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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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Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
#344 History Hack: Prehistoric Rock Art
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Tuesday Jan 26, 2021
Joana Valdez joins us to discuss her work on rock art dating back tens of thousands of years.

Monday Jan 25, 2021
#343 History Hack: SS Massacres in Italy
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Christian Jennings joins us to talk all about his new book, which looks at the horrors of attacks on civilians in Italy by the SS in the Second World War.

Saturday Jan 23, 2021
#342 History Hack: Faking Moon Landings
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Saturday Jan 23, 2021
Award-winning director Sam Pilling joins Matt to talk all about recreating the moon landings.

Friday Jan 22, 2021
#341 History Hack: Down the Pub
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
The regulars meet in the Mary Rose as the White House changes hands, to debate the worst President in US history. With no mention of the T word allowed, there is also an investigation into what makes a corn dog, which president is a monkey puppet, and all the men in the room name their genitalia in honour of Warren Harding.

Friday Jan 22, 2021
#340 History Hack: Eels: A Medieval Obsession
Friday Jan 22, 2021
Friday Jan 22, 2021
John White Greenlee joins us to talk all about medieval people and their fixation with eels.

Thursday Jan 21, 2021
#339 History Hack: WW1 A Tale From the Midlands
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Great War Group Director Bethany Moore joins us to beat her drum for the Midlands; with the story of a division of territorial volunteers and their opening months on the Western Front.

Thursday Jan 21, 2021
#338 History Hack: Pole Position
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Darius von Guttner joins Alina in the first part of a look into the Past dynasty in Poland.

Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
#337 History Hack: Melancholy and Renaissance Mental Health
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Mary Ann Lund joins us for a riveting discussion on mental health in the renaissance period - more specifically, "melancholy."

Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
#336 History Hack: The Archaeology of Death
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Howard Williams joins us to talk all about his archaeological speciality - which is the archaeology surrounding death.

Monday Jan 18, 2021
#335 History Hack: Nazi Collaborators in the USA
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
Claire Aubin joins us to talk all about perpetrators of the Holocaust and how they got to the United States in the aftermath of the Second World War.