The 15 Minute Book Club

Ben Paites joins us to talk all about a very special exhibition at Colchester Castle, and the town's links with a mania for witch detection.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, i...

Iain Dale returns to discuss his latest book, which looks at the history of British politics on any given day. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the sc...

Family team Huw Rees and Sian Kilcoyne join us to talk about key moments in history, and their Welsh connections.  support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behi...

Michele Schindler returns to talk all about her new book, and a family moving in and out of power in late medieval England. support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see...

Dawid Gralik joins Alina and Sam Jolley to talk about Poland in the Napoleonic period in this next episode of Pole Position. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSE...

Julian Holland joins us to talk all about the closure of British railways with fellow train nerd Chris. Equally as entertaining is co-host Sam trying to rein in the level of geekdom...  support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time:...

Devony Looser joins us to talk all about the Porter sisters, renowned novelists, historical fiction powerhouses and forerunners to the Brontes. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see b...

Market Life magazine, Mark Riddaway talks to us all about the history of food and drink in Britain, inspired by his wanderings around Borough Market.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get t...

The excellent Simon Elliot returns to talk all about the material legacy of Ancient Rome visible in the world today.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find...

Nicholas Morton joins us to talk all about the Mongol horde and it's progress back and forth across the medieval Near East.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/   Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes...

Simon Sebag Montefiore returns to talk all about his epic new history of mankind. From the African Rift Valley to the twittery of Elon Musk, via some surprising characters, everyone who has come before can give us some hints on how to approach the future.   Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack...

Nick Hewitt joins us to talk all about the 1941 naval scrap off the coast of Greece.   Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15Minu...

Ed Perkins is back for part two to talk to us about his new book "Britain's Forgotten Traitor: The Life and Death of a Nazi Spy". Who was Oswald John Job and was he really a traitor?    Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scen...

John Sadler joins us again but this time to talk about his book about DDay.   Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClu...

Kathryn Warner returns to talk all about the history of London in the fourteenth century.    Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/...

Toby Purser joins us to talk about his new book " https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.yo...

On the eve of Polish Independence Day, Joshua Zimmerman continues where he left off at the end of part three, discussing the story of the father of modern Poland, Józef Piłsudski. It would be on this day in 1918 that Piłsudski steps onto a free Poland for the first time in 123 years. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhac...

Susan Stewart joins us to talk about her new book " https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www....

Clive Pearson joins us to discuss his new book, which takes readers on a whirlwind tour of Britain's Prime Ministers in 100 facts; picking and choosing some of the highlights from his research.   Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behin...

Ed Perkins joins us to talk about his new book "Britain's Forgotten Traitor: The Life and Death of a Nazi Spy". Who was Oswald John Job and was he really a traitor?    Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out ho...

Darren Baker joins us to talk about his new book about "Richard of Cornwall: The English King of Germany"   Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www....

Alice Vernon joins us on Halloween to talk about her new book "Night Terrors, Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell About It."   Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscr...

Philip Cracknell joins us to describe what life was like during WW2 for those living under Japanese occupation in Hong Kong.   Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/   Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe...

Thomas Cirotteau joins us to talk all about the lives of women in the distant past.  Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/   Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteB...

John Woolf is back but this time he joins us to talk about his new book that he has co-written with Keshia Abrahams, which looks at the forgotten history of the Victorian period, the Black Victorians. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see...