History Rage Podcast
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#HistoryRage is a #podcast by @PaulBavill where historians get angry about that one 'fact' you wish people would stop believing. Weekly episodes every Monday
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🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Historian @DrabkinRon examines the Pearl Harbor attack, revealing the Japanese Navy's overlooked strategies, the role of a British spy 🇬🇧🔍, and the implications of Roosevelt’s decision to station the US fleet there. Tune in for a fresh perspective on this
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I too love this level of detail from a sitcom - take Blackadder as an unsung example of this. Look at Captain Darling's medals - that's a military cross - which for me, despite never being mentioned, totally changes the character of Darling from coward to dealing with PTSD
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Captain Kirk isn’t available who is the best captain of all time ?
Captain Kirk isn’t available who is the best captain of all time ?
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HER: You didn't cry at Titanic? Don't you ever cry?. ME:
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📅 #OnThisDay in 1946, #SOE was officially dissolved, marking the end of a daring chapter in WWII history 🕵️♂️💥. 🎙️ @historical_kate rages that while F Section’s women get the spotlight, SOE’s men played vital roles too! . 🎧 #History #Podcast #OTD
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Give me you 'historical' movie that is so damn good you'll ignore the inaccuracies. I'll start #SundayFunday #History #twitterstorians
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🚨🚨NEXT WEEK ON #Patreon🚨🚨 We're back to kick off Series 6 where we are joined by @hoyer_kat to rage that PRUSSIA ISN'T EVIL!!!! That this long abandoned and abolished region of Old Germany deserves a better reputation than she has. 💰
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It's very rare that I get involved with current events on this channel. but I am so fucking sick of these whining pricks.
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#OnThisDay 26 Feb 1935 Germany publicly acknowledges the formation of the Luftwaffe defying the Versailles Treaty. Aviation historian @SpitfireFilly explains that whatever we think, there is no clean Luftwaffe. 🎧 #otd #History #WW1 #WWI #ww2 #wwii
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🚨🚨NEW EPISODE 🚨🚨.We get #medieval, this week as we welcome historian of belief @DrFrancisYoung who rants that PAGANISM DIDN'T GO UNDERGROUND. That there aren't rebel #pagan symbols carved into churches and that the Green Man can just do one!. 🎧
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🚨 📣 NEW EPISODE!🚨 📣 It's time for a man so angry he needs to come back again. We welcome back the legend that is @militaryhistori to rage about MONTGOMERY, his war and his career. He's not all that, you know!. 🎧. #ww2 #worldwar2 #wwii #worldwarii
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COMING NEW YEARS DAY #HistoryRage JAMES HOLLAND joins @PaulBavill and @KyleGHistory to rant that the Battle of Britain is not a close call at all, and there's a lot more than just dashing Spitfire pilots. #podcast @podcast_retweet #podnation #ic #ww2 @James1940 @WeHaveWaysPod
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As everyone is talking about the Green Man appearing on the invitations for the #Coronation of King Charles III, why not have a listen to our episode with @DrFrancisYoung to learn more about the real origins of this medieval symbol. #CharlesIII. 🎧
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🚨NEXT WEEK ON GENERAL RELEASE🚨.We're going to get medieval, and earlier as we welcome historian of belief @DrFrancisYoung who wants to rant that PAGANISM DIDN'T GO UNDERGROUND. That there aren't rebel pagan symbols carved into churches and that the Green Man can just do one!
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It is with a heavy heart that last night we said goodbye to the Alfie, the official History Rage dog. We've had him for 14 amazing years. The loss is immense
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🚨TOMORROW ON GENERAL RELEASE🚨. WE'RE BACK! and starting Season 6 with a classic. Historian and Author @hoyer_kat campaigns that there is more to Prussia than German Militarism and more to German Militarism than Prussia. #history #worldwar2 #Prussia #victorian #podcast
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What is a historic myth you you were taught at school but have learned the truth since? #WednesayWisdom.I'd say mine was 12 arrows per minute
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Rumours of having raged myself to death are woefully inaccurate. Our own @PaulBavill is out of surgery and alive, and now joins the ranks of post-op HistoryRagers @robert_lyman and @militaryhistori. Any tips?
