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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.
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Monday Nov 30, 2020
#281 History Hack: China & Japan 1937-41
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
The wonderful Rich Frank returns to talk about the events that arguably constitute the beginning of the Second World War.

Friday Nov 27, 2020
#280 History Hack: Down the Pub
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
The regulars convene to try and decide who deserves the title of History's Most Scandalous Woman.

Friday Nov 27, 2020
#279 History Hack: The Navy and the War of 1812
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Friday Nov 27, 2020
Nick Kaizer joins us to talk all about the naval side of the War of 1812.

Thursday Nov 26, 2020
#278 History Hack: Single White Females
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Jane Lowes joins us to talk all about the brave young Victorian women who left everything behind to emigrate to Australia on their own and start again.

Thursday Nov 26, 2020
#277 History Hack: Pole Position: Displacement After the Second World War
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Thursday Nov 26, 2020
Sam Knapton joins Alina to discuss the burdening issue of displacement in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
#276 History Hack: Turning Points in Irish History
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Wednesday Nov 25, 2020
Fin Dwyer, host of the Irish History Podcast, joins Alex and Alina to discuss what he considers to be the five turning key turning points in his country's history.

Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
#275 History Hack: Fake Medical History and the Ancient World
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Helen King joins us to talk all about the nonsense that has emerged about medicine in the ancient world and to put us right.

Monday Nov 23, 2020
#274 History Hack: The Little Ships of Dunkirk
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Phil Weir joins us to talk all about his new book: Dunkirk and the Little Ships.

Saturday Nov 21, 2020
#273: Sharpe Attack: Sharpe's Eagle
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
Saturday Nov 21, 2020
Join Alex and Napoleonic Historian Marcus Cribb with cast members Jason Salkey, Michael Cochrane, Neil Dudgeon, Paul Bigley, Paul Trussell, Assumpta Serna, Scott Cleverdon and Gavan O'Herlihy as they recall life on set and filming the iconic series.

Friday Nov 20, 2020
#272 History Hack: Down the Pub
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Brace yourselves. The regulars in the Mary Rose convene with guest judge Eleanor Janega to find history's funniest Sexcapade. In which there is actually some serious conversation, along with the normal lunacy.