The 15 Minute Book Club

Listener favourite Amanda Charland returns to talk all about archaeology from the perspective of the Crusades; focusing on Ashkelon, Saladin and Richard the Lionheart. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra tim...

Sree Nair joins us for a fascinating talk about the contribution of the Indian Air Force in the Second World War.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behi...

The Mary Rose is the venue for another historical date fuelled by beverages. This time it's the best conspiracy theory in history. Everything from aliens, freemasons and the grassy knoll to pina coladas, Hillary Clinton and, I quote "Hitler's baby juice."  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.o...

Stalinist historian Mark Vincent joins us to share some of his favourite mad characters from the annals of Russian crime. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see be...

Nicola Lambert joins us to discuss the concept of masculinity. What did it mean in the nineteenth century, especially to women and what kind of connotations did it have on sex and relationships? The answers are a little bit disturbing...  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhac...

Why in times of national crisis is the consumer told the the patriotic thing to do is go shopping! How has this philosophy evolved over time? And did the British people invest themselves in this concept? Serena Dyer joins us to explain all! Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack M...

Nghia Mai joins us to talk all about French colonialism in Vietnam. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/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....

David Davies rejoins us to give us a comprehensive breakdown on the seminal events of the Spanish Armada in 1588.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behi...

Courtesan does not equal shady sex-worker in Indian history. Katherine Schofield joins us to talk all about this aspect of asian history stretching back centuries, with reference to some particularly outstanding women.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  http...

The fabulous Nicolai Eberholst joins us to begin a comprehensive account of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Great War. In this episode, we talk about the years preceding the outbreak, the opening engagements in 1914 and a whole, bloody mess that spread into the beginning of 1915. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:&nbsp...

Gabby Storey joins us to compare and contrast Queen Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine, two giants of medieval Queenship.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to se...

Cambridge University's Tim Whitmarsh joins us for a fascinating talk on Ancient Greek identity. How do you define who was Greek and who wasn't? How did citizenship work? How did they view themselves? And how did they see others, such as the Romans?  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop...

Continuing on our quest to cover the war in the Pacific comprehensively, Richard Frank joins us to talk about one of the most infamous days in America's history.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra tim...

Brace yourselves for more nonsense. This week we pay "shag, marry, kill" and find out that Alex's road-trip buddy needs the concept explained to him in great detail...  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get ext...

Historian and professional storyteller Owen Staton returns after his victorious retelling of the Battle of Hastings in The Mary Rose to talk about the Welsh and folklore. Then sit yourself down with a drink and prepare to be entertained...  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyh...

Hannah Pringle joins us to talk all about the trials and tribulations of women accused of witchcraft in 17th Century England. And about why Matthew Hopkins was a dick.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get ext...

The hosts of the Sagas of She podcast join us to talk all about raising the profile of some of their favourite historical matriarchs.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which...

Robin Osborne joins us to talk about representations of homosexuality in Ancient Greece.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/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 ou...

Matt Bone takes on his mastermind subject of choice and tells us the story of the humble successor to the Hurricane, and how efforts are underway to make one fly again. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members get extra ti...

The gang reunites for what we hope will be a monthly jaunt to The Mary Rose. Tonight, it's folklore madness from history. How do people come up with these stories? Which one is the nuttiest? What did Clive have for dinner? And just what lengths will James go to to convince people to visit Birmingham? Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Bu...

Just days after John Lewis's casket crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge for the final time, Historian, entrepreneur and Selma native Mark Peterson joins us to talk about Dr. King. We discuss his life, and more specifically the impact of the protest of 1965 carried out by King, Lewis and their compatriots on Mark's hometown, what this meant for Mark's own upbringing, and what America lost with Dr...

Historian and Poet Zellie Rainey Orr joins us to talk about marching for her rights as a thirteen year old in Mississippi, desegregating her local high school and how events threw her into the path of Charlie Scattergood: one man who spent his life trying to make the world a better place.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the...

Jessica Marie Johnson widens the scope for us with a talk based on her book: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World.  We learn about the variety of different human experiences encountered, and that the line between slavery and freedom is not always clear cut.     Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com...

Journalist and author Tim Madigan joins us to discuss the harrowing events that occurred in an affluent African American neighbourhood known as "Black Wall Street" in 1921.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:  https://www.historyhackpod.com/ Patreon members ge...

The headlines are full of historical figures whose reputations are under fire in 2020. Based on her book, The Hemingses of Monticello, we sat down with Pulitzer winner Annette Gordon-Reed to discuss one of America's founding fathers. We discussed his slaves, her groundbreaking research into his extended relationship with one of them, Sally Hemings, and his consequent place in history. Support...