History Tea Time

Please take my listener survey to help improve the podcast: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave  In Europe in the middle ages about one in three women died in their child-bearing years. Here are the storie...

28 Feb 202318min

King Edward VIII gave up the throne to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship has long been lauded as a royal fairytale. But there was a lot more going on. Wallis never really li...

21 Feb 202332min

Happy Valentine's Day! ❤️ The romance between Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert is one of the greatest love stories in history. After a long history of arranged and often miserable marriage...

14 Feb 202319min

Nzinga was the Queen regnant of the joint kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba, in modern day Angola in Africa. She stood up to the Portuguese colonialists and defended her people from enslavement. Her bril...

7 Feb 202318min

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom was known as the grandmother of Europe. She and her husband Prince Albert had 9 children, 42 grandchildren, 85 great-grandchildren and 142 great-great-grandchildre...

31 Jan 202337min

Assassination – the murder of a prominent person, often for political motives. These calamities shock the world and can change the course of history. But as we will learn from the following shocking a...

24 Jan 202323min

Ottoman Sultans kept a harem of hundreds of enslaved concubines to bear their children. But from 1533 to 1656 a handful of remarkable women bent the harem system to their wills and exercised extraordi...

17 Jan 202325min

Ottoman Sultans kept a harem of hundreds of enslaved concubines to bear their children. But from 1533 to 1656 a handful of remarkable women bent the harem system to their wills and exercised extraordi...

10 Jan 202326min