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    That be of freebore blode
    I shall tell you of a gode
    Yeman
    His name was Robyn
    Hode

    These are the opening words to The Gest of Robin Hood, first published by Wynkin de Worde in written form in 1506. They represent the first literary mention of a man who was almost certainly never real, but who has existed in the British consciousness since the middle ages. In this episode, we’re going to explore the medieval origins of Robin Hood, and how he has always reflected the society and time in which his story is being told.

    Guest
    Madeline is an architectural and cultural historian. She works on medieval Britain, and how medieval beliefs shaped the built world that we have inherited.


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    The Gest of Robin Hood: https://metseditions.org/read/976AKyAFRDDQFWvztV5Meuxbpld4M6V
    The Downfall of the Earl of Huntingdon: https://archive.org/details/downfallofrobert00munduoft/page/n5/mode/2up


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  • Ask most people to describe a pirate and their ship, and they’ll likely conjure up an image of an eye-patch-wearing man commanding a huge ship. An image that, in most cases, could not be farther from the truth.From the middle of the 17th century onwards, European nations expanded their influence and trade into the Americas and the Indian Ocean. In doing so, they created an environment in which piracy began to flourish.That period, and the men and women who operated as pirates within it, have captured the imagination of the world ever since. Yet most of the common ideas and images about how piracy worked during that period are based on myth. On this episode, we’re going to look at how some of those myths came about, and also the equally interesting - and far more nuanced - reality hidden behind them.GuestDr Rebecca Simon is a historian of the golden age of piracy. She is the author of The Pirates' Code: Laws and Life Aboard Ship. Pirate Queens: The Lives of Anne Bonny & Mary Read. Why We Love Pirates: The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever,  She has appeared in documentaries such as Histories Greatest Mysteries and is a lecturer in history at California State University Nortridge.Cats presentCeciliaUseful linksRebecca Simon’s books: https://rebecca-simon.comA General History of The Pyrates https://archive.org/details/generalhistoryof00defoDo you like our podcast?Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!Host: Gareth EdwardsMore about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#hostTo comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supportersUse our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member.Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypalMerchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/allOur WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVTIf you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletterGareth socialsBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.socialMastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@gariusBattle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVTGeneral Enquiries: [email protected]:- Host: Gareth Edwards- Editing: Hunter Christensen- Production: Linus KlaßenLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  • The 16th Century saw a two way exchange of objects, ideas and people between Europe and the Americas to a far greater extent than is often understood.

    Much of that exchange is visible in the everyday objects and trade that took place between these two different worlds. Exchange that can get lost when we frame history through the eyes and acts of individuals of recognition, renown or infamy. Today we’re going to explore the influence of the Americas on Tudor England and beyond.

    Guest
    Lauren Working is a historian at the University of York who specialises in literary sociability, material culture, and colonialism in the age of Shakespeare. Her academic work includes The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (published by Cambridge University Press in 2020) and a new introduction to The Tempest for Oxford World’s Classics. A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England just came out a few weeks ago with Faber & Faber. It is her first trade book.

    Cats present
    Cecilia (tail), Napoleon

    Useful links
    A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia: https://archive.org/details/briefetruereport00harr/

    The Discoverie of Guina: https://archive.org/details/discoveryofguian00rale

    A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-golden-world-how-the-americas-transformed-renaissance-england-lauren-working/67c60316d60d6557?ean=9780571393831&next=t

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  • The discovery of Radium in 1898 opened up new frontiers of science and medicine. But the sheer difference between the behaviour of radium and every element that had been discovered before, led to wild claims about its properties.

    These claims, and the mystery surrounding the new element, led to a period sometimes known as the ‘Radium Craze’. For decades, this potentially dangerous element would be used for medical experimentation and in consumer products, with news of its effects - real and exaggerated - making headlines around the world.

    Guest:
    Lucy Jane Santos is a historian whose work ranges across beauty, science, technology, popular entertainment and nightlife, uncovering fresh angles and new insights into the moments that have shaped the modern world.

    Cats present:
    Napoleon, Cecilia

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    https://daily.jstor.org/the-serpentine-career-of-loie-fuller/
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    https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls

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  • The period of the Second Temple was a time of cultural change for Jewish communities, including in how they regarded concepts such as magic and demons. But evidence for what that meant on the ground was limited until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1946, and the wealth of scholarship that followed.

    The picture painted is of a society looking to understand how the world, and the beliefs of other cultures around them, should be considered in relation to the Hebrew bible and beyond.

    Guest
    Tupá Guerra is a Brazilian historian specializing in demons on the Dead Sea Scrolls, with a PhD from the University of Birmingham - UK. Tupá is also a public historian and has been recording podcasts since 2015, mostly in Portuguese.

