Jamestown Unvarnished: A 700-Year Drought, the Starving Time and 1619
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In May 1607 the Virginia Company of London, investors seeking gold and a foothold against Spain,...
23 Okt 24min
Peterloo 1819: White Dresses, Yeomanry Sabers and the Guardian's Birth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On August 16, 1819, about 60,000 people marched in their Sunday best to St. Peter's Field in Man...
23 Okt 25min
Paris Commune 1871: Eaten Zoo Elephants, Montmartre Cannons, Bloody Week
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After Napoleon III was captured at Sedan in September 1870, the new Government of National Defen...
23 Okt 21min
Song Dynasty China: Champa Rice, Jiaozi Notes, Paddle-Wheel Warships, Yamen
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Emperor Taizu reunified much of China in 960, ending the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms era. Ea...
23 Okt 23min
Steam Power's Long Run: Hero's Aeolipile to Watt and the Rankine Cycle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Steam began as a novelty: in first-century Roman Egypt, Hero of Alexandria described the aeolipi...
23 Okt 24min
Hungary 1956: Salami Tactics, Stalin's Boots and Soviet Tanks During Suez
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In Hungary's 1945 multiparty election the Communists won only 17% of the vote, yet backed by the...
23 Okt 22min
Samuel Slater, 'Slater the Traitor': Memorized Mills and Pawtucket's Strike
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Samuel Slater, born in 1768 in Belper, Derbyshire, went to work at 10 in Jedediah Strutt's cotto...
23 Okt 25min
Saigo Takamori's Satsuma Rebellion: From Private Academies to Shiroyama
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Saigo Takamori was a senior Satsuma samurai leader who helped overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate a...
23 Okt 24min
