The History Network Podcast
1) 3807 The Battles of Hedgeley Moor and Hexham 1464 - Part 1
A combination of two battles fought close together in Northumberland in April and May 1464 brought Lancastrian resistance to the Yorkist king Edward IV to an end during the Wars of the Roses until 146...Show More
2) 3806 - The Shingle Street Invasion That Never Was
Picture the Suffolk coast on a stormy night in 1940. Waves crash against a bleak shingle bank, the wind howls through the marshes, and blackout shades cover every window in the tiny hamlet of Shingle ...Show More
3) 3805 Valour Lost - Part 3
In the third of this three part series we conclude our look at the eight recipients of the Victoria Cross who forfeited the award due to their later actions as well as other recipients who fell on har...Show More
4) 3804 Valour Lost - Part 2
In the second of this three part series we continue our look at the eight recipients of the Victoria Cross who forfeited the award due to their later actions as well as other recipients who fell on ha...Show More
5) 3803 Valour Lost - Part 1
In this three part series we look at the eight recipients of the Victoria Cross who forfeited the award due to their later actions as well as other recipients who fell on hard times, and with particul...Show More
6) 3802 Colenso: Ireland's Forgotten Sacrifice in the Boer War
Yet another war believed to be over by Christmas. The Second Boer War was fought between the greatest empire the world had ever seen and a nation of farmers with a population fewer than that of Bright...Show More
7) 3801 Alvarado's Leap
Modern historical scholarship has little lenience for hyperbole and any event that appears exaggerated is heavily scrutinized. The Spanish Conquest of Mexico provides ample folklores for historians to...Show More
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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