198. The Pirate Trial of the Century
William Kidd, a respectable Scottish privateer during the late 17th century, tasked with hunting down pirates on the orders of a murky cabal of British aristocrats, but with the crown’s blessing, find...
29 Okt 202440min
197. The Pirate Hunter
Alongside legends like Blackbeard and Calico Jack, William Kidd is one of the most famous pirates to have entered the public consciousness, thanks to Hollywood, sea shanties and literary mythologizati...
23 Okt 202441min
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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 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 Okt 202443min
