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    History

    The Untitled History Podcast

    Deep dives into history’s fascinating rabbit holes.

    Untitled History Podcast is the podcast that takes you beyond the textbooks to explore the untold stories of the ancient and modern worlds.

    Join Gareth Edwards and a lineup of world-leading experts that lifts the lid on famous episodes and obscure global events alike.

    Do you like our podcast?

    Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot!

    Host: Gareth Edwards

    More about Gareth Edwards: ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host⁠

    To comment and ask questions, please join our community:⁠ https://untitled-history.com/supporters

    Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member.

    Support via Paypal:⁠ http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal⁠⁠

    Merchandise and Shop: ⁠https://untitled-history.com/collections/all

    Our WW1 Podcast:⁠⁠ https://listen.not-so-quiet.com/

    Our WW2 Podcast:⁠ ⁠⁠https://listen.both-sides-of-the-wire.com⁠

    Battle Guide YouTube Channel:⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT⁠

    If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter:⁠ ⁠https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter⁠

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    BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social

    Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius

    Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVTGeneral Enquiries: ⁠untiteld@battleguide.co.uk⁠⁠⁠

    Credits:

    – Host: Gareth Edwards

    – Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 38: Did One Telegram Bring America into the Great War? Oct 29, 2026
    Show notes

    In January 1917, as war raged across the globe, only one major power remained neutral: the United States. Having swayed between pro- and anti-German sentiment since 1914, it was recognised by most that American involvement could decide the outcome of the war. It was with that knowledge that the German government sent a telegram that would, just perhaps, seal its fate.

    The Zimmermann Telegram was an offer to Mexico. If the United States entered the war, Germany would provide money and support for Mexico to open a front against the US and reconquer its lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. With Britain having cut Germany’s transatlantic cables in 1914, the message was sent through the only route available, the United States’ own diplomatic network. What Germany didn’t know was that, in a small office in the Admiralty, the codebreakers of Room 40 were reading both German and American traffic. Within hours, Dilly Knox, Nigel de Grey and William Montgomery had uncovered the telegram’s contents. The challenge for Room 40’s ruthless chief, Admiral “Blinker” Hall, was how to put it into American hands without revealing that Britain had been reading their mail all along.

    In this crossover episode with the Not So Quiet on the Western Front podcast, we explore the story behind the Zimmermann Telegram, the spycraft that brought it to light, and whether it really was the moment that brought America into the First World War.

    Guest

    Dan Hill is a military historian, battlefield guide and co-host of the Not So Quiet on the Western Front podcast, part of the Battle Guide Network.


    Cats present

    None


    Useful links

    Not So Quiet on the Western Front: https://battleguide.co.uk/podcastThe Battle Guide Network: https://battleguide.co.uk/shows

    Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Linus Klaßen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 37: Milton Keynes: The Future that Could Have Been Oct 22, 2026
    Show notes

    In post-war Britain, the drive to build new housing and a better world led to a number of plans focused on creating modern towns. The boldest and most visionary of these was to be Milton Keynes, a city from nothing.

    Today, Milton Keynes is either famous, or infamous, depending on your perspective on its design. But what’s not in doubt was that the process that led to its creation was unique. A story filled with challenges its architects, planners and landscapers had to overcome.


    Guest

    John Grindrod is a social historian of modern places. He runs the podcast Monstrosities Mon Amour and has written books including Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains and Concretopia: A Journey Around the Rebuilding of Postwar Britain.


    Cats present

    Cecilia and Napoleon


    Useful links

    https://www.johngrindrod.co.uk

    Cliff Richard’s “Wired for Sound” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0lV9h7b9B0Do you like our podcast?

    Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Linus Klaßen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 36: How Rome used cheese to conquer Britain Oct 15, 2026
    Show notes

    The Roman Army was powered by cheese. It fuelled its soldiers through war and occupation and, as Rome’s armies swept through western Europe, altered how an entire continent produced and consumed cheese. “It is a remarkable circumstance that the barbarous nations, which subsist on milk for so long, have been for so many ages either ignorant of the merits of cheese, or else have completely disregarded it.” So wrote the Roman historian Pliny. In doing so, he highlights that cheese was a key foodstuff for the Romans. Rome’s conquests were powered by cheese, with every Roman soldier received a daily ration of it. In fact, the Roman army’s reliance on cheese was so great that it would reshape the agricultural and culinary map of western Europe. This was particularly true in Britain, where the legacy of the Romans means that even today there are more sheep per square mile in northern Britain than anywhere else in Europe. Guest Thomas Ntinas is a food historian and host of the Delicious Legacy podcast, a podcast in which he explores both tastes both modern and ancient. Cats present None. Useful links Thom on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedeliciouslegacy The Delicious Legacy Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/4AeiOjVa9rf99xOM0U3Fmg Recommended Cheeses Pecorino Romano - The closest cheese to that consumed by Legionaries Manchego - Close to the cheese Legionaries would have eaten in Spain Gouda - A good example of a cheese, influenced by the Legionary colony legacy in northern Europe Cheshire Cheese - The myth! Not a Roman-era cheese, but likely not dissimilar to what would have been eaten in Roman Britain Feta - A good example of goats cheese, as would have been common particularly in Greece Comte, Stilton and Roquefort - The kind of cheeses western Europeans would have eaten, pre-Rome’s arrival Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Sander van Kammen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 35: The Anti-Fascist Italian Art Forger that fooled America Oct 08, 2026
    Show notes

