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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
Mar 1, 2021
Mar 1, 2021
46 min
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.
Feb 27, 2021
Feb 27, 2021
52 min
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!
Feb 27, 2021
Feb 27, 2021
2hr 6 min
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?!
Feb 25, 2021
Feb 25, 2021
50 min
Johanna Strong joins us to talk all about applying context to the legend of Bloody Mary, Henry VIII's eldest daughter.
Feb 24, 2021
Feb 24, 2021
41 min
Jon Jordan joins us to explain that electoral mayhem in the United States is nothing new.
Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021
2hr 16 min
The regulars convene to discuss who deserves the title of history's most unlikely hero.
Feb 22, 2021
Feb 22, 2021
29 min
Gilad Jaffe joins us to take about game-changing scientific developments in the field of archaeology.
Feb 19, 2021
Feb 19, 2021
33 min
Robin Mitchell joins us to talk all about her book Venus Noir: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-century France
Feb 18, 2021
Feb 18, 2021
32 min
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.
Feb 17, 2021
Feb 17, 2021
28 min
Kate Owen joins us to talk all about her work on early modern recipe books and how they fit into history.