History between the Lines

12/01/2025

Brilliant day at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard home of the 1545 Tudor ship Mary Rose HMS Victory Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar in 1805 HMS M33 a Monitor class warship from 1915 that served at Gallipoli and the Victorian HMS Warrior from the 1860s

10/01/2025

Jimmy Carter (1924-2024)

Latest episode now available where I'm joined by Dr Aurelie Basha to talk about the foreign policies of the late President Jimmy Carter, from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the Iranian hostage crisis.

https://open.spotify.com/show/1NeIuSg2IqduTuAQaZYf9k

07/06/2024

Latest episode available now where I'm joined by Angus Wallace of the WW2 Podcast to talk about D-Day and its enduring legacy 80 years on.

20/07/2023

S5 E3: The Witch Trials of Maldon

Latest episode now available which explores the witch trials held in Maldon, Essex, England during the 16th century.

Link is below:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1NeIuSg2IqduTuAQaZYf9k

12/07/2023

S5 E2: Hitler's Vengeance Weapons

A V-1 is prepared for launch (pictured below).

Latest episode now available which explores the V-weapons campaign launched against Britain and other Allied countries during the Second World War.

By the summer of 1944, the British people believe that the worst is behind them. But the N***s have one more sting in their tail when they fire the V-1 "doodlebug" and the V-2 rocket at the UK, the first cruise missiles to be used in warfare. But the Allies are determined to fight back.

Link below or can be found wherever you get your podcasts:

https://open.spotify.com/show/1NeIuSg2IqduTuAQaZYf9k

05/07/2023

Missing Persons, with the UK True Crime Podcast.

Latest episode now available where I'm joined by Adam of the UK True Crime Podcast to talk about the phenomenon of people in the UK who go missing and are never found.
From Madeleine McCann to Lord Lucan, pictured below, who vanished in 1974 after allegedly murdering his children's nanny, the question remains: what happened to them?

Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts or through the link below:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1NeIuSg2IqduTuAQaZYf9k

03/06/2023

Lieutenant General Arthur Percival, commander of the British defence of the island-colony of Singapore, is escorted by a Japanese officer to the Japanese lines to negotiate the terms of surrender under a flag of truce, a surrender that would become the worst disaster in British military history.

The podcast's latest episode is now available where I'm joined by Matthew Vincent to talk about the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1941-1942 during the Second World War.

18/05/2023

Enslaved African Americans work on a sugar cane plantation.

Latest episode now available wherever you get your podcasts about the daily struggles and experiences of enslaved African Americans on plantations in the Southern United States.

18/05/2023

Slavery in the USA: Plantation Life in the South

Latest episode is now available on wherever you get your podcasts, where I'm joined by Dr Erik Mathisen to talk about the daily struggles of enslaved African Americans on plantations in the Southern United States in the years before the Civil War.

18/05/2023

04/01/2023

In 1811, Napoleon Bonaparte was one of the most powerful individuals in the world. Yet, within ten years, he died a prisoner on a barren island in the middle of the stormy Atlantic Ocean. How did this reversal come about?
Answers to this question are given in my latest episode where I am joined by Professor Michael Broers of Oxford University to talk about his latest book, his final volume in his biography of Napoleon's life. Link is below:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1NeIuSg2IqduTuAQaZYf9k

21/12/2022

Fascism and Motorsport

Hi everyone. Latest episode now available where I am joined by Dr Mario Draper of the University of Kent to talk about the promotion of motorsport by Fascist Italy and N**i Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. Link to it is below.
https://open.spotify.com/show/1NeIuSg2IqduTuAQaZYf9k