The 15 Minute Book Club

Katja Hoyer joins us to talk all about the lead up to unification and the contents of her spectacular new book. With a diversion on Wilhelm 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/@15Minute...

Join the regulars in the Mary Rose. Following a listener request, they debate the worst year in history. Can we find anything worse than 2020?! 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/@15Minute...

Johanna Strong joins us to talk all about applying context to the legend of Bloody Mary, Henry VIII's eldest daughter. 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 BOO...

Jon Jordan joins us to explain that electoral mayhem in the United States is nothing new.  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...

The regulars convene to discuss who deserves the title of history's most unlikely hero. 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 sh...

Gilad Jaffe joins us to take about game-changing scientific developments in the field of archaeology.  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...

Robin Mitchell joins us to talk all about her book Venus Noir: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-century France 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 [IN...

Chances are you've mentioned them in an essay on the causes of the First World War, but what do you really know about the events of 1912-13? Ted Hooton joins us for an introduction. 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 vers...

Kate Owen joins us to talk all about her work on early modern recipe books and how they fit into 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 o...

Peter Reavill joins us to talk all about metal-detecting, the Treasure Act and the British Library's Portable Antiquity Scheme.  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 [...

David O'keefe joins us to talk all Operation Jubilee, long believed to be a failed precursor to D-Day, but David's research has found that the raid's objective was beyond the perceived "figuring out how to land an armed force on French soil", to pinch new the four-rotor Enigma Machine. Buy David's vital One Day in August at the History Hack Bookshop : https://uk.bookshop.org/a/6252/9781785786303 S...

For Valentine's Day, the cynics in the Mary Rose are subjected to picking out history's most romantic gesture. 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]...

Fredrik Logevall joins us to talk all about the first volume of his biography of John F Kennedy.  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...

Mary Hollingsworth joins us to discuss her new book: Princes of the Renaissance. 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. Sup...

The boys take over. Marcus and Zack jump into the history behind the Napoleonic hit series to talk all about the origins of guerrilla warfare.  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/@15Minute...

Eldon Yellowhorn joins us to talk all about expansion by the Hudson Bay Company to Alberta and what it means for the First Nations.  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...

Mariana Flavila joins us from Mexico to talk all about how pre-colonial Central Americans got about.  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 B...

Alex gives Alina the lowdown on why George V's Queen was not mean, nasty or lofty as she shares the story of her hugely varied work in WW1. 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...

Our latest Sharpe gathering takes into account Sharpe's Battle. Alex, Zack and Marcus are joined by Jason Salkey, Ian McNeice, Oliver Cotton, Hugh Ross, Hugh Fraser, Lyndon Davies, and Allie Esiri.  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 Wat...

John D. Hosler joins us to talk all about the human experience of memorable moment during the Crusades.  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...

Ciara Stewart joins us to talk all about Irish women and how they fought for a political voice in the 19th century.  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...

Matt is joined by historian Matthew Willis to discuss all things Allison Mustang. And they get a bit carried away!  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 T...

Based on his new book, which tells the history of China in 12 meals, Jonathan Clements joins us to talk about the history of Chinese Food. 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_...

Claire Holleran takes us on a jaunt through the streets of Rome to introduce to the sights, sounds and shops! 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]...

Heather Macadam joins us to talk about the paperback release of her book about 999 Slovak women who were sent to Auschwitz.  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 [INSE...