The 15 Minute Book Club

Kristen McQuinn joins us to discuss two Isabellas, Gloucester and Angouleme, who had the misfortune to find themselves married to this unpopular king. 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 b...

Nina Harkrader returns to talk all about the early principles of social housing in Britain. 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 here: https://www.patreo...

Dr Claire Jones joins us to discuss how medicine has changed and why we are guilty of ignoring some important people in the history of medicine over the last 300 years. Find out more about her research at https://www.kent.ac.uk/history/people/401/jones-claire 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/ Patr...

James Holloway joins us to talk about the history, myth and reality behind this legendary Byzantine unit   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 here: htt...

In British Columbia, Canada, Typhoon Legacy are rebuilding Hawker Typhoon JP843 to airworthiness. JP843 was lost with her pilot, Kiwi Peter Price, on the 27th July 1944 flying with the legendary 609 Squadron. Today, Boney chats with Project Lead Ian Slater about the history of the aircraft, the current status of the rebuild, the amazing side projects, YouTube and, of course, geek out about Typhoon...

Graham Thomas joins us to discuss his new book on the Royal Navy's attempts to deal with African piracy. Buy Graham's book, Pirate Killers: The Royal Navy and the African Pirates , at the History Hack Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781399013567 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...

History Hack regular Andrew Lock joins us to commemorate the 105th anniversary of the German Army's voluntary withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line at the beginning of 1917. 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...

Philippa Vincent-Connolly joins Zack to chat about her new book looking at the stigma (or lack of) that was attached to being disabled during the Tudor period, and how people coped with their disabilities.   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 whic...

Zack takes the stage to talk all about the preservation and creation of adequate graves and memorials to the fallen of the Napoleonic and Revolutionary wars. 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...

Sean Scullion chats to Zack about the remarkable stories of the Spaniards who served in the British Army during the Second World War - there are some wild escapades in this one!  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 s...

Lindsay Powell joins us to talk about Bar Kokhba, the Jew who defied Hadrian and challenged the might of Rome.   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...

On the 18th February 1944, a daring low-level raid was flown by the Mosquitos of 2TAF's 140 Wing to break the walls of Amiens Prison and free members of the French Resistance. The raid has come to be known as Operation Jericho and has passed into legend, but not without some controversy. Joining us today to discuss the raid is the author of two books on the subject, historian Robert Lyman who will...

Historians Jonathan Hainsworth and Christine Ward-Agius join us to discuss the man they absolutely believe was the infamous Jack the Ripper.  Buy Jonathan and Christine's book, The Escape of Jack the Ripper , at the History Hack bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781398109629 Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop....

Suzanna Ivanic joins us to talk all about the religious lives of everyday people in Europe.   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 here: https://www.patr...

The regulars convene to debate the most historical place in the world. Apart from James, who is in love with an island nobody has heard of...    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 wa...

Historian and author Ian Hughes attempts to unravel the complexities of the latter Roman Empire for Zack and "Alex the Usurper."   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...

Wing Commander Karun 'Jumbo' Majumdar is a legend of Indian Aviation. Joining the Indian Air Force in the 1930s, Jumbo would be the second Indian to command an active-duty squadron before his leadership and airmanship would be put to the test as the Second World War reached India. The 17th February 2022 marks the 77th anniversary of the Hawker Hurricane crash that took Jumbo Majumdar's life and to...

What was Charles I's experience of his own failure and his path to execution? Jane Hayter-Hames joins us to discuss the personal side of his fall.    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 bo...

Alex Clifford joins us to talk all about two powerhouses in German 20th Century History and their descent into fascism.  Buy Alex's book, Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hitler: Germany's Generals and the Rise of the Nazis , at the History Hack Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526783332 Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merc...

Kathryn Warner joins us to discuss John of Gaunt, purveyor of perhaps the finest nickname in Medieval England...    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...

Mei Trow joins us to talk about the Crimean War, and a cavalry charge you probably haven't heard of...    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 here: http...

Best-seller Thomas Harding joins us to talk all about his new book, which investigates the fallout from an uprising in Guyana and his own family links with slavery.  Buy Thomas' book, White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery , at the History Hack Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781474621045 Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr....

Padraic Coffey joins us to talk about of variety of humankind's "firsts" with an Irish connection and how they impacted us all.  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 c...

Jonathan Clements is back with a bonkers tale of rebellion, religion and riotous behaviour in 17th Century Japan. Order Jonathan's book, Christ's Samurai: The True Story of the Shimabara Rebellion , at the History Hack bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781472137418 Support the Pod from just £3 a month or drop us a tip at: https://linktr.ee/historyhack Buy our Merch! https://shop.histo...

Sarah-Jane Downing joins us to talk all about people who spent their leisure time in the late 18th century.  For more on Sarah Jane's work and to attend her book launch go to  http://www.sarahjanedowning.co.uk 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...