Francis Walsingham: Beer Barrel Ciphers, the Babington Plot and Cadiz
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Sir Francis Walsingham was born around 1532 into a family of lawyers in Kent and went into exile...
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Erik the Red: Stolen High-Seat Pillars, Outlawry and the Greenland Pitch
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Erik Thorvaldsson was born around 950 in Rogaland, Norway, and as a boy of about 10 followed his...
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Elizabeth Fry: Banking Heiress Who Brought Order to Newgate Prison
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Elizabeth Fry was born Elizabeth Gurney in Norwich in 1780 and grew up at Earlham Hall; her fath...
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Edward Low: Boston Widower Turned Pirate Who Fed a Captain His Own Lips
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Edward Low was born around 1690 in the slums of Westminster, an illiterate pickpocket whose brot...
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Daniel Drew: Salted Cattle, the Erie War and a Forged 1910 Diary
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Daniel Drew was born in 1797 in Carmel, New York, lost his cattle-farmer father at 15, served wi...
26 Okt 20min
Count of Saint Germain: Casanova's Dinner, Melted Diamonds, a Toothbrush
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Count of Saint Germain, whom Voltaire called a man who knows everything and never dies, left...
26 Okt 23min
Count Cagliostro: Palermo Swindler, Grand Copht and the Diamond Necklace
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Count Alessandro Cagliostro was born Giuseppe Balsamo in Palermo in 1743, the son of a bankrupt ...
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Cosimo de' Medici: Antipope Loans, a Bank-Run Exile and Brunelleschi
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Cosimo de' Medici inherited a bank his father Giovanni founded in Florence in 1397. Because the ...
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