History Cafe
A podcast by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe - Wednesdays
280 Episodes
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#66 The British who cheated on the Somme - Ep 6 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 11/06/2025 -
#65 Haig's war crime on the Somme - Ep 5 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 04/06/2025 -
#64 They had the wrong guns - Ep 4 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 28/05/2025 -
#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 21/05/2025 -
#62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914:16
Published: 14/05/2025 -
#61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16
Published: 07/05/2025 -
#109 A quietly brilliant palace coup - Ep 3 - 2 May 1937: the king, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
Published: 30/04/2025 -
#108 'I wish, myself, to talk to Hitler' - Ep 2 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster
Published: 23/04/2025 -
#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster'
Published: 16/04/2025 -
#111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure
Published: 09/04/2025 -
#110 ‘the worst has happened’ - Ep 3 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
Published: 01/04/2025 -
#109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
Published: 26/03/2025 -
#108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure
Published: 18/03/2025 -
#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 12/03/2025 -
#58 The ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 05/03/2025 -
#56 The Empire strikes back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 26/02/2025 -
#55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 19/02/2025 -
#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not Morality ended British enslavement
Published: 12/02/2025 -
#72 It was mainly the poor who burned - Ep 5 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Published: 05/02/2025 -
#71 Most who were burned were not Protestants - Ep 4 Bloody Mary Tudor?
Published: 29/01/2025
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.