    In September 1926, art expert Paul Arndt was shown a newly-unearthed Ancient Greek statue by an Italian dealer. It was an extraordinary piece. Its sale for a vast sum of money to an American museum, along with other pieces unearthed, would create excitement across America. The statues were fake. Throughout the 1920s, American interest in ancient art and sculpture exploded. As a result, American collectors and museums became a primary source of income for art dealers from across Europe. Inevitably, this also drew the attention of the darker side of the art world - including forgers. Today, we are going to talk about one of the most extraordinary acts of art fraud perpetrated during this era. One that would trigger a vicious war of words between experts across Europe and America. It would also make a colourful, Italian anti-fascist sculptor called Alceo Dossena one of the most infamous forgers in history. Guest Erin L. Thompson has a PhD in ancient Mediterranean art history as well as a law degree. She is now a professor of art crime at the City University of New York. Cats present None. Useful links Erin’s website: https://www.artcrimeprof.com Pre-order her book: https://www.amazon.com/Styrofoam-Mummy-Tales-Antiquities-Market/dp/1324035870 Erin on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/artcrimeprof.bsky.social Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Linus Klaßen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 34: The last stand of HMS Glowworm and the invasion of Norway Oct 01, 2026
    Show notes

    On the 8th of 1940, a lone British destroyer encountered part of the German invasion force bound for Norway. The heroic last stand of HMS Glowworm against overwhelming odds earned her captain the first Victoria Cross of the war. Incredibly, this award was granted based on the recommendation of the German Admiral he had fought.

    Both the Allies and Axis were eyeing up Norway for invasion. The events that would unfold that month would affect the entire course of the war.

    Against the backdrop of these events, a battle took place between HMS Glowworm and a heavy German cruiser - the Hipper - and her escorts.

    This battle remains one of the most remarkable naval engagements of the war, highlighting the skill of both navies, as well as incredible acts of maritime respect in the face of the shared dangers of the sea.

    It also stands as the only instance where the senior nominating officer, as required by the awards committee, was an enemy combatant.


    Guest

    Dr Alex Clarke, is a naval historian. He is the author of Tribals, Battles and Darings, and specialises in grand strategy, naval logistics and the projection of overseas power. He can also be found on Twitch and Youtube as dralexclarke


    Cats present

    Cecilia


    Useful links

    Tribals, Battles and Darings: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/tribals-battles-darings-the-genesis-of-the-modern-destroyer-alexander-clarke/22cc89bce03e017b

    Dr Alex on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2x09tU0GwAGiSbFPEhIwQ


    Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Linus Klaßen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 33: Charles De Gaulle and the birth of the 5th Republic Sep 24, 2026
    Show notes

    In 1940, Charles de Gaulle saved France. He called for resistance to the Nazi occupation from London. In 1958, with the French republic crumbling, he stepped forward to save France again. In English language history, it is de Gaulle’s defiance in WW2 and his role in the rise of the Free French that dominates discussion. In post war study, he is sometimes portrayed as an aloof figure and a man out of time, obsessed with restoring French glory over all else.

    This is an unfair portrait. Post war, de Gaulle was both loved and loathed. Churchill planned the route of his own funeral to include Waterloo station, precisely because he knew it would annoy de Gaulle who would be forced to attend. But during the late 1950s the French fourth Republic teetered on the edge of collapse. With the French military already moving to launch a coup d’etat, de Gaulle’s intervention would prove critical to the restoration of stability, and the birth of the Fifth Republic. He would go on, as president, to oversee many of the pillars of cultural, structural and international relations that still form the basis of France today. In this episode, we’re going to look at France’s near-coup and collapse, and the role of de Gaulle in its salvation. Guest Charles Devellennes is senior lecturer in political and social thought at the university of Kent. He’s a historian of political thought, having written his thesis on atheism in the radical enlightenment, as well as a political theorist and scholar of French politics. He has written three books, including ´The Macron regime’ in 2022, and is currently finishing his fourth book which deals with the institutional decline of the Fifth Republic: ‘The 18 Brumaire of Emmanuel Macron’. Cats present Cecilia Useful links Charles on substack: https://charlesdevellennes.substack.com A Certain Idea of France - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-certain-idea-of-france-the-life-of-charles-de-gaulle-julian-jackson/e4feca363fe8c17a?ean=9780141049533&bkshp-astro=t The Macron Regime - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-macron-regime-the-ideology-of-the-new-right-in-france-charles-devellennes/d6c07a27454ebc7c?ean=9781529227093&bkshp-astro=t Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Sander van Kammen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 32: Forgotten Crusader Queens of Cyprus Sep 17, 2026
    Show notes

    In 1458, the Kingdom of Cyprus was the last of the Crusader States. Over the next 30 years, two remarkable women would fight to rule it as queen. Their rivalry would see each experience periods of power and exile.

