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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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Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
As part of our Future History Week, which looks at the history of the events and themes that will shape our future, Richard Carlton-Crabtree joins us to discuss attitudes to mental health past, present and future.
Buy Richard's book, Psykhe: The Mental Health Crisis and How We Got Here, at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781398102712
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Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
To kick off our Future History Week, which looks at the history of the events and themes that will shape our future, David Naafs joins us to discuss climate change across millions of years of our planet's history, and what it tells us about where we are going.
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Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
The regulars convene (having spent the weekend out together) to try and debate the most pointless battle in history.
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Friday Oct 29, 2021
Jonathan Whitehead discusses his new book, which looks at the forgotten contribution of Spanish Republicans to the Second World War.
Buy Jonathan's book, Spanish Republicans and the Second World War: Republic Across the Mountains, at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781399004510
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Thursday Oct 28, 2021
Thursday Oct 28, 2021
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.
Buy Jon's book, P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses: Western Europe 1943-45, at our Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781472846297
Follow Jon on Twitter: @Cobrahistorian
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Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Wednesday Oct 27, 2021
Toni Mount joins us to tell us exactly what you'd need to get by in Medieval England.
Buy Toni's book, How to Survive in Medieval England, at our very own Bookstore here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526754417
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
Josh Provan returns to talk all about the man behind one of the biggest names in entertainment history.
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Friday Oct 22, 2021
Friday Oct 22, 2021
Rebecca Warren joins us to explain why, when it came to religion at least, Cromwell wasn't all bad.
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Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
Wednesday Oct 20, 2021
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.
Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
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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