History Cafe
A podcast by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe - Wednesdays

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273 Episodes
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#108 'I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler' - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
Published: 4/23/2025 -
#07 That Dress - Ep 1 '2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'
Published: 4/16/2025 -
#111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure
Published: 4/9/2025 -
#110 ‘the worst has happened’ - Ep 3 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
Published: 4/1/2025 -
#109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
Published: 3/26/2025 -
#108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
Published: 3/18/2025 -
#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 3/12/2025 -
#58 The ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 3/5/2025 -
#56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 2/26/2025 -
#55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 2/19/2025 -
#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 2/12/2025 -
#72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Published: 2/5/2025 -
#71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Published: 1/29/2025 -
#70 More interested in pirates than heretics - Ep 3 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Published: 1/22/2025 -
#69 Who exactly was a heretic? - Ep 2 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Published: 1/15/2025 -
#68 Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! - Ep 1 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Published: 1/8/2025 -
#32 The curious case of inventing Scottishness
Published: 12/31/2024 -
#79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
Published: 12/25/2024 -
#107 This is Armageddon - Ep 7 Lunatics take over the Asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Published: 12/18/2024 -
#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Published: 12/11/2024
True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History Café weekly on Wednesdays to give old stories a refreshing new brew. 90+ ever-green stand-alone episodes and building... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.