The History Network Podcast
1) 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
2) 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
3) 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
4) 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
5) 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
6) 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
7) 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
8) 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
9) 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
10) 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