The 15 Minute Book Club

Tony McAleavy joins us to talk all about 17th century man of letters John Aubrey and his shady obsession with finding witches.  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 subscri...

Helena Schrader joins us to talk about what the crusades meant to the l inhabitants of the Holy Land who witnessed them. 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:...

This week Poland celebrates its Armed Forces Day. To mark the occasion, we discuss the origins of the father of modern Poland, Józef Piłsudski, with Josh Zimmerman.  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 t...

On the 75th anniversary of the passing of the Indian Independence Act, Ravindran Rathee joins us to talk all about his new book, which documents hundreds of years of soldiers from the subcontinent fighting for the British Empire from their point of view.  Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/   Patreon members get...

As part of a special week of programming, in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the US Supreme Court, female historians talk about the history of the struggle for equality. In our final episode, the peerless A.E. Rooks joins us to blow your minds with a history of abortion and legislating sex in the United States.  Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/...

As part of a special week of programming, in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the US Supreme Court, female historians talk about the history of the struggle for equality. In this episode, Eleanor Janega joins us to discuss the concepts of abortion and contraception stretching back to antiquity.  Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch:...

As part of a special week of programming, in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the US Supreme Court, female historians talk about the history of the struggle for equality. In this episode, Nina Harkrader joins us to talk about the decades of struggle encountered by women who took agency over where they wanted to live, without male supervision.  Support us: https://www.patreon.com/histo...

As part of a special week of programming, in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade by the US Supreme Court, female historians talk about the history of the struggle for equality. In this episode, Elaine Weiss talks about the long road to the vote for American women. Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch: https://www.historyhackpod.com/   Pat...

James Bartle joins us to discuss the surprisingly big role that the WRNS played in the Second World War at sea. 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://w...

Kit and Charly are joined by Jessie Childs to discuss the English Civil War's most dramatic siege. 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 [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at our Book...

Ever wondered how realistic the epic film Gladiator is? Tony Sullivan drops by to tell us all about his new book looking at exactly that   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 c...

2022's Wolfson prize winner Clare Jackson joins us to talk about Devil Land, a history of England during a tumultuous century: 1588-1688.   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 c...

Malcolm Gaskell joins us to talk about his book based on a microscopic look at the New World and an accusation of witchcraft, and how it fitted in with the history of the period.  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 versio...

To celebrate the Wolfson Prize's special year, we dedicate a week of episodes to the books shortlisted for the 2022 award. Today, we are joined by Alex von Tunzelmann to discuss Fallen Idols: 12 Statues that Changed History.   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,...

Nino Strachey tells us about a group of visionaries, artists and literary greats who, in the early 20th century, had a more enlightened way of loving life, and each other. 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 o...

We're not trolling. Roman Britain once had a Pirate King. Simon Elliot joins us to explain all - you won't want to miss 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 subscribe here...

Sjoerd De Boer joins us to talk about the sensible history of Hitler's bunker and what happened to those hiding with him when the Nazi's capitulated.    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 w...

Caroline Boggis-Rolfe joins us to talk about 2,000 years of colourful history that tell the story of the Adriatic Sea.  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: h...

Michele Schindler joins us to talk all about the life of Viscount Lovell, Richard III's ride-or-die BFF. 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.patr...

Did the death of one First World War general potentially change the course of Irish history? Ronan McGreevy joins us to talk about the assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. 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...

Don't know the difference between your Badajoz and your Burgos? Fresh from his debut at Chalke Valley, our very own Zack provides an overview to what came before Waterloo...   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...

The story of the American South that Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind tells has codified a version of history in popular minds that did not exist. Ahead of the release of her new book, The Wrath to Come: Gone With the Wind and the Lies America Tells , Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, joins Boney and Charly to discuss th...

Graham Wrightson joins us to talk all about the fighting career of Antiochus the Great and his battles against Rome. Buy Graham's book, The Battles of Antiochus the Great: The failure of combined arms at Magnesia that handed the world to Rome , at the History Hack Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526793461 Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/his...

Anna Keay joins us to discuss the ceremonial life of a large than life King: Charles II. 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 [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at our Bookshop.org s...

Amanda Thomas joins us to discuss the history of a Victorian nemesis, and of course, we'd be idiots not to discuss the parallels with Covid-19 today.  Buy Amanda's book, Cholera: The Victorian Plague , at the History Hack Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526781819 Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Merch: https://shop.historyhackpod...