    Although mostly forgotten today, this political battle would draw in all of the great powers of the region, from Egypt to the papacy.

    The lives of Charlotte of Lusignan and Caterina Cornaro offer an incredible window into both the opportunities for power and politicking available to women at the time, and to the limits. Both would have legacies on the Italian renaissance that would continue after their deaths.

    Guest Marina Tymviou is a historian specialising in medieval and early modern history. She has a particular research interest in Cyprus and its connections with the wider European world. Her work is grounded in archival and manuscript research, with a particular emphasis on previously unpublished or little-known historical sources.

    Cats present

    Cecilia


    Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Hunter Christensen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 31: Origins of Celebrity with Greg Jenner Sep 10, 2026
    Show notes

    Celebrity feels like a modern idea. Something that owes its origins to the rise of Hollywood, television and reality TV. But its cultural origins run far deeper. People who could be - and were - treated as celebrities can be seen right back to the world of 17th century theatre and beyond. The relationship between celebrity, fame and renown has also always been fluid, shifting in the eyes - and papers - of past times as much as it does today. Guest Greg Jenner is a public historian who loves comedy. Host of BBC You’re Dead To Me podcast, previously historical consultant to BBC Horrible Histories TV show, author of 8 funny history books for adults and children, including Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity, From Bronze Age To Silver Screen Cats present Cecilia Useful links Dead Famous: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dead-famous-an-unexpected-history-of-celebrity-from-bronze-age-to-silver-screen-greg-jenner/818042ae197dbf7f?ean=9781780225661&bkshp-astro=t Greg Jenner on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/gregjenner.bsky.social You’re Dead To Me: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07mdbhg Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Hunter Christensen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 30 Extra Bit: Rescuing Pilots From the Channel Sep 04, 2026
    Show notes

    In this Extra Bit episode, Gareth and Matt Bone shine a light on the pilots of the Typhoon and Spitfire raids on D-Day's radar stations: the air-sea rescue crews. They cover the amphibious Walrus flying boats and the Spitfires that circled overhead to guide them in, the remarkable five-day ordeal of Canadian pilot Al Watkins after he ditched off Le Havre, and the raid on Guernsey's radar station that cost pilot Johnny Saville his life. They close with an unexpected detour into Hollywood, revealing how Bond production designer Ken Adam once flew Typhoons himself.Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Hunter Christensen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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    Episode 30: How the Allies punched the hole in German radar for D-Day Sep 03, 2026
    Show notes

    By 1944, the German’s had a highly-advanced radar system covering the entirety of the Channel coast. That radar would, if left intact, provide considerable warning of any unfolding allied invasion.

    The task of dealing with those radar stations ahead of D-Day fell almost entirely on the fighter-bombers of the allies, and the RAF in particular. In a remarkable, and often bloody, series of operations they walked the fine line between blinding the Germans entirely in Normandy, and leaving enough radar stations intact to detect the fake invasion that would unfold further up the French coast.

    As D-Day unfolded on the 6th June 1944, only 20% of the German radar stations opposing the invasion were functioning, buying valuable hours for the allies to get ashore. In this episode, we talk about the pilots and planes that made that happen.


    Guest

    Matt Bone, is an aviation historian and host of The Aviation Show on Youtube. He has extensively researched fighter-bomber operations during WW2.


    Cats present

    Napoleon


    Useful links

    https://www.youtube.com/@theaviation_show/videos

    https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/theaviationshow

    https://bsky.app/profile/theaviation.show


    Do you like our podcast? Then please leave us a review, it helps us a lot! Host: Gareth Edwards More about Gareth Edwards: https://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-history#host To comment and ask questions, please join our community: https://untitled-history.com/supporters Use our code: Rabbit and get one month free as a Captain, or join as a free member. Support via Paypal: http://battleguide.co.uk/untitled-paypal Merchandise and Shop: https://untitled-history.com/collections/all Our WW1 Podcast: @NSQPod Our WW2 Podcast: @BSOWPod Battle Guide YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@BattleGuideVT If you want to keep your finger on the pulse of what the team at Battle Guide have been getting up to, why not sign up to our monthly newsletter: https://battleguide.co.uk/newsletter Gareth socials BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/garius.bsky.social Mastodon: https://mastodon.me.uk/@garius Battle Guide Twitter: https://x.com/BattleguideVT General Enquiries: untitled@battleguide.co.uk Credits: - Host: Gareth Edwards - Editing: Hunter Christensen - Production: Linus Klaßen

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