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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
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
38 min
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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Jul 15, 2022
Jul 15, 2022
49 min
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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Jul 13, 2022
Jul 13, 2022
34 min
Michele Schindler joins us to talk all about the life of Viscount Lovell, Richard III's ride-or-die BFF.
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Jul 11, 2022
Jul 11, 2022
41 min
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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Jul 8, 2022
Jul 8, 2022
1 hr 2 min
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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Jul 6, 2022
Jul 6, 2022
52 min
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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Jul 4, 2022
Jul 4, 2022
49 min
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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Jul 1, 2022
Jul 1, 2022
59 min
Anna Keay joins us to discuss the ceremonial life of a large than life King: Charles II.
Jun 29, 2022
Jun 29, 2022
59 min
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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Jun 27, 2022
Jun 27, 2022
55 min
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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