History After Dark Podcast

We are live live for the final episode of our Dysfunctional Families Series and it's a great one! Historian Gareth Russell joins us to tell us about the Boleyns and their Butler relatives and the fight for the Earldom of Ormond. Find Gareth at www. GarethRussell.co.uk and on Instagram as @_GarethRussell Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborato...

Hello HADers! When the hatred of parents and children seems in the genes! Beginning with George I, the poor relationships between parents and children, monarchs and their successors, perpetuated for generations! It seemed it was a curse of the Hanoverians! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark...

They arrived in Osage in Labette county, a seemingly normal family of 4 who would offer hospitality to those passing by on the Osage trail. But then, not long after they arrived, people started to go missing, until they picked on the wrong victim and were found out! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr...

Henry II had a good start; a powerful wife, a large empire and a brood of sons but greed for power and money would tear it all apart. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or...

Thank you to everyone who tuned into our livestream with special guest Matt Lewis (History Hit, the Gone Medieval Podcast) and to all of you catching up with the playback! Medieval historian, author and presenter Matt Lewis joined us to talk about the brother of the House of York; Edward, George and Richard, how they managed to mess things up and what they might have achieved if they had worked to...

Hey HADers! Have you ever heard of the ‘Scandalous Lady W’? Seymour Worlsey was one half of an unhappy marriage, or was it? Her husband preferred voyeurism to intimacy with his wife, she preferred other men to him, but does the story of the Worsleys represent an element of Georgian society otherwise invisible to us? Watch this episode on our Youtube channel Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Fi...

Hey HADers! It’s Kat’s turn to take us to take us into the unfortunate woes of another dysfunctional family! Despite being illegitimate and woefully undereducated, the Duke of Monmouth tried to assert his supposed right to the throne, over and over again, following the death of his father Charles II, who died leaving lots of bastard children by his mistresses but no legal heir. Watch this episode...

Hey HADers! It’s a brand new series and this time we’re talking dysfunctional families - and there were a few to choose from, that’s for sure. Philippa ( @BritishHistory ) is first up with the Seymour family, with who’s story you may be somewhat familiar, but there was a lot more scandal and bad decisions even beyond the famous ones! This episode covers 5 generations….if only they had learned from...

"Wild" Humphrey was a real man, born into the English landowning gentry and with royal lineage, yet he became and outlaw. His legend bears little resemblance to his real life. Philippa tells us how he became infamous and why Henry VIII eventually gave him a pardon! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr....

Sexy Fox? Nasty outlaw? Or perhaps not real at all? The legend of Robin Hood. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow us individually: * Ph...

The tale that captivated and terrified North London in the 1970s! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow us individually: * Philippa - htt...

With the sudden influx of AI creators creating history content the HAD girls decided to do a livestream about what good, or otherwise, these videos are doing for the discipline. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep...

On the off chance we didn’t realise how weird and creepy Bodmin Moor is, here is further evidence. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow...

Rumours of a scary bouncy critter have done the rounds for many years. There were many sightings...and even some recently! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or...

Mainly because Kat always maintained that it was dangerous to go west of London because of the dragons, and maybe she was right! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a fr...

The original Dynamic Duo, a brief history of Batman and Robin, and the psychology of the Bat as part of his enduring legacy. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free o...

Driven by the promise of profit, countless babies paid the price...*Please be advised that some listeners may find this episode upsetting.*Helplines (UK) mentioned in this episode:Childline - 0800 1111NSCPP Helpline - 0808 800 5000 Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After...

Henry VII's henchmen, responsible for the implementation of Henry VII's policy of forced loyalty by financial obligation, were arrested the very morning that the old king's death was announced, the new king making it upmost priority to show there was a change in regime. Were they scapegoats, or did their actions speak of complicity? Books mentioned:'The Winter King', by Thomas Penn'Henry. The Prin...

Hi HADers! Dynamic Duo Mike Jones and Lottie Rose joined us live to discuss the myths around Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, the man who supposedly lost the Wars of the Roses at Tewkesbury in 1471 with a rash and stupid move. We also hear some home truths about Edward IV - not such a peace keeping golden boy after all! You can listen on the podcast or watch on Youtube! Until next week, be good,...

The ‘Other Favourite’, Abigail Masham knew how to bring down a formidable opponent using her conduct as the shovel to let her competition dig her own grave. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming p...

The "body snatchers" who found a shortcut to profit through murder... Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow us individually: * Philippa -...

We’re back with our 9th series! Not many people act alone and this series looks at dynamic duos! Starting with Queen Isabella of France, wife of Edward II, and her lover Roger de Mortimer, who did the unthinkable and deposed a king! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After...

So, we took the most macabre of topics and managed to make a game out of it! To finish of the CSI Executed people series, we are guessing the execution in 10 words of less, in our usual informative but widely fun way! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader...

William, Lord Hastings had done nothing wrong when he was dragged out of a council meeting at the Tower of London and summarily executed, but that’s bad King Richard III for you!…….but is that the real story? Matthew Lewis, historian, author, presenter on History Hit and senior member of the Richard III society joins us to go through the evidence for what happened but also the context in which it...

Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - Click Here Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Follow us individually: * Philippa - https://linktr.ee/BritishHistory * Kat - https://linktr.ee/katrina_ma...