History Hack

Peter Reavill joins us to talk all about metal-detecting, the Treasure Act and the British Library's Portable Antiquity Scheme. 

David O'keefe joins us to talk all Operation Jubilee, long believed to be a failed precursor to D-Day, but David's research has found that the raid's objective was beyond the perceived "figuring out how to land an armed force on French soil", to pinch new the four-rotor Enigma Machine.

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For Valentine's Day, the cynics in the Mary Rose are subjected to picking out history's most romantic gesture.

Fredrik Logevall joins us to talk all about the first volume of his biography of John F Kennedy. 

Mary Hollingsworth joins us to discuss her new book: Princes of the Renaissance.

The boys take over. Marcus and Zack jump into the history behind the Napoleonic hit series to talk all about the origins of guerrilla warfare. 

Eldon Yellowhorn joins us to talk all about expansion by the Hudson Bay Company to Alberta and what it means for the First Nations. 

Mariana Flavila joins us from Mexico to talk all about how pre-colonial Central Americans got about. 

Alex gives Alina the lowdown on why George V's Queen was not mean, nasty or lofty as she shares the story of her hugely varied work in WW1.

Our latest Sharpe gathering takes into account Sharpe's Battle. Alex, Zack and Marcus are joined by Jason Salkey, Ian McNeice, Oliver Cotton, Hugh Ross, Hugh Fraser, Lyndon Davies, and Allie Esiri.