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What is a TV show that triggered an interest in a historical subject for you?. I'll start. #wednesdaythought #wednesdaymotivations @SOEhistory
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🚨 📣 NEXT WEEK ON PATREON🚨 📣 It's time for a man so angry he needs to come back again. We welcome back the legend that is @militaryhistori to rage against Field Marshal Montgomery. Join the Angry Mob today and get this early release ad free.💲
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🚨NEXT WEEK ON GENERAL RELEASE🚨. WE'RE BACK! and starting Season 6 with a classic. Historian and Author @hoyer_kat campaigns that there is more to Prussia than German Militarism and more to German Militarism than Prussia. #history #worldwar2 #Prussia #victorian #podcast
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We're looking for guests - are you a historian? Can you get a rage on about any of the following?. "Victorians are not prudes"."America can turn up when it likes for foreign wars"."The French are not 'surrender monkeys'. Or any historical trope you're angry about. Get in touch
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What's your worst case of popular culture maligning or misrepresenting a historic person? #SundayFunday . I'll start.
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It's #InternationalDogDay #twitterstorians and ragers so show us your pups. Hit us with dog pictures. @WW2girl1944 @claremulley @mcribbHistory @LMBD1418 @militaryhistori and any other ragers that are owned by dogs
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🎙️ A massive THANK YOU to the brilliant @guywalters for stepping in last minute on a Sunday morning to deliver an incredible rage-fuelled takedown of the myths surrounding the Mitfords! 🚫✨. It’s time to stop sanitizing and glamourizing these controversial figures. Guy doesn’t
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NEXT WEEK ON GENERAL RELEASE! The legend that is @militaryhistori PETER CADDICK-ADAMS. He tells @PaulBavill and @KyleGHistory that the Nazis are not, and never were, any sort of tech powerhouse. and we wish him well in his recovery from surgery. #sww #ww2 #ic #podnation #history
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Who is the most overrated historical figure in your opinion?. I'll start. #SundayFunday #SundayThoughts #history
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#OnThisDay 1993 - Former #SOE Agent George Begue died aged 82. His impact on the war was probably immeasurable as he invented the BBC radio codes for communicating with the #French #Resistance. Series 3 Rager @historical_kate talks about him here: #WW2.
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📅 #OnThisDay 1935: Luftwaffe's existence was acknowledged. Explore a different perspective with @SpitfireFilly debunking the 'Clean Luftwaffe' myth. Uncover truths behind aviation history. 🎙️✈️ #AviationHistoryExposed. Listen 🎙️ #otd #onthisdate #history
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📚 It's #WorldBookDay 📚 today so we're going to hit you with links to all the authors we've had on: So if you like #authors then see below:. 🎧 @militaryhistori on Nazis and Technology 🎧 @churchill_alex on First World War command
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#ONTHISDAY 10th July 1940 the Battle of Britain begins. Where do we even start? Well @james1940 raged that, despite how much we might like it to be, it wasn't the close run, skin-of-the-teeth, win that we think. 🎧 . #ww2 #history #podcast #otd
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WHEN TWO BECOME ONE!.1/2 🧵 As of Series 12 it's a sad farewell to co-host @KyleGHistory as for 2024 he is focussing his efforts onto the anniversary of the Kreipe kidnapping and the war in Crete. Thank you for all your work on the rage to date and your future work will be great
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🔙 It's #ThrowbackThursday ! 🗣️⚔️ Our random archives reveal Series 2 Episode 6 where @GoingMedieval rages against the age old myth that Dark Ages were dark because the people were dumb as rocks. Listen here: 🎧 #history #podcast #medieval #darkage
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I'm sorry but if I don't get to pillage Lindisfarne Abbey then is it really a Viking River Cruise as advertised?.
