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Buckle up, Catherine chose another scientist...sort of! Popper was a 20th-century philosopher most well known for his rejection of inductivism and advocacy of falsification in the construction of the philosophy of science. 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 r...

Charles Ingatius Sancho, composer, writer, shopkeeper, was the first black man in England to vote. Kat covers his incredible story. 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...

German-born Hans Holbein the Younger has shaped how the Tudor court was viewed at the time, and ever since. 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...

We were very happy to be joined live by Dr Lauren Johnson to talk about the topic of her latest book, Margaret Beaufort. Her book ‘Margaret Beaufort, Survivor. Rebel, Kingmaker’ is out on 6th November in the UK and is available to pre-order from all over the world now. History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid su...

We are very happy to be joined live by Dr Euan Roger to talk about someone he considers a ‘Trailblazer,’ Geoffrey Chaucer. Euan is Principal Medieval Specialist at The National Archives in the UK and has previously published on a wide variety of subjects including the life-records of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer. History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming...

An atheist with an understanding of physics and the universe that would make most people's minds experience an explosion as huge as the Big Bang, Stephen Hawking was just bloody brilliant. History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Watch this episode on our Youtube channel Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me...

Levina Teerlinc joined the royal court at the end of Henry VIII's reign. A talented artist, she is thought to have trained one of the most famous miniaturists of her era. She is also recorded as a "gentlewoman" of the queen's chamber in receipt of a handsome pension; clearly she made an impression that secured her wealth and status. History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and k...

At the turn of the 20th Century, a Scottish lady called Mary Macarthur, became one of the most influential voices in the trade unionist movement. She was instrumental in the realisation of a minimum wage for workers and raised the profile of the plight of low wage workers. Her determination to provide women in female-dominated trades, which were often carried out at home, led to the creation of th...

This is the Trialblazers series on History After Dark, and we were joined for this LIVE episode by historian and author Sharon Bennett Connolly who is going to introduce us to a trailblazer of the 13th century, Nicholaa de la Haye! History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our work and keep the History coming please consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Watch this episode on our Yo...

Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - History After Dark 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/ka...

Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - History After Dark 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/ka...

Eleanor Coade was a Georgian businesswoman who not only operated in an industry hitherto unknown for women, she dominated it! Watch this episode on our Youtube channel - History After Dark 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...

In the final episode of our ‘Myths’ series, the HAD girls were joined live by Breeze Barrington, historian and author of a brand-new book on the court of Mary of Modena, the wife of James II, ‘The Graces'. Breeze talked about the myth that the son of James II and Mary of Modena, another James, was a changeling, smuggled into the birthing chamber in a bed warming pan! The story is one of complete a...

The Stanleys were known for swapping sides during the Wars of the Roses, but did no one really know what they were going to do at Bosworth? Catherine argues that it was pretty obvious they were never going to come in for Richard III! You can watch this episode on Youtube too! - Click Here Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborator ) join forces...

There is along history of Ravens at the Tower...or is there?! Kat takes us through the facts! You can watch this episode on Youtube too! - Click Here Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborator ) join forces each Wednesday night for a shackle-free history discussion...it's History After Dark! Buy us a Winnebago at Buy Me A Coffee Find out more a...

Long has the reputation of Thomas Boleyn, father of Anne Boleyn, been maligned. Philippa argues we should reexamine the stories told about him and see if he deserves to be known as a man who puts his daughters into the king’s bed for personal gain. You can watch this episode on Youtube too! - Click Here Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborato...

We were joined live by Dr Michael Jones for episode 4 of the ‘Myths’ series, to bust some myths about the Black Prince - and boy were there some porkies told about him! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit historyafterdarkhub.substack.com/subscribe

It may have ben the bloodiest battle on English soil but has the story of the Battle of Towton got better with the telling? You can watch this episode on Youtube too! - Click Here Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborator ) join forces each Wednesday night for a shackle-free history discussion...it's History After Dark! Buy us a Winnebago at B...

Fed up seeing dirty necks and faces onscreen in historical fiction? Kat is too and she's going to tell everyone why (rant incoming)! You can watch this episode on Youtube too! - Click Here Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborator ) join forces each Wednesday night for a shackle-free history discussion...it's History After Dark! Buy us a Winne...

Conductor of destruction, Oliver Cromwell (and his Parliament) voted to destroy the crown jewels, sell the stones and melt down the precious metal. Cromwell is not alone however, in mistreating these symbols of the monarchy! You can watch this episode on Youtube too! - Click Here Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborator ) join forces each Wed...

For the final episode of this series, we were joined for a live show by special guest; historian and author, Gareth Russell talking about his candidate for a person from history we should all know about, the Earl of Tyrone. Traitor, rebel or disaffected loyalist? Gareth tells us the story of Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and it is jaw droppingly “ how do we not know more about this person?! ” The...

One of the most successful royal mistresses in English history, Jane Shore thrived as a true love of Edward IV and rose again after conspiring against his brother with some of his most trusted friends. Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborator ) join forces each Wednesday night for a shackle-free history discussion...it's History After Dark! F...

Following the path of an enslaved man who became a celebrated prize-fighter, royal attendant and eventually an inspiration for Bridgerton! Dr Kat (@ReadingthePast ), Philippa (@BritishHistory ) and Catherine (@thehistoricalcollaborator ) join forces each Wednesday night for a shackle-free history discussion...it's History After Dark! Find out more about us at https://linktr.ee/HistoryAfterDark Fol...

At the outbreak of the 'Great War' Britain needed to recruit 1,000,000 men and yet, many fit, healthy and willing men were being turned away for the simple reason that they were too short! Alfred Bigland MP saw this as a massive waste and set about redressing this problem. From this the Cheshire Batams was established for men of short stature. History After Dark is reader-supported. To support our...

We were joined for our live show by special guest; historian and author, Nathen Amin and his candidate for a person from history we should all know about, Owain Glyndwr.. This was an incredibly fun and very informative chat - so many pivotal moments which would have set English and Welsh history on a completely different path that it’s absolutely incredible that Owain Glyndwr and his uprising/free...