History Rage

This week we're staying with the Great War but coming to to dry land, or at least very wet and muddy land. But is it? This week we welcome Historian and Battlefield Guide Dan Hill who wants to rage that TRENCH LIFE IS NOT 4 YEARS OF MUD AND LICE. We'll be discussing the realities of trench rotation, how long someone spends on the front line, the odds of taking part in a 'Big Push' and how officers...

This week we're taking to the high seas and departing from the endless misery of the trenches for the endless misery of the WW1 Navy as we are joined by Historian and Podcaster Chris Sams to rage that THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND IS JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT. We'll be talking the threat of the German Navy, the losses, the point of it all and approaching that sticky question of who really won? You can check...

This week we continue to defy one of our previous ragers by banging on about the Tudors as we welcome Historian and Author of "God's Traitors" and "The Siege of Loyalty House" Jessie Childs - and Jessie wants to rage about Good Queen Bess, or more appropriately that ELIZABETH I WAS NOT A TOLERANT QUEEN. We'll be talking royal paranoia, control orders and the widest use of torture for interrogation...

This week we welcome author, actor, producer, 18th Century enthusiast and long friend of History Rage Chaz Mena. Chaz wants to rage about the Boston Massacre on the Boston Tea Party because these are not what they are cracked up to be. We'll be talking how the position eight British soldiers found themselves in was used to bolster the independence cry, how they were defended by Americans, and how...

This week we are joined, from sunny Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and the Mary Rose Museum, by Curator Hannah Matthews and Marine Archaeologist Alex Hildred who was one of the divers working on the raising of the Mary Rose. This week's rage is that THE MARY ROSE DID NOT SINK ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE! We talk about her career and the many attempts to raise the wreck dating all the way back to Tudor time...

We are joined this week by Military Historian and Secretary of the Royal Engineers Historical Society, Sean Scullion. Sean wants to rage that not all of Spain was neutral in World War 2. We talk about how the Republicans fled to France and then started to continue the fight. How many joined the Maquis and organised resistance and how more came to be part of the British Army to continue the fight....

This week we welcome author and military historian Russell Philips who wants to make the case that remembrance needs to look at smaller battles and atrocities as well, because the dead of those are just as dead as those of D-Day. We'll be talking about the complete erasure of the town of Lidice after the Heydrich assassination and also the curious campaign to take Madagascar. You can buy "A Strang...

This week we are joined by Norfolk Historian and researcher from University of East Anglia, Dr. Danny Buck who wants to get a few things off his chest like 'WE DON'T BURN WITCHES AND THEY'RE NOT ALL OLD HERBALISTS'. We'll be talking about ducking and water trials, the background to witch panics, 17th Century attitudes to religion and community, and bizarrely, Herring Pirates. You can follow Danny...

This week we welcome author and Head of Non Fiction for Head of Zeus Books, Iain MacGregor and Iain wants to rage about Stalingrad. How the Battle just should never have happened in the first place, it was completely unnecessary and how Paulus has been scapegoated for the surrender when he was just the wrong guy. We talk about the myth of Pavlov's House, the propaganda war and just how do you mana...

This week welcome US Army Historian Dr. Grant Harward to open Series 7 and he wants to rage that ROMANIAN OFFICERS IN WORLD WAR 1 ARE NOT MAKE UP WEARING FOPS! How niche is that? We’ll be taking about how the myth of a decadent Romania is capitalised on by Germany in both world War 1 and World War 2. How Romanian actually fought in the Great War and how they changed both as a country and a militar...

The Series 7 trailer is here. Starting on 15th May on General Release we'll be bringing you Authors Grant Harward, Iain MacGregor, Russell Philips, Sean Scullion, Chaz Mena and Jessie Childs. From the world of Museums and Archaeology we have Hannah Matthews and Alex Hildred from the Mary Rose Museum. We have podcaster Chris Sams from History Hack and finally Battlefield Tour Guide Dan Hill. S...

This week welcome Dr. Robbie MacNiven to Rage Towers and he wants to rage about the American War of Independence, or Revolutionary War if you will… and let’s be fair who in the UK doesn’t want to rage about that? We’re talking about how plucky guerrillas didn’t actually slaughter the unprepared stuffy British Regular Army. We’ll be taking about how the bulk of people on both sides were experienced...

This week we’re getting techy, very techie, as we welcome Heritage Consultant from the National Museum of Computing Gavin Clarke to rage that COLOSSUS DIDN’T BREAK ENIGMA! We’ll be talking about the difference between COLOSSUS and the BOMBA, we’ll be talking the difference between ENIGMA and LORENZ, how the respective machines actually didn’t decode and translate for you, and some of the many peop...

