The Hipstorians
Two perhaps not so hip middle-aged amateur historians sharing their acquired knowledge and passion for all things past in their search to discover something new
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 59
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2023
Uncivil War- Northern Ireland 1969-71
Huw Bennett reaches deep into the archives on a journey that took 8 years to produce this piece of historical importance in the understanding of the period. Rich in detail offering the reader a birds…
00:44:40 |
Mon 11 Dec 2023
Mairia Cahill Sexual Abuse, The IRA and Sinn Fein
Mairia Cahill has released her book ‘Rough Beast” speaking about her traumatic experience of sexual abuse by a member of the IRA and how the organisation handled it internally and offered her no prot…
01:07:00 |
Mon 20 Nov 2023
Speed Agression Surprise SAS with Tom Petch
Tom Petch uncovers the true origins of this maverick unit introducing a whole cast of unique individuals who showed huge courage to change the face of modern warfare and risked their lives deep behin…
00:49:39 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
Irish priest turned arms dealer for the IRA with Jennifer O’Leary
Fr. Patrick Ryan a Pallotine Father returns from missionary work in East Africa to East London in the late 1960’s just as ‘The Troubles’ so called begin in Northern Ireland. Discover how this complex…
00:45:21 |
Thu 28 Sep 2023
The Treaty the birth of the Irish Free State with Gretchen Freimann
In this episode Gretchen untangles the complexities of life in Ireland as a nation emerged from its colonial bind. We discuss the characters involved and Gretchen an Australian by birth is a master o…
00:53:14 |
Thu 21 Sep 2023
Prisoner 1082 Part 2
We conclude our intensely absorbing tale of IRA Prisoner 1082 Donal Donnelly’s daring escape from Crumlin Road Gaol. We also discuss the current peace process and the prospects of a unites Ireland an…
01:08:25 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
Prisoner 1082 Crumlin Road Gaol Irish Republican Army Escapologist Donal Donnelly
Donal born in 1939 Omagh County Tyrone eloquently describes life in Northern Ireland after partition offering a balanced opinion albeit from a Nationalist perspective. This is Part 1 of what is a bea…
01:09:27 |
Thu 31 Aug 2023
History of the UFC, Caged Kings with Michael Thomsen
Journalist Michael Thomsen’s new book Caged Kings takes us through the beginnings of what might have been called a hobby project that seemed to capture a Zeitgeist in American culture just at the rig…
00:58:38 |
Fri 18 Aug 2023
Northern Ireland Conflict & Collusion with Anne Cadwallader
Anne having covered the stories on the ground in Northern Ireland left journalism to work with the Pat Finucane Centre to help families seek justice for loved ones who died as a result of collusion o…
00:49:09 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
The Palestine Laboratory with Antony Loewenstein
We’re back! Welcome to Season 6. Myself and our new addition to the Hipstorians team Yvonne Mulligan kick it off with Antony Loewenstein who has written ‘The Palestine Laboratory” and leads us on a j…
01:00:33 |
Sat 05 Aug 2023
Vietnam War Veteran in full technicolour
Kregg Jorgensen tells his story in epic detail of how he ended up in the Army Ranger Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol, his CBS televised being shot in the leg and more lot’s more. Myself and Yvonne h…
00:53:20 |
Wed 12 Jul 2023
Z Generation the people in Putin’s Army and the future of Russia
Russia expert Dr. Ian Garner having lived in St Petersburg sets out his views on the Russian state and war machine and the youth who have grown up under Putin’s reign and how the propaganda apparatus…
00:41:50 |
Thu 06 Jul 2023
Benghazi attack with Ethan Chorin
Ethan draws our attention to a seemingly small event in human history that illuminates how petty bickering between political parties can affect the lives of millions of people thousands of miles away…
00:46:12 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
Very Bad People with Patrick Alley
Patrick introduces us to the world as it is. Beyond the gaze of the average punter large sums of money change hands between governments and private enterprise, the economics of our resources the thin…
00:30:34 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Tales of Smedley Butler told by Johnathan M Katz, fascist plots and surviving Haitian eathquake
Fascinating interview with the learned Jonathan M Katz who takes us through the rise of American Empire and influence and the effect of this policy on the world at large and how capitalist enterprise…
00:49:08 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
A People Under Siege with Dr. Aaron Edwards
We sweep a reflective searchlight on what it means to be from Northern Ireland from the perspective of those seeking a bright future beyond ‘The Troubles” and a sobering look at what lies ahead. Aaro…
00:54:36 |
Fri 09 Jun 2023
Fantasyland
Author of history of United States of America titled 'Fantasyland' brings us on a fascinating journey through America's eclectic mix of persecuted religions that made the move firstly across the wate…
00:46:46 |
Sun 04 Jun 2023
The tragedy of our modern migrant crisis
Irish journalist and writer, Sally Hayden, says she "stumbled on a human rights disaster of epic proportions" when she wrote about the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe in her award-winning book ' My …
00:56:42 |
Thu 25 May 2023
Baltimore, corrupt cops, Justin Fenton ‘We Own This City’
Baltimorean journalist Justin Fenton joins us to talk about his book on police corruption ‘We Own This City’ that was made into a HBO Series of the same name. He reveals the scale of scandalous polic…
00:51:53 |
Sun 21 May 2023
The history of transplant surgery, syphilis, skin grafts and more!
Hope you're not squeamish! In his first book, the author of 'Spare Parts', Paul Craddock, explored transplant surgery, from the sixteenth century to the present day. Paul guides us through some of th…
00:51:55 |
Fri 12 May 2023
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