History Rage Podcast

🚨 NEW EPISODE🚨 No Hollywood glamour—just the harsh reality of Cold War espionage. 🕵️🌍 Stephen Long uncovers a remarkable forgotten story. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6f4ae7 #ColdWar #History #CIA #MI6 #SpyStories @iconbooks

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 The history of sex goes back MUCH further than you think. 🦈 Five million years ago, a tiny armoured shark was getting there first. @k8lister.bsky.social explains where the evidence for the history of sex begins. 😂🔥 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/...

📅 #onthisday 27 October 1936 – A 19-minute hearing at Ipswich Assizes set Wallis Simpson’s divorce in motion. But behind the scenes? A king was trying to clear the way to marry her... 👑💥 Sian Evans reveals why this was far more than a love story. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/5e5f92 #otd #history #podcast

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 A tiny country outsmarting Western intelligence? 🇦🇱🕵️ Stephen Long tells the remarkable story of Albania's Cold War deception. Listen now: pod.fo/e/6f4ae7🎧 #ColdWar #CIA #MI6 #Espionage #HistoryRage

Have you enjoyed this week’s special? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "Sleuth Hound” by @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social through the History Rage Bookshop! 📖 Order the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10120/9780... 🎧 Listen now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 A limp. A callous. A stain. The way someone used their hands. 🔎 Joe Bell could turn tiny details into a story about a person and Conan Doyle was watching. @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social reveals the real method behind #SherlockHolmes 🎧 Listen Now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #History

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 A small country became the focus of a huge Cold War gamble. 🇦🇱🕵️ Stephen Long explains why. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6f4ae7 #ColdWar #CIA #MI6 #History #MilitaryHistory

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 The CIA's first covert adventures were anything but smooth. 😬 Stephen Long explains how costly mistakes shaped Cold War intelligence forever. 🕵️‍♂️📻 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6f4ae7🎧 #ColdWar #CIA #History #Espionage #HistoryRage @iconbooks

🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨 Think we’re the most sexually liberated generation in history? 🤔 @k8lister.bsky.social has some historical evidence that might make you rethink that. The past was having rather more fun than we give it credit for. 🔥📚 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/...

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 A country mansion. A suspicious death. A murder disguised as an accident. And a ballistics expert actually called Dr Watson. 🕵️‍♂️🔫 Real life was getting suspiciously Sherlockian for Joe Bell. @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social explains. 🎧 Listen Now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #SherlockHolmes #History

🚨 TOMORROW FOR SUBSCRIBERS🚨 Women being less interested in sex than men? History doesn’t make that story quite so simple. 👀 @k8lister.bsky.social explores female desire, pleasure, masturbation, contraception and autonomy across thousands of years — and the myths that distorted them. 🔥💋 #History

🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨 Declassified files tell a very different Cold War story. 📂🕵️ Stephen Long separates fact from fiction in communist Albania. #History #ColdWar #CIA #MI6 #Espionage

Have you enjoyed this week’s Patreon episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "The Scramble for America” by Clement Knox through the History Rage Bookshop! 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10120/9780... Listen now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #History #Podcast

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 🌎 America gains the Mississippi Valley. Problem solved? Not quite! 😬 Clement Knox explains how every expansion created new problems, pushing the country ever further west. 🗺️ 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #AmericanHistory #History #Podcast

📅 #onthisday 25 Oct 1668 — A moment of discovery changed everything when Samuel Pepys was caught in the act 😬 The fallout shaped the final phase of his diary with Guy de la Bédoyère. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3ff298 #onthisdate #history #podcast #otd #SamuelPepys #HiddenHistory

📅 #OnThisDay 25 Oct 336 BC (we think) At a wedding, King Philip II is struck down ⚔️ The assassination that launched Alexander’s rise — and centuries of myth. 🎙️ Stephen Harrison breaks down the legend. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/394717 #History #Podcast #otd #AncientHistory #AlexanderTheGreat

Have you enjoyed this week’s episode? 🎧✨ Support the author, and me 📚❤️ by buying a copy of "Much Ado About Cooking” by @mrssbilton.bsky.social through the History Rage Bookshop! 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10120/9781... 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #Podcast

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 👩‍🍳 We haven't just invented new recipes—we've forgotten countless old ones too. @mrssbilton.bsky.social explores how generations of cooking knowledge disappeared. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #FoodHistory #HistoryRage