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AVAILABLE NOW TO PATREON SUBSCRIBERS:.@SpitfireFilly joins @PaulBavill and @KyleGHistory to discuss the myth that the Luftwaffe is clean. They have blood on their hands like the rest of the Nazis . Victoria tells us how. Available now as an early release .
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#OnThisDay 1942 - Anthony Brooks joins #SOE. He would win the DSO for derailing all trains from Marseille to Lyon at least once. This meant the 2nd SS Panzer could not reach Normandy. SOE Historian and Author @historical_kate talks the Men in SOE here:. 🎧
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COMING MONDAY!! Aviation Historian @SpitfireFilly joins @PaulBavill and @KyleGHistory to rage about the idea people have that the Luftwaffe is somehow clean and free of the atrocities associated with the rest of the Nazis. #sww #ww2 #podnation #history #ic
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#ONTHISDAY 1941 - The Kondomari massacre was the execution of male civilians by firing squad consisting of German paratroopers on 2 June 1941. We discussed this back in Series 2 when @SpitfireFilly came to rage that there is no clean Luftwaffe. 🎧 #ww2
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🚨☕MUG SALE☕🚨 . 40% OFF HISTORY RAGE MUGS WITH CODE ZAUGUSTDECOR . ⭐ YOUR FAVOURITE RAGE IN CROCKERY FORM⭐ . More #Medieval Mugs modelled by @DrFrancisYoung @jpwarchaeology @GoingMedieval @noddinggoth. Buy here ⭐. #merch #mugs #worldwar1
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📅#onthisday 12th August 2017 I made the best decision of my life when I married the delightful Lady Rage #otd #onthisdate
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#OnThisDay 1942 the Second Battle of El Alamein begins. Monty's finest hour. But was it his plan? Well no. and as @militaryhistori explained recently Monty's just not all he's cracked up to be. 🎧 #OnThisDate #OTD #onthisdayinhistory
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A HUGE THANK YOU to the legend that is @militaryhistori for returning to Rage Towers to deliver a second blistering rage about Montgomery and his godlike status in history. Justified? Well we shall see. Coming to #Patreon in May and General release in August. #WW2 #WorldWar #ic
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🚨THIS WEEK🚨.Author and historian @hoyer_kat is tired of #prussia getting the blame for any of Germany's ills. There's more to German Militarism than Prussia and more to Prussia than German militarism. 🎧 #history #worldwar2 #victorian #podcast
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The runaway rage train continues next weekend with a stream of special releases from @GlosHistFest We have Festival president @DrJaninaRamirez raging about the women written out of history . Recording Sunday, releasing Monday! .#GlosHistFest23
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🚨THIS WEEK🚨. Author and historian @hoyer_kat rages that all Germany blaming Prussia for enabling Nazism unfairly lets other German states off the hook. 🎧 #history #worldwar2 #victorian #podcast #germany #Prussia
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🗓️ #OnThisDay in 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, a key architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated💀. In our S7 episode, @RPBook argues the aftermath and the fate of Lidice deserve as much prominence as Oradour-sur-Glane. Listen now: #OTD #OnThisDate
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MONDAY ON GENERAL RELEASE! Author of Victory in the West @militaryhistori PETER CADDICK-ADAMS rages to @PaulBavill and @KyleGHistory that we think of the Third Reich as a tech powerhouse that is way more advanced than the allies and we shouldn't. #sww #ww2 #ic #podnation #history
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We're on a little post-@CVHISTORYFEST break this week but coming next week SERIES THREE!!!!.We'll be starting with @GreatWarGroup founders @churchill_alex and @bigandylock who join us to rant that the LIONS ARE NOT LED BY DONKEYS! and other Great War myths
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MUG SALE.Your favourite rages now as mugs for those moments you need to remind your guests of the facts. ☕ We now have 40% off. Quote NEWYEARIDEAS at checkout. Rages here from @militaryhistori @WW2TV @kirsteenMM and @ColdWarPod
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨. Author and historian @hoyer_kat is tired of #prussia getting the blame for any of Germany's ills. There's more to German Militarism than Prussia and more to Prussia than German militarism. 🎧 . #history #worldwar2 #victorian #podcast
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Well I didn't win. But I've still got all you ragers out there. Next year eh?
