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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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Friday Jun 04, 2021
History Hack: Dissecting the Legend of King Arthur
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Caleb Howells joins us to talk about his book, which attempts to weed the truth from the endless legend surrounding King Arthur.

Thursday Jun 03, 2021
History Hack: The History of Vampires
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Thursday Jun 03, 2021
Violet Fenn joins us to talk all about the cultural history of the Vampire and all things connected to it. So that's a lot of blood, sex, and people being buried when they're not dead...

Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
History Hack: The Wicked Earl
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Wednesday Jun 02, 2021
Ruth Derham discusses the life and times of an Edwardian rogue: the 2nd Earl Russell.

Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
History Hack: Disney's Hercules, Fact or Fiction?
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Well they got his name wrong for a start. The fantastic Michael Scott rejoins us to talk all about the legend of Heracles and how it spread throughout the globe.

Monday May 31, 2021
History Hack: Vichy France
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
Chris Millington joins us for an excellent dive into the structure and impact of Vichy France during WW2.

Friday May 28, 2021
History Hack: Busting Open the Middle Ages
Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Eleanor Janega joins us to talk all about her new book, which tackles the Middle Ages in graphic form.

Thursday May 27, 2021
History Hack: The Suez Crisis
Thursday May 27, 2021
Thursday May 27, 2021
Adrian Smith joins us to talk all about what a real crisis looks like on the Suez Canal. The Ever Given was just a minor blip...

Wednesday May 26, 2021
History Hack: The Gentleman Wears Prada
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Wednesday May 26, 2021
Matthew McCormack joins us to talk all about the history of 18th century shoes and what they can tell us about the people who wore them.

Tuesday May 25, 2021
History Hack: Old Testament Warriors
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Tuesday May 25, 2021
Simon Elliott returns to cover a massive 11,000 years of history as we look to find out how far back the history of warfare actually goes...

Monday May 24, 2021
History Hack: The Wehrmacht in Defeat
Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Bas Willems joins us to talk all about his new book, which focuses on the violence of defeat and the Wehrmacht on German soil in 1944-1945.