    Cats present
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    Useful links
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  • Jesus in flowing robes. Mary, his mother, in a veil. Mary Magdalene in red with loose flowing hair. Even the disciples in short tunics bare-headed. All these, and more, are part of the standard iconography of Christianity.

    Yet both here, and with Roman or Greco-Roman people in this period in general, many of our ideas about daily dress and styling are wrong.

    Today, we’re going to dig into what everyday dress was like in ancient Judea and beyond, busting some myths while also showing that, in many ways, people then saw fashion no differently from how we do today.



    Guest
    Dr Katie Turner is a historian of Second Temple Judaism and New Testament Reception. She specialises in first century clothing and how it’s represented, or, more precisely, why it’s not represented in Christian art and drama.



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    https://www.theologyandreligiononline.com/article?docid=b-9781350928077&tocid=b-9781350928077-003 (Available to podcast members by request on our forum)



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  • The withdrawal of Rome from Britain in the 4th Century wasn’t quick. The slow decline created an environment in which small kingdoms and communities emerged as independent, or semi-independent states. Today, we’re going to explore those lost kingdoms of Great Britain.

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  • Between 1936 and 1939, Nazi Germany operated the thirds largest whaling fleet in the world. Its giant processing ships roamed the Antarctic, almost driving the Blue Whale to extinction. All to make one vital product: margarine.

    Nazi Germany was not the only nation to take up whaling on an industrial scale. In the 1930s, Great Britain and Germany bought almost 85% of all whale oil in the world. The Nazi obsession with national self-sufficiency led to them becoming one of the top whaling nations in just a few short years. It also created a Nazi strategic obsession with antarctica that continues to fuel conspiracy theories today.

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  • In the 15th century, guns were often seen as the devil’s weapon. Unchivalrous and “unmanly”, they were viewed with suspicion by the European elite. Within a hundred years, this had changed. Guns were now luxury items among the rich, sometimes in odd, novelty combination with axes, polearms or with multiple barrels. Today, we’ll be exploring why and when this changed.




    Today's Guest: Catherine Fletcher
    link to Catherine's "show notes": https://catherinefletcher.info/books/the-firearm-revolution/the-firearm-revolution-a-guide-to-primary-sources/






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  • In May 1950, at the Imperial Hotel in Torquay, representatives from 23 European national broadcasters gathered to discuss future cooperation. The result was the creation of the European Broadcasting Union, or EBU.

    Today, the EBU’s biggest legacy is undoubtedly the Eurovision Song Contest. But just how big a deal is Eurovision these days?


    Guest: Jonn Elledge

    Books:


    The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything: All the Facts You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know (2021)



    Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them (2022)

    A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps (2024)


    Jonn's Newsletter: ⁠The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything⁠



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  • By 1812 Imperial France, under the leadership of Napoleon had become the dominant force in Europe. Only Britain and Portugal were still fighting against an Empire that now stretched from the shores of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to modern Russia. It was at this point that a young United States decided to declare war on Britain. For the next two years, the countries would fight battles on land and sea to try and establish supremacy over North America. It was a war that would end in stalemate and reconciliation, but which - if things had gone differently - could have changed the fate of Europe and the US forever.




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    ⁠https://angrystaffofficer.com/⁠





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  • On 9th November 1918, with a revolution underway in Germany, a new republic was declared in Berlin. The next day, German Chancellor Friedrich Ebert and General Wilhelm Groener, acting in the name of the Supreme Army Command, concluded the Ebert–Groener Pact. This saw the German army pledge to support the new republic, as long as the government acted promptly against any leftist uprisings.The Germany military in the two world wars is endlessly discussed. Much less talked about, is the Reichswehr, the military as it existed in the era of the Weimar Republic. Yet the Reichswehr, and its officers, were critical to the Republic’s survival and, in some ways, eventually it’s fall. Today, we’re going to explore its fascinating history.

    Reading & Resources:



    "The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic" * Edited by Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann


    "Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo" (Handsome Gigolo, Poor Gigolo)




    "Living the German Revolution, 1918-19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses" (2024)

    "Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence" (2015)



    Works by Today's Guest: Dr. Christopher Dillon:



    "Living the German Revolution, 1918-19: Expectations, Experiences, Responses" (2024)

    "Dachau and the SS: A Schooling in Violence" (2015)






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  • For football fans, just the mention of Liverpool’s ‘Kop End’ evokes an image of a packed stand full of fans. Many other football clubs also have a Kop stand too. But why do those stands have that name?

    In this episode we’ll be talking about the Battle of Spion Kop. Fought in South Africa in the dying years of the Victorian era, the battle was the bloodiest day for the British army up until the First World War. The battle featured incredible heroism, command incompetence and the presence of figures such as Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi. So let’s look at the battle which, as a notable historian once said: “became the byword for a bloodbath.


