History Cafe
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...
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 294
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#10 'these missiles do not significantly alter the balance of power' - Ep 1 Cuba Missile Crisis
Re-releasing our series with widest international appeal in order for those podcast platforms that don't enable series playlists.Synopsis: We have the memo to President Kennedy dated Day 2 of the cri…
00:31:14 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
#06 London fires were visible from France - Ep 6 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Rereleasing our most popular series for those who can't find our playlists for each series on their podcast platforms:Synopsis: Who won the Battle of Britain? For good strategic reasons Churchill cla…
00:23:47 |
Sun 28 Nov 2021
#05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - Ep 5 Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Re-releasing our most popular series for those who struggle to find it without playlist functions on their podcast platforms:Synopsis: The Battle of Britain was never as close as the popular story ha…
00:25:05 |
Sat 27 Nov 2021
#04 More than a double bluff - Ep 4 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Our most popular series being re-released in broadcast order for those who can't find it!Synopsis: Churchill talks up the threat of invasion, even though it looks impossible. ‘I might as well send my…
00:31:59 |
Fri 26 Nov 2021
#03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - Ep 3 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Our most popular series re-released here in order, especially but not exclusively (!) for Apple podcast listeners because Apple don't do playlists:Synopsis: Britain is gripped by fear of invasion. Go…
00:31:50 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
#02 A Battle for air superiority? - Ep 2 Who won the Battle of Britain?
Our second ever podcast. Re-released for our new audience who haven't found it yet. Each episode in the series is an enjoyable listen on its own.Synopsis: Head of the Luftwaffe, Hermann Göring, was j…
00:24:47 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
#01 Waterworld Flotilla - Ep 1 Who won the Battle of Britain?
We're putting this podcast out again because it's by far our most popular and yet if you've found us recently you may never have discovered it.Synopsis: The Germans make extraordinary preparations fo…
00:24:47 |
Sat 20 Nov 2021
Remembrance Day 2021 - Aren't We Forgetting Something 211110
We don't apologise for repeating this broadcast made for last year's Remembrance Day. The story is so important it's worth telling again and again.At least 50% of deaths from war in the last three ce…
00:20:44 |
Wed 10 Nov 2021
Gunpowder? The Plot that never was
BEFORE you light your bonfire and set off your fireworks on November 5, why not ‘spare a thought’ for Guy Fawkes, who we’re still sending up in flames, more than 400 years after the crime he’s SUPPOS…
00:05:52 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
1st Anniversary Promo
Celebrating our 60th episode of well-researched reinterpretations of history using the latest academic research but brought to you in an accessible format.
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00:09:28 |
Tue 20 Jul 2021
#60 After 1918 - the Secrets are Out - Ep 8 Secret History of Suffragettes
The reason we all believe Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst achieved women’s votes in Britain is because that’s the narrative created in the 20s and 30s by former suffragettes. The reality of what Em…
00:44:49 |
Wed 14 Jul 2021
#59 The crimes of the rector George Wilson Bridges - Ep 5 Slavery
By 1832 it was clear to both the House of Lords and the Commons that the British planters in the Caribbean were dragging the British economy into a credit crash. It looks to us very like the crash of…
00:40:29 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
#58 The Ship that sank and took the slave trade down with it - Ep 4 Slavery
When the HMS Lutine went down, 9 October 1799 off the Dutch coast, carrying a million pounds of gold and silver, it led to the collapse of the Hamburg sugar market and within a few years the banning …
00:37:03 |
Wed 30 Jun 2021
#57 From mayor to meat market. Getting elected in the 18th Century.
An accessible podcast on Jon’s academic book Partisan Politics – looking for consensus in Eighteenth-Century Towns (Exeter University Press 2021). See Publications page on this website for 45% discou…
00:35:12 |
Wed 23 Jun 2021
#56 The Empire Strikes Back - Ep 3 Money not Morality ended British Enslavement
We look at a map of the British Caribbean to understand why losing the British north American colonies after 1783 mattered to British enslavement. We explore how the trade winds had helped create the…
00:36:23 |
Wed 16 Jun 2021
#55 The woman behind the abolition of slavery - Ep 2 Slavery
Before we get down to the hard facts of whether or not British enslavement ended because the slave economy no longer worked, we should take a closer look at the moral campaign for its abolition. It t…
00:35:21 |
Wed 09 Jun 2021
#54 'Slavery was even worse than we thought' - Ep 1 Money not morality ended British Enslavement
We start this 5-part series by trying to give a factual outline of the experience of being transported in horrendous conditions from Africa to the British Caribbean against your will. And we open up …
00:35:51 |
Wed 02 Jun 2021
#53 '1066 And All That' - really serious nonsense
Published in 1930 by Methuen and never out of print since, this isn’t (as everyone has always supposed) just an innocent laugh at kids’ mistakes. It is a laugh, and we explore many of the jokes. But …
00:37:44 |
Tue 25 May 2021
#52 Anne Boleyn – Henry's MacGuffin
Most of what we think we know about Anne Boleyn turns out to be later invention, with no historical basis. We argue that she was a MacGuffin: she was necessary to the way things turned out for Henry,…
00:44:45 |
Tue 18 May 2021
#51 Marrying Anne Boleyn, the best of a bad job - Ep 6 Henry VIII
The Ambassadors painting by Hans Holbein reveals the French horror at Henry’s decision in January 1533 to defy the pope and get remarried to a pregnant Anne Boleyn. But since Henry couldn't get an an…
00:30:12 |
Wed 12 May 2021
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