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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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Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Alexander Larman joins us to celebrate the release of his new book, that offers a countdown of the events that led to the abdication of the King in 1936 and the accession of the Queen's father as George VI
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Mark Kramer joins us to talk all about the Solidarność (Solidarity) movement in Poland in the 1980s
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Leighan Renaud joins us for a fascinating discussion on marronage in the Caribbean, exploring the idea of freedom and what people will do to secure it, looking back into her own family heritage and how African culture survives on the islands today.
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Historian April Pudsey joins us to talk all about her research into what it was like to be a child in Roman Egypt.
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Dutch Historian Alex Tijhuis joins us to talk all about collaboration with the Nazis in WW2. As ever with history, nothing is entirely black and white...
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Sunday Jul 05, 2020
Bettany Hughes joins us to talk about why she loves the Odyssey so much that she went and made a whole TV series about it. And apologises a lot for being all over beautiful Greek islands just as everyone else was getting locked up!
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Saturday Jul 04, 2020
Kate Williams joins us to discuss the life of Mary Queen of Scots, including her youth, her marriages, and her relationship with Elizabeth I.
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Join us in The Mary Rose where we reveal the finalists in our Greatest Briton vote. For weeks you've been making your voices heard, and now our regulars give you the pros of each candidate before the Roastmaster General gives you the cons. Voting opens on Saturday via our twitter feed and numbers 11-100 will be revealed.
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
George Morton-Jack joins us to discuss all things India and WW1. From politics, motivations and the home front to the experience of battle across the globe.
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
Thursday Jul 02, 2020
The fabulous Claire Kennan joins us for an animated and in-depth look at The Black Death.