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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
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Onyeka Nubia joins us to talk about Africans in Tudor England and to challenge our distorted perception of this era in our past.
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Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Teresa Falgo-Naidoo joins us to talk about the history of Indians in South Africa.
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Monday Jun 28, 2021
Monday Jun 28, 2021
Professor Maria Hayward joins us to talk about Tudor fashion, what was 'in vogue' and what it was even illegal to wear during the period.
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Friday Jun 25, 2021
Friday Jun 25, 2021
Tour guide and historian Becky Laxton=Bass returns to give us the lowdown on four more women with links to her work who we really should know more about...
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Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Thursday Jun 24, 2021
Our chum Jonathan Clements returns with his passion for Chinese history, this time to tell the tale of the exceptional Medieval Empress Wu.
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Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Wednesday Jun 23, 2021
Kit Chapman brings the science. What sounds trivial is actually a massively important piece of history, not to mention tragic, bloody and sinister.
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Monday Jun 21, 2021
Monday Jun 21, 2021
Rob Thompson from the Films Team at Army University press joins us to talk about his new book on the pacification of Phù Yèn during the Vietnam War. We concentrate on the most significant year, 1970
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Friday Jun 18, 2021
Friday Jun 18, 2021
Elizabeth Mason joins us to talk about how and why you put genocide on film.
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Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Thursday Jun 17, 2021
Based on his fantastic book, Roger Crowley joins us to talk all about how little Portugal forged the world's first truly global empire.
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Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Wednesday Jun 16, 2021
Joshua Green joins us to discuss the sad history of lunatic asylums.
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