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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 Apr 06, 2022
History Hack: Shattered Jewels
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Jonathan Clements returns to talk all about music and how it was used for military propaganda in Imperial Japan.
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
History Hack: Blackmailer at Frogmore
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
James Travers joins us to talk about a remarkable discovery in the National Archives, which points to a royal scandal of epic proportions.
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Friday Apr 01, 2022
History Hack: The Founder NASA Would Like to Forget
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Friday Apr 01, 2022
Kit Chapman joins us for a tale that sounds like an April fool, the story of Jack Parsons and his sex cult and how it is tied in with founding the space agency.
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Thursday Mar 31, 2022
History Hack: Radical War
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
To celebrate the release of their new book, Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century, Dr Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins join Zack and boney to discuss how data, and the smartphone, is changing the face of war, how we perceive it and, crucially, how we will remember it.
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Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
History Hack: Military Law from Kosovo to Kabul
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
Wednesday Mar 30, 2022
James Nelson joins us to talk about his new book recounting his experiences as a legal professional within the British army In Kosovo and Afghanistan.
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Monday Mar 28, 2022
History Hack: Entente Imperial
Monday Mar 28, 2022
Monday Mar 28, 2022
If there is one thing you can rely on, it's the history of the British and the French hating each other. Right? According to Historian Edward Gillin nope, you can't even have that in 2022...
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Friday Mar 25, 2022
History Hack: Burton & Taylor
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Charlotte White joins us to talk all about the tumultuous love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
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Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
History Hack: Nazis vs Gangsters
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Michael Benson joins us to talk about the underground war which was waged across the US on Nazi supporters by criminal gangs.
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Monday Mar 21, 2022
History Hack: Agricola
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Monday Mar 21, 2022
Simon Turney chats to Beth and Zack about the life of Agricola - a Roman with a particular expertise in dealing with the unruly province of Britannia.
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Friday Mar 18, 2022
History Hack: King John’s Queens
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Friday Mar 18, 2022
Kristen McQuinn joins us to discuss two Isabellas, Gloucester and Angouleme, who had the misfortune to find themselves married to this unpopular king.
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