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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
Sep 29, 2021
Sep 29, 2021
49 min
Ian Keable joins us to talk all about his new book, which looks at some of the bonkers hoaxes of the eighteenth century.
But Ian's book, The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England, at our Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781908906441
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Sep 27, 2021
Sep 27, 2021
1hr 9 min
Matthew Restall and Amara Solari join us to tell us why there is so much more to the Maya than predicting when the world will end...
But Matthew and Amara's book, 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse, at our very own Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781442206090
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Sep 24, 2021
Sep 24, 2021
56 min
Holly Pinheiro joins us to talk all about his research, which looks at the wider experience of free African American families whose men fought and died in the Civil War.
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Sep 22, 2021
Sep 22, 2021
40 min
Award-winning novelist Andrew Greig joins us to discuss recreating sixteenth-century Edinburgh and writing fiction parallel with seismic history.
Buy Andrew's book, Rose Nicolson, at our very own Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781784292980
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Sep 21, 2021
Sep 21, 2021
1hr 50 min
The Luftwaffe's actions in the air in the Second World War tend to occupy our memories, but they were very active on the ground and committed the same atrocities as the other arms of the Nazi war machine. In his new book, Birds of Prey, Dr Philip Blood analyses the efforts of a Luftwaffe ground unit that attempted to pacify a forest in East Prussia, now Poland, and in these actions, the mindset of The Hunter that pervaded the Nazi mindset. In Part 1 of a two-part Hedge Hopping sortie, Matt and Phil discuss the development of the hunt and the hunter in Germany and how this was Nazified and weaponised in the Third Rich.
Buy Phil's book at our Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9783838215679
Follow Phil's Birds of Prey updates on Twitter at @Birdsof79875803
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Sep 20, 2021
Sep 20, 2021
1hr 5 min
Richard Cole joins us to talk about how cutting edge technology can help us recreate lost worlds.
Sep 17, 2021
Sep 17, 2021
1hr 41 sec
Director of the Household Cavalry Museum Alice Pearson talks about the role of the Household cavalry at Waterloo, the story behind the eagle currently on display at the museum, and a walking tour Lockie is leading in London this weekend looking at the history of the Napoleonic era.
Sep 15, 2021
Sep 15, 2021
56 min
Jill Rose joins us to share a unique perception of Britain's wartime leader. Her mother was his nurse in the middle of the conflict.
Buy Jill's book, Nursing Churchill: Wartime Life from the Private Letters of Winston Churchill's Nurse, at our very own Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781398109056
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Sep 13, 2021
Sep 13, 2021
53 min
Sophie Ambler joins us to talk all about the life of the medieval aristocrat and rebel, Simon de Montfort.
Buy The Song of Simon de Montfort at our Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781509837632
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Sep 10, 2021
Sep 10, 2021
54 min
Why did men do it? How did they do it? And to what extent? Andrea Hetherington joins us to talk about her new book on British deserters in the Great War and answers all of these questions and more.
Buy Andrea's book, Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526747990