🚨BONUS EPISODE🚨 Victorian surgery wasn't just theatrical — it was terrifying. 😨🩺 Patients could be awake during operations while surgeons battled pain and infection. @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social explores the courage and empathy behind the spectacle. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #MedicalHistory #History

🚨 NEXT WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS🚨 Think the sexual revolution fixed everything? Think again. 👀 @k8lister.bsky.social explores thousands of years of female pleasure, desire, contraception and sexual myths — from ancient Mesopotamia to the Victorians and today. 🔥💋 #History #WomensHistory

🚨 NEXT WEEK🚨 Cold War history is far messier than the myths suggest. 🕵️‍♂️ Stephen Long reveals the real story behind the CIA and MI6's secret war in Albania. #ColdWar #CIA #MI6 #History #Espionage

🚨 THIS WEEK ON PATREON & APPLE 🚨 ⚔️ The American Revolution wasn't just fought on the eastern seaboard. Clement Knox explores the brutal Ohio Valley conflict and the struggle for the American West. 🗺️ 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #HistoryRage #AmericanRevolution #HistoryPodcast

📅 #onthisday 24 October 1860 The Second Opium War ends — and China loses even more land, power, and sovereignty. Britain’s drug trade reshapes global history. Sam Kelly exposes how empire, profit, and addiction collided with devastating consequences. 💣🌏 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/38b54a #otd #history

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 🍽️ Tudor dining wasn't courses as we know them today. @mrssbilton.bsky.social reveals why historic banquets were a spectacular feast for the eyes as well as the stomach! 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #FoodHistory #HistoryRage

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 Before #SherlockHolmes , there was Joe Bell — Edinburgh surgeon, extraordinary observer and the man students called the Demon of Diagnosis. 🩺🔎 @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social reveals how his methods helped inspire the fictional detective. 🎧 Listen Now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #History

🔥 THANKS to Jackson Van Uden of @historywithjackson.bsky.social for a US midterm election special! 🇺🇸 🗽 Founding Fathers, power grabs and an America that wasn't quite the democratic paradise it claimed to be. Plus, George Washington asked to be king! 👑 📅 General release 29th October. #USHistory

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 🇫🇷 Napoleon's plans for Louisiana nearly brought France and America into conflict. ⚔️ Clement Knox explores the events that shaped the Louisiana Purchase. Imagine if Napoleon had invaded! 🤯 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #History #Podcast

💥THANKS to Adam Fenwick for raging against the obsession with Pegasus Bridge and Merville! 🪂Forgotten airborne battles, the Yorkshire paratroopers' catastrophic friendly-fire ordeal at Breville, and why their sacrifice mattered to the whole Normandy campaign. 📅Patreon & Apple, 28th Dec. #DDay #WW2

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 👑🥬 Vegetables weren't just peasant food! @mrssbilton.bsky.social explains why they appeared on tables from cottages to grand houses alike. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #FoodHistory #HistoryRage

🚨BONUS EPISODE🚨 Dinner with Joe Bell? Probably best to leave your secrets at home. 😂🔎 His ability to spot tiny clues about people was extraordinary — and would have made him a nightmare dinner guest! @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social tells his story. 🎧 Listen Now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #SherlockHolmes #History

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 🗺️ The Louisiana Purchase wasn't just a land deal. It transformed America's future, opening the Mississippi Valley and the door to expansion. Clement Knox explains why 1803 changed everything. 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #History #Podcast

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 For ordinary people, vegetables weren't a side dish—they were often the main event. @mrssbilton.bsky.social reveals what everyday diets really looked like. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #FoodHistory #HistoryRage

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 Victorian investigation was a very different game. 🔪🕵️‍♂️ Policing was still developing, forensic science was emerging and getting away with murder was far from impossible. @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social explores the world behind Holmes. 🎧 Listen Now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #History #TrueCrime

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE SUBS🚨 🌎 California has more people than all of Russia east of the Urals! 😲 Clement Knox explains how America's westward expansion created a power whose legacy is still visible today. 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #America #History #Podcast

