196. Blackbeard’s Reign of Terror
“At our first salutation he drank damnation to me and my men who styled cowardly puppies saying he would neither give nor take quarter…” By the end of November 1717 Blackbeard had become one of the m...
21 Loka 202440min
195. Blackbeard & the Pirates of the Caribbean
The history of pirates is a thrilling kaleidoscope of adventure, devastation, violence and political intrigue, and never more so than during the 17th and 18th centuries: the golden age of piracy. This...
16 Loka 202440min
194. Empire of Numbers: Fibonacci and the Birth of Modern Money
When King Alfonso VI of León took Toledo from the Arabs in 1085, the history of western christendom changed forever. Within the city existed a number of texts full of the ideas that we would call Arab...
14 Loka 202439min
193. Empire of Numbers: The Indian Origin of Arabic Numerals
Often called Arabic numerals, the modern number system we use today actually originates in India. Whilst in the west they were using Roman numerals, in India they were using numbers 1-9. Then, the gre...
9 Loka 202444min
192. Native American Chiefs, the Founding of Canada, and the KKK: Scots in America
From India to Africa, the involvement and influence of Scots in the British Empire has been profound. In both arenas, they rose through the ranks as soldiers, merchants and bureaucrats, to carve out, ...
7 Loka 202439min
191. Slave, Slaver, Abolitionist: Three Scots in Africa
The extraordinary lives of three Scotsmen - John Henderson, Richard Oswald, and David Livingstone - encapsulate the polarities of the Scottish experience in Africa prior to the 20th century. Henderson...
2 Loka 202443min
190. Rags to Riches: The Scots in India
In the wake of Culloden, much of Scotland was on its knees. Crippled by defeat and the subsequent backlash of the British government, along with famine and poverty, they were in dire need of new horiz...
30 Syys 202451min
189. Culloden: Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Last Stand
Few battles in history have been remembered as powerfully, nor been as mythologised, as Culloden on the 16th of April 1746. Under the leadership of Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie, ‘the ...
25 Syys 20241h
