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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 22, 2020
Oct 22, 2020
37 min
Helen Antrobus joins us to talk all about women and revolt, and how they've used fashion to their advantage throughout the ages.
Oct 21, 2020
Oct 21, 2020
44 min
Gregory Valdespino joins us for a fascinating chat on the intertwined history of France and Senegal.
Oct 20, 2020
Oct 20, 2020
1hr 6 min
Mary Rose regular Emma Sothon joins us to talk all about her new book on murder in Ancient Rome. We promise you, no giraffes were harmed in the recording of this podcast, nor people making up weird sex stories about them. However weird they are.
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Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020
53 min
Will Iredale joins us to talk all about is smash hit book. What were the Royal Navy up to in the Pacific in the final months of the war?
Oct 16, 2020
Oct 16, 2020
46 min
Zack White joins us to talk all about crime and punishment in the British Army during the Peninsula War.
Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020
41 min
Tyler Wentzell joins us to talk all about the Canadian contingent who fought in the Spanish Civil War.
Oct 14, 2020
Oct 14, 2020
46 min
Nick Ramos returns for part two of his high-octane journey through the history of Cuba. This time it's the Twentieth Century, which of course centres on Fidel Castro and the revolution.
Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 2020
35 min
Tim Reynolds joins us to talk all about the origin of modern man and how we differed from other sub-species, such as Neanderthals.
Oct 12, 2020
Oct 12, 2020
51 min
Paul Woodadge returns to talk to us all about his magnificent book: Angels of Mercy. Find out what happened when two boy medics ended up in one church on D-Day.
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Oct 9, 2020
Oct 9, 2020
24 min
Helen Newsome joins us to talk all about Margaret Tudor, who needs to be remembered for far more than being one of Henry VIII's sisters.