History Hack

Greg Smithers joins us for a discussion on the concept of two spirits in Native American LGBTQ history. 

Alina does her thing as Pole Position returns, with Piotr Puchalski talking about his research on Poland's links (or lack of) to colonialism.

Christian Jennings joins to talk about Syndrome K and Italian resistance to the concept of the Holocaust.

Nick Higham tells us a tale of skullduggery, and shameless exploitation which was wrapped up in the battle, yes, battle to supply London with its water.

The regulars convene to shout at each other, a lot, about who deserves the crown of Greatest Musician in Historian. 

Based on her hit book, A E Rooks joins us to tell us the story of a slave ship turned slave hunter.

Nick Collins joins us to discuss the beginnings of trade by sea, from the Ice Age to the mid-eighth century.

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Gali Jaffe returns to talk about the history, archaeology and mystery surrounding the site of Masada, the site of the infamous Roman siege.

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On the 105th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, three of Canada's foremost historians join this special episode of History Hack, in association with the Great War Group, to discuss the battle, its aftermath and the myth-making that has to lead to it being called by some in Canada "The Birth of a Nation".

Joining our resident Canadian Boney and Great War Group Trustee Andrew Lock are:

• Author, historian and cartographer Mike Bechthold PhD. Mike specialises in the fields of military airpower, the Canadian army in Normandy and Northwest Europe and the Canadian Corps in the Great War. He currently teaches history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• Photographic historian Carla-Jean Stokes. Carla-Jean won the Photographic Historical Society of Canada thesis prize for her paper, “British Official First World War Photographs, 1916-1918: Arranging and Contextualizing a Collection of Prints at the Art Gallery of Ontario” which was later published in Photographic Canadiana.
• Author and historian Dr Tim Cook CM. Tim is the Senior Historian at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and is the author of 13 books on Canada in the Great War and Second World War, including Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. In 2014, Tim was appointed a member of the Order of Canada.

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Author Michelle Morgan joins Charly and Boney to discuss her new book which tells the tale of Marilyn Monroe's time in England filming The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, which did not go smoothly. The Marilyn Monroe Appreciation Society: History Hack Branch is in session.

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