Ptolemaic Egypt: Serapis, Scrolls Seized at the Docks, Cleopatra's Last Bid
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cleopatra VII was the last ruler of a Macedonian Greek dynasty that held Egypt for three centuri...
23 Okt 19min
Roman Republic Class War: Plebeian Walkouts, Nexum Debt and the Gracchi
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For roughly 500 years, from about 509 BC to 27 BC, the Roman Republic ran as an elective oligarc...
23 Okt 21min
Cold War Endgame: Petrov's False Alarm, Venona Leaks and the Oil Crash
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Just past midnight on September 26, 1983, Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov sat in the Serpukhov-1...
23 Okt 25min
Chartism: Three Rejected Petitions, the Plug Plot and the Australian Ballot
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Chartism grew from betrayal. The 1832 Reform Act, won with working-class pressure, tied the vote...
23 Okt 26min
Cambrai 1917: Predicted Fire, Mark IV Tanks and the Stormtrooper Riposte
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On November 20, 1917, the British army gained more ground in six hours than in six months at Pas...
23 Okt 20min
Brusilov Offensive 1916: Dummy Guns, Hidden Caverns, Russia's Ruinous Win
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Chantilly agreement of December 1915 and the March 1916 disaster at Lake Naroch, launc...
23 Okt 22min
British Empire: Drake's Privateers, Darien Ruin and the Fall of Singapore
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!By 1913 the British Empire governed about 400 million people, roughly 23 percent of humanity, ye...
23 Okt 21min
Barbary Wars: Pirate Tribute, the Burned USS Philadelphia, Decatur's Terms
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After the Revolution, the United States lost the protection of the British and French navies jus...
23 Okt 22min
