Podcasts by Our History Podcast
Further podcasts by Otto & Luke
Podcast on the topic Geschichte
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014 - The History of Espionage - part 4 from 2019-01-06T10:00
This one must have landed as a bit of a surprise for anyone out there still subscribed to the podcast. It might be our last but it sounds good thanks to a little help from a friend. This episo...
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013 - The History of Espionage - part 3 from 2017-12-20T00:00
Bletchley Park. We visited the legendary "Home of the Codebreakers", where Alan Turing, Gordon Welchman and an assorted cast broke the German Enigma code machine during WWII. This is another o...
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012 - The History of Espionage - part 2 from 2017-11-04T00:00
N.B. Technical hitch: an abbreviated, 12 minute, version went out. You won't get away that easily! The final version should be 50 minutes! More Espionage! I still can't say the word without pu...
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011 - The History of Espionage - part 1 from 2017-10-14T00:00
This is just an introduction for what will be a multi-part series on Espionage. In this episode we discuss some of the key elements to spying across the ages whether you are Alfred the Great p...
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010 - The History of the Reformation from 2017-09-26T00:00
This is a rather special episode for us. We were invited to do a guest episode by lovely David Crowther for his most magnificent History of England podcast. If you do not already subscribe to ...
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009 - Joan of Arc from 2017-09-03T00:00
In this episode rather than exploring a topic as we have before, we look at one of the most fascinating characters from medieval history: Joan of Arc. We visited the site of her greatest trium...
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008 - The History of Medicine - part 3 from 2017-08-06T00:00
In this episode we pick up the history of medicine just when it begins to get more scientific. This is great for the general health of humanity but less good for us as we are frequently out of...
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007 - The History of Medicine - parts 1 and 2 from 2017-07-21T00:00
We had to have two goes at this episode. When we started recording we realised that we did not know an awful lot about the history of medicine, so we had to go away and do some research. But t...
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006 - The History of Weaponry and Warfare - part 2 from 2017-07-09T00:00
In part 2 we continue talking about the impact of gunpowder on warfare. We also go back in time to discuss stirrups and then jump forward to talk about nuclear warfare.
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005 - The History of Weaponry and Warfare - part 1 from 2017-06-24T00:00
In this episode we cover the history of weaponry and warfare from the stone age to the dawn of the age of gunpowder via the sausage. We discuss the little recognised role of leopards as throwi...
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004 - The History of Dictators - part 2 from 2017-06-11T00:00
Here we continue chatting about dictators and Otto ruminates on the Hunger Games.
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003 - The History of Dictators - part 1 from 2017-05-28T00:00
In this episode Otto and Luke try to cook up a definition of what a dictator is. Then they see if famous dictators fit this definition.
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001 - Our History -Introduction from 2017-05-17T00:00
This is just Luke, giving a very brief introduction to the podcast.
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002 - Why Study History? from 2017-05-17T00:00
In this, our first episode, we discuss the value of studying history. What can it tell us about our past, present and maybe even future. We get very into Julius Caesar, touch on Star Wars and ...
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