Network South Australian Museum
Email ****@samuseum.sa.gov.au
Apple Rating 5 / 5Facebook Followers 42.8KTwitter Followers 8.1KInstagram Followers 19.8K Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

19. Murder in the Land of Oz

Who said nothing ever happens in Brisbane? Join hosts Jessica Kate and Ellen Rose as they dig up the skeletons buried in their own backyard. They take you on a macabre tour around Australia's third-largest city - home to the Stefan Needle, the Brown Snake, the crushing feeling that you're trapped in a dead-end town that you can never leave, and some of the most brutal murders in Australian history.
Podcast thatsnotcanon.com
Hosts Jessica Kate, Ellen Rose
Producer/Network That's Not Canon Productions
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.5 / 5Facebook Followers 2.2KTwitter Followers 117 Since May 2018 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

20. AdeLOL

Stories of South Australia and Adelaide's unique, and often hilarious, past.
Podcast adelol.podbean.com
Hosts Dan Schmidt, Tom
Producer/Network AdeLOL
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 570 Frequency 2 episodes/year Avg Length 28 min Since Mar 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

21. Australia On This Day

What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.
Podcast play.acast.com
Producer/Network Australia On This Day
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5 Since Jun 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

22. Aussie History Podcast

Welcome to The Aussie History Podcast by James Dampier. The Aussie Waves Podcast tells Australian history through the lens of all those peoples who have made the journey from other lands to call Australia home.
Podcast aussiewavespodcast.libsyn.com
Producer/Network James Dampier
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 88 Since Feb 2014 Listen on Apple Play Get Email Contact

23. The Eleventh

The Eleventh is an explosive thriller teasing out everything you never knew about one of the most famous chapters of Australian political history the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
Podcast abc.net.au
Producer/Network ABC listen
Email ****@abc.net.au
Facebook Followers 36.1KTwitter Followers 137.6KInstagram Followers 393.8K Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

24. Collected

Collected is a podcast series exploring the artifacts that make up the National Collection of the Australian War Memorial. Join journalist Louise Maher as she takes a closer look at the obscure, popular, strange, and wonderful items in the collection. Through conversations with historians and curators and first-hand accounts from the people connected with these artifacts, Maher peels back the layers of history and uncovers the stories that the public don't always get to hear.
Podcast awm.gov.au
Producer/Network Australian War Memorial
Email ****@awm.gov.au
Facebook Followers 161.1KTwitter Followers 32.7KInstagram Followers 40.2K Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

25. Behind The Play

Behind The Play explores and unpacks the legends, myths and assumptions that cloud the origins and the development of Australian Football.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Facebook Followers 302Twitter Followers 82 Play Get Email Contact

26. Talking History

Talking History is a series of free monthly lectures hosted by the History Trust of South Australia. Each month you can hear about a different aspect of South Australia's history. We have a range of speakers from various disciplines, from history and archaeology to architecture and community research. Inspiring generations in the present through creative engagement with the past. The History Trust researches, preserves, and presents the history of South Australia. We manage three museums, the State History Collection, and a statewide community history program.
Podcast historytrust.libsyn.com
Producer/Network History Trust of South Australia
Email ****@history.sa.gov.au
Facebook Followers 11KTwitter Followers 5.1KInstagram Followers 3.2K Since Aug 2015 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

27. The History of Australia Podcast

This is a narrative history podcast. It tells the story of Australia starting with the dawn of the Australian land mass, and moves forward through time until the year 2000.
Podcast buzzsprout.com
Email ****@gmail.com
Since Sep 2020 Play Get Email Contact

28. Australia's Invisible History

So many of us Australians do not know our own history. But that can all change. Join Sydney-based broadcaster and author Katrina Roe and The Outback Historian Paul Roe as they make the invisible visible by digging up the buried stories of Australian heroes, pioneers, and visionaries. Here, you will meet Australians from every corner of the country, the city, and the bush including migrants and Indigenous Australians, men and women, nurses, doctors, activists, boxers, athletes, missionaries, and ministers.
Podcast hope1032.com.au
Producer/Network Hope 103.2
Email ****@hopemedia.com.au
Facebook Followers 70.6KTwitter Followers 2.4KInstagram Followers 9K Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact