Takeda Shingen: Tiger of Kai Whose Laws Tokugawa Ieyasu Adopted
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Takeda Shingen was born in 1521 as Katsuchiyo, later taking the name Harunobu, eldest son of Tak...
26 Okt 23min
Tacitus: Silent Senator Under Domitian Who Became Rome's Tyranny Critic
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Publius Cornelius Tacitus, whose name means silent in Latin, was born around 56 or 57 AD into a ...
26 Okt 20min
Lucius Cornelius Sulla: Proscription Lists, a March on Rome and Retirement
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Lucius Cornelius Sulla came from a patrician branch whose ancestor had been expelled from the Se...
26 Okt 18min
Suetonius: Hadrian's Fired Secretary Who Wrote The Twelve Caesars
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was born around AD 69, a date known because he placed his age relati...
26 Okt 20min
Strabo: The Geographer Who Saw Mountain Seashells as Rising Crust
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Strabo was born around 64 or 63 BC in Amaseia in the Kingdom of Pontus, now Amasya in Turkey, du...
26 Okt 22min
Stella Rimington: From Archivist to MI5's First Publicly Named Chief
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Stella Rimington was born Stella Whitehouse in South London in May 1935. During World War II her...
26 Okt 24min
Amy Elizabeth Thorpe, Spy 'Cynthia': Stealing Italian and Vichy Codes
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Amy Elizabeth Thorpe was born in Minneapolis in 1910, daughter of a U.S. Marine Corps officer an...
26 Okt 20min
Solon: Cancelling Athens' Debts, Then Leaving the City for 10 Years
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Solon was born around 630 BC into a noble Athenian clan said to descend from the city's ancient ...
26 Okt 21min
