The 15 Minute Book Club

Foreign Correspondent Julian Manyon joins us to talk about his own experiences covering the Falklands Conflict in Argentina.   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...

Miranda Malins chats about the real historical figure behind the main focus on her new novel Cromwell's Rebel Daughter  - Bridget Cromwell. 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...

Nick Fogg joins us to talk all about the life and times of Frederick Robinson.   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/15MinuteBookC...

Anne De Courcy joins us to talk all about Nancy Cunard's post-WW1 life in Paris.    Support us: https://www.patreon.com/historyhackTips: https://ko-fi.com/historyhackMerch: 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/15MinuteBookCl...

Samantha Morris joins us to talk about the life and times of Renaissance priest Girolamo Savonarola. Buy Samantha's book, The Pope's Greatest Adversary: Girolamo Savonarola , at the History Hack Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526724441 Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon m...

On the anniversary of the Allied invasion, Peter Hart joins us to talk all about the origins of the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915 and why it was always destined to fail.  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:/...

Greg Smithers joins us for a discussion on the concept of two spirits in Native American LGBTQ history.  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 ou...

Alina does her thing as Pole Position returns, with Piotr Puchalski talking about his research on Poland's links (or lack of) to colonialism. 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/@15MinuteBo...

Christian Jennings joins to talk about Syndrome K and Italian resistance to the concept of the Holocaust. 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 o...

Nick Higham tells us a tale of skullduggery, and shameless exploitation which was wrapped up in the battle, yes, battle  to supply London with its water. 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...

The regulars convene to shout at each other, a lot, about who deserves the crown of Greatest Musician in Historian.  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...

Based on her hit book, A E Rooks joins us to tell us the story of a slave ship turned slave hunter. 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 Boo...

Nick Collins joins us to discuss the beginnings of trade by sea, from the Ice Age to the mid-eighth century. Buy Nick's book, How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World: Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century , at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526786623 Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch...

Gali Jaffe returns to talk about the history, archaeology and mystery surrounding the site of Masada, the site of the infamous Roman siege. Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.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 wri...

On the 105th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, three of Canada's foremost historians join this special episode of History Hack, in association with the Great War Group, to discuss the battle, its aftermath and the myth-making that has to lead to it being called by some in Canada "The Birth of a Nation". Joining our resident Canadian Boney and Great War Group Trustee Andrew Lock...

Author Michelle Morgan joins Charly and Boney to discuss her new book which tells the tale of Marilyn Monroe's time in England filming The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, which did not go smoothly. The Marilyn Monroe Appreciation Society: History Hack Branch is in session. Buy Michelle's book, When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England , at the History Hack Booksho...

Jonathan Clements returns to talk all about music and how it was used for military propaganda in Imperial Japan. Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.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 her...

James Travers joins us to talk about a remarkable discovery in the National Archives, which points to a royal scandal of epic proportions. Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.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 writ...

Kit Chapman joins us for a tale that sounds like an April fool, the story of Jack Parsons and his sex cult and how it is tied in with founding the space agency.   Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find o...

To celebrate the release of their new book, Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century , Dr Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins join Zack and boney to discuss how data, and the smartphone, is changing the face of war, how we perceive it and, crucially, how we will remember it.  Buy Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century  at our Bookshop...

James Nelson joins us to talk about his new book recounting his experiences as a legal professional within the British army In Kosovo and Afghanistan.   Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the...

If there is one thing you can rely on, it's the history of the British and the French hating each other. Right? According to Historian Edward Gillin nope, you can't even have that in 2022...    Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to s...

Charlotte White joins us to talk all about the tumultuous love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.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 h...

Michael Benson joins us to talk about the underground war which was waged across the US on Nazi supporters by criminal gangs.   Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at:  https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch!  https://shop.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...

Simon Turney chats to Beth and Zack about the life of Agricola - a Roman with a particular expertise in dealing with the unruly province of Britannia.   Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the...