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#onthisday 1945 #VJDay marks the end of the war against the Japanese. A phenomenal contribution was made by Indian soldiers to defeat the Japanese. @robert_lyman tells their story in S3: DON#T OVERLOOK INDIA. 🎧 . #otd #ww2 #VJDay #WWII #history
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🚨 📣 ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 📣 .I am so thrilled to be able to announce that History Rage has been invited to attend and present at @I_W_M London for the first Podcast LIVE! Festival in October 2024. More details at the programme develops but I'll see you there.
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📆 #OnThisDay in 1452, Richard III was born! 👑 Known for his infamy surrounding the Princes in the Tower, historian @MattLewisAuthor 🏰 rages that there's no evidence a murder even happened! ⚔️ . 🎧 #OTD #OnThisDate #History #Podcast @rsociety_iii
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📣📣HUGE THANKS📣📣to @hoyer_kat tonight for joining us to deliver an epic rage that THE GDR IS NOT JUST STASILAND!!! We get to dig deeper into the complexity that was East Germany, it's pros and cons behind the propaganda. #coldwar #history #podcast #GDR #eastgermany
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BONUS #RAGEOFTHEDAY - Can we all just agree that a person who plants a shitload of gunpowder under any building with the express intent of killing an unknown number of people hasn't really gone in there with honest intentions?.Give it up already! .#HistoryRage
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RAGE AND CROCKERY.Your favourite rages now as mugs for those moments you need to remind your guests of the facts. We now have 20% off. Quote ZNEWYEAR2023 at checkout. Rages here from @SpitfireFilly @SilenceInPolish @DrFrancisYoung & @restorationcake . ☕
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Now I know the knitted D-Day display at Notre Dame is not everyone's cup of tea but I feel @Gliderpilot44 is going to like this bit. contributed by a friend of a friend
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Who wants @churchill_alex and @PikeGrey1418 on a livestream the month before this comes out?.
🚨 Cover reveal! 🚨. We're delighted to be publishing #RingOfFire by historians Alex Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst next May!. Pre-order their new global history of the outbreak of the First World War here: @churchill_alex @PikeGrey1418 @Iain_MacGregor1
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Another epic rage tonight as we welcomed the legend that is @militaryhistori to record our Season 2 closer. Coming to you in June with "The Third Reich was not a technological powerhouse". EPIC ANGER from one of our most mild mannered historians. Thank you Peter #ic #sww #ww2
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Who wants to hear @James1940 and @almurray do this as a returning History Rage?.
Overheard conversation at car boot: ‘Yeah, apparently it took four Shermans to knock out a Tiger.’ ‘Yeah. Did you see Fury? Based on a true story.’ SO tempted to wade in on that one…’ @WeHaveWaysPod.
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🚨NEXT WEEK🚨 Brace for controversy 🔍🏰 Join us as we welcome the formidable @MattLewisAuthor , Historian, #podcaster, and Chair of @rsociety_iii . As he rages on the fate of the Princes in the Tower—because, according to him, there's more to the story than meets the eye! 🎙️🔥
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#OnThisDay 1942 the Second Battle of El Alamein begins. Monty's finest hour. But was it his plan? Well no. and as @militaryhistori explained recently Monty's just not all he's cracked up to be. 🎧 #OnThisDate #OTD #onthisdayinhistory
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🚨 📣 NEXT WEEK ON PATREON🚨 📣 It's time for a man so angry he needs to come back again. We welcome back the legend that is @militaryhistori to rage against Field Marshal Montgomery. Join the Angