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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
Apr 6, 2022
Apr 6, 2022
1 hr 2 min
Jonathan Clements returns to talk all about music and how it was used for military propaganda in Imperial Japan.
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Apr 4, 2022
Apr 4, 2022
40 min
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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Apr 1, 2022
Apr 1, 2022
43 min
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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Mar 31, 2022
Mar 31, 2022
1 hr 8 min
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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Mar 30, 2022
Mar 30, 2022
56 min
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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Mar 28, 2022
Mar 28, 2022
1 hr 8 min
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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Mar 25, 2022
Mar 25, 2022
1 hr 10 sec
Charlotte White joins us to talk all about the tumultuous love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
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Mar 23, 2022
Mar 23, 2022
42 min
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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Mar 21, 2022
Mar 21, 2022
49 min
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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Mar 18, 2022
Mar 18, 2022
39 min
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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