The Hungry Historian Podcast
1) The War to End All Wars - Part III - Entrenched - Shells
Send us a text "We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders fields." - Lt-Col John McRae 1915 was meant to be a brief detour...Show More
2) The War to End All Wars - Part II - Opening Rounds - The French 75 (Cocktail)
Send us a text "We are about to engage in a battle on which the fate of our country depends...the moment has passed for looking at the rear...Troops that can advance no farther must, at any price, hol...Show More
3) The War to End All Wars - Part I - On the Road to War - Kaiser Rolls
Send us a text “The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.” - Guglielmo Marconi, 1912 Long before the first shots were fired in August 1914, Europe h...Show More
4) King Leopold II of Belgium and the Congo - Black Belgian
Send us a text "In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years..." - Mark Twain In this epi...Show More
5) Horrific History - History's Worst Deaths - Ratcliffe's Colonial Catch
Send us a text History isn’t just the tale of kings and queens, of armies and empires. It’s also the story of how we’ve suffered, how we’ve punished, and how far humanity has gone to make death a spec...Show More
6) James Dean: Life, Death, and Everlasting Cool - James Dean's Green Beans
Send us a text "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man." - James Dean Before he was a legend frozen in time, James Dean wa...Show More
7) What Do We Have to Loos? - The Battle of Loos: 110 Years Later - General French Fries
Send us a text "The men were simply mown down. They advanced in lines which seemed to melt away under the enemy’s fire." — British officer reflecting on the Battle of Loos In this episode join The Hun...Show More
8) Hits and Near Misses: Presidential Assassinations and Attempts in U.S. History - Garfield's Lasagna
Send us a text "Assassination has never changed the history of the world." - Benjamin Disraeli From Abraham Lincoln’s fateful night at Ford’s Theatre, to the near-misses that almost changed the course...Show More
9) The Last Voyage of the Lusitania - Chocolate Mousse-itania
Send us a text “Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany . . . and Great Britain . . . and that travellers sailing in the war zone ...Show More
10) Beaver Fever: The History of The Hudson's Bay Company - Part II - Beavertails
Send us a text “Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. … The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.” — Harold Innis F...Show More
Beaver Fever: The History of The Hudson's Bay Company - Part II - Beavertails
40:36 | Aug 10th, 2025