    Guest: Dr. Spencer Jones

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  • In 1759 France and Britain were locked in the Seven Years War. It was a war of global proportions. In Europe, Russia, India, and the American colonies the two countries fought to establish who was the dominant world power. In November 1759, with the outcome of the war finely balanced, France decided to try and land a killing blow. They would invade Britain. The success, or failure, of this invasion would come down to a single giant naval battle, fought in gale-force winds in the seas between Britain and France. Mostly forgotten today, the Battle of Quiberon Bay is one of the most important naval battles in British and European history. One that accelerated the chain of events that would lead to American Independence, the rise of Napoleon, and British dominance of the seas for the next 150 years.





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  • The Holy Roman Empire would exist for almost 1000 years. In that time it would encompass vast swaithes of Europe, trigger religious wars and result in a number of important people being thrown out of windows.

    Yet throughout this it would prove almost impossible for those inside or outside to define.











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    The Compendium of (Not Quite) Everything: All the Facts You Didn't Know You Wanted to Know (2021)



    Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them (2022)

    A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps (2024)


    Jonn's Newsletter: The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything



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  • After WW2, Britain began work on its independent nuclear deterrent, building on Nazi technology seized at the end of WW2. Over time, this would spawn a successful space programme that by 1971 was launching rockets into space. Today we’re going to talk about the forgotten British - and Australian - space programme.

    In 1971 a British rocket, launched from Australia, carried a satellite into geostationary orbit. On that day, Britain became the fourth nation in history to achieve this feat of scientific and engineering genius. On the same day, it became the first nation to cancel its independent space programme entirely. Today, we’ll be talking about Britain, Australia and the space race and the traces of this forgotten achievement that can still be found today.


    The Frank Micklethwaite Collection:

    https://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/backfire.html#collection



    https://satellitemap.space/





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  • In this episode, we explore the fascinating story of the infamous highwaymen who for hundreds of years plagued Europe’s roads, preying on unsuspecting travellers, often with deadly consequences. But, what’s the real story of this often romanticised profession, who were the best known among that group, and how did they come to write their names in the folklore of British history? We discuss all that and more in our maiden episode!



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  • In the decades following the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis from Germany, Austria and other countries fled Europe to avoid investigation for war crimes. Many of them used informal escape networks in countries such as Italy and Spain. Today, we're going to talk about these 'rat lines'.

    Holocaust History Podcast


    Ep. 67- Nuremberg Trials with Jack El-Hai


    Ep. 52- Mengele in South America with Betina Anton



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    Philippe Sands, “The Ratline”: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9424/9781474608152


    Waitman Wade Beorn, “Between the Wires”: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9424/9781496237590

    Waitman Wade Beorn, “Marching into Darkness”: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9424/9780674725508

    Gitta Sereny, “Into That Darkness”: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9424/9780712674478



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  • Founded in 1879, the Austro-Hungarian Evidenzbureau was the first permanent military intelligence service in the world. In 1901 Colonel Alfred Redl was appointed head of counter espionage. Redl’s reign saw a burst of innovation, helping propel Austro-Hungary to the forefront of the espionage world.



    What nobody knew was that Redl was a double-agent, also working as a spy for the Russian Empire. His exposure, in the run up to the First World War, created a huge intelligence and political scandal in Austro-Hungary and led to Redl’s suicide.



    In this episode we’re going to discuss this often forgotten spy scandal and why it deserves to be better remembered today.



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  • On the evening of the 5th of March 1770, a ragged volley of shots rang out on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts. That volley would change the history of the world. The incident, in which British troops fired into an angry crowd, killing five civilians, would become known as the ‘Boston Massacre’. Thanks to figures such as Sam Adams and Paul Revere, it would also become part of America’s founding myth.

    In today’s show, we’re going to look at why tensions in Boston were so high in 1770. We’ll dig beneath the confused accounts and look at what actually happened that fateful night. And we’ll also look at the myth and reality of what followed, and why the ‘Boston Massacre’ remains such a powerful part of the American national story today.



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    Gary B. Nash, "The Urban Crucible": https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9424/9780674930599


    Hiller B Zobel, "The Boston Massacre": https://archive.org/details/bostonmassacre00hill


    Serena Zabin, "The Boston Massacre, A Family History": https://serenazabin.com/book/


    Fred Anderson, "A People's Army: Massachusetts soldiers and society in the Seven Years War": https://archive.org/details/peoplesarmymassa00ande


    John Phillip Reid, "A Lawyer Acquitted: John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trials": https://www.jstor.org/stable/845085


    Farah Peterson, “Black Lives and the Boston Massacre”: https://theamericanscholar.org/black-lives-and-the-boston-massacre/


    Joanne Freeman, "The American Revolution" (Yale Lecture Series): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDA2BC5E785D495AB


    Caitlin DeAngelis, "The Caretakers": https://uk.bookshop.org/a/9424/9781633888999







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