RMS Lusitania: Admiralty Gun Mounts, 4.2 Million Rounds and a Boiler Blast
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Lusitania was built to win a shipping war. German lines such as Norddeutscher Lloyd had held...
23 Okt 22min
Luddites 1811 to 1813: Enoch Hammers, Horsfall's Murder and 12,000 Troops
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The original Luddites were skilled English textile workers who ran a disciplined underground cam...
23 Okt 28min
Korean War: Inchon's 30-Foot Tides, MacArthur's Cobalt Plan and MASH Units
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!After 35 years of Japanese rule, Korea was split at the 38th parallel in 1945, with Soviet force...
23 Okt 22min
James Hargreaves' Spinning Jenny: A Blackburn Mob and a Voided Patent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!James Hargreaves was born around 1720 in Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn, Lancashire, then a town o...
23 Okt 23min
The Marne in 1914 and 1918: One French River, Two Battles, Four Lost Years
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This episode starts from an unusual source: a short Wikipedia disambiguation page for the Battle...
23 Okt 15min
Western Front Deadlock: Fokker's Gun Gear, Nivelle's Mutinies, Amiens 1918
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1914 railways could move millions of soldiers in days, but once they left the railhead they m...
23 Okt 26min
Alaska Purchase 1867: A 4 a.m. Treaty, Railway Debts, Seward's Folly Myth
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!On October 18, 1867, the Russian flag at Sitka tangled in its rigging, and only a third soldier ...
23 Okt 23min
Roman Gladiators: Barley Eaters, White-Tunic Referees and Legal Infamy
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Roman gladiators were idolized on souvenir lamps yet legally branded with infamia, grouped with ...
23 Okt 25min
