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#377 History Hack: Victorian Learning Difficulties
Episode 398
Louise Creechan returns to discuss dyslexia, autism and other learning difficulties and how they were perceived in Victorian Britain.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#376 History Hack: The Mali Empire
Episode 397
Sirio Canos Donnay joins us to talk all things Mali and its Empire.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#375 History Hack: The Genesis of WW2 Concentration Camps
Episode 396
Dr Nikolaus Wachsmann was the first historian to write a complete history of the Nazi's concentration camps. In this podcast he discusses their early…
5 years, 1 month ago
#373 History Hack: Blood & Iron: Germany 1815-1870
Episode 395
Katja Hoyer joins us to talk all about the lead up to unification and the contents of her spectacular new book. With a diversion on Wilhelm II!
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5 years, 1 month ago
#374 History Hack: Down the Pub
Episode 411
Join the regulars in the Mary Rose. Following a listener request, they debate the worst year in history. Can we find anything worse than 2020?!
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5 years, 1 month ago
#372 History Hack: Re-examining Bloody Mary
Episode 394
Johanna Strong joins us to talk all about applying context to the legend of Bloody Mary, Henry VIII's eldest daughter.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#371 History Hack: US Election Mayhem
Episode 393
Jon Jordan joins us to explain that electoral mayhem in the United States is nothing new.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#370 History Hack: Down the Pub
Episode 410
The regulars convene to discuss who deserves the title of history's most unlikely hero.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#369 History Hack: Science and Archaeology
Episode 392
Gilad Jaffe joins us to take about game-changing scientific developments in the field of archaeology.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#368 History Hack: Venus Noir
Episode 390
Robin Mitchell joins us to talk all about her book Venus Noir: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-century France
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5 years, 1 month ago