Frederick II and the Crusades: An Excommunicated Emperor Leases Jerusalem
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The most successful Western bid for Jerusalem came at a negotiating table, when Holy Roman Emper...
23 Okt 21min
East India Company: A Stolen Portuguese Rudder, the Diwani and the Tea Act
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1592 English privateers captured the Portuguese carrack Madre de Deus off the Azores, and amo...
23 Okt 24min
Fatimid Caliphate: Salamiya's Secret Missionaries to Saladin's Quiet Coup
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Fatimid Caliphate began as an underground Ismaili Shia movement in the ninth century, run fr...
23 Okt 22min
John Cabot, Runaway Venetian Debtor: The Matthew and Ruddock's Lost Notes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!John Cabot was born Giovanni Caboto in Italy around 1450 and signed Venetian documents as Zuan C...
23 Okt 21min
Berlin Wall Engineering: Grenzmauer 75, Asbestos Pipes and Bowie's Riot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!East Germany called it the Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart, but the Berlin Wall's guns faced inw...
23 Okt 24min
Richard Arkwright: Wig Dye Profits, Cromford Mill and a Lost 1785 Patent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Richard Arkwright was born in Preston in 1732, the youngest of seven surviving children of a tai...
23 Okt 20min
Wilson's Fourteen Points: Lenin's Leaked Treaties and the Secret Inquiry
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The United States entered World War I in April 1917 after unrestricted submarine warfare and the...
23 Okt 22min
William the Conqueror: Harrying of the North and a Crown Worn in York
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!William descended from the Normans, Vikings settled in northern France in 911 when the French ki...
23 Okt 19min
