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#367 History Hack: The Balkan Wars
Episode 389
Chances are you've mentioned them in an essay on the causes of the First World War, but what do you really know about the events of 1912-13? Ted Hoot…
5 years, 1 month ago
#366 History Hack: A History of Recipe Books
Episode 387
Kate Owen joins us to talk all about her work on early modern recipe books and how they fit into history.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#365 History Hack: Treasure-Hunting
Episode 386
Peter Reavill joins us to talk all about metal-detecting, the Treasure Act and the British Library's Portable Antiquity Scheme.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#364 History Hack: Dieppe
Episode 385
David O'keefe joins us to talk all Operation Jubilee, long believed to be a failed precursor to D-Day, but David's research has found that the raid's…
5 years, 1 month ago
#362 History Hack: Down the Pub
Episode 384
For Valentine's Day, the cynics in the Mary Rose are subjected to picking out history's most romantic gesture.
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#361 History Hack: Young JFK
Episode 383
Fredrik Logevall joins us to talk all about the first volume of his biography of John F Kennedy.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#360 History Hack: Princes of the Renaissance
Episode 382
Mary Hollingsworth joins us to discuss her new book: Princes of the Renaissance.
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5 years, 1 month ago
#359 History Hack: Sharpe Shooters
Episode 381
The boys take over. Marcus and Zack jump into the history behind the Napoleonic hit series to talk all about the origins of guerrilla warfare.
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#358 History Hack: First Nations, First Contact
Episode 380
Eldon Yellowhorn joins us to talk all about expansion by the Hudson Bay Company to Alberta and what it means for the First Nations.
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#357 History Hack: Mesoamerican Navigation
Episode 379
Mariana Flavila joins us from Mexico to talk all about how pre-colonial Central Americans got about.
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5 years, 1 month ago