History Detective

As a teacher, sometimes we can’t always be with our class due to illness, meetings, family emergencies or professional development, or sometimes we are teaching students remotely. But preparing for these lessons can be more work than being at school! The History Detective Podcast is here to help.

History Detective Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts.

History Detective Podcast it a teaching resource written specifically for Middle Years and High School students. Each episode is between 10-20 minutes and contain an original song written for the episode. The worksheets are designed to work in tandem with the episodes and foster critical historical thinking skills.

The students engage in pre-listening vocabulary and work through the questions that are based around the historical concepts of analysis and evaluation.

This is a classroom ready, online friendly podcast that aligns with history curriculums.

Podcasts by topic

Women in History Podcasts

• Rani of Jhansi during the Sepoy Rebellion 
• Hōjō Masako the wife of the first Japanese Shogun 
• Bicycle Face, 1890s fake news and the impact of bicycles on dress reform
• Women of the Viet Cong Hanoi Hannah and the Perfume River Squad 
• Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott 
• Roza Shanina, WWII Female Russian Sniper 
• Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, an artist’s perspective of the French Revolution
• Irene Longman, Queensland’s First Female Parliamentarian
• Gunnhild, Viking Mother of Kings
• Maria Bochkareva and the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death WWI
• Lydia Kompe- Black Sash and the anti-apartheid movement
• Women strike for Peace in the Cold War
• Rosa Billinghurst- Disabled Suffragette
• Annie Wheeler WWI Mother of Queenslanders
• First Nations Warrior Woman- Tarenorerer
• Women of World War II War Artist Nora Heysen
• Mother of Archaeology: Isabel McBryde
• Joan of Arc

First Nations History Podcasts

• Mungo Man and the Ethics of Archaeology, repatriation of Indigenous bones
• The QLD Native Mounted Police and the Frontier Wars
• The Cold War and Nuclear testing in Maralinga in Australia
• The Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit during WWII
• First Nations Warrior Woman- Tarenorerer

Australian History Podcasts

• The Black Plague in Australia in the 1900s, looking at continuity and change between COVID19 and previous pandemics
• Child Migrants to Australia after WWII
• $5 Queen Elizabeth’s 1954 Tour of Australia
• $5 Protests at Parliament House
• $10 Banjo Patterson’s Waltzing Matilda
• $10 Dame Mary Gilmore and the New Australia Colony
• $20 John Flynn and the Royal Flying Doctor Service
• $50 David Unaipon
• $50 Edith Cowan
•  $100 Sir Joan Monash
• $100 Dame Nellie Melba

Ladies in the House: Museum of Australian Democracy Collaboration

• Hazel Craig: Private secretary to 5 Australian Prime Ministers
• Gay Davidson: First female president of the Press Club in Canberra
• Janine Haines: First women to lead a political party in Australia
• Adela Pankhurst: Activist
• Oodgeroo Noonuccal: Civil Rights Activist
• Susan Ryan:Women’s Rights Advocate and Senator
• Dorothy Tangney, the first woman in the Senate
• Enid Lyons, the first woman in the House of Representatives
• Joan Child- The first femaleSpeaker
• Margaret Guilfoyle- The first female minister of finance

War Histories Podcasts

Frontier Wars Podcasts

• The QLD Native Mounted Police and the Frontier Wars
• First Nations Warrior Woman- Tarenorerer

World War I Podcasts

• Maria Bochkareva and the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death WWI
• Annie Wheeler WWI Mother of Queenslanders

World War II Podcasts

• The Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit during WWII
• Roza Shanina, WWII Female Russian Sniper Click Here
• Women of World War II War Artist Nora Heysen

The Cold War Podcasts

• Women of the Viet Cong Hanoi Hannah and the Perfume River Squad Click Here
• Women strike for Peace in the Cold War
• The Cold War and Nuclear testing in Maralinga Australia