This week we are joined by Author, Publisher and Documentary Consultant and co-producer of the feature documentary 'Lancaster' Steve Darlow who comes on to rage that 'THERE IS MORE TO BOMBER COMMAND THAN DRESDEN AND DAMBUSTING'. We'll be talking about the full history of Bomber Command and how they're into every aspect of the Second World War, how they are not a preci...

This week we are joined by Historian, Author of "The Invetion of Ecocide" and Director of the CalTech Heritage Project, David Zierler. David comes to rage about the use of herbicides and defoliants like Agent Orange was a pointless tactic in the Vietnam War and a catastrophic outcome for US soldiers, Vietnamese civilians and where responsibility lies. If you’d like to know more about thi...

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE WARNING - THIS ONE GETS SWEARY This week we are joined by the Historian of Anglo/French relations and Author, Chris Kempshall, who charges onto the rage train to argue that THE FRENCH ARE NOT CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS. We'll be talking about the horrific realities of Verdun, how the French have a truly impressive victory rate that is a contender with all the superpower...

This week we are joined by the Curator of the Surgeons Hall Museum, Louise Wilkie, and she joins Paul and Kyle to rage that ROBERT LISTON'S 300% FATALITY OPERATION IS A MYTH. We'll be talking about the gruesome realities of Victorian Surgery, how pioneering Liston was as well as the murkier side of medicine and crime that he was involved in. But mostly how he didn't kill three peopl...

This week we are joined by the Historian, Author, Novellist and trustee of the Cromwell Association Miranda Malins, and she joins Paul and Kyle to rage that CROMWELL DIDN’T CANCEL CHRISTMAS!. We’ll be talking about the areas of Cromwell’s reputation that he doesn’t deserve, and those that he does, what the Royals think of him now and how the whole period is nowhere near as black and white as peopl...

This week we are joined by Historian, Presenter and 50% of the excellent History Tellers, Stephen “Abs” Wisdom who joins us to rage JUST SHUT UP ABOUT FAKE MOON LANDINGS. We’ll be talking conspiracies, Kubrick, and all the nonsense as well as highlighting the massive achievements of men and women in the Apollo Program who didn’t go to the moon but made it happen. If you’d like to see Abs in action...

This week we are joined by Professor of History at Aberystwyth University and author of “Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future”, Iwun Morus who comes to Paul and Kyle to rage that "NIKOLA TESLA IS NOT AN OVERLOOKED GENIUS" So we'll be talking all about how to make it as a Victorian scientist, the realities about the 'Current War' and how Tesla buys into his own myth makin...

This week we are joined by Historian, Research Fellow at Kings College London, Washington Post columnist and author of “Blood and Iron – the rise and fall of the German Empire”, Katja Hoyer who kicks off Series 6 raging that PRUSSIA IS NOT EVIL We’ll be talking about Prussia’s reputation as a militaristic warmonger, the fact that wider Germany was also complicit in wars all the way back to Waterlo...

The Series 6 trailer is here. Starting on 6th March on General Release we'll be bringing you Authors Katja Hoyer, Iwun Morus, Miranda Malins, Chris Kempshall, David Zierler and Robbie MacNiven, Museum Professionals Gavin Clarke and Louise Wilkie, Documentary Producer Steve Darlow and Historical Performer Stephen ‘Abs’ Wisdom Support the show You can follow History Rage on Twitter @HistoryRage...

This week we are joined by Historian and Author of “One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe”, David O’Keefe who joins us to rage that DIEPPE WAS NOT A TRAINING RUN FOR D-DAY We’ll be debunking the myth of Dieppe opening a second front, appeasing the Russians and being a training exercise in amphibious operations and look into why Operation Jubilee was even on the card...

This week we are joined by Historian and Podcaster Dave Robertson from the “For You The War Is Over” podcast and he has come on to rage that EVERYTHING WE THINK ABOUT PRISONER OF WAR ESCAPES IS WRONG. We’ll be talking a distinct lack of tunnels, the differences in escaping when not an officer, or in the Far East and how to plan and make the perfect escape. If you’d like to know more about this sub...

This week we are joined by the Archaeologist and Osteologist Lauren McIntyre who rages to Paul and Kyle that MEDIEVAL PEOPLE ARE NOT SHORT and also that they didn’t all die at the age of 30. We’ll be talking how much of a life story you can actually determine from human remains, and the surprising lack of change in the body in the past 2,000 years. If you’d like to know more about this subject the...