The History Network Podcast
1) 3710 Soccer pitch invasion!: the Vienna battlefield discovery and the battle of Carnuntum, AD 170.
In late October 2024, under a Vienna sports field (Ostbahn-XI-Platz) on the Danube in the Simmering district, a site of ancient mass burial was discovered. 129 bodies were discovered (intermixed bones...Show More
2) 3709 Waterloo and the Irishmen of the 27th: The Inniskillings in the Heart of Battle Part2
The French infantry passed by the farm at La Haye Saint and advanced up to the ridge where Picton's 5th Brigade were literally lying in wait. Dutch skirmishers retreated back to their parent regiments...Show More
3) 3708 Waterloo and the Irishmen of the 27th: The Inniskillings in the Heart of Battle Part1
The Congress of Vienna began in November 1814 and its aim was to provide a plan for a long-term peace within Europe after nearly 23 years of constant conflict and to redraw territorial boundaries so n...Show More
4) 3707 The Battle Of The Wabash
"American Indian Wars" in the modern perspective focuses mostly on the American West in the second half of the 19th century with cowboys, Custer and the calvary, but the worst defeat of an American Ar...Show More
5) 3706 I sing of (Welsh) arms and the man: the battles of Taliesin - Part 2
Another poem, "Gwaith Argoed Llwyfain", refers to another campaign against the Angles of Bernicia. It also provides remarkable insights. Here, the leader of the Angles is named as Fflamddwyn – perhaps...Show More
6) 3705 I sing of (Welsh) arms and the man: the battles of Taliesin
The works of the sixth century AD Brittonic poet and bard, Taliesin, survive in a fourteenth century Welsh manuscript of the Llyuyr Taliessin, The Book of Taliesin. Taliesin is one of the most importa...Show More
7) 3704 Australia's Irish Rebellion
On 5 March, 1804, a group of 233 convict rebels revolted against their incarceration in the British colony of New South Wales (corresponding to modern Sydney, Australia). They were met by the local ga...Show More
8) 3703 The Battle of Abritus AD 251 - Part2
It is the dream of every ancient historian that some new discovery will solve a mystery of the past – some newly discovered fragment of a lost historian which will make everything clear. Such circumst...Show More
9) 3702 The Battle of Abritus AD 251 - Part1
The battle of Abritus saw the death of two emperors in battle against a foreign enemy – Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius, usually known as Trajan Decius (r. 249-251) and his son and co-emperor Qu...Show More
10) 3701 Heroism in Borneo
At the conclusion of the Malayan Emergency in July 1960, plans were put into place to incorporate British North Borneo and Singapore into Greater Malaysia. This idea was met with fierce opposition fro...Show More