Hanging with History

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. You probably know that by the middle of the 19th century, the British dominated India. The British introduced railroads and electricity...

11 Maalis 1h

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. For the Ottoman empire the French Revolution to Waterloo have a definte arc, and it isn’t pretty, and there is some coverage up to the Cr...

25 Helmi 41min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A scientific expedition, led by Jean Bruguière and Guillaume Olivier. Now they truly were scientists, but they were also diplomats secre...

11 Helmi 41min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. In a great triumph for France, and Talleyrand personally, Belgium is born. This is one of history's true ironies because of how the exis...

28 Tammi 1h

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. “Talleyrand was in a black mood. All that he had achieved over the past eighteen months had been destroyed: the bloodless and amiable re...

21 Tammi 43min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. There is a commonplace, dismissive, reductive argument you will hear all the time. That napoleon stood no chance. Even if he had triump...

14 Tammi 47min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode we looked at France, Scandinavia and Italy. Italy was particularly fascinating, but we were bare able to scratch the surfac...

7 Tammi 47min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode we described how in Paris there was a party like atmosphere, the dreamy, giddy glow of it, how it sucked in the later arriva...

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