The Hipstorians

Journalist and author Eimear O Callaghan was just 16-years-of-age when she kept a diary over the course of one year - 1972 - while growing up in Belfast. In this heart-rending and emotional interview Eimear tells us how the discovery of the long-lost diary led to the publication of the best-selling 'Belfast Days' a unique and touching account of the daily life of an ordinary teenager coming of age...

In this episode Tristan Hughes, producer and presenter at History Hit, host of The Ancients history podcast, and author of Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years 323 - 320 brings us back more than 2,000 years to the time of swords and sandals to reveal the untold story of one of history's biggest hitters.. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Dan Golden joins us from Boston, Massachusetts to tell us all about the real-life technological thriller he has written with Renee Dudley about a band of eccentric misfits who are taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time by hacking the hackers Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In ‘The Spymaster of Baghdad’ Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker tells the gripping story of the spymaster and two of his agents, the Sudani brothers - one undercover in ISIS for 16 long months, the other his handler - and the disillusioned scientist who turns bomb-maker, threatening the lives of thousands. After slowly gaining the trust of the characters on all sides, reveals a story of unlik...

From the Normans to the Taliban, Graeme Callister and Rachael Whitbread take us on a wide-ranging tour back through history of some of the world's most iconic battlefields they researched for their fascinating new book, 'Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand' The Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the Wars of Religion, the Napoleonic Wars and the world wars..we cover a lot o...

Since Chuck will be returning to The Hipstorians we thought it might be right to reintroduce him, here he is former US Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer. He takes us on a whirlwind ride from the taking down of Osama Bin Laden (the real story!!) to American myths and his present work mapping the battlefields in Ukraine. As an award-winning author we also discuss his books, notably his best-selling autobiogra...

Professor at the University of Vienna, Tom is into dating (of the ancient variety), archaeological sites, bones, and Neanderthals. Author of 'The World Before Us' he tells the Hipstorians about his fascinating work and how some archeologists 'dig' (excuse the pun!) being viewed as Indiana Jones-like adventurers. From making historically significant discoveries during his early university studies,...

Arthur Snell joined the Foreign Office straight out of university and at 23-years-of-age, endured a 'baptism of fire' when he was sent to Zimbabwe as his first posting. During a turbulent time in that country's troubled past he tells The Hipstorians how he once found himself in the same room as the violent dictator Robert Mugabe. A fluent Arabic speaker, he would also later serve in Afghanistan, N...

In this, our first-ever broadcast for The Hipstorians, we talk to the fearless, award-winning reporter Toby Harnden about his adventures over a 25-year career in journalism. Thrown into the deep end when he found himself in South Armagh's 'Bandit Country' in the mid-1990s, Toby then went on to cover the ferocious Battle for Fallujah before settling in Virginia where he wrote his latest book ' Firs...