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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.
Episodes
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Sjoerd De Boer joins us to talk about the sensible history of Hitler's bunker and what happened to those hiding with him when the Nazi's capitulated.
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Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Caroline Boggis-Rolfe joins us to talk about 2,000 years of colourful history that tell the story of the Adriatic Sea.
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Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Wednesday Jul 13, 2022
Michele Schindler joins us to talk all about the life of Viscount Lovell, Richard III's ride-or-die BFF.
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Did the death of one First World War general potentially change the course of Irish history? Ronan McGreevy joins us to talk about the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.
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Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Don't know the difference between your Badajoz and your Burgos? Fresh from his debut at Chalke Valley, our very own Zack provides an overview to what came before Waterloo...
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Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
The story of the American South that Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind tells has codified a version of history in popular minds that did not exist. Ahead of the release of her new book, The Wrath to Come: Gone With the Wind and the Lies America Tells, Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, joins Boney and Charly to discuss the realities that Mitchell attempted to hide underneath all the hoop skirts.
But Sarah's The Wrath to Come, at the History Hack Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781789542981
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Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Graham Wrightson joins us to talk all about the fighting career of Antiochus the Great and his battles against Rome.
Buy Graham's book, The Battles of Antiochus the Great: The failure of combined arms at Magnesia that handed the world to Rome, at the History Hack Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526793461
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Friday Jul 01, 2022
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Anna Keay joins us to discuss the ceremonial life of a large than life King: Charles II.
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Amanda Thomas joins us to discuss the history of a Victorian nemesis, and of course, we'd be idiots not to discuss the parallels with Covid-19 today.
Buy Amanda's book, Cholera: The Victorian Plague, at the History Hack Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526781819
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Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Jane Henderson joins us to explain why spider crap, a 'monkey Jesus' insect sex, and Sam Jolley's 'serial killer of moths' instincts are all vital when it comes to conservation.
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