History Hack

Elizabeth Mason joins us to talk about how and why you put genocide on film.

Based on his fantastic book, Roger Crowley joins us to talk all about how little Portugal forged the world's first truly global empire.  

Joshua Green joins us to discuss the sad history of lunatic asylums. 

Archaeologist Simon Verdegem joins us to talk about a decade spent exhuming newly uncovered First World War remains on the Western Front and attempting to give the fallen back their identity. 

Aaron Edwards joins us to talk about Britain's covert efforts to combat certain Irish Republicans.

Kat Hill joins us to tell us all about this little-known Christian group named after Menno Simons.

In a slice of oral history, Andrew Fox joins us to talk about his military career, from fighting insurgents in Afghanistan to becoming a paratrooper.

Alex Christofi joins us to talk about the life and world of literary giant Fyodor Dostoevsky 

Marcos Martinon-Torres joins us to discuss these iconic Chinese artefacts. 

London was not the only city bombed in WW2, far from it. Marc Connaughan joins us to talk all about the effect of air raids on Scotland's second city.