History Hack regulars Alex Churchill and Matt Bone are back!

We don't always have an hour or so to spare. In this new, short-form podcast, Alex and Matt interview an author, gameshow style, and they have fifteen minutes on the clock to convince you to buy their new book. With a minute to go, the alarm sounds and your hosts will throw out the meanest, saddest comment they think the internet will come up with about the book and the author gets a chance to respond.

In episode 1, David Rooney discusses The Big Hop, and the thrill of racing to be first to fly across the Atlantic in 1919.

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Charley is joined by author Simon Morrison to discuss the real Tscaikovsky. Who was the man behind the Nutcracker?

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Charly is joined by historical novelist Annie Garthwaite to discuss Cecily Neville, wife of an executed royal claimant, mother to two kings of England, grandmother to an uncrowned king and the queen who united two warring houses. Only known by her relations, let's find out who SHE was!  

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Gemma Mason is back to talk to us but this time with Victor Foia to talk to us about the real Vlad Impaler, what is the real history behind his story?

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Charly is joined by author Roger Lewis to discuss the ever-fascinating romance of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. What can we learn about them as a couple from the films that they made together?

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Steven McKay joins us to talk about the first part of his new novel "The Heathen Horde", an adventure thriller about Alfred the Great.

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Stein Ringen joins us to talk about his incredible new book "The Story of Scandinavia". There is much more to Scandinavia than just the Vikings as we found out.

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Charly is joined by Dr Benjamin Redding to discuss the role of The Gloucester in Cromwell's Western Design. What was Oliver Cromwell up to in the Caribbean? 

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On Wednesday 21st March 1945, the RAF’s 140 Wing of De Havilland Mosquito FB.VI fighter bombers, with an escort of Mustangs, attacked the Shellhus in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Shellhus was the HQ for the Gestapo in Denmark, and most of the Danish Resistance’s top men were within its walls. The low-level attack would be the last in a series flown by the men of 140 Wing that feature in Rowland White’s latest book, Mosquito. There is more to the tale than the aircraft and the men and women of the Danish Resistance are as remarkable as the aircraft that flew down Copenhagen’s streets that chilly March morning.

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★In the UK, you can buy Rowland White’s Mosquito: The RAF’s Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission at The Damcasters bookshop here. 10% of each purchase goes to supporting the podcast: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9781787634534

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Leonora Nattress joins us to talk about her historical fiction novel "Scarlet Town" the third book in the series of 18th Century politics and crime.

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John McManus joins us to talk about his new book "Love in a Lost Land", when Foreign Correspondent Richard Brady arrives in Africa to report on a nationalist insurgency and discovers more than violence.

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Anthony Adolph joins us to talk about the classical world and his new book "In Search of Aeneas: Classical Myth or Bronze Age Hero?"

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Chat Williams joins us to talk to us about his new book "The untold story of W.E.B. Du Bois". We talk about Civil rights in the USA as well as what Du Bois did during WW1.

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Beth is joined by Julie Tadeo and Katherine Byrne to talk about the 3rd season of Bridgerton. They discuss what is historically possible and what is pure fiction, what characters are believable and even about that carriage scene that everyone is talking about.

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Emily Cockayne joins us to talk about her new book "Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters"

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Joseph Quinn joins us to talk about Their Finest Hour Project. How does it work, what is it and how others can join in.

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Charly and Beth are joined by Mark Turnbull to discuss Charles I's private life. Always overshadowed by his son's bedroom antics, what was Charles I really like behind closed doors?

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Dawid Gralik joins Alina to talk about Prince Poniatowski, what he got up to with Napoleon and his playboy days while running naked through the streets of Warsaw.

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Malka Levine joins us to talk about her experience as a child survivor of the Holocaust. She wrote her memoirs down in her new book "A Mother's Courage"

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Jonathan Clements is back to talk to us about an aspect of his new book about Taiwan. This time we are talking about shipwrecks around the island and what happened to them.

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The fabulous Mary Beard is back!!! She joins us to talk about her new book "Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World". We discuss Augustus among other Emperors.

