🚨 NEXT WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS🚨
🌎 From 13 colonies to continental power! 🇺🇸 Clement Knox explores the wars, land deals and ambition behind America's expansion, and how European rivalries helped reshape the map. 🗺️

🚨 NEXT WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS🚨
🌎 From 13 colonies to continental power! 🇺🇸 Clement Knox explores the wars, land deals and ambition behind America's expansion, and how European rivalries helped reshape the map. 🗺️
🔥 HUGE THANKS to @jcbretan.bsky.social for raging against the myth that Eastern Europe is a grey, backward wasteland!
🇵🇱 From Polish tango to early democracy, this region has a history Britain desperately needs to rediscover.
Coming out on Patreon and Apple 7th December! 🎧
🔥 HUGE THANKS TO Rebecca Larson of @tudorsdynasty.bsky.social for raging that Thomas Seymour wasn't the Tudor villain we've been sold!
🐕 Did he really kill the king's dog?
👑 Were 33 treason charges a stitch-up?
👀 Was Elizabeth's scandal exaggerated?
HUGE THANKS TO Thomas Williams for raging that Vikings weren't uniquely bloodthirsty pagan barbarians! ⚔️ We covered Christian slaughter, Vikings collecting gods like souvenirs, and Crusaders who were perfectly happy pillaging Christian holy sites! 🔥
📚 Patreon & Apple, 23rd November. #HistoryRage
HUGE THANKS TO Rob Lyman for joining me to rage “Stop forgetting the war that shaped our world” 🇰🇷🔥
We talked about Kim Il-sung’s disastrous miscalculation, MacArthur underestimating China, and how Korea helped create the modern global security system. 🌍
HUGE THANKS TO @chinarhyming.bsky.social for joining me to rage about Puyi, China’s last emperor! 👑🇨🇳
We talked about:
📸 Bicycles, cinema & tennis in the Forbidden City
☎️ Puyi’s prank phone calls
❤️ The evidence that he and Wanrong were far more intimate than we’ve been told.
🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
John Morton survived the Lancastrian, Yorkist and Tudor regimes. 🏰👑 @nathenamin.bsky.social explains how that experience gave Henry VII's court invaluable knowledge of how to keep an insecure crown once you've taken it. ⚔️
🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Warwick the Kingmaker: brilliant politician and military genius? 👀 @nathenamin.bsky.social looks at how much of that reputation came from Warwick himself — and the propaganda he circulated across Europe. 📜⚔️
🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Thirty years of Wars of the Roses sounds like relentless medieval warfare. ⚔️ But @nathenamin.bsky.social argues the reality was far more stop-start — nobles raised forces, fought, then dealt with the fallout. 🏰
🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Richard III may have been targeted by Tudor propaganda, but @nathenamin.bsky.social points out that Richard used plenty of his own. 👑📜 Attacking Henry Tudor was part of the same political game. ⚔️
🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
The Tudor purge gets remembered. The Yorkist purge gets forgotten. 👑⚔️ @nathenamin.bsky.social explains how Edward IV's destruction of Lancastrian rivals helped create the opportunity for Henry Tudor to rise. 🩸
🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
Tudor propaganda didn't appear from nowhere. 👀📜 @nathenamin.bsky.social argues the Yorkists were already using political spin, imagery and accusations to justify their power. 🏰⚔️ Nathen was speaking at Gloucester History Festival.
🚨 FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨
The Tudor purge wasn't the whole story. 👀🩸 @nathenamin.bsky.social takes us back to the Yorkist destruction of Lancastrian royal rivals — and explains how that helped create the opportunity for Henry Tudor to rise. 👑⚔️
🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨
Tudor propaganda gets all the attention, but @nathenamin.bsky.social argues the Yorkists were already playing the game. 👀📜 Spin, accusations, imagery and political myth-making were well established before Henry VII arrived. 👑⚔️
Really appreciate this most welcome feedback — thank you! Jen Baldwin, host of the A Family History Of podcast, brings empathy, curiosity and a brilliant perspective to history.
🎙️ Give it a listen if you haven't already: pod.fo/e/636ff8
🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨CASE SOLVED?! Not so fast. 🧬
Every new Jack the Ripper DNA claim isn't as solid as headlines suggest. Megan Coles breaks down the infamous shawl story, cutting through the hype.
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
🚢⚔️ In ancient naval warfare, the ship itself was often the deadliest weapon. @sdecasien.bsky.social explains the tactics that made Roman fleets so effective.
🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/60c28c
#HistoryRage #RomanNavy #AncientRome 🌊
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
💥🚢 Ancient warships carried devastating bronze weapons designed to smash enemy vessels apart. @sdecasien.bsky.social explores the naval technology of Actium.
🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/60c28c
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
⚓ Rome started as a regional power and became a maritime powerhouse. @sdecasien.bsky.social explains how that transformation happened.
🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/60c28c
#HistoryRage #RomanNavy #AncientRome #HistoryPodcast 🌊
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
🚨 Rome didn't simply ignore its navy. @sdecasien.bsky.social reveals the archaeology and evidence that challenge one of the biggest misconceptions about Roman power.
🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/60c28c
#HistoryRage #RomanNavy #AncientRome ⚓