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History Storytime - For Kids

Sophie (7) & Ellie (5) tell history for kids

113 episodes

History Storytime for children told by 7 year old Sophie, 5 year old Ellie and their Daddy. Exciting history stories of Knights, Tudors, Romans, World Wars, Revolutions, Explorers, Scientists and Sports. Hear amazing history stories of animals, stirring historical stories of love and betrayal, and of strong women and how they changed history. Real life narrative history as it should be told. Won Silver in the BritPodAwards. Helps support learning history for the National Curriculum with Key Stage 1 (KS1) and Key Stage 2 (KS2) and for all Elementary ages - Grades K-5. Great for supporting parents with homeschooling. Valued by teachers, enjoyed by parents, loved by kids.

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  1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel with the Brunel Museum

    · 9:14 · Episode 70

    Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) team up with the Brunel Museum to tell the story of the incredible engineer, Isambard Kingdom Brunel helped build the modern world.----more---- Sophie and Ellie are keen to explore…

  2. History of Burma / Myanmar

    · 9:57 · Episode 69

    Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) tell the 1000 year history of Burma – Buddhism, Kublai Khan, Elephants, the British, WW2 and Aung Sung Suu Kyi.----more---- Sophie and Ellie are contacted by a listener who lives in…

  3. Gandhi

    · 9:59 · Episode 68

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of Gandhi. We learn how he led India to independence. But more than that the girls learn life lessons from his example. 150 years India was ruled by Britain. India was a…

  4. The Rescue of the Danish Jews in WW2

    · 9:44 · Episode 67

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of how Denmark’s Jews were rescued by Danish people at the height of World War Two and escaped overnight to Sweden and safety. Hitler’s Germany has conquered most of…

  5. The Resolute Desk of US Presidents

    · 9:58 · Episode 66

    Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) tell how Joe Biden and Donald Trump both chose to use the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office. They tell the history of the desk that is a symbol of friendship between Britain and America.…

  6. Ancient Greece

    · 9:39 · Episode 65

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell how the Ancient Greeks helped make the world around us. ----more---- We hear about how the Greeks learned about the stars and gave them the names of their Gods. We hear how the…

  7. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of England

    · 9:33 · Episode 64

    Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) tell of Eleanor of Aquitaine. But Eleanor has been Queen of France. Now she becomes Queen of England.----more---- This is the second in our series about Eleanor of Aquitaine. But you…

  8. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France

    · 9:32 · Episode 63

    Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) tell of Eleanor of Aquitaine. In a time of knights and castles, men rule. But Eleanor is Duchess of Aquitaine - no one is telling her what to do.----more---- 800 years ago Eleanor became…

  9. The History of New Year

    · 8:37 · Episode 62

    Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 5) decide to tell the history of New Year going back four thousand years. ----more---- They start by going to the time of the ancient Mesopotamians. They tell how they Mesopotamians…

  10. The History of the Christmas Tree

    · 9:42 · Episode 61

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of the Christmas Tree over thousands of years of history. They tell how it has its roots in the Winter Solstice. Celts and Vikings would bring evergreen branches into…

  11. WW2: The Battle of the Bulge

    · 9:58 · Episode 60

    Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 5) want to know if battles ever happened at Christmas so together we tell the story of the Battle of the Bulge in World War Two. It is winter 1944. Allied troops are at the borders of…

  12. WW2: Pearl Harbor 1941

    · 9:59 · Episode 59

    Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) tell the story of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor which happened today in 1941 and brought America into World War Two. #OTD Until the 19th century Japan isolated itself from…

  13. American History: Rosa Parks

    · 9:30 · Episode 58

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the inspirational story of Rosa Parks and how her refusal to move seats on a bus, 65 years ago this week, helped change America for the better. America in 1950s is still scarred…

  14. Ancient Egypt: Tutankhamun and Mummies

    · 9:23 · Episode 57

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) love stories about Ancient Egypt so they tell the story of the boy Pharoah, Tutankhamun, including how his body was turned into a mummy. We explain how Egypt got its wealth from the…

  15. American History: The Mayflower, Pilgrims and Thanksgiving

    · 9:17 · Episode 56

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of the Mayflower, the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving in America. ----more---- The Pilgrims are protestant refugees from England. They are fleeing and intolerant…

  16. Victorians: The Life of a Child in the Victorian Period

    · 9:12 · Episode 55

    Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of children in Victorian times. We learn what school was like (not very nice!), what jobs they did (yucky ones!) and what they did for fun. ----more---- Ellie has a…

