History Rage

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29/09/2026

Five days. Six men. German lines between them and safety. 🪖
Operation Loyton had become a brutal fight for survival in the Vosges.
Brian Franks led a small party trying to reach the American lines — and was shot in the leg just before they got there.
He kept going.

Tim Spicer tells the story.
🎧 Listen 👉 https://pod.fo/e/61f5e0

29/09/2026

Think you know the story of England’s Nine Days’ Queen? Think again! 👑👑Author Joanne Paul sets the record straight on one of Tudor history’s biggest misconceptions. Why do we keep calling her "Lady Jane Grey" when her marriage to Guilford Dudley—and the powerful Dudley family connection—shaped her whole reign, legacy, and place in English history? Time to put some respect on Queen Jane Dudley’s name! 📜💥

Catch the full conversation on History Rage for a deep dive into the real, unvarnished Tudor history! 🎧
✨🎟️ Digital passes for Gloucester History Festival talks are available until 25 October: https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk

29/09/2026

👑 Before the Wars of the Roses became a dynastic epic, England was already dealing with rival factions, competing claims and a very young Margaret of Anjou caught in the middle. Nathen Amin explores how politics quickly turned personal — and vicious.

🎙️ Nathen Amin - Author — Gloucester History Festival Special
🎧 Listen 👉 https://pod.fo/e/64b4e1
🎟️ Digital passes for other Gloucester History Festival talks are available until 25 October: https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 🎄 Victorian drawing rooms: where questionable historical material went to have the fu...
29/09/2026

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 🎄 Victorian drawing rooms: where questionable historical material went to have the fun beaten out of it. 😳 John Potter explains how traditional carols were collected, transcribed and sometimes cleaned up for respectable Victorian ears. Anything a little too b***y, boozy or socially awkward could be quietly tidied away. ✂️🎶 The result?

The supposedly ancient Christmas tradition many of us know today is partly the product of Victorian editing and good old-fashioned respectability politics.

🎧 Listen now: https://www.patreon.com/historyrage/posts/christmas-carol-170160996

📅 29 September 1399 – Richard II is deposed 👑⚔️ Power, politics & legitimacy collide as Henry IV takes the throne. Wit...
29/09/2026

📅 29 September 1399 – Richard II is deposed 👑⚔️ Power, politics & legitimacy collide as Henry IV takes the throne. With Chris Given-Wilson, rethink the role of Thomas Arundel in this dramatic coup.

🎧 Listen 👉 https://pod.fo/e/448459

📅 1758: Horatio Nelson is born ⚓️🔥 A towering national hero — but the stories built around him? Not always the whole t...
29/09/2026

📅 1758: Horatio Nelson is born ⚓️🔥 A towering national hero — but the stories built around him? Not always the whole truth. Dr Zack White of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast unpacks the legend, the propaganda and the complicated legacy of Britain’s most famous admiral 😮‍💨

🎧 Listen 👉 https://pod.fo/e/3c9366

📆 in 1941, the Babi Yar massacre began, with 33,000+ Jews brutally murdered in Kyiv 🇺🇦. Historian Waitman Beorn 🔍 dism...
29/09/2026

📆 in 1941, the Babi Yar massacre began, with 33,000+ Jews brutally murdered in Kyiv 🇺🇦. Historian Waitman Beorn 🔍 dismantles the ‘Clean Wehrmacht’ myth, revealing their role in atrocities like this.

🎧 https://pod.fo/e/139ad9

29/09/2026

🎄🎶 Think carols were always about Christmas? Think again.
John Potter reveals a much more colourful tradition — songs about love, politics, drinking, feasting and even tea! 🍻❤️🍵 Christmas may have become the carol’s big moment, but it certainly didn’t have a monopoly.

🎧 Listen now 👉 https://www.patreon.com/historyrage/posts/christmas-carol-170160996

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨Time for some history rage: why is the JFK assassination the only event in history where absolutely everyone...
29/09/2026

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
Time for some history rage: why is the JFK assassination the only event in history where absolutely everyone feels aggressively forced to have an opinion? 🗣️🛑 You can't even mention Dealey Plaza without people shouting their definitive theories at you!

Martin Fitzgerald vents his frustration over this bizarre cultural trap and fires back at the extreme dogmatism that makes society refuse to accept "I don't know" as a perfectly valid answer. Stop the shouting and let's look at the facts! 🤫📁

🎧 Listen now: https://pod.fo/e/65e9c7

28/09/2026

Think Henry VIII and medieval monks were total opposites on everything? Think again! 👑⛪️

Professor James Clark unpacks one of Tudor history's biggest myths: the idea that English monasteries were destroyed because monks were blindly loyal to Rome. 📜✨Turns out, English monks weren't huge fans of the Papacy either! Many viewed Rome as an overly powerful, grasping, foreign authority—meaning Henry VIII and the very monks he targeted actually shared a surprisingly common perspective on the Pope.

🤯👀Catch more on the History Rage podcast! 🎧
👇🎟️ Digital passes for other Gloucester History Festival talks are available until 25 October: https://www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk

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