The 9 Best Tides of History Podcast Episodes
1) The Wars of the Roses
The Wars of the Roses brought what had once been Europe’s most stable and well-governed kingdom to its knees. Weakness at the center, in the form of the useless King Henry VI, reverberated outwards th...Show More
2) Ancient DNA and the Iron Age Mediterranean: Interview with Dr. Hannah Moots
Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the more distant reaches of the human past, but what can it tell us about more recent ages of history? Dr. Hannah Moots has extensively investigated th...Show More
3) Historical Fiction and the Wars of the Roses: An Interview with Philippa Gregory
We talked to bestselling novelist Philippa Gregory about her views of history and historical fiction, and her perspective on the Wars of the Roses, where she has spent many years. You can listen to t...Show More
4) The Wars of the Roses, II
By 1461, the Wars of the Roses had already claimed thousands of lives and shaken England's political system to its foundations. The bloodiest battle ever fought in England would soon follow, along wit...Show More
5) The Crusades: An Interview with Dan Jones
The Crusades defined the Middle Ages and left a long legacy behind them. We chat with Dan Jones, author of the upcoming book Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Land, about why this l...Show More
6) The Origins and Rise of Venice
A swampy lagoon on the Adriatic coast of Italy was not a promising place for a city, but Venice grew from a collection of huts on spits of land to a glittering center of commerce and the heart of a ma...Show More
7) 5 | The Military Revolution, 1350-1650
As the fifteenth century turned into the sixteenth, warfare was transformed. Cannon made castles obsolete, and firearms and pikes displaced knights as the dominant force on the battlefield. Most of al...Show More
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AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) Pirates! With Leah Sutherland
Leah returns to chat with Patrick about one of their favorite topics - pirates. It wouldn't be a Leah episode if we didn't range widely, so we also chat about essays and Laura Ingalls Wilder. Supp...Show More
9) The Last Battle of the Wars of the Roses
What brought the son of a German shoemaker to a blood-soaked English field in June, 1487? In today's episode, we follow the life of a composite character, Hans, an artisan-turned mercenary, on his jou...Show More
10) Living and Working in Imperial Babylonia
We don't usually think of the Neo-Babylonian Empire as one of the economic powerhouses of the ancient world, but this short-lived state actually oversaw one of the most stunning periods of economic gr...Show More