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Anika Scott joins us to talk about her new novel "Sinners of Starlight City" the world fair in Chicago in the 1930s.

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Richard Sugg joins us to continue our chat on the history of disgust. This time we touch on fighting fascism and political language.

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James Holland joins us to talk about his captivating new book "The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943"

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Charly is joined by Mark Linnell and Duncan Orme of The Naseby Battlefield Project to discuss the delicate balance between outreach and engagement, and respectful remembrance. 

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Gemma Mason joins us to talk about the Ottomans and her PhD

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Charly and Alex are joined by author Steven Veerapen for a new look at James VI and I. Does this first Stuart king to rule both England and Scotland deserve his reputation as The Wisest Fool? 

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Charly is joined by author Francesca Peacock to explore the revolutionary life of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle. Was she mad, or just misunderstood?

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Jonathan North joins us to talk about his new book "Napoleon’s Invasion of Egypt: An Eyewitness History"

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Charly is joined by film journalist Helen O'Hara to discuss the forgotten women who built Hollywood.

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John Croucher joins us to talk about his new book "IT Girls: Pioneer Women in Computing"

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Zane Whitney joins us to talk about No. 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando and the Polish 6th Troop. Zane has been knee-deep in this research for the past few years and has uncovered information that wasn't known before.

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Kenneth Harl joins us to talk about his fantastic new book "Empires of the Steppes: The Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilisation".

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Kate Mosse joins us to talk about her new novel on pirates called "Ghost Ship"

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Roger Moorhouse joins us to talk about his new book that looks at the forgotten aspects of the Holocaust, a daring operation taken on by Polish diplomats, also known as the "Ładoś List"

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Alex Gough joins Chris and Alina to talk about the life of Mark Antony and his new book series "Caesar's General". They only mention Cleopatra once or twice, we promise.

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Charly is joined by Dominic Pearce to discuss James Graham, First Marquess of Montrose, the King's Only Champion in Scotland during the 'English' Civil War. 

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Ferdinand Mount joins us to talk about his new book "Big Caesars and Little Caesars", all about the Big Caesars who set out to achieve total social control and Little Caesars who merely want to run an agreeable kleptocracy without opposition: from Julius Caesar and Oliver Cromwell through Napoleon and Bolivar, to Mussolini, Salazar, De Gaulle and Trump. 

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Jane Johnson joins us to talk about her new novel "The Black Crescent" which tells the story of how Morocco fought for its independence in the 1950's, seen through the eyes of my young Berber policeman, Hamou Badi.

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Grant Harward joins us to talk about his book on Romania during the Second World War, what was the role of the Romanian army and why did they join the axis?

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Charly is joined by acclaimed author Elizabeth Fremantle to discuss her latest novel 'Disobedient' and the artist Artemisia Gentileschi whose story it tells. How did this painter become a feminist icon, and how did this 17th century woman become a painter?

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Francis Young joins us to talk about Godlings and religion in Anglo-Saxon Britain.

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Viki Holton joins us to talk about her new book "A Woman's Will: The Changing Lives of British Women, Told Through the Things They Have Left Behind".

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Andrew Hesketh joins us to talk about his new book "Escape to Gwrych Castle A Jewish Refugee story"

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Bill Lindsay joins us to talk about William Schaw Lindsay, and his unpublished diaries, a man who spent most of his life at sea.

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Annette Kane joins us to talk about her historical fiction book "Dolly Butler's Eight Day Week" about a cross dressing detective in the Edwardian period.

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Jodi Magness joins Alina and Chris to talk about her new book "Jerusalem Through the Ages" where we geek out at various archaeological finds!

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Sophie Cairns joins to talk about something a little different, her new book "Climbing the Seven Volcanoes: A Search for Strength."

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Virginia Campbell joins us to talk about Roman history, more specifically the handbook of electioneering.

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Philip Augar joins us to talk about his and Keely Winstone's new book on agent Twister, a dashing handsome MP who caused a scandal.

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