🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
🔥 Forget everything you think you know about Dad’s Army.
Sinclair McKay reveals a Home Guard embracing guerrilla warfare, unconventional tactics and ideas that unsettled the military establishment.

📍 Gloucester History Festival | 12–20 Sept
🎧 pod.fo/e/5f2c3b

#HistoryRage #WW2

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
🚢💥 Ancient naval warfare demanded extraordinary courage. @sdecasien.bsky.social explains how Roman crews faced terrifying sea battles with discipline and determination.

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/60c28c

#HistoryRage #RomanNavy #AncientRome ⚓

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨
💔👑 Wallis Simpson is usually cast as the woman who stole a King’s heart. Sian Evans offers a far more complicated picture: a woman who may have found herself trapped in a life she never really wanted. 😬

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/5e5f92
#HistoryRage #WallisSimpson #History

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
💀 The Home Guard wasn’t a wartime hobby. They were preparing for invasion, combat, casualties and death.
Sinclair McKay reveals the lethal reality behind the familiar comedy.

📍 Gloucester History Festival | 12–20 Sept
🎧 pod.fo/e/5f2c3b

#HistoryRage #WW2 #HomeGuard

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
🏛️⚓ Rome wasn't built by legions alone. @sdecasien.bsky.social reveals why naval power was essential to Roman success across the Mediterranean. 🌊

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/60c28c
#HistoryRage #AncientRome #RomanNavy #HistoryPodcast ⚔️

🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨 🤯 Think the Wars of the Roses couldn't get any more chaotic? @warwick-historian.bsky.social explores one of the most bonkers political U-turns of the entire 15th century! ⚔️👑🌹

🎧 Listen now: www.patreon.com/historyrage/...
#HistoryRage #WarsOfTheRoses #MedievalHistory

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
🚨 May 1940. Britain fears invasion. The call goes out for volunteers — and people race to sign up before the broadcast has even finished.
Sinclair McKay explores the extraordinary response.
📍 Gloucester History Festival | 12–20 Sept
🎧 pod.fo/e/5f2c3b

#HistoryRage #WW2

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨
👑🔮 George V apparently had serious doubts about what would happen when Edward became King. Sian Evans reveals just how accurately his fears played out. Edward lasted only 326 days. 😬💥

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/5e5f92
#HistoryRage #GeorgeV #EdwardVIII

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
💥 Forget the cosy Dad’s Army image. The real Home Guard trained for anti-tank warfare, hand-to-hand combat and urban fighting.

Sinclair McKay brings the reality to Gloucester History Festival, 12–20 Sept.
🎟️ www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
🎧 pod.fo/e/5f2c3b

#HistoryRage #WW2

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨
👑😤 Charming, popular and impossibly privileged… but Sian Evans paints Edward VIII as petulant, self-indulgent and easily bored. He loved being a prince. Being King? Not quite so much. 👀

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/5e5f92
#HistoryRage #EdwardVIII #History

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
👴 Think the Home Guard were all ancient? Not remotely. Sinclair McKay reveals the surprisingly young reality behind Britain’s wartime civilian army. 🪖🔥

📍 Gloucester History Festival | 12–20 Sept
🎟️ www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
🎧 pod.fo/e/5f2c3b
#HistoryRage #WW2 #HomeGuard

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨
👑💥 Was Edward VIII really a King who sacrificed his throne for love? Sian Evans argues Wallis Simpson became the perfect excuse for removing a monarch the establishment already considered unsuitable. 🇬🇧👀

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/5e5f92
#HistoryRage #EdwardVIII #History

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
🪖 The Home Guard weren’t Britain’s doddery old dads waiting for tea. They were volunteers preparing for invasion. Sinclair McKay tears apart the myth at Gloucester History Festival, 12–20 Sept.

🎟️ www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
🎧 pod.fo/e/5f2c3b

#HistoryRage #WW2 #HomeGuard

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
⚔️🔥 Saxons? Roman tyranny? The Devil? Amy Jeffs explores the many enemies Arthur has been made to fight over the centuries — and why every generation seems able to find a new one.

🎧 pod.fo/e/5be9d7
🎟️ 12–20 Sept Gloucester History Festival
#KingArthur #HistoryRage

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨
👑🤫 The romantic Edward VIII story may have been exactly what the British establishment needed us to believe. Sian Evans explores the much more uncomfortable reality hiding behind the fairy tale. 😬🔥

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/5e5f92
#HistoryRage #History #RoyalHistory

HUGE THANKS TO Tim Spicer for raging about Brian Franks! 🪖

We talked axes & balloons 🪓🎈, hunting the Nazis who murdered 31 SAS men 🔎 and how Franks helped bring the SAS back from the dead 🔥

General Release 17th September

#HistoryRage #SAS #WW2 #History

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
🧙‍♂️ Merlin wasn’t always the familiar Arthurian wizard. Amy Jeffs explores his earlier incarnation as a wild man and prophet in Welsh tradition. 🌲📜

🎧 pod.fo/e/5be9d7
🎟️ Gloucester History Festival, 12–20 Sept
#Merlin #HistoryRage

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨
💔👑 Edward VIII’s abdication is usually told as the ultimate royal love story. Sian Evans argues there was far more going on: an unsuitable King, a constitutional crisis and an establishment ready to see him gone. 👀

🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/5e5f92
#HistoryRage #History #EdwardVIII

🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
📜👑 The Arthur we recognise didn’t simply emerge fully formed from ancient Britain. Amy Jeffs explores Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 12th-century work — the first surviving text to give Arthur a full biography.

🎧 pod.fo/e/5be9d7
🎟️ 12–20 Sept Gloucester History Festival
#HistoryRage

🚨FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
🍽️⚔️ The Round Table: symbol of equality, chivalry and noble fellowship? Maybe. But Amy Jeffs reveals the rather more terrifying motivation Arthur may have given his knights to behave themselves. 😳

🎧 pod.fo/e/5be9d7
🎟️ 12–20 Sept Gloucester History Festival

#HistoryRage #KingArthur