Henry Cavendish - Who needs a social life when you have access to acid?
Science! This week we are discussing the life and times of one of the most influential scientists of the Georgian era. Henry Cavendish was a man who liked playing with acid much more than spending tim...
15 Mar 20241h 11min
Sir George Somers - (or) You don't have to let a shipwreck get you down.
All aboard! This week we are going to be sailing with one of the lesser known of Queen Elizabeth's sea dogs. Sir George Somers, a boyhood friend of Sir Walter Raleigh, was a man with almost obscene am...
8 Mar 20241h 13min
John Lethbridge - Barrels of laughs (and profit) under the seas
No more cats! This week we are discussing an inventor/adventurer from Devon whose large family meant he had to get experimental to find ways of feeding them. Originally a wool trader, and probably awa...
1 Mar 202449min
Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office - The only real Great Office of State in the UK
150 Episodes of Consistently Eccentric History!After nearly four years of talking about the weirder bits of history I have finally relented and agreed to give Emma a full episode of nothing but cats c...
23 Feb 20241h 2min
The Calendar Act of 1750 - Do you want to be accurate, or do you want to be English?
This week we are looking at how the English were out of sync with the rest of Europe for nearly 200 years because of a refusal to accept that a pope might be right about something. The history of iden...
16 Feb 20241h 16min
Elizabeth of York - It is hard to become a Queen when your uncle is a Dick
This week we are talking about a princess born in the midst of a civil war and whose future plans had to change on an almost yearly basis. Despite the constant uncertainty, the potential marriages to ...
9 Feb 202444min
Edward 'Ned' Low - I fancy taking my grief out on sailors
This week we are talking about a man who dealt with his grief in a particularly extreme manner. Former petty London Criminal Edward Low was a man of extremes, which is why he responded to the untimely...
2 Feb 20241h 10min
Jonathan Martin - Absolutely mad about worshipping God in the right way
We are over in the North East of England today to meet a radical preacher and sometime asylum inhabitant, Jonathan Martin. A man who was never backwards in coming forwards about his views on the state...
26 Jan 20241h 26min
