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Recorded in the FOH Buckinghamshire Outpost via a secure line to the Beckenham Bunker, our intrepid hosts run their mouths (again) about recent political events.This could potentially be our last episode if we are to take cultural trends serio
Yes we may be in the midst of a viral outbreak right now, but there was one far worse just over 100 years ago. In this episode, our daring hosts Tim and Dan take to the FOH darkweb-comms system (Tim's house phone) to discuss:The upside-down pa
Scrooge is practically tangible in the room with us today. Actually that’s me.As usual it falls to the sensible people to do the important work of wishing you a Merry Christmas in an entertaining and informative way.So in the absence of any s
After much anticipation we release today our latest Footnotes main series episode: Number 35, on the Bryant and May matchgirls strike of 1888.As always - if you want the backdrop as well as knowing exactly when an episode is coming out and the
Listeners,Today after a lengthy interlude, Dan and I release the second half of the Scramble for Africa episode.It’s controversial of course since, despite our normal dismissal of all the virtue signalling in modern media about empire and Eur
On today’s tape: Dan managed to work his holiday story into the recording – he went to St. Nazaire on what he calls an “Inbetweeners Holiday” but with added history – notably from World War Two.It’s a daring story of bravery, tenacity and pock
In this episode, your indefatigable young hosts delve deep into what is really the pinnacle of European Imperialism – the so-called Scramble for Africa, its effects, timeline and the apparent game that European powers seemed to be playing as it
It’s not a big secret that TV shows based in history are sometimes a bit slapdash.Often it’s time pressures, it’s adaptation for drama or even just the taste of the producer.But in this episode, your Oracles of Truth kick around two previous
Quick note: Don't forget to sail yourself over the footnotesofhistory.com for more daring exploits from the past.With that announcement out of the way, today's episode is equal parts grand, intrepid adventure and terrifying horror story.In
In this mini-sode, we discuss 2 of our latest email dispatches in more detail, getting to grips with:Do the maps from the nineteenth century inadvertently (or deliberately) reveal the mapmaker’s sentiments (especially as new nations are born
In 1878, the Congress of Berlin assembled the Great Powers of Europe to call time on the out-of-control battle between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.In our previous episode, we pointed out that every Power brought its own food to the table - b
In this episode, your daring hosts examine the tangled story of the Congress of Berlin. In 1877, having spent the entire preceding century at each other’s throats, arch-rivals Russia and the Ottoman Empire went to war again.Russia considered
Short story long: The one with the biggest army gets to make the rules regardless of whether they’re morally legitimate.This is essentially the story of German unification. Historians will argue that Bismarck was “clever” and that he “manoeuv
Britain had a good nineteenth century.To know this, you really only have to compare it to other nations of Europe (and actually the world).The “Concert of Europe” – a loosely coordinated regime of quite punishing military repression, censorsh
He was a man who personified his country’s culture but also rose above it – fusing Russian influences with Western to create music pieces which remain some of the world’s favourites today.By the end of his life he was wildly rich, yet subject
Back in 1848, a gang of rather pretentious young men with a sentimental disaffection for daily life started their own cultural revolution. They were artists, poets and intellectuals of independent means, intent on shaping a new, idealised worl
Having overcome our slight distraction by showbiz and movies in the last few episodes, Dan and I return to form in this episode, dabbling classic Victorian industrial revolution material with a bit of art. Henry Tate was a towering individual w
Would you believe, this week it’s our SECOND episode about the Peterloo Massacre of 1819.Some people would probably have stopped at one.To tell you the truth, most people would probably have stopped at zero.But not us.Your courageous po
See the show page at Footnotesofhistory.com/23 This time round Dan and I are discussing a controversial flick with its roots in the struggles between Britain and Ireland.Or I ought to say England and Ireland (since Ireland was at the time a
Show notes: footnotesofhistory.com/22The release of a new film this very year means one particular event is undoubtedly going to be crowding the headlines of any right-thinking tabloid and broadsheet this autumn.This is of course the Peterlo
It’s a time when everyone alive remembered the French Revolution. To the British elites, it seemed conceivable that similar uprisings could still take place closer to home.Our second episode examines three flashpoints in this period.First,
Want the story of 1860s Europe? Whet your appetite at footnotesofhistory.com/threenations Shownotes at footnotesofhistory.com/20I don’t think there is a period of history that can’t be described as a period of change.But this one is sig
Want more FOH? Visit footnotesofhistory.com/joinGet the shownotes at footnotesofhistory.com/19In the 1820s, the capital markets of Britain surged on the ramping price of South American bonds. As the Spanish Empire was beaten back, new count
Want more FOH? Visit footnotesofhistory.com/joinShownotes at footnotesofhistory.com/18In July of 1870, France - onetime cultural capital of the world - rather ill-advisedly went to war with Prussia, Europe's menacing new power. In the ensuin
Want more FOH? Visit footnotesofhistory.com/joinShownotes at footnotesofhistory.com/17In the exciting climax to our mini series looking at imperialism in Eastern Asia, Japan is torn apart by a vicious civil war that pits the Shogunate agains
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