  17. Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot and Bonfire Night

    · 9:59 · Episode 54

    Sophie (age 7) & Ellie (age 5) are missing fireworks and Bonfire Night because of Coronavirus. So they tell the story of Guy Fawkes, the Gunpowder Plot, and how Bonfire Night came to be celebrated.----more---- England…

  18. Hallowe'en Special: Witches in History

    · 9:15 · Episode 53

    For Hallowe’en Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of witches in history. We learn how the Witchfinder General in England used to find so called witches and about the Salem Witch trials in…

  19. Black History Month: Ivory Bangle Lady, Phillis Wheatley & Mary Seacole

    · 8:57 · Episode 52

    It’s Black History Month at school so Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell some stories of Black women who made history in Britain. They tell of Ivory Bangle Woman, the first black woman found in Britain; Phillis…

  20. Medieval: William the Conqueror & the Battle of Hastings

    · 9:55 · Episode 51

    This week is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Sophie (aged 7) & Ellie (age 5) tell the story of William the Conqueror, King Harold and Harald Hardrada’s fight for the English throne.----more----…

  21. The Neolithic Stone Age: Stonehenge and Skara Brae

    · 9:08 · Episode 50

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell of the Neolithic Stone Age. We visit Skara Brae, explore Stonehenge, and see how Stone Age people moved from hunter-gathering to farming.----more---- This is the third of our…

  22. The Mesolithic Stone Age: Cheddar Man and Star Carr

    · 8:29 · Episode 49

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) go back 15,000 years to tell of the Mesolithic Stone Age. The Ice Age is over. The world has completely changed from the Paleolithic Stone Age and the woolly mammoths of our last…

  23. The Paleolithic Stone Age: Cavemen and Woolly Mammoths

    · 9:15 · Episode 48

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell of the start of the Stone Age. Neanderthals, Woolly Mammoths and Sabre Tooth tigers roam the world for millions of years. But a new breed of humans, Homo Sapiens, comes out of…

  24. Animals in History: The Horse

    · 9:56 · Episode 47

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell of the horse in history. We see how horses helped us with farming, transport and warfare. We see how inventions like the harness, saddle and stirrup helped change…

  25. Medieval: War of Scottish Independence 3 - Robert the Bruce

    · 9:17 · Episode 46

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell how Robert the Bruce gets Scotland its independence. With William Wallace’s rebellion crushed, Scotland lies under England’s rule. But to free Scotland, Robert the Bruce must first…

  26. Medieval: War of Scottish Independence 2 - William Wallace

    · 9:56 · Episode 45

    Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the true story of William Wallace, of Braveheart fame, and his fight for Scotland’s freedom.----more---- 800 years ago England’s King Edward I has crushed Scotland. He chose and…

  27. Medieval: War of Scottish Independence 1 - The Hammer of the Scots

    · 9:59 · Episode 44

    We start our three part series on the War of Scottish Independence as Edward I, Hammer of the Scots, first chooses, then removes Scotland’s King and conquers Scotland.----more---- Edward I, King of England, is a man…

  28. Medicine: The Spanish Flu of 1918

    · 9:06 · Episode 43

    We learn about Spanish Flu of 1918 which swept the world at the end of World War 1. Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of their great, great uncle, a decorated war hero who fought in the trenches for four…

  29. WW1: Sophie & Franz - The World War 1 Love Story

    · 9:35 · Episode 42

    We tell the tragic love story of Sophie, who married the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and whose murder helped start WW1. Like so many women she was belittled when alive and forgotten when dead. We put her back in the…

  30. WW1: Why did World War 1 start?

    · 9:59 · Episode 41

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of why World War One happened – on the weekend of the anniversary of the War starting.----more---- We start in Sarajevo with Gavrilo Princeps shooting the Archduke…

  31. Medieval: Joan of Arc

    · 10 min · Episode 40

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) want a story of a girl knight. So they tell the story of Joan of Arc, the French heroine who turned the tide of The Hundred Years War.----more---- We learn how England’s Henry V and…

  32. Cleopatra

    · 9:59 · Episode 39

    Cleopatra echoes through history. But who really was she? Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) explore her life. We hear of her dreams for Egypt, her alliance with Rome and her love for Julius Caesar and later Mark…

  33. Medieval: Jousting with the Royal Armouries

    · 9:53 · Episode 38

    This week Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (age 5) team up with Chloe from the Royal Armouries – the UK’s National Museum of Arms and Armour - to tell the story of Jousting. We follow the history of jousting from its…

