Timur (Tamerlane): Flaming Camels at Delhi and Samarkand's Captive Artisans
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Timur, known in the West as Tamerlane, was born in the 1330s into the Barlas, a Mongol tribe tha...
23 Okt 24min
Stephenson's Rocket: Rainhill 1829, Booth's 25 Tubes and a Rotary Flop
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1829 the directors of the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway could not decide whether train...
23 Okt 27min
Industrial Revolution: Banned Calico, Lombe's Silk Spying and 500x Spinning
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Around 1690 the finest cloth in a British shop was imported Indian cotton, made where labor cost...
23 Okt 25min
Canal Mania 1793: Bridgewater's Coal, 20 New Canals and Unfinished Ditches
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Canal mania swept England and Wales from the 1790s into the 1810s, and it began with a practical...
23 Okt 21min
Treaty of Tordesillas 1494: A Moved Line, Brazil and 350,000 Ducats
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Returning from his first voyage in 1493, Christopher Columbus stopped in Lisbon, and King John I...
23 Okt 22min
Spanish Empire's Silver Curse: Potosí, a Mercury Audit and Napoleon's Coup
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Spain began as a composite monarchy when Ferdinand of Aragon married Isabella of Castile in 1469...
23 Okt 25min
Meiji Restoration: Indebted Samurai, Black Ships and the Topknot Edict
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Under the Tokugawa shogunate samurai were paid fixed rice stipends while merchants at the bottom...
23 Okt 20min
Samuel de Champlain: St. Croix Scurvy, a Mutineer's Head and Quebec's Bluff
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A 1574 baptismal record from a Protestant temple suggests Samuel de Champlain, from Brouage in A...
23 Okt 22min
