The 15 Minute Book Club

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History Hack: Down the Pub Apr 16, 2022

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The regulars convene to shout at each other, a lot, about who deserves the crown of Greatest Musician in Historian.

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History Hack: The Black Joke Apr 15, 2022

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Based on her hit book, A E Rooks joins us to tell us the story of a slave ship turned slave hunter.

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History Hack: The Birth of Maritime Trade Apr 13, 2022

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Nick Collins joins us to discuss the beginnings of trade by sea, from the Ice Age to the mid-eighth century.

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History Hack: Masada Apr 11, 2022

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Gali Jaffe returns to talk about the history, archaeology and mystery surrounding the site of Masada, the site of the infamous Roman siege.

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History Hack: Vimy Ridge - The Birth of a Nation? Apr 09, 2022

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On the 105th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, three of Canada's foremost historians join this special episode of History Hack, in association with the Great War Group, to discuss the battle, its aftermath and the myth-making that has to lead to it being called by some in Canada "The Birth of a Nation".

Joining our resident Canadian Boney and Great War Group Trustee Andrew Lock are:

Author, historian and cartographer Mike Bechthold PhD. Mike specialises in the fields of military airpower, the Canadian army in Normandy and Northwest Europe and the Canadian Corps in the Great War. He currently teaches history at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Photographic historian Carla-Jean Stokes. Carla-Jean won the Photographic Historical Society of Canada thesis prize for her paper, “British Official First World War Photographs, 1916-1918: Arranging and Contextualizing a Collection of Prints at the Art Gallery of Ontario” which was later published in Photographic Canadiana.
Author and historian Dr Tim Cook CM. Tim is the Senior Historian at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and is the author of 13 books on Canada in the Great War and Second World War, including Vimy: The Battle and the Legend. In 2014, Tim was appointed a member of the Order of Canada.

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History Hack: When Marilyn Met the Queen Apr 08, 2022

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Author Michelle Morgan joins Charly and Boney to discuss her new book which tells the tale of Marilyn Monroe's time in England filming The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, which did not go smoothly. The Marilyn Monroe Appreciation Society: History Hack Branch is in session.

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History Hack: Shattered Jewels Apr 06, 2022

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Jonathan Clements returns to talk all about music and how it was used for military propaganda in Imperial Japan.

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History Hack: Blackmailer at Frogmore Apr 04, 2022

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James Travers joins us to talk about a remarkable discovery in the National Archives, which points to a royal scandal of epic proportions.

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History Hack: The Founder NASA Would Like to Forget Apr 01, 2022

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Kit Chapman joins us for a tale that sounds like an April fool, the story of Jack Parsons and his sex cult and how it is tied in with founding the space agency.

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History Hack: Radical War Mar 31, 2022

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To celebrate the release of their new book, Radical War: Data, Attention and Control in the Twenty-First Century, Dr Matthew Ford and Professor Andrew Hoskins join Zack and boney to discuss how data, and the smartphone, is changing the face of war, how we perceive it and, crucially, how we will remember it.

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