Hanging with History

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We cover some of the heroic events that increased pride and self confidence of the Royal Navy: Pellew's defeat of a 74 with 2 frigates a...

11 Sep 202438min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This looks at the Glorious First of June campaign, covering all the engagements with extra attention to the 1st of June Was it a Frenc...

28 Aug 202437min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. 1793 is a year of opportunities thrown away. The allies dominate the poorly disciplined French army, but waste the summer in pointless s...

14 Aug 202425min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This covers the first year of the War of the First Coalition, which ends with the "homicidal philanthropy of France." Brunswick's invasi...

7 Aug 202419min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The Priestly Riots, also known as the Birmingham Riots, were part of the Church and King riots, that were part of the disgust reaction ag...

31 Juli 202449min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The French Revolution was the most exciting thing to ever happen for some radical intellectuals. But gradually the murderyness, the chao...

17 Juli 202427min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We close the French Revolution at the Thermidorean Reaction and the execution of Robespierre. We treat the conspiracy to overthrow Robes...

3 Juli 202435min

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Only 24% of French priests are willing to take the constitutional oath putting their allegiance to the state above that to Jesus and the ...

26 Juni 202438min