A hodgepodge history podcast - Est. 2020

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Two lovers of the past pontificate on the weird, the wonderful, and the often overlooked. Crafted in a carpet shop basement. New episodes every month.

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Episodes

41 total
40

Æthelstan, King of the whole of Britain

4 November 202455 mins
39

Bloody Sunday

20 August 202459 mins
38

The Dancing Plague of 1518

1 July 202459 mins
37

Number Stations: Cold War Cryptography

14 May 202458 mins
36

England in the 1930s

8 April 20241h 19m
35

The French Wine Blight: How wine was saved

23 February 20241h 2m
34

Observing the Masses: How the everyday person made history

22 December 20231h 4m
33

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

12 November 20231h 2m
32

The Milgram Experiment

2 October 20231h 7m
31

The Profumo Affair: Sex, lies and soviet spies

17 August 20231h 7m
30

Tea: From leaf to cup

7 July 20231h 14m
29

Sputnik: The beginnings of the space race

26 May 20231h 11m
28

Ancient Serial Killers

14 April 20231h 2m
27

The Knights Templar

15 March 20231h 11m
26

The Royal Mail

14 February 202358 mins
25

Cockney

12 January 202358 mins
24

Caroline Norton: Pioneer of women's rights

3 December 202250 mins
23

The Act of Union 1707

4 November 202246 mins
22

The Fruit Bowl: How we came to munch on nature's candy

8 October 20221h 15m
21

Lord North: The Prime Minister who Lost America

2 September 20221h 0m
20

The Pyramids

3 August 202259 mins
19

Plastic: Is it fantastic?

1 July 202259 mins
18

The Enron Story

3 June 20221h 15m
17

The 1919 British Race Riots

6 May 202250 mins
16

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

23 December 202149 mins
15

Ridiculous Reasons for War

9 December 202149 mins
14

The Centre of the Universe: How Copernicus changed the world

25 November 202149 mins
13

Operation Mincemeat

11 November 202148 mins
12

Halloween

30 October 202149 mins
0

Season 2 Trailer

27 June 20212 mins
11

The Printing Press

25 March 202129 mins
10

The Great Stink

11 March 202130 mins
9

The Berlin Airlift

25 February 202132 mins
8

The Discovery of Radio

11 February 202135 mins
7

The 1904 Olympics

28 January 202130 mins
6

The HMS Bounty: The story of the famous mutiny

14 January 202133 mins
5

Coffee

31 December 202030 mins
4

A Quick Guide to the Weirdness of Christmas

24 December 202029 mins
3

The Zoo

17 December 202028 mins
2

The Barbary Pirates

3 December 202028 mins
1

The NHS (National Health Service of the UK)

19 November 202024 mins