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No Milo this week, so Phoebe and Pat are talking about the Bronze Age collapse and its enduring historical and cultural legacy. For example, did anyone actually say 'This age of bronze is collapsing?' in this episode we will find out.

Milo and Pat are sans Phoebe this week and they're going through their favourite history films: which means there's nothing that can stop them talking about how True Grit is feminist.

Phoebe and Pat are joined by historian, author and Agrippina expert Emma Southon to talk about the ur-text of conniving Milves.

BWAHHHHHH Milo, Phoebe and Pat get their teeth into Nolan's Odyssey - one Odysseus is moving forwards in time whilst another...

A look into the labor history of one of the world's oldest paper mills Remembering Mother Warren unearths the culture of an industrial community, the drama of life working for a once-great employer, and probes the meaning of workers' memories in the face of disruptive industrial change. Produced by Big Talk on WMPG, it is a 30-minute documentary that traces the labor history of the S.D. Warren pap...

The gang are taking a quick break from MILF History month to talk about Homer, xenia, bags of wind and whether you should tell your wife you've been shagging a nymph for seven years.

No Phoebe this week, so Milo and Pat are bringing you a special carpet time where they discuss the ways women are historically viewed and treated by historical sources compared to their male counterparts. Expect some analysis of ancient Chinese girlbosses and, also, the US military's new love of gender-affirming care.

It's Phoebe's special interest corner this week as the gang discuss Tudor England's answer to Emily in Paris: Anne Boleyn. Did she really have six fingers? Was she shagging her brother? Or was she in fact a much misunderstood woman who girlbossed too close to the sun? All will be revealed.

This week on MILF History Month: Milo and Phoebe dive into some of the conniving milves not worth of their own full episode but whom nonetheless we salute for the connivance, including Eleanor of Aquitane, Lucrezia Borgia and Mata Hari.

It's a heatwave and that can mean only one thing at MOOD towers: it's MILF history month, which will actually last for two months due to the importance of milves. We will be tracing the influence of conniving women through the ages, starting with an all-timer: Olympias, the mother of Alexander The Great. We get into ancient Macedonia's political culture, the chaotic sex life of Philip of Macedon a...

Have you ever wondered how all those Roman buildings are still standing but every rental flat seems to be collapsing at the seams? Dr Wyman has the ancient civil-engineering answers for you and also includes many anecdotes from his times working with modern concrete.

In this history episode, Tim takes us through the 1933-34 season- the last and only time (for now) that Arsenal have retained the league title. Arsenal fought Herbert Chapman’s former team Huddersfield Town for the title but, tragically, on January 6, 1934 Chapman suddenly died of pneumonia, leaving a grieving team to pick themselves up under the stewardship of Joe Shaw and Tom Whittaker to seal t...

In this history episode, Tim is joined by eminent Arsenal historian Andy Kelly which covers a variety of topics. •⁠ ⁠The formation of the football club from Dial Square Cricket Club in December 1886 •⁠ ⁠Known details from Dial Square’s first game against Eastern Wanderers later that month •⁠ ⁠Debunking the myth that Nottingham Forest supplied the club with their first official kit •⁠ ⁠Did Henry No...

In this history episode, Tim discusses the legacy of former Arsenal striker Charlie Buchan. He was Herbert Chapman's first signing for the Gunners in 1925 having left Woolwich Arsenal as a teenager in a row over expenses. His star quality and his intelligence and confidence as a trained teacher drew Chapman to Buchan as a prototype for the sort of player he wanted. It was reportedly Buchan who sug...

In this history pod, Tim recounts Royal Arsenal’s three years at the Invicta Ground from 1890-1893 and how it became the setting for a dramatic tug of war for the ownership of a club that was looking to establish itself and grow during football’s formative years.

In this history episode, Tim tells the story of Arsenal's first ever major silverware in the shape of the 1930 FA Cup. The significance of the final pitting the all conquering Huddersfield team Herbert Chapman built against the all conquering Arsenal side he was building, the importance of signing Alex James and Cliff Bastin in the summer of 1929, how Chapman made Huddersfield the finest team in t...

In this history pod, Tim talks about legendary Arsenal manager George Allison, who oversaw two league titles and an FA Cup and also provided a steady hand on the tiller for the club during the Second World War and took over shortly after the unexpected death of Herbert Chapman. Tim considers Allison's curious legacy given that his background and prominence was in journalism and he left the coachin...

In this history episode Tim gives a history of the North Bank, Highbury, from its modest roots to its days as ‘The Laundry End’ the home of Arsenal’s local, working class support and how it began to reflect immigration into Islington after the Second World War, the baby boomers of the 1960s and the birth of stadium atmosphere and fashions, through into the hooligan era and the infamous game agains...

Lou Wilson joins Brennan for Fantasy High secrets, first-time DM fails, and tips for scary villains.

In this history pod, Tim talks about Arsenal player from 1960-66 and England World Cup winner George Eastham. Eastham’s transfer to Arsenal from Newcastle in 1960 was one of the most controversial in English football history as he went on strike for over a year to secure it. His contract at Newcastle had expired but this was during the ‘retain and transfer’ era when clubs owned player registration...

In this history episode, Tim talks about the situation for Arsenal during the Second World War from 1939 until 1945. Tim covers the beginning of the 1939-40 season which was quickly suspended as war was declared on Germany, Highbury being requisitioned for the war effort as an air raid shelter, how the Football League reorganised competitions during hostilities and some of the strange games that h...

In this history pod, Tim talks about how Arsenal won the 1970-71 League and FA Cup double, becoming only the second team to achieve the double in the 20th century. Tim sets the context for Arsenal enduring over a decade of mediocrity in the mid-50s and 1960s, English football’s more competitive, egalitarian model, Arsenal’s struggles with status anxiety due to the shadow of those dominant teams of...

In this history pod, Tim is joined by Arsenal historian and author Andy Kelly to talk about the election to expand the First Division in 1919 when Arsenal were promoted and Tottenham demoted by the vote. Andy talks about the post First World War picture and why the top flight expanded, the preceding match fixing scandal between Liverpool and Manchester United and the politics behind the vote (aka,...

In this history pod, Tim gives an oral history of the Arsenal programme, from the first recorded programmes in 1890- which were poems produced by a fan- to the club's main and only corporate voice. How a programme editor went on to manage the club to multiple league titles, how a programme editor gave the club its 'Victoria Concordia Crescit' motto in the 1940s, the evolution of the purpose and vo...

On this history episode of the Arsenal Vision Post Match Pod Podcast, Tim talks to author, football historian and Arsenal fan Jon Spurling about Arsenal in the 1980s. Tim and Jon talk through Arsenal’s trajectory from a club down on its luck struggling to hold onto key players at the beginning of the decade, to winning the title with an exciting young team by the end. Tim and Jon talk about some o...