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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.
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Monday Feb 07, 2022
Monday Feb 07, 2022
Best-seller Thomas Harding joins us to talk all about his new book, which investigates the fallout from an uprising in Guyana and his own family links with slavery.
Buy Thomas' book, White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery, at the History Hack Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781474621045
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Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Padraic Coffey joins us to talk about of variety of humankind's "firsts" with an Irish connection and how they impacted us all.
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Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Jonathan Clements is back with a bonkers tale of rebellion, religion and riotous behaviour in 17th Century Japan.
Order Jonathan's book, Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion, at the History Hack bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781472137418
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Monday Jan 31, 2022
Monday Jan 31, 2022
Sarah-Jane Downing joins us to talk all about people who spent their leisure time in the late 18th century.
For more on Sarah Jane's work and to attend her book launch go to http://www.sarahjanedowning.co.uk
Friday Jan 28, 2022
Friday Jan 28, 2022
Anthony Burton joins us to talk all about the history of a fabric synonymous with decadence.
Buy Anthony's book, Silk, the Thread that Tied the World, at the History hack bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526780928
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Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Wednesday Jan 26, 2022
Mel Ayrton joins us to talk all about the genesis of protecting the president and presidential candidates, and challenges that have presented themselves since.
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Monday Jan 24, 2022
Charlotte is joined by Dr Eleri Cousins to dig deep into the religious side of the ancient Romans.
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Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Sharon Connolly joins us to talk all about women of influence in thirteenth-century England and how their lives were affected by one of the most important documents in history.
Buy Sharon's book, Ladies of Magna Carta: Women of Influence in Thirteenth-Century England, at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526745255
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Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Jim Crossley joins us to discuss Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, Churchill's man in two world wars.
Buy Jim's book, Churchill's Admiral in Two World Wars, at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781399001564
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Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Condoms disguised as cigarettes? Yes, that was a thing. Dr Claire Jones explains to us the developments in contraceptive methods used in the last 250 years, and the social outrage some of them caused.
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