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History Hack: Elite Women and the Grand Tour
Episode 221
Lizzie Rogers joins us to talk all about adventurous women who packed their bags in the 18th Century and decided not to let young men have all the to…
5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: Herculaneum
Episode 220
Andrew Wallace-Hadrill joins us to talk all about Pompeii's oft-forgotten neighbour.
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5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: Humour Under Stalin
Episode 219
You'd have been forgiven for thinking that there was nothing to smile about in Stalin's Russia, but Jonathan Waterlow joins us to talk about the evol…
5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: Down the Pub
Episode 218
Join us Down the Pub as the residents debate the greatest book in history.
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5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: A History of San Francisco
Episode 217
San Francisco girl Kelly Krause joins us to talk all about her city. From indigenous people, to earthquakes, to wars and the Summer of Love, it's a v…
5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: Austria-Hungary in WW1 Part III
Episode 216
Nicolai Eberholst concludes his epic history of the Austro-Hungarian empire in the First World War. Today we look at 1917-18 and the fall of the Empi…
5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: Cervantes and Don Quixote
Episode 215
Colin Fisher joins us to talk all about Spain's answer to Shakespeare and his finest work.
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5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: How to be a Pre-Historian
Episode 214
Lesley McFadyen joins us to talk all about the challenges of researching prehistory in the absence of documents and testimony.
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5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: "Good" Germans
Episode 213
Catrine Clay joins us to share tales from her new book, which looks at German resistance to the Nazis in the 1930s and 40s.
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5 years, 6 months ago
History Hack: Tales from Welsh Folklore
Episode 212
Got a spare twenty minutes? Owen Griffiths returns with a spooky tale borne out of the confusion of the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteen…
5 years, 6 months ago