History Hack

The regulars convene (having spent the weekend out together) to try and debate the most pointless battle in history. 

Jonathan Whitehead discusses his new book, which looks at the forgotten contribution of Spanish Republicans to the Second World War. 

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So how did a piece of Vickers Wellington Mk X HF485 find its way to Virginia, USA? Jon Bernstein, Arms & Armament Curator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, returns to Hedge Hopping to tell the remarkable story of his grandfather and the crash of Wellington HF485 days before deployed to France in July 1944.

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Toni Mount joins us to tell us exactly what you'd need to get by in Medieval England.

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Josh Provan returns to talk all about the man behind one of the biggest names in entertainment history.

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Rebecca Warren joins us to explain why, when it came to religion at least, Cromwell wasn't all bad.

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If you'd have sat down in the Middle Ages to write a history of Britain, what might it have looked like? Using art, mythology and historical sources, Amy Jeffs has written then book. 

Jonathan Jordan returns to talk all about his stellar work into the relationship between Eisenhower and Churchill both during and after the Second World War.

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The regulars convene to debate the wackiest saint in history. 

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Marc Baer joins us for a fascinating jaunt through 300 years of imperial Ottoman history.

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