The 15 Minute Book Club

Kate Williams joins us to discuss the life of Mary Queen of Scots, including her youth, her marriages, and her relationship with Elizabeth I.  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,...

Join us in The Mary Rose where we reveal the finalists in our Greatest Briton vote. For weeks you've been making your voices heard, and now our regulars give you the pros of each candidate before the Roastmaster General gives you the cons. Voting opens on Saturday via our twitter feed and numbers 11-100 will be revealed.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https...

George Morton-Jack joins us to discuss all things India and WW1. From politics, motivations and the home front to the experience of battle across the globe. 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...

The fabulous Claire Kennan joins us for an animated and in-depth look at The Black Death. 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...

Richard Osgood joins us to talk about the truly exceptional archaeological site of Barrow Clump and what it tells us about the Anglo-Saxon 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/ Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in...

As a follow up to our general look at the Battle of the Somme, we are joined by Andrew Holmes, Andy Lock, Bethany Moore and a cast of contributors. We commemorate a different narrative of the 1st July 1916; bringing into focus the southern sector of the battlefield, we discuss General Walter Norris Congreve's XIII Corps and their successful assault on the area around Montauban.  Support us:&n...

Bio-archaeologist Lawrence Owens joins us to talk all things Mummies from across the globe. You'll be amazed at how much you can tell about a person when you unwrap them! 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...

Fake history! Based on their book, sit back with Andy Brockman and Tracy Spaight and find out what happens when history goes wrong; with a cautionary tail about some aeroplanes that are not buried in Burma...  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.hi...

Based on his outstanding book, which set out to tell share the history of Islam through the eyes of 21 outstanding women, Hossain Kamaly joins us to share ten of his favourites, spanning nearly 1500 years of history and far more of the planet than you might assume.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk....

Matt Pope joins us for our first foray into pre-history! Brace yourselves for a whirlwind ride about the life and times of the Neanderthals, in which Alex's mind is completely blown! 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 member...

Join us in the Mary Rose for a debate on the stupidest crime in history. From convincing people to hack their legs off, to the man who wouldn't die, to the rocket scientist who couldn't stop playing with himself. Making fun of stupid is what we do best...  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Buy the books:  https://uk.bookshop.o...

Colin Fisher joins us to talk all about Spain's capital during the Civil War. From military action, to key characters to evidence of the fighting that you can still see today, he's got it covered. 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/...

Lucianna Harrison and Sally McGlone join us and tag-team to bring you a rundown on the history of women in Britain's flying services from WW1 to just before lockdown! Strap your daughters down and make them listen to a really inspirational story of womankind not giving in till they got their own way! Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips:  https://ko-fi.com/historyhack Bu...

Alina puts the questions to Alex and co-founder Beth Moore about this new WW1 organisation; what's what at this early stage and how you can get involved. 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 min...

Katarzyna Kosior joins Alina to talk royalty - Sixteenth Century Polish Queens specifically! 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...

Jamie Goodall joins us to talk about pirates, privateers and oysters in the Chesapeake Bay! 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 h...

Islam Issa joins us to discuss his historical passion: Cleopatra. There's a lot of myth-busting in this one! 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 scen...

Richard Hammond joins us to give listeners an overview of the Second World War in the Mediterranean, and talks about his new book  Strangling the Axis,  set on that front. 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...

The Chosen Men rejoin us, bringing a host of crew members with them that spent years dedicating their expertise and creativity to recreating the earl nineteenth century. Find out if Lyndon remembers anything yet, what fake sick is made of, why Russian stuntmen are terrifying and what happens when actors don't get their bacon.  Support us:  https://www.patreon.com/historyhack Tips: ...

Apurba Chaterjee joins us to discuss how the arts were used to convey an image of India to Britons in the 18th and 19th centuries, and how Indian culture permeated British life decades before mass immigration.  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.h...

Join us in The Mary Rose as we debate history's most epic death scene. Because this is us, most of us interpreted epic to mean stupid. Cue much cackling and silliness and laughing at historical idiocy.  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.historyha...

Wendy Turner and Chris Mounsey join forces to talk about the challenges of researching disabilities in history. Using their specialisations in medieval mental health and eighteenth century sight impairment, they tell a wider tale of difficulties in terminology, understanding human experience, for which solutions are evolving constantly.  Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which yo...

We hand the mic to Zack White and Marcus Cribb to commemorate the 205th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. If you're only ever going to spend an hour on this seminal moment in European history, this should be it. With context, descriptions of the fighting, personal accounts, legacy, Wellington's tears, the devastating casualty list and the pain of Napoleon'a haemorrhoids, it's all in here.&nbs...

Historians Peter Caddick-Adams and Roger Moorhouse join us to address the accusations levelled at one of Britain's most emblematic figures in the past week and a half. 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...

In which five young historians brave the mob to have an open discussion on national identity, education, public memory and statue bashing. Without throwing insults or mud-slinging. 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...