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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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Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Chris Skidmore, MP and former Minister for Universities, puts his history hat on to discuss his biography of Richard III. We take a look at the three phases of his life: Brother, Protector, King and examine the historiography that has led to him being one of Britain's most maligned monarchs.
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
Alina tries her best to get away from WW2 and fails, but the result is a deeply interesting look at music, dance and culture in Poland in the inter-war period with Juliette Bretan, who tells us how a generation of music was cut short by the Nazis.
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Thursday Apr 23, 2020
Based on his award winning book, William Sturkey joins us for a poignant and eloquent discussion on African-American history, the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights Movement, all through the eyes of one Mississippi town.
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
It's an exciting time to be an archaeologist working on the Vikings! Cat Jarman and Tom Horne join us to discuss how the field is being blown wide open and why, and what it's revealing about the most famous warlords in history, aside from that they liked raiding and plundering...
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Author, historian and Project Manager at the Australian National Maritime museum, Inger Sheil, joins HH for a lighthearted look at some of the conspiracy theories surrounding the sinking of RMS Titanic. Alina hosts, while Inger and Alex play Titanic Whack-a-mole, and then nominate Luke Daly-Groves to fend off any ensuing madness…
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Historian, author, and former Secret Service agent Dan Kaszeta joins Alex and Alina prior to the release of his book Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia; to discuss the early development of chemical warfare.
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Author Richard Van Emden and Director of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Victoria Wallace, join us to discuss how Britain approached, and still deals with her dead in the wake of the Great War. We learn about the burial of those lost, the commemoration of those who remained missing, why Richard has been adopting old people, and why he spent his university years in care homes.
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Historian, author and broadcaster Tracy Borman joins us to talk about Thomas Cromwell and Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. We talk about how true to life her portrayal of the man is, what's "wrong" with it, the Tudors in popular culture, Tracy's new television tribute to Anne Boleyn and we give characters like the Duke of Norfolk and Anne's dad what they've had coming to them...
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Lt. Col Cameron Macnish (Ret.) talks about his personal experiences during Op Granby, the British Army's deployment to the Middle East following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Brace yourselves. 5Live's Aaron Paul, The Football History Boys and Suburban Gooner join Alex, Alina (sort of), the Not-So-Honourable Judge Holmes, the Floppy-haired Klopp lookalike that is that Jonny Dyer and a very enthusiastic Villa fan to play Historical Fantasy Football. In nigh on two hours, we make fun of Steve Bruce's head, talk about some of the best players that the world has ever seen, runaway chickens, the benefits of a complimentary Lincolnshire sausage and Finland's greatest export. And basically get nowhere.