📅 #onthisday 21st October 1966 – The Aberfan Disaster devastated a Welsh community 💔⛏️ @nrh1992.bsky.social highlights how Civil Defence were among the first responders, showing these organisations did far more than prepare for nuclear war. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/5a3275 #otd #history #podcast

📅 #onthisday 21 October 1097: Crusaders arrive at Antioch! But as @nicmorton.bsky.social reveals, this was just a minor side-show in a vast, interconnected Middle East.🏛️ 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/5077ea #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #Crusades

📅 #onthisday 21 Oct 1600 – Battle of Sekigahara 🏯💥 This wasn’t a sword-only showdown. Samurai fought for power, not purity. @matt-okuhara.bsky.social reveals how gunpowder, alliances, and pragmatism decided Japan’s future — not “honour”. 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3901a7 #onthisday #otd #onthisdate

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 🥦 Medieval people weren't living on meat alone! @mrssbilton.bsky.social explains why fruit and vegetables played a much bigger role than most people realise. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #FoodHistory #HistoryRage

OK Medical and Food Historians.... @dranniegray.bsky.social @mrssbilton.bsky.social @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social .... who's gonna help me make this from the 1895 Harrods Catalogue

🚨OUT TODAY!🚨 Victorian Britain was the golden age of murder.🔪😬Policing was still developing, witnesses could be unreliable and forensic science was emerging. @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social explores the world of Joe Belland the real story behind Sherlock Holmes. 🕵️‍♂️🔬 🎧 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #History #TrueCrime

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 Forget 221B Baker Street! 🔎 The real Sherlock Holmes began life on a Victorian hospital ward in Edinburgh, inspired by surgeon Joe Bell and his extraordinary powers of observation. 🩺🕵️‍♂️ @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social takes us back 🎧 Listen Now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #SherlockHolmes #History

🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 🇪🇸 Spain was squeezed between Britain, France and America. 😬 Clement Knox explains how European rivalries helped reshape the continent. Who needed Spain when there was an empire to carve up? ♟️ 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #History #Podcast

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 🥬 Missing recipes don't mean missing vegetables! @mrssbilton.bsky.social explains why some everyday cooking skills were so obvious they never needed writing down. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #FoodHistory #HistoryRage

🚨 BONUS EPISODE🚨 What happens when a Victorian surgeon starts applying medical observation to murder? 🩺🔎 @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social explores Joe Bell, Henry Littlejohn, emerging forensic science and the remarkable story behind Sherlock Holmes. 🕵️‍♂️🔬 🎧 Listen Now 👉 pod.fo/e/6d40b7 #History #Forensics

🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨 Sherlock Holmes didn’t begin at 221B Baker Street! 🔎🕵️‍♂️ @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social explores Joe Bell, the Victorian surgeon who taught Conan Doyle to see clues in the human body — and helped inspire a detective who changed how we think about crime. 🩺🔬 #History #SherlockHolmes

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 Just because it wasn't written down doesn't mean they didn't eat it! 🥬 @mrssbilton.bsky.social reveals why a lack of written recipes created the false myth that the past was completely veggie-free. Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #MedievalFood #History

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨 🍠 Potatoes weren't always just comfort food... Their reputation in Shakespeare's England was far more surprising than you'd imagine! 😳 @mrssbilton.bsky.social explains why. 🎧 Listen now: pod.fo/e/6ce5c9 #History #FoodHistory #Shakespeare #HistoryRage

🔥 HUGE THANKS to Michael Bundock for raging that Wilberforce wasn’t the pioneer of abolitionism! ⚖️ A draper’s apprentice takes on slavery 🚢 132 people thrown overboard for insurance 🌍 Sierra Leone’s lost dream of freedom 📅 Patreon & Apple, 14th December! #HistoryRage

🚨 THIS WEEK FOR SUBSCRIBERS 🚨 🇺🇸 America didn't magically appear in 1776 with today's borders! 🗺️ Clement Knox reveals how decades of conflict, negotiation and expansion created the country we know today. 🎧 Listen Now 👉 www.patreon.com/historyrage/... #HistoryRage #USHistory #HistoryPodcast

🎉 750,000 DOWNLOADS. I honestly can’t quite believe it! When I started History Rage, I never imagined we’d reach this milestone. Thank you to every listener, guest and subscriber who’s been part of the journey. You’ve helped make this possible, and I’m hugely grateful. ❤️ #HistoryRage