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Subject to Change
Russell Hogg
Show • 94 episodes
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I talk to the world's best historians and let them tell the stories. And the stories are wonderful! (And occasionally I change the subject and talk about films, philosophy or whatever!).
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From Eunuchs to Corsairs: The World of Islamic Slavery
Episode • Sep 2
The Tokyo Tribunal: War Crimes, Justice, and Geopolitics
Episode • Aug 18
The Pilgrimage of Grace: When England Fought the Reformation
Episode • Jul 28
Byzantium and the First Crusade
Episode • Jul 9
Shattered Jewels - Japan's Path to War (3 and final)
Episode • Jun 19
Manchuria to Pearl Harbor: Japan's Path to War (2)
Episode • Jun 11
An Alien Game: Japan's Path to War (1)
Episode • Jun 3
How England Nearly Conquered France & Why They Failed
Episode • May 2
Imperial Twilight: How Trade, Tea, and Opium Led to War
Episode • Apr 9
The Curse of a King - with Christopher de Bellaigue
Episode • Mar 17
Anton Howes on Salt (and on much, much more!)
Episode • Feb 14
Tiberius - a good emperor, a broken man
Episode • Jan 15
Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 2
Episode • Dec 27, 2024
Christ's Samurai with Jonathan Clements - part 1
Episode • Dec 19, 2024
In the Kingdom of Ice - with Hampton Sides
Episode • Dec 2, 2024
Spring Heeled Jack - with Mike Dash
Episode • Nov 9, 2024
Giles Milton on Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
Episode • Oct 7, 2024
Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 2
Episode • Sep 12, 2024
Rebel Island - Jonathan Clements on the history of Taiwan - part 1
Episode • Sep 10, 2024
The 4th Crusade and the final fall of the Roman Empire - with Ed Watts
Episode • Aug 23, 2024
In Sulla's shadow - Ed Watts reappraises Caesar
Episode • Jul 24, 2024
Mother Leakey and the Bishop
Episode • Jun 1, 2024
Kaldellis on Byzantium - part 2
Episode • May 2, 2024
Anthony Kaldellis on Byzantium (Part 1)
Episode • Apr 30, 2024
Hampton Sides - the last voyage of Captain Cook
Episode • Apr 8, 2024
The Sin Eater
Episode • Mar 1, 2024
Ed West - From the Romans to Alfred the Great
Episode • Feb 8, 2024
John McWhorter and Scott Sumner - talking movies
Episode • Jan 21, 2024
Dikötter on Dictators
Episode • Jan 7, 2024
The Lives of East Germans - Katja Hoyer
Episode • Dec 9, 2023
Britons never will be slaves?
Episode • Oct 25, 2023
Italy, a ruin - part 2 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Episode • Oct 6, 2023
Constantinople shows its teeth - part 1 of the Adventures of Belisarius and Antonina
Episode • Sep 24, 2023
Mao's China with Frank Dikötter
Episode • Aug 27, 2023
HMS Wager: shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Episode • Jul 5, 2023
Sharp and Sumner: 6 Japanese movies
Episode • May 3, 2023
McWhorter and Holland - On dinosaurs
Episode • Apr 29, 2023
Acre 1291 - the final showdown
Episode • Mar 19, 2023
The Salem Witch trials with Stacy Schiff
Episode • Feb 17, 2023
Suleiman the Magnificent with Christopher de Bellaigue
Episode • Feb 11, 2023
Slavery in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Episode • Jan 27, 2023
Talking movies with Scott Sumner
Episode • Dec 5, 2022
The war against Antony and Cleopatra
Episode • Nov 29, 2022
Anna Keay on the Restless Republic (Britain after the death of Charles I)
Episode • Nov 6, 2022
The Death of Alexander pt 2 (Perdicass and the crocodiles)
Episode • Oct 17, 2022
The Death of Alexander Pt 1 - Chaos unfolds
Episode • Oct 4, 2022
Gladiator - the movie, the history!
