Episode 15 - Back In The St Nick Of Time

Send a text Welcome to the new, hopefully improved A Nice Cup Of Histortea. We put up the polls and you, the loving public, answered the call. Thank you for your input, and for the fact that we now ha...

23 Apr 201920min

Send a text In honour of the start of the final season of Game of Thrones, we bring you a rundown of the history of Westeros starting from the invasion of the First Men all the way to the events that ...

16 Apr 201941min

Send a text This week we delve into the realm of fairytales, telling the story of Ashputtel and the origins of the Cinderella story. As always, here are our sources: https://allthatsinteresting.co...

8 Apr 201937min

Send a text This week we take a brief tour of the Wars of the Roses, a series of battles that forever changed the landscape of British History and inspired George R.R. Martin to write A Song of Ice an...

26 Mar 201947min

Send a text This week we talk about that GCSE History favourite, the Cuban Missile Crisis. What happened in the lead up to it? What happened in those fateful 13 days? Could it happen again? As alway...

19 Mar 201928min

Send a text This week we come to you not exactly live, but from a location we have visited in our sister blog, Castle Rising, Norfolk. We don't have any sources this week but our Instagram has some pi...

12 Mar 201946min

Send a text This week we talk about the great warlord Genghis Khan. His life, his battles, his Michael Bolton montage teenage years... and always a ridiculous death. Here are our sources: https://e...

5 Mar 201933min

Send a text This week we discuss the Pilgrimage of Grace, a northern uprising that occurred during the reign of Henry VIII (control yourself Emily). Was it a peaceful protest? Was it a violent confron...

26 Feb 201937min