History Hack

#218 History Hack: The Cult of Napoleon

In this extended special, Zack White and Marcus Cribb join us for a Brit's guide to France's Hero; and to discuss a rather odd field of scholarship in some quarters that worships him as a god.

#217 History Hack: Elite Women and the Grand Tour

Lizzie Rogers joins us to talk all about adventurous women who packed their bags in the 18th Century and decided not to let young men have all the tourist fun.

#216 History Hack: Herculaneum

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill joins us to talk all about Pompeii's oft-forgotten neighbour.

#215 History Hack: Humour Under Stalin

You'd have been forgiven for thinking that there was nothing to smile about in Stalin's Russia, but Jonathan Waterlow joins us to talk about the evolution of a very particular sense of humour at the time. 

#214 History Hack: Down the Pub

Join us Down the Pub as the residents debate the greatest book in history.

#213 History Hack: A History of San Francisco

San Francisco girl Kelly Krause joins us to talk all about her city. From indigenous people, to earthquakes, to wars and the Summer of Love, it's a vibrant story and not always what you'd expect to hear... 

#212 History Hack: Austria-Hungary in WW1 Part III

Nicolai Eberholst concludes his epic history of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the First World War. Today we look at 1917-18 and the fall of the Empire. 

#211 History Hack: Cervantes and Don Quixote

Colin Fisher joins us to talk all about Spain's answer to Shakespeare and his finest work. 

#210 History Hack: How to be a Pre-Historian

Lesley McFadyen joins us to talk all about the challenges of researching prehistory in the absence of documents and testimony. 

#209 History Hack: "Good" Germans

Catrine Clay joins us to share tales from her new book, which looks at German resistance to the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s.