Episode • Aug 29, 2022
A nuclear exchange
Episode • Aug 12, 2022
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 2
Episode • Jul 31, 2022
The Last Emperor of Mexico - part 1
Episode • Jul 24, 2022
Tulip mania - 1630's Holland goes wild
Episode • Jul 4, 2022
A new world order - the Arab invasions of the 7th century
Episode • Jun 4, 2022
Firepower with Paul Lockhart
Episode • May 11, 2022
Mortal Republic with Edward Watts
Episode • Apr 12, 2022
The Korean War - the battle of the Chosin Reservoir
Episode • Mar 22, 2022
The Silver Way
Episode • Mar 6, 2022
The Last Great Siege - Constantinople 1453
Episode • Feb 18, 2022
Rome against Persia - their final battle
Episode • Jan 28, 2022
Poggio Bracciolini - an Indiana Jones from the 15th century
Episode • Jan 15, 2022
Pearl Hart - the Wild West's most notorious woman bandit
Episode • Jan 2, 2022
The declines of the Roman Empire with Edward Watts
Episode • Dec 20, 2021
Clive of India with Dr Zareer Masani
Episode • Dec 11, 2021
Laurence Bergreen on Magellan
Episode • Nov 26, 2021
With one leap he was free! - stories from Peter Henderson's life
Episode • Oct 21, 2021
A history of astronomy - from the Babylonians to Galileo
Episode • Sep 28, 2021
Clocks, Civilization, Power . . . all About Time with David Rooney
Episode • Aug 27, 2021
Talking movies with Freddie deBoer and Abe Callard (Mad Max, OUTIH, Ghostbusters etc)
Episode • Aug 19, 2021
Julian Sancton on the ill fated voyage of the Belgica to the Antarctic in 1898
Episode • Aug 8, 2021
When the Shogun's Sumo met Commodore Perry's minstrel show
Episode • Jul 24, 2021
Amazon the behemoth
Episode • Jul 14, 2021
Memories of wartime Japan and reflections on the kamikaze
Episode • Jun 29, 2021
Conquerors - how Portugal built its empire in India
Episode • Jun 13, 2021
Mike Dash on Batavia's Graveyard
Episode • Jun 5, 2021
Abulafia and Devereaux - the ancient Mediterranean
Episode • May 8, 2021
Peter Pomerantsev has stories to tell (and they are all true)
Episode • Apr 21, 2021
Bean on battleships (and much else besides)
Episode • Apr 11, 2021
David Goodhart on Head, Hand and Heart and the Road to Somewhere
Episode • Apr 3, 2021
The Siege of Gondor - Bret Devereaux rates the Witch King - A Bad Man, a Good General
Episode • Mar 22, 2021
The Knights of St John against the Turks (and the sheer bloody horror of Lepanto)
Episode • Mar 15, 2021
Bret Devereaux cancels Saruman. (Helms Deep as ancient military history)
Episode • Mar 2, 2021
Tom Holland scores 300
Episode • Feb 10, 2021
The Fate of Rome with Kyle Harper
Episode • Jan 29, 2021
David Abulafia and the Boundless Sea
Episode • Jan 12, 2021
Tyler Cowen rates A Separation
Episode • Nov 10, 2020
Alex Tabarrok versus the People (Parasite and Burning reviewed)
Episode • Sep 2, 2020
Agnes and Abe Callard are philosophical about films
Episode • Jul 22, 2020
Philip Matyszak - author of the ancient world
Episode • Jul 11, 2020
David Friedman - Legal Systems Very Different From Ours
Episode • Jun 11, 2020
Agnes Callard, Adjective
Episode • May 10, 2020
Is this the most improved school in Britain?
Episode • Mar 16, 2019
Patreon, Paypal and the impending gorilla
Episode • Feb 10, 2019
Stopping smoking - easier than you think
Episode • Jan 6, 2019
Alternate worlds, same old socialism
Episode • Sep 18, 2018
Toby Young - in the eye of the Twitter Storm
Episode • Sep 15, 2018
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