Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 186
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
1801 Pitt Absent; Napoleon Ascendent
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We are covering 1801. The 3 key issues are:
Pitt resigns over catholic emancipation. He is replaced by his friend Addington. Pitt is…
1799 Bruix, Algeciras and the British Nightmare
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"I was between the devil and the deep sea."
The Royal Navy's nightmare was that a powerful French fleet would break out of blockade and fa…
1800; Marengo, Hohenlinden and the End of the 2nd Coalition
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This covers the year 1800.
We get Napoleon's first year as First Consul, and the two campaigns that drive Austria out of the 2nd Coalition…
1799 Anglo Russian Invasion of Holland
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A rapidly thrown together expedition to the Batavian Republic in expelled by the French.
And yet, there were key successes and innovations…
1799 Suvorov Ascendant; Napoleon Absent
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This covers the 1799 campaigns in Italy and Switzerland and Suvorov's art of war. The title is a play on Clausewitz's work on the topic,…
1798 France, the Neighbor from Hell
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We take a look at 1798, a year when Clausewitz defines 5 French outrages that would have led to a general European war.
1. The occupation …
1797 Napoleon, Rivoli and Fishguard
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The last invasion of Britain and Napoleon's Rivoli campaign along with his final drive towards Vienna obviously deserve to be in one sing…
1796 Napoleon and Archduke Charles Shine
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Napoleon reveals to the world his multi faceted genius and Archduke Charles has a hell of a Rhine campaign, defeating 2 armies, both larg…
1795 Land Campaigns
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Pichegru and Jourdan try taking the Austrians on the Rhine in a pinser move. But Pichegru's march on Clerfayt's magazine in Heidelberg i…
1794 War of First Coalition, Pichegru Hero of the Revolution
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1794 from the Pyrenees fronts, with massacres of Basque villagers to the Battle of the Black Mountain.
The Italian front has Napoleon, a…
1798 Battle of the Nile, Aboukir Bay
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The focus is on Nelson's great victory, but we also cover the Battle of the Pyramids, the Siege of Acre and the Battle of Mount Tabor.
The…
Global War on the Far Side of the World
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This covers most of the colonial wars with the French and Dutch during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
You get a cumulative effec…
1797 Spithead Mutiny, the Nore and Battle of Camperdown
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The 1797 mutinies went hand in hand with financial crisis. This was the most dangerous period for Britain and the miracle during the Fre…
1797 Cape St Vincent, Jervis and Thomas Cochrane
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The new French and Spanish alliance is ascendant in the Mediterranean. The strategic move the Spanish make is more dictated by the roya…
1795 1796 Naval Campaigns
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We cover some of the heroic events that increased pride and self confidence of the Royal Navy: Pellew's defeat of a 74 with 2 frigates a…
The Glorious First of June
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This looks at the Glorious First of June campaign, covering all the engagements with extra attention to the 1st of June
Was it a French …
1793 French Revolutionary War; War of the First Coalition
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1793 is a year of opportunities thrown away. The allies dominate the poorly disciplined French army, but waste the summer in pointless s…
149. 1792 French Revolutionary Wars
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This covers the first year of the War of the First Coalition, which ends with the "homicidal philanthropy of France."
Brunswick's invasion…
Birmingham Riots and Chaos caused by the French Revolution
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The Priestly Riots, also known as the Birmingham Riots, were part of the Church and King riots, that were part of the disgust reaction ag…
The French Revolution and Britain
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The French Revolution was the most exciting thing to ever happen for some radical intellectuals. But gradually the murderyness, the chao…