House of Habsburg: The Hawk's Castle, the Habsburg Jaw, Anti-Nazi Exiles
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 1020s Radbot of Klettgau built a fortress in Aargau, in modern Switzerland, whose name li...
23 Okt 23min
Fokker Dr.I: Why the Red Baron's Triplane Shed Its Wings in Mid-Air
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In February 1917 the Royal Naval Air Service introduced the Sopwith Triplane, whose three wings ...
23 Okt 23min
Baths of Caracalla: Hypocaust Tunnels, a Blood Pit Mithraeum, Penn Station
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Built between about 212 and 216 AD under Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla, the Baths of C...
23 Okt 26min
Justinian I: Theodora's Purple Shroud Speech, Nika Riots and Hagia Sophia
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Justinian was born around 482 to a Latin-speaking peasant family in Tauresium, in modern North M...
23 Okt 25min
Feudalism on Trial: Ganshof vs Bloch, Cattle Fiefs and Sark's 2008 Vote
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!No 11th century knight would have recognized the word feudalism, and historians still disagree o...
23 Okt 16min
Great Reform Act of 1832: Rotten Boroughs, Pot Wallopers and a Gold Run
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Before 1832 the House of Commons had 658 members chosen under rules frozen for centuries. County...
23 Okt 24min
Chandragupta Maurya: Chanakya, 500 Elephants for Seleucus, a Jain Fast
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Alexander the Great's exhausted troops mutinied at the Beas River and Alexander died in Bab...
23 Okt 16min
Meuse-Argonne 1918: Marshall's Night Moves, MacArthur's Gap, 26,277 Dead
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, fought for 47 days from September 26 to November 11, 1918, remains ...
23 Okt 25min
