The 15 Minute Book Club

Joshua Green joins us to discuss the sad history of lunatic asylums.    Support our work at: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips gratefully received https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy our guests’ books at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/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 he...

Archaeologist Simon Verdegem joins us to talk about a decade spent exhuming newly uncovered First World War remains on the Western Front and attempting to give the fallen back their identity.    Support our work at: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips gratefully received https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy our guests’ books at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Patreon members get extra t...

Aaron Edwards joins us to talk about Britain's covert efforts to combat certain Irish Republicans.   Support our work at: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips gratefully received https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy our guests’ books at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/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...

Kat Hill joins us to tell us all about this little-known Christian group named after Menno Simons.   Support our work at: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips gratefully received https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy our guests’ books at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/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...

In a slice of oral history, Andrew Fox joins us to talk about his military career, from fighting insurgents in Afghanistan to becoming a paratrooper.   Support our work at: https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips gratefully received https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy our guests’ books at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to s...

Alex Christofi joins us to talk about the life and world of literary giant Fyodor Dostoevsky  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....

Marcos Martinon-Torres joins us to discuss these iconic Chinese artefacts.  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 shop. Support...

London was not the only city bombed in WW2, far from it. Marc Connaughan joins us to talk all about the effect of air raids on Scotland's second city. 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/@1...

The C-47 was the workhorse of the Second World War and a D-Day (and everywhere else) veteran is nearing completion of a lengthy restoration to flight in Coventry. Matt takes Hedge Hopping on the road to meet up with Charlie Walker and find out the last on the exciting restoration of Night Fight. Be warned, there is a lot of riveting nose in this episode. Boney makes no apologies for this, there is...

Caleb Howells joins us to talk about his book, which attempts to weed the truth from the endless legend surrounding King Arthur.  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...

Violet Fenn joins us to talk all about the cultural history of the Vampire and all things connected to it. So that's a lot of blood, sex, and people being buried when they're not dead...  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 vide...

Ruth Derham discusses the life and times of an Edwardian rogue: the 2nd Earl Russell.  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 sho...

Well they got his name wrong for a start. The fantastic Michael Scott rejoins us to talk all about the legend of Heracles and how it spread throughout the globe. 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.you...

Chris Millington joins us for an excellent dive into the structure and impact of Vichy France during WW2.  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...

Eleanor Janega joins us to talk all about her new book, which tackles the Middle Ages in graphic form. 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...

Adrian Smith joins us to talk all about what a real crisis looks like on the Suez Canal. The Ever Given was just a minor blip...  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...

Matthew McCormack joins us to talk all about the history of 18th century shoes and what they can tell us about the people who wore them. 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_Cl...

Simon Elliott returns to cover a massive 11,000 years of history as we look to find out how far back the history of warfare actually goes... 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/@15MinuteBoo...

Bas Willems joins us to talk all about his new book, which focuses on the violence of defeat and the Wehrmacht on German soil in 1944-1945.  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/@15MinuteBoo...

Historyland's Josh Provan joins us to explore beyond Last of the Mohicans and take a closer look at the Iroquois.  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 TI...

James Holloway joins us for an entertaining breakdown of what became known as the First Crusade. 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 Booksh...

Great War Group Director Beth Moore rejoins us to finish off the story of the 46th (North) Midland Division in the First World War.  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 B...

Frances Quinn Joins us to tell us about there hit book The Smallest Man, which is inspired by disabled Stuart courtier Jeffrey Hudson, 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...

Kiran Sahota joins us to talk about the cultural and historiographical challenges in sharing the story of India's participation in both World Wars. With a focus on the WASBs in Burma and soldiers' letters from the First World War 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...

We are joined by Julian Fellowes, Tim Bentinck, as well as chosen men Jason Salkey, Michael Mears, Lyndon Davies and Paul Trussell to discuss the first episode of Sharpe.  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...