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History Hack: Scissors and Paste Journalism
Episode 268
Historian Melodee Beals joins us to discuss a pivotal point in the history of journalism in the nineteenth and early-Twentieth centuries. We look at …
5 years, 4 months ago
History Hack: India, Pakistan and Partition
Episode 270
Award-winning author of the Baby Ganesh series Vaseem Khan, joins us to dicuss his new book set in 1950: Midnight at Malabar House, and the wealth of…
5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: Music in Concentration Camps
Episode 269
Karen Uslin joins Alex and Alina to discuss the importance of music and the arts within concentration and death camps.
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5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: Halloween Folklore Special
Episode 272
Story-teller Owen Griffiths returns to share some more of his fantastic folklore with a spooky tale for Halloween.
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5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: Down the Pub: The Greatest War Film of All Time
Episode 267
Join us for the most epic debate yet. Who will win the debate on the Greatest War Film in History? The regulars are joined by war boffins and film bu…
5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: The Victorians and Death
Episode 273
Melissa DeVelvis joins us to tackle the questions of why people were so obsessed by death and mourning in the nineteenth century, on both sides of th…
5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: Black Women and Reconstruction
Episode 263
Historian Cappy Yarbrough joins us for a cracking piece of South Carolina history: to talk all about political activism on the part of a family of in…
5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: Life in the Secret Service
Episode 261
Dan Kaszeta joins us to talk all about his time in the Secret Service and life at the White House. And we get into how he lost a fight with a llama..…
5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: The History of the Home
Episode 266
Art historian Freya Gowrley joins us to talk all about her forthcoming book: Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840, Materiality, Sociability and Emoti…
5 years, 5 months ago
History Hack: Waterloo 50
Episode 275
Napoleonic gurus William Fletcher, Marcus Cribb and Zack White come together to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the film that inspired their va…
5 years, 5 months ago