History Cafe

By: Jon Rosebank Penelope Middelboe
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  • 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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  • #18 Spies of the Kaiser - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?

    #18 Spies of the Kaiser - Ep 2 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
    Sep 18 2024
    We look at anti-German hysteria in Britain 1906-1909. The British publishing phenomena of 1906 was The Invasion of 1910 (by Germans), serialised in the Daily Mail and marketed by men walking around London in Prussian uniforms. This chimed perfectly with the anti-German clique at the foreign office. (R)

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    26 mins
  • #17 The Elephant in the Room - Ep 1 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?

    #17 The Elephant in the Room - Ep 1 WW1: how much was it Britain's fault?
    Sep 11 2024
    Britain’s main problem by 1910 was Russian expansion towards its Persian oil and India, the jewel in Britain’s crown. So why did Britain go to war to SUPPORT Russia and AGAINST Germany which was its closest European friend and trading partner? (R)

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    35 mins
  • #40 Henry VIII: the pope, Katherine, Anne and Florence

    #40 Henry VIII: the pope, Katherine, Anne and Florence
    Sep 4 2024
    After years of negotiation and confrontation, Pope Clement VII was heard swearing unpapally over Henry VIII’s divorce. And no wonder. The history of Henry’s pope is a murky tale of code-breaking and ruthless sieges that involves Michelangelo and Machiavelli and a great deal of double-dealing. Pope Clement was trapped between a rock and a hard place: the only way to save his Medici family’s city of Florence was to refuse Henry his divorce and split Christendom. (R)

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    37 mins

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