History Hack

Katja Hoyer joins us to talk all about the lead up to unification and the contents of her spectacular new book. With a diversion on Wilhelm II!

Join the regulars in the Mary Rose. Following a listener request, they debate the worst year in history. Can we find anything worse than 2020?!

Johanna Strong joins us to talk all about applying context to the legend of Bloody Mary, Henry VIII's eldest daughter.

Jon Jordan joins us to explain that electoral mayhem in the United States is nothing new. 

The regulars convene to discuss who deserves the title of history's most unlikely hero.

Gilad Jaffe joins us to take about game-changing scientific developments in the field of archaeology. 

Robin Mitchell joins us to talk all about her book Venus Noir: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-century France

Chances are you've mentioned them in an essay on the causes of the First World War, but what do you really know about the events of 1912-13? Ted Hooton joins us for an introduction.

Kate Owen joins us to talk all about her work on early modern recipe books and how they fit into history.

Peter Reavill joins us to talk all about metal-detecting, the Treasure Act and the British Library's Portable Antiquity Scheme.