History Hack

#183 History Hack: Welsh Folklore

Historian and professional storyteller Owen Staton returns after his victorious retelling of the Battle of Hastings in The Mary Rose to talk about the Welsh and folklore. Then sit yourself down with a drink and prepare to be entertained... 

#182 History Hack: Witchcraft

Hannah Pringle joins us to talk all about the trials and tribulations of women accused of witchcraft in 17th Century England. And about why Matthew Hopkins was a dick.  

#181 History Hack: Women Who Should Not Be Forgotten

The hosts of the Sagas of She podcast join us to talk all about raising the profile of some of their favourite historical matriarchs. 

#180 History Hack: Homosexuality in Ancient Greece

Robin Osborne joins us to talk about representations of homosexuality in Ancient Greece. 

#179 History Hack: The Hawker Typhoon

Matt Bone takes on his mastermind subject of choice and tells us the story of the humble successor to the Hurricane, and how efforts are underway to make one fly again.

#178 History Hack: Down the Pub

The gang reunites for what we hope will be a monthly jaunt to The Mary Rose. Tonight, it's folklore madness from history. How do people come up with these stories? Which one is the nuttiest? What did Clive have for dinner? And just what lengths will James go to to convince people to visit Birmingham?

#177 History Hack's African American History Week: Martin Luther King

Just days after John Lewis's casket crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time, Historian, entrepreneur and Selma native Mark Peterson joins us to talk about Dr. King. We discuss his life, and more specifically the impact of the protest of 1965 carried out by King, Lewis and their compatriots on Mark's hometown, what this meant for Mark's own upbringing, and what America lost with Dr. King's untimely death. The answer is: a giant. 

#176 History Hack's African American History Week: Freedom Summer, 1964

Historian and Poet Zellie Rainey Orr joins us to talk about marching for her rights as a thirteen year old in Mississippi, desegregating her local high school and how events threw her into the path of Charlie Scattergood: one man who spent his life trying to make the world a better place. 

#175 History Hack's African American History Week: Wicked Flesh: Black Women & Slavery

Jessica Marie Johnson widens the scope for us with a talk based on her book: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. We learn about the variety of different human experiences encountered, and that the line between slavery and freedom is not always clear cut. 

 

#174 History Hack's African American History Week: The Tulsa Massacre

Journalist and author Tim Madigan joins us to discuss the harrowing events that occurred in an affluent African American neighbourhood known as "Black Wall Street" in 1921.