  34. The Glorious Revolution and the Battle of the Boyne

    · 9:44 · Episode 37

    Sophie (age 7) and Ellie (age 5) tell the story of the Battle of the Boyne in Ireland in 1690, and how it helped secure the Glorious Revolution for William, Prince of Orange. ----more---- James II is King of England,…

  35. American History: Alexander Hamilton - The History Behind the Hamilton Musical

    · 10 min · Episode 36

    Sophie and Ellie tell the story about Alexander Hamilton to help them understand the story told in the Musical – which comes out on Disney this week. The girls have heard some of the songs from Hamilton the Musical.…

  36. Windrush

    · 8:45 · Episode 35

    On the anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush, Sophie and Ellie tell the story of the ship of West Indians that transformed Britain and what happened next. ----more---- They learn about the Windrush’s…

  37. Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo

    · 9:40 · Episode 34

    On the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 5) explore the famous battle which ended Napoleon’s rule. ----more---- We start with the French revolution and how that led to the…

  38. The Slave Trade

    · 8:55 · Episode 33

    Sophie and Ellie ask about the Black Lives Matter protests. So we tell the story about the Slave Trade and the legacy it leaves. We learn about the transatlantic slave triangle of Europe, West Africa and the Americas.…

  39. WW2: The Miracle of Dunkirk and Winston Churchill in 1940

    · 9:46 · Episode 32

    This week is the anniversary of the 1940 evacuation at Dunkirk in World War Two. Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 5) tell the story of how against all the odds the British army was saved from the Dunkirk beaches.…

  40. Romans: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the End of Roman Britain

    · 9:36 · Episode 31

    We learn about the Fall of the Roman Empire and the End of Roman Britain. Sophie and Ellie help tell the story of how the continuous barbarian attacks, corruption, overmighty generals and a manpower shortage led to the…

  41. American History: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown

    · 9:41 · Episode 30

    Sophie and Ellie tell the story of how America got its independence from Britain thanks to the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. ----more---- We hear the different sides of the arguments that led to war between Britain and…

  42. American History: Jamestown, Pocahontas and the colonisation of America

    · 9:56 · Episode 29

    We tell the story of the founding of Jamestown settlement in 1607 and how Pocahontas helped it survive so it eventually grew into the United States of America. And we tell where the Disney film Pocahontas got it wrong…

  43. WW2: VE Day 1945 - the 75th Anniversary of Victory in Europe

    · 9:14 · Episode 28

    Sophie and Ellie tell the story of VE Day (V-E Day) celebrations 75 years ago. ----more---- They are missing out this year because of the Coronavirus. They had been planning a VE Day street party. But now they are…

  44. WW2: The Battle of Britain and Winston Churchill in 1940

    · 9:59 · Episode 27

    We tell the story of the Battle of Britain through the speeches of Winston Churchill. We discover the strategy of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany to conquer Britain. We hear stirring speeches from Winston Churchill as he…

  45. Medicine: The Cow and the Smallpox vaccine (and the Coronavirus)

    · 9:59 · Episode 26

    Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 4) tell the story of the Smallpox vaccine. They are bored at home with the Coronavirus. They cast their mind to the Smallpox virus which devastated civilisations and killed millions of…

  46. Medieval: The Wars of the Roses and Richard III

    · 9:47 · Episode 25

    Sophie (aged 7) and Ellie (aged 4) tell the story of climax of the Wars of the Roses. England is riven with civil war. The Houses of Lancaster and the House of York battle for the throne of England. It seems as if the…

  47. The Great Fire of London of 1666

    · 9:34 · Episode 24

    Sophie tells her younger sister, Ellie, all about the Great Fire of London of 1666. We learn about the Plague, the Baker's oven on Pudding Lane, how fire ravaged the city and destroyed the remnants of the Plague, and…

  48. Romans: Hannibal and his Elephants cross the Alps in 218BC

    · 11 min · Episode 23

    Sophie (aged 7) is joined by her sister Ellie (aged 4) and between them they help tell the story of how Hannibal crossed the Alps with his elephants to take on the might of the Rome. ----more---- We learn about the…

  49. Animals in History: Dogs, Cats and Pigeons!

    · 12 min · Episode 22

    We learn about some of the amazing contributions of animals in history. Sophie learns how Laika was the first dog in space but met a sorry end. Sophie tells the story of unsinkable Sam - the cat who was sunk three…

  50. Renaissance: Henry VIII and his Six Wives

    · 12 min · Episode 21

    Sophie learns about the most famous King of England, Henry VIII. We see how Henry's desire for a son led him to desperate measures. Heads tumble, scandal erupts and a new religion takes hold in Renaissance England.…

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