House of Windsor: Gotha Bombers, a 1917 Rebrand and Philip the Amoeba
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!When Queen Victoria died in 1901, Edward VII took his father Prince Albert's dynastic name, and ...
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Genghis Khan: A Half-Brother Killed Over a Fish, the Yassa and the Yam
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Temüjin was born around 1162 on a Mongolian Plateau torn by feuds among Mongols, Tatars, Merkits...
23 Okt 23min
Oracle of Delphi: Ethylene Fumes, Oleander Smoke and the Croesus Riddle
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Delphi, on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, was to the Greeks the navel of the world: Zeus release...
23 Okt 26min
Global Fur Trade: Siberian Sable Tribute, Beaver Hats and Sea Otter Pelts
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the 16th and 17th centuries fur drove empires much as oil did later. With Europe's beaver and...
23 Okt 25min
House of Plantagenet: Becket's Murder, Magna Carta and Bankrupt Kings
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The Plantagenets ruled England from 1154 to 1485, yet their first kings barely spoke English and...
23 Okt 20min
Five Agricultural Revolutions: Neolithic Fields to the Green Revolution
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!The agricultural revolution was not one switch flipped in antiquity. Working from a reference li...
23 Okt 19min
Fidel Castro vs Batista: Moncada, a Lemon Juice Speech and Sierra Maestra
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1952 Fulgencio Batista seized Cuba in a military coup, and young lawyer Fidel Castro sued the...
23 Okt 21min
Domesday Book: Half-Norman Juries, 5,600 Mills and a 2019 Market Case
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 2019 an 11th-century parchment entry helped settle a dispute over the right to run a town mar...
23 Okt 23min
