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 2024 55 mins
39

Bloody Sunday

20 August 2024 59 mins
38

The Dancing Plague of 1518

1 July 2024 59 mins
37

Number Stations: Cold War Cryptography

14 May 2024 58 mins
36

England in the 1930s

8 April 2024 1h 19m
35

The French Wine Blight: How wine was saved

23 February 2024 1h 2m
34

Observing the Masses: How the everyday person made history

22 December 2023 1h 4m
33

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

12 November 2023 1h 2m
32

The Milgram Experiment

2 October 2023 1h 7m
31

The Profumo Affair: Sex, lies and soviet spies

17 August 2023 1h 7m
30

Tea: From leaf to cup

7 July 2023 1h 14m
29

Sputnik: The beginnings of the space race

26 May 2023 1h 11m
28

Ancient Serial Killers

14 April 2023 1h 2m
27

The Knights Templar

15 March 2023 1h 11m
26

The Royal Mail

14 February 2023 58 mins
25

Cockney

12 January 2023 58 mins
24

Caroline Norton: Pioneer of women's rights

3 December 2022 50 mins
23

The Act of Union 1707

4 November 2022 46 mins
22

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

8 October 2022 1h 15m
21

Lord North: The Prime Minister who Lost America

2 September 2022 1h 0m
20

The Pyramids

3 August 2022 59 mins
19

Plastic: Is it fantastic?

1 July 2022 59 mins
18

The Enron Story

3 June 2022 1h 15m
17

The 1919 British Race Riots

6 May 2022 50 mins
16

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

23 December 2021 49 mins
15

Ridiculous Reasons for War

9 December 2021 49 mins
14

The Centre of the Universe: How Copernicus changed the world

25 November 2021 49 mins
13

Operation Mincemeat

11 November 2021 48 mins
12

Halloween

30 October 2021 49 mins
0

Season 2 Trailer

27 June 2021 2 mins
11

The Printing Press

25 March 2021 29 mins
10

The Great Stink

11 March 2021 30 mins
9

The Berlin Airlift

25 February 2021 32 mins
8

The Discovery of Radio

11 February 2021 35 mins
7

The 1904 Olympics

28 January 2021 30 mins
6

The HMS Bounty: The story of the famous mutiny

14 January 2021 33 mins
5

Coffee

31 December 2020 30 mins
4

A Quick Guide to the Weirdness of Christmas

24 December 2020 29 mins
3

The Zoo

17 December 2020 28 mins
2

The Barbary Pirates

3 December 2020 28 mins
1

The NHS (National Health Service of the UK)

19 November 2020 24 mins