5 Minute History brings you short histories of events, places, companies, products, and all sorts of other things. The show is split into seasons, each of which consists of ten episodes. Each episode, as the title of the show suggests, is only a few minutes long, so you can quickly learn the facts without all of the fluff that maybe you don’t need to know

In the fourth episode of season three of the 5 Minute History podcast, Wayne Armstrong take a brief look at the history something that most people own multiple pairs of – shoes.