The 15 Minute Book Club

So how did a piece of Vickers Wellington Mk X HF485 find its way to Virginia, USA? Jon Bernstein, Arms & Armament Curator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, returns to Hedge Hopping to tell the remarkable story of his grandfather and the crash of Wellington HF485 days before deployed to France in July 1944. Buy Jon's book, P-47 Thunderbolt vs German Flak Defenses: Western Europe 1943-45,...

Toni Mount joins us to tell us exactly what you'd need to get by in Medieval England. Buy Toni's book, How to Survive in Medieval England , at our very own Bookstore here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526754417 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack We have merch! You should have merch too,...

Josh Provan returns to talk all about the man behind one of the biggest names in entertainment history. Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack We have merch! You should have merch too, head to https://shop.historyhackpod.com/ grab yours and support the pod. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more...

Rebecca Warren joins us to explain why, when it came to religion at least, Cromwell wasn't all bad. Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack 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...

If you'd have sat down in the Middle Ages to write a history of Britain, what might it have looked like? Using art, mythology and historical sources, Amy Jeffs has written then book.  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 ve...

Jonathan Jordan returns to talk all about his stellar work into the relationship between Eisenhower and Churchill both during and after the Second World War. Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find...

The regulars convene to debate the wackiest saint in history.  Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Buy Mary Rose 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 sub...

Marc Baer joins us for a fascinating jaunt through 300 years of imperial Ottoman history. But Marc's book, The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs , at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781473695702 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Patreon members get extra time:...

Author Annie Garthwaite joins Charlotte and Boney to discuss the incredible Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV and Richard III and the subject of her new novel, Cecily, which views the Wars of the Roses through the incredible woman history has pushed out of focus. Buy  Cecily by Annie Garthwaite at our very own bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9780241476871 Like the episode? Send us...

Megan Kelleher joins us to talk about the work of the Commonwealth War Graves at home and how it has evolved in the last 100 years. Learn more about the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at: https://www.cwgc.org/ Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Patreon members get extra time:...

Jonathan Clements returns for another rip-roaring jaunt through Asian history. This time it's the life and times of Kubilai Khan. Buy Jonathan's book, A Brief History of Khubilai Khan: Lord of Xanadu, Founder of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor of China , at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781472143204 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the pod...

The Luftwaffe's actions in the air in the Second World War tend to occupy our memories, but they were very active on the ground and committed the same atrocities as the other arms of the Nazi war machine. In his new book, Birds of Prey, Dr Philip Blood analyses the efforts of a Luftwaffe ground unit that attempted to pacify a forest in East Prussian and in these actions, the mindset of The Hunter...

To mark the 91st anniversary of the airship's demise, Lydia Saul and Mike Stubbs join us to talk about commemorating the 1930 crash and Bedfordshire's airship legacy.  Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes...

Matthew Lewis joins us to talk all about one of the power couples of medieval England, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Buy Matthew's book, Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine: Founding an Empire , at our very own Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781445671567 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/h...

James Holland returns to History Hack to tell Ale and Boney all about his latest book, Brothers in Arms , which follows the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry from D-Day to Germany. It is a fascinating look at a single unit the in middle of it all and we, quite rightly, take credit for it. You can buy  Brothers in Arms by James Holland at our very own Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/978178763...

Ian Keable joins us to talk all about his new book, which looks at some of the bonkers hoaxes of the eighteenth century. But Ian's book, The Century of Deception: The Birth of the Hoax in Eighteenth Century England , at our Bookshop here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781908906441 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://ww...

Matthew Restall and Amara Solari join us to tell us why there is so much more to the Maya than predicting when the world will end...  But Matthew and Amara's book, 2012 and the End of the World: The Western Roots of the Maya Apocalypse , at our very own Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781442206090 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the f...

Holly Pinheiro joins us to talk all about his research, which looks at the wider experience of free African American families whose men fought and died in the Civil War.  Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the sce...

Award-winning novelist Andrew Greig joins us to discuss recreating sixteenth-century Edinburgh and writing fiction parallel with seismic history.  Buy Andrew's book, Rose Nicolson , at our very own Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781784292980 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Patre...

The Luftwaffe's actions in the air in the Second World War tend to occupy our memories, but they were very active on the ground and committed the same atrocities as the other arms of the Nazi war machine. In his new book, Birds of Prey , Dr Philip Blood analyses the efforts of a Luftwaffe ground unit that attempted to pacify a forest in East Prussia, now Poland, and in these actions, the mindset o...

Richard Cole joins us to talk about how cutting edge technology can help us recreate lost worlds. 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 Books...

Director of the Household Cavalry Museum Alice Pearson talks about the role of the Household cavalry at Waterloo, the story behind the eagle currently on display at the museum, and a walking tour Lockie is leading in London this weekend looking at the history of the Napoleonic era. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book...

Jill Rose joins us to share a unique perception of Britain's wartime leader. Her mother was his nurse in the middle of the conflict. Buy Jill's book, Nursing Churchill: Wartime Life from the Private Letters of Winston Churchill's Nurse, at our very own Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781398109056 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fu...

Sophie Ambler joins us to talk all about the life of the medieval aristocrat and rebel, Simon de Montfort. Buy The Song of Simon de Montfort at our Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781509837632 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Like the podcast, join the fun on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in whi...

Why did men do it? How did they do it? And to what extent? Andrea Hetherington joins us to talk about her new book on British deserters in the Great War and answers all of these questions and more.  Buy Andrea's book, Deserters of the First World War: The Home Front, here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781526747990 Like the episode? Send us a tip! https://ko-fi.com/historyhack  Like the podcast,...