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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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Nov 10, 2022
Nov 10, 2022
58 min
On the eve of Polish Independence Day, Joshua Zimmerman continues where he left off at the end of part three, discussing the story of the father of modern Poland, Józef Piłsudski. It would be on this day in 1918 that Piłsudski steps onto a free Poland for the first time in 123 years.
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Nov 9, 2022
Nov 9, 2022
41 min
Susan Stewart joins us to talk about her new book "Common and Uncommon Scents: A Social History of Perfume". We put some important questions forward, can ancient perfume recipes be replicated and when were the first scents used?
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Nov 7, 2022
Nov 7, 2022
33 min
Clive Pearson joins us to discuss his new book, which takes readers on a whirlwind tour of Britain's Prime Ministers in 100 facts; picking and choosing some of the highlights from his research.
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Nov 4, 2022
Nov 4, 2022
45 min
Ed Perkins joins us to talk about his new book "Britain's Forgotten Traitor: The Life and Death of a Nazi Spy". Who was Oswald John Job and was he really a traitor?
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Nov 2, 2022
Nov 2, 2022
50 min
Darren Baker joins us to talk about his new book about "Richard of Cornwall: The English King of Germany"
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Oct 31, 2022
Oct 31, 2022
35 min
Alice Vernon joins us on Halloween to talk about her new book "Night Terrors, Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It."
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Oct 26, 2022
Oct 26, 2022
49 min
Philip Cracknell joins us to describe what life was like during WW2 for those living under Japanese occupation in Hong Kong.
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Oct 24, 2022
Oct 24, 2022
42 min
Thomas Cirotteau joins us to talk all about the lives of women in the distant past.
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Oct 19, 2022
Oct 19, 2022
36 min
John Woolf is back but this time he joins us to talk about his new book that he has co-written with Keshia Abrahams, which looks at the forgotten history of the Victorian period, the Black Victorians.
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Oct 18, 2022
Oct 18, 2022
50 min
Mark Urban joins us to talk all about his new book, which looks at the history of the parachute regiment in WW2.
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