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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 Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Katarzyna Kosior joins Alina to talk royalty - Sixteenth Century Polish Queens specifically!
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Jamie Goodall joins us to talk about pirates, privateers and oysters in the Chesapeake Bay!
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Tuesday Jun 23, 2020
Islam Issa joins us to discuss his historical passion: Cleopatra. There's a lot of myth-busting in this one!
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Richard Hammond joins us to give listeners an overview of the Second World War in the Mediterranean, and talks about his new book Strangling the Axis, set on that front.
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
Sunday Jun 21, 2020
The Chosen Men rejoin us, bringing a host of crew members with them that spent years dedicating their expertise and creativity to recreating the earl nineteenth century. Find out if Lyndon remembers anything yet, what fake sick is made of, why Russian stuntmen are terrifying and what happens when actors don't get their bacon.
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Saturday Jun 20, 2020
Apurba Chaterjee joins us to discuss how the arts were used to convey an image of India to Britons in the 18th and 19th centuries, and how Indian culture permeated British life decades before mass immigration.
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Join us in The Mary Rose as we debate history's most epic death scene. Because this is us, most of us interpreted epic to mean stupid. Cue much cackling and silliness and laughing at historical idiocy.
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Wendy Turner and Chris Mounsey join forces to talk about the challenges of researching disabilities in history. Using their specialisations in medieval mental health and eighteenth century sight impairment, they tell a wider tale of difficulties in terminology, understanding human experience, for which solutions are evolving constantly.
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
We hand the mic to Zack White and Marcus Cribb to commemorate the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. If you're only ever going to spend an hour on this seminal moment in European history, this should be it. With context, descriptions of the fighting, personal accounts, legacy, Wellington's tears, the devastating casualty list and the pain of Napoleon'a haemorrhoids, it's all in here.
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Wednesday Jun 17, 2020
Historians Peter Caddick-Adams and Roger Moorhouse join us to address the accusations levelled at one of Britain's most emblematic figures in the past week and a half.