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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 Mar 01, 2021
#375 History Hack: The Genesis of WW2 Concentration Camps
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann was the first historian to write a complete history of the Nazi's concentration camps. In this podcast he discusses their early development.

Saturday Feb 27, 2021
#373 History Hack: Blood & Iron: Germany 1815-1870
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Katja Hoyer joins us to talk all about the lead up to unification and the contents of her spectacular new book. With a diversion on Wilhelm II!

Saturday Feb 27, 2021
#374 History Hack: Down the Pub
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Saturday Feb 27, 2021
Join the regulars in the Mary Rose. Following a listener request, they debate the worst year in history. Can we find anything worse than 2020?!

Thursday Feb 25, 2021
#372 History Hack: Re-examining Bloody Mary
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Johanna Strong joins us to talk all about applying context to the legend of Bloody Mary, Henry VIII's eldest daughter.

Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
#371 History Hack: US Election Mayhem
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Wednesday Feb 24, 2021
Jon Jordan joins us to explain that electoral mayhem in the United States is nothing new.

Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
#370 History Hack: Down the Pub
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
Tuesday Feb 23, 2021
The regulars convene to discuss who deserves the title of history's most unlikely hero.

Monday Feb 22, 2021
#369 History Hack: Science and Archaeology
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Gilad Jaffe joins us to take about game-changing scientific developments in the field of archaeology.

Friday Feb 19, 2021
#368 History Hack: Venus Noir
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Robin Mitchell joins us to talk all about her book Venus Noir: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-century France

Thursday Feb 18, 2021
#367 History Hack: The Balkan Wars
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Chances are you've mentioned them in an essay on the causes of the First World War, but what do you really know about the events of 1912-13? Ted Hooton joins us for an introduction.

Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
#366 History Hack: A History of Recipe Books
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Wednesday Feb 17, 2021
Kate Owen joins us to talk all about her work on early modern recipe books and how they fit into history.