The 15 Minute Book Club

In this episode we plan a historical house party with Nicolai Eberholst. Who's getting an invite? Who isn't? The phrase "murderous sausagefest" is used.  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 mor...

Former Red Bull, Jordan and Cosworth man Mark Gallagher weaves a fascinating tale of 1930s motor racing and Nazi attempts to commandeer the sport. We talk Auto Union, Mercedes Benz, and how the legacy of such associations is still seen in the sport today and felt by current drivers. Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books: ...

Breeze Barrington joins us to talk all about her research into prominent female artists in the 16th and 17th centuries 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 behin...

Olivia Alford joins Alina to talk about this tragic, much requested piece of Polish 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 time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and fin...

Ryan McNutt returns to put Mel Gibson in his place and tell the REAL Scottish story behind the events that inspired, well, a lot of nonsense really.  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 mi...

Alina never needs an excuse to talk about the abundance of willies in Pompeii. Virginia Campbell joins us to take all about the cultural and social aspects of Prostitution in the Roman period. 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/ Patr...

Matt Willis joins us to talk all about the Battle of Taranto, the first all-aircraft ship to ship battle in history, in 1940. 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...

Sergey Plykin joins us for a comprehensive talk on how and why thousands of Russians ended up on the "wrong" front during WW1, how they fared, and where you can go to see evidence of them now.  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...

Nineteenth Century expert Bob Nicholson joins us to talk all about the Victorians and comedy. From witty comebacks and dad jokes, to pun competitions to naughty rhymes: Alina is basically a cackling mess. 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.historyhackp...

In a new mini-segment, Alina has decided that she and Alex need to pontificate about historical questions. This week it's "if I had a time-machine" with some perhaps unexpected results...  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/ Pat...

Based on his book, Josh Provan of Historyland joins us to talk all about Japan opening itself to the world in the mid-nineteenth century  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 wh...

History Hack's resident science boffin Kit Chapman joins us to mark the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test: the first time a nuclear bomb was detonated. 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 mi...

The lovely Claude Berube joins us to tell us all about the life of an early American hero: Captain Charles Stewart and the War of 1812. 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...

The legendary Michael Scott joins us to tell a comprehensive tale of Delphi, while Alina tries desperately not to fangirl... And fails! 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...

Historian and academic Joseph Quinn joins us to provide some introductory perspectives on Ireland and the Second World War. From politics and cooperation to those who served. 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 ex...

Based on his fabulous book, The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth, medical historian Thomas Morris joins us to talk through some bizarre mishaps and confusing cases from years gone by.  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 m...

Theoretical physicist, historian and TV presenter Jim Al-Khalili takes us back to the days of the Arabian Nights to tell us the amazing story of when Arabic/Islamic science lit the way forward for the world.  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.his...

After weeks of voting, your top ten is revealed in order. For balance, we also look at the worst Britons in history. Also, we analyse the results, there's a treatise on how to pronounce "twat" an international review of morons and Holmes puts forward his case for a job with the Boulogne tourist board...  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/histo...

Sergey Radchenko joins us to talk about ailing relations between the Soviet Union and China during the Cold 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 behin...

Alexander Larman joins us to celebrate the release of his new book, that offers a countdown of the events that led to the abdication of the King in 1936 and the accession of the Queen's father as George VI 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.historyhack...

Mark Kramer joins us to talk all about the  Solidarność  (Solidarity) movement in Poland in the 1980s 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 s...

Leighan Renaud joins us for a fascinating discussion on marronage in the Caribbean, exploring the idea of freedom and what people will do to secure it, looking back into her own family heritage and how African culture survives on the islands today.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop...

Historian April Pudsey joins us to talk all about her research into what it was like to be a child in Roman Egypt. 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 th...

Dutch Historian Alex Tijhuis joins us to talk all about collaboration with the Nazis in WW2. As ever with history, nothing is entirely black and white...  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 mo...

Bettany Hughes joins us to talk about why she loves the Odyssey so much that she went and made a whole TV series about it. And apologises a lot for being all over beautiful Greek islands just as everyone else was getting locked up! Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/historyhack Merch:&nbs...