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We are a slightly mad, always fun podcast bringing you all the History you love and a lot that you didn‘t know you‘d love until you heard it here! Recommended by BBC Radio, and presented by acclaimed historian Alexandra Churchill, with Alina Nowobilska, Chris Sams and the rest of the awesome team.
Episodes
Oct 31, 2020
Oct 31, 2020
24 min
Story-teller Owen Griffiths returns to share some more of his fantastic folklore with a spooky tale for Halloween.
Oct 30, 2020
Oct 30, 2020
1hr 52 min
Join us for the most epic debate yet. Who will win the debate on the Greatest War Film in History? The regulars are joined by war boffins and film buffs to hash it out!
Oct 30, 2020
Oct 30, 2020
47 min
Melissa DeVelvis joins us to tackle the questions of why people were so obsessed by death and mourning in the nineteenth century, on both sides of the Atlantic.
Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020
44 min
Historian Cappy Yarbrough joins us for a cracking piece of South Carolina history: to talk all about political activism on the part of a family of inspirational black women in the wake of the American Civil War.
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 28, 2020
39 min
Dan Kaszeta joins us to talk all about his time in the Secret Service and life at the White House. And we get into how he lost a fight with a llama...
Oct 27, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
27 min
Art historian Freya Gowrley joins us to talk all about her forthcoming book: Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840, Materiality, Sociability and Emotion. Why was this such an important turning point in the history of how we viewed our own personal space, and what does the past tell us about how we've responded to being locked down in 2020?
Oct 26, 2020
Oct 26, 2020
49 min
Napoleonic gurus William Fletcher, Marcus Cribb and Zack White come together to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the film that inspired their various careers.
Oct 26, 2020
Oct 26, 2020
54 min
Historian and author Alan Malpass joins us to talk all about his new book, which looks at the experiences of German prisoners of war in Britain 1939-1948.
Oct 24, 2020
Oct 24, 2020
34 min
Allegra Jordan joins us to talk about her research into the First World War at Harvard and how it has inspired her work in the field of reconciliation and conflict. How do you restructure your attitudes towards someone who you have regarded as your mortal enemy? Is there a way forward at the end of conflict?
Oct 23, 2020
Oct 23, 2020
1hr 8 min
Stars of the hit show Jason Salkey, Philip Whitchurch, Michael Mears, Lyndon Davies, Nicholas Rowe, Feodor Atkine and Nickolas Grace join Alex and historian Marcus Cribb to reminisce about filming Sharpe.