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
26. Henry VIII Part 3; Anne Boleyn Must Die; Reformation in England
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
One of the most popular episodes. Lighter in tone, driven by the guest Cyrus, who is a visual artist, but also a comedic talent.
Again …
25. Henry VIII The Reformation in England: Part 2; Minimally Murdery
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
This episode is potentially one of the most valuable in understanding England.
The Reformation in England continues with Cromwell’s Act of…
24. Henry VIII The Reformation in England: Part 1
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
This is a really good episode.
The Reformation in England; Henry VIII Part 1. The first of a 5 episode arc. The Reformation is dominated…
23. Drown the Anabaptists!; Reformation in Germany Part 2: Revolting Peasants
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
Reformation in Germany Part 2. The bloody parts. We start with the example of astrology as a belief of educated people in the 16th cent…
22. Martin Luther: Reformation in Germany Part 1: They didn't have a prayer
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
The Reformation in Germany Part 1. Martin Luther, they didn’t have a prayer. With the help of Kurt Gödel via Scott Aaronson we examine …
21. Introduction to the Reformation: The P=NP problem of history
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
Introduction to an introduction to the Reformation. The Outdoorsman episode. Tools for historical analysis on the Reformation including…
20. Demeter's revenge. Agricultural Revolution Concluded: Crop Rotation
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
The Agricultural Revolution arc concludes with a discussion of crop rotation, but first a good long look at the tragic element of economi…
19. Agricultural Revolution: Enclosures
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
Enclosures: Efficiency and Tears. Agricultural output increases 80% over rival France, with profits increasing greatly more. We look at…
18. The Dreaded Agricultural Revolution and Engineering
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
The first of a 3 episode arc on the Agricultural Revolution. Yes, this is the Jethro Tull episode. The focus is on engineering and the e…
17. Tudor England and Surprising Social Structures
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
Tudor England and the Parish based system to care for the aged. British and Dutch elites were better and more competent in the great st…
16. Agricultural Revolution, The Dutch and Trade
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
Background we need for the 3 episode arc on the Agricultural Revolution which runs in episodes 18-20. The early 16th century Dutch have …
15. The Spanish Armada vs God's Chosen People
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
The Spanish Armada was a consequence of the Dutch war with Spain. It was a flyweight boxer against a heavyweight. We look at a few othe…
14.Dutch Independence When Irresistible Force meets Immovable Object
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
The Dutch contribution the the Miracle part 2. The 80 years war. Dutch Independence. The Sea Beggars and Maurice of Nassau are an irre…
13. The Mother Trade : The Demand for Spice
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
The Dutch contribution introduction, through the medium of breakfast, with a side order of Portuguese. Did you know that Flanders was th…
12.The Black Death and Wycliff
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
This is a really superior episode as history. Only a couple cringey bits, it is getting better.
Torture is wrong, only the sophisticated …
11. Magna Carta, the Grand Delusion
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
Magna Carta, a unique document that is one of England's many great gifts to the world. Magna Carta is, or is a marker for, one of the gr…
10. Origins of Parliament
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
A mad dream escapes into the world and becomes real. We know this dream as Parliament. Modus Tenendi Parlementum. Parliament achieves …
9. 1066: Legacy of Forkbeard - Canute the Great, Vikings Concluded
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
Takes a few minutes to get into 1066 narrative.
We have distinguished how Europe was different from the world and how Britain was differ…
8. Forkbeard and the Iron Lady Viking Part 5
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
A strong episode on Vikings. We continue our very historical, but unconventional pro-Viking approach. Also a good discussion on Scandi…
7. Dane geld and Olaf Tryggvason. Tyr is Beren Viking Part 4
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response.
These have been very popular. We take a very historical, but unconventionally pro-Viking view.
The Vikings in the Danelaw are settling do…