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
#106 Dark make-believe - Ep 6 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Unbelievable, sinister. Milton Friedman advises apartheid South Africa that neoliberal free-market economics can solve the problems of the Soweto riots, in the same way it delivered a ‘miracle’ of li…
00:29:01 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
#105 Smears, imprisonment, assassination - Ep 5 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Neoliberalism was welcomed, finally, as a way to tackle what seemed to be a breakdown in American society in the late 1960s. Big business and FBI under J Edgar Hoover felt threatened by Keynsian cons…
00:27:39 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
#104 Catch 22 - Ep 4 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
The breakdown of American post-war consensus in the 60s calls for desperate measures on all sides: a government war in Vietnam, inner-city rioting, sex, drugs and rock and roll. Alarmed, US businesse…
00:30:45 |
Wed 27 Nov 2024
#103 Disinformation didn't start with Donald Trump - Ep 3 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
We look at the roots of free market Neoliberalism and discover that big business in the US has been championing freedom from regulation since 1895, even claiming in 1923 that the anti-child labour mo…
00:34:28 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
#102 'The Cuckoo in the Nobel nest' - Ep 2 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
How did less welfare, less government regulation of business (aka neoliberalism free market) become a global ‘fashion’ without any evidence of its benefits? Something to do with an imposter ‘Nobel’ p…
00:31:11 |
Wed 13 Nov 2024
#101 'everything absolutely maxed out' - Ep 1 Lunatics take over the asylum: Neoliberalism uncut
Civil liberty is different from individual liberty. Philosophers have known this since at least the 17th Century. We explore the two fundamental fallacies of neoliberalism to show why neoliberal econ…
00:32:52 |
Wed 06 Nov 2024
#78 Remembrance Day - aren't we forgetting something?
At least 50% of deaths from war in the last three centuries were civilians. In 2001 the International Red Cross calculated that in modern warfare ten civilians die for every member of the military ki…
00:20:45 |
Wed 30 Oct 2024
#23 The Last Million Men - Ep 7 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
One day after Britain goes to war - ‘at sea’ - on 4 August 1914 the first War Council unceremoniously throws out the army’s secret plan to send a few divisions to meet the Germans head on and win qui…
00:36:42 |
Wed 23 Oct 2024
#22 The Bullying of Edward Grey - Ep 6 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
A right-wing anti-German contingent call their campaign for war, the weekend of 31 July-2 August 1914 a ‘pogrom’. All talks of peace are, in their words, a German-Jewish plot to keep Britain out of t…
00:30:22 |
Wed 16 Oct 2024
#21 8pm 1 August 1914 the War is Off - Ep 5 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
8pm German time the Kaiser orders champagne, halts the German advance towards Belgium, and sends a telegram of congratulations to his cousin George V at Buckingham Palace. The Liberal British Cabinet…
00:33:53 |
Wed 09 Oct 2024
#20 Hanging on Russia's apron strings - Ep 4 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
In 1912 a deal between War Secretary Haldane and the German chancellor Bethmann-Holweg to allow Britain to retain naval supremacy if they both remained neutral (if neither side had started the war), …
00:22:59 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
#19 Bicycling holidays along the French-Belgian border - Ep 3 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
How did what friendly chats between British and French generals since 1905 turn into a commitment to send a small British Expeditionary Force to France at the start of a war with Germany? A commitmen…
00:29:15 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
#18 Spies of the Kaiser - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
We look at anti-German hysteria in Britain 1906-1909. The British publishing phenomena of 1906 was The Invasion of 1910 (by Germans), serialised in the Daily Mail and marketed by men walking around L…
00:26:15 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
#17 The Elephant in the Room - Ep 1 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
Britain’s main problem by 1910 was Russian expansion towards its Persian oil and India, the jewel in Britain’s crown. So why did Britain go to war to SUPPORT Russia and AGAINST Germany which was its …
00:34:57 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
#40 Henry VIII: the pope, Katherine, Anne and Florence
After years of negotiation and confrontation, Pope Clement VII was heard swearing unpapally over Henry VIII’s divorce. And no wonder. The history of Henry’s pope is a murky tale of code-breaking and …
00:36:48 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
#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,…
00:44:42 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
#51 Marrying Anne Boleyn, the best of a bad job - Ep 6 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
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…
00:30:08 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
#50 No more ménage á trois - Ep 5 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
In a dynamite French document from August 1530, still overlooked by historians, the King of France offers to send troops to England to defend Henry VIII against the Spanish. No French government befo…
00:28:51 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
#49 Like an episode of the Borgias - Ep 4 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
31 May 1529: Faced with France and Spain doing a deal and leaving England in the lurch, Henry races against time to begin his divorce trial in London, and then pulls the plug just before a verdict is…
00:33:42 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
#46 Missions Impossible - Ep 3 Henry VIII: the king, his wife, his lover, the French
1527: The pope is a prisoner of the marauding Spanish in Rome and yet Henry sends his man Knight on a madcap mission to ask Pope Clement VII for permission to marry a young woman he is already sleepi…
00:32:27 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
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