Histories of the Unexpected: How to Be A Historian (Podcast)!

This has been a good week for me and how-to-do-history podcasts! Not only did I start listening to the Doing History: On Biography series on Ben Franklin's World, but I also found a new podcast all together, Histories of the Unexpected, with BBC History Presenter Dr. Sam Willis & Professor James Daybell. 

The podcast itself is an ADHD History Nerd's absolute dream, with episodes having the sense of a very well-informed free-association chat on themes such as "The Lean" or "Dust." And last year, they did a mini-series on How to Be a Historian, which is, obviously, exactly the kind of podcasts/resources I love coming across! 

EPISODE 41: HOW TO BE A HISTORIAN – EPISODE 1 (This episode goes into what each of the hosts do as historians)

EPISIDE 49: HOW TO BE A HISTORIAN – EPISODE 2  (How they became historians)

EPISODE 50: HOW TO BE A HISTORIAN – EPISODE 3 (How to get your kids into history)

EPISODE 54: HOW TO BE A HISTORIAN – EPISODE 4 (History for Children)

EPISODE 56: HOW TO BE A HISTORIAN – EPISODE 5 (How to choose a subject and start on research)

Episodes 1, 2, & 5 are great insight to the backgrounds, professional lives, and methods of working of two very different types of historians, and I found it to be an excellent listen!