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IrelandThe Rest Is History returns to No. 1 as Crimea series begins
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook turn from Cold War uprisings to Victorian cavalry commanders as their podcast tops Apple's UK chart.
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Story of Why this story? The podcast "The Rest Is History" reached #1 on Apple's podcast chart in the UK.
The Revolution That Almost Destroyed the Soviet Empire
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- 9:51Communists consolidate power through coalition politics and control of the interior ministry, using so-called salami tactics.
- 24:51After Stalin's death, Soviet leaders install Imre Nagy as premier; his moderate reforms precede his removal.
- 28:34Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin destabilises communist regimes and helps open space for dissent.
- 35:46Budapest's Petőfi Circle and Júlia Rajk's public demands for justice give opposition new gathering points.
- 53:32Students draft demands for democratic reforms and Soviet troop withdrawal before the protest march begins at 58:27.
Glamorous cavalry commanders and a military calamity remembered as an act of glory: The Rest Is History is opening its Crimean War series with a question about how disaster becomes legend.
The Goalhanger podcast has returned to number one on Apple's podcast chart in the United Kingdom, up from third yesterday. It also held the top spot earlier this month, making this a return rather than a first arrival.
Hosted by historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the show takes major events apart through the people making decisions, often with catastrophic consequences. Today's opening instalment of the Charge of the Light Brigade series explores the outbreak of the Crimean War and introduces the commanders associated with its most famous cavalry charge. It also asks why the Victorian public made such a celebrated story out of the calamity.
That is a fresh setting after the show's paired journeys through Suez and the Hungarian uprising. As we reported here, those episodes examined very different challenges to imperial power in 1956. The new series moves back a century, from Soviet tanks and diplomatic pressure to cavalry and Victorian military reputations.
The Hungarian Revolution episode accompanying this page follows the communist takeover, the weakening of Stalinism and the student demands that helped ignite the uprising. It contains paid advertising breaks. One telling detail comes before the street protests: the hosts explain how a debate club and demands for justice became gathering points for opposition.
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- Channel
- The Rest Is History
- Subscribers
- 609,000 ▲ 3,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,243,068
- Channel views, pace per day
- 282,721 (on a normal day: 370,703)
- The podcast
- The Rest Is History
- Place on the chart today
- 1
- Place on the chart yesterday
- 3
- Best place in the last 30 days
- 1
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 198,339 (4 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 28,609 (on a normal day: 74,089)
The numbers
The Rest Is History is back at the top of Apple's UK podcast chart after several days in third place.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which Rest Is History host wrote Rubicon, a history of the Roman Republic?
Tom Holland wrote Rubicon, which traces the final decades of the Roman Republic.