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
Ep 1 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #34 Getting the vote in 1918 - the secret strategy
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY - Mrs Pankhurst claims she won women the vote through ‘marvellous leadership.’ An all-male conference of MPs counters that it gifted women the vote. We reveal th…
00:35:18 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Ep 2 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #35 Most women didn’t want the vote
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY We go back to the great number of unsung women and men who made great strides towards women’s votes and female emancipation by 1900. Emmeline Pankhurst sets up he…
00:27:20 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Ep 3 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #36 The Pankhursts didn’t want the poor to get the vote
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY The WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes - begin in the Manchester Labour Party in the 1890s and learn their publicity-grabbing tactics from Labour. But these tactic…
00:30:39 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Ep 4 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #37 Hunger strikes and forced feeding
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY The militant strategy of the WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes - is delivering them headlines. It gets them nowhere with the government but it makes enormous sums…
00:38:23 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Ep 5 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #41 The violence the Suffragettes wouldn’t admit to
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY From 1912 the WSPU – the Pankhurst Suffragettes – are out of control and dangerous. But that is not how they're remembered. Anyone who disagrees with the violenc…
00:37:04 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Ep 6 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #42 The violence backfired
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY November 1912 sees the first defeat for women’s votes since 1891. The government has been struggling with law and order after two years of mass strikes. That year…
00:37:18 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Ep 7 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #43 The Suffragettes did not win the vote
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY Suddenly, after 1913 votes for women looks inevitable. Not through the chaotic, dying campaign of the suffragettes. But through the political brilliance of Millic…
00:41:45 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
Ep 8 The Secret History of the Suffragettes - #60 After 1918 - the secrets are out - Ep 8 The Secret History of the Suffragettes
REPEAT FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY 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…
00:44:49 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
#91 Death Camp tattoos were IBM numbers - Ep 10 Trading with the Nazis
During the war US and British bankers continued to send cash to Germany, while American companies in Germany were drawn down a slippery slope of collaboration. American bosses may have kept in touch …
00:35:24 |
Wed 06 Mar 2024
#90 British appeasement, a sinister game? - Ep 9 Trading with the Nazis
In 1937, the new British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, believed he single-handedly could ensure world peace. He told the King, George VI, that he would do this by pursuing his objective of Ger…
00:31:12 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
#89 Britain's Nazi Allies - Ep 8 Trading with the Nazis
In 1935 the Etonians in the British Cabinet and Foreign Office rejected all calls from the USSR to unite with France and Eastern Europe against the rise of the Third Reich. They were far too terrifie…
00:30:51 |
Wed 21 Feb 2024
#88 'It haunts me' - Ep 7 Trading with the Nazis
Horrified by the implications of aiding German rearmament, a few British and American companies made serious attempts to get out of Germany in the 1930s. Particularly after Kristallnacht, 10 November…
00:27:50 |
Wed 14 Feb 2024
#87 Kill Nazism with kindness? - Ep 6 Trading with the Nazis
A perfect storm created the conditions for the Nazi’s march to war. The naïve belief that you could kill Nazism with kindness (aka trade agreements from which bankers and businessmen personally hoped…
00:27:45 |
Wed 07 Feb 2024
#86 'Hell-bent to supplant our democratic government' - Ep 5 Trading with the Nazis
In 1936 the US Ambassador in Berlin, William Dodd, wrote to President Roosevelt warning of a pro-Nazi clique of US industrialists ‘hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic govern…
00:26:26 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
#85 Nazi sterilisation, the American way - Ep 4 Trading with the Nazis
For all the complaints about the difficulties of doing business in Hitler’s Germany, the Americans seemed strikingly settled there. Now we get to the nub of why, when Germany occupied Austria, Czecho…
00:30:25 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
#84 Dollars and Dictatorship – Ep 3 Trading with the Nazis
STAND-ALONE. The Americans insisted on extracting every cent from war-torn Britain and France in the aftermath of World War I. They made them repay the money they had borrowed, at increasingly high i…
00:24:21 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
#83 Enrich your enemy, impoverish your allies - Ep 2 Trading with the Nazis
The US had a paradoxical strategy to ensure repayment of its WW1 loans. It would make Germany economically prosperous to ensure Germany was in a position to pay reparations to France and Britain (as …
00:31:47 |
Wed 10 Jan 2024
#82 'The whole world belongs to the Americans' - Ep 1 Trading With The Nazis
Carl Siemens, chair of Siemens the German electronics business, complained in 1929, ‘the whole world belongs to the Americans.’ If you want to understand how it was that American businesses ended up…
00:28:01 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
#33 Sex, Hollywood and Fashion
Why did fashion become so much more conservative in the 1930s? We look at the puritanical Hays Motion Picture Production Code that banned indecent passions, and at MGM’s Adrian Greenberg, the most po…
00:33:37 |
Sat 30 Dec 2023
#79 Santa Claus and the Knickerbockers
A whole lot of nonsense has been written about the invention of the modern Christmas. It was thought up by Washington Irving or Charles Dickens or Prince Albert. We just can’t resist attaching a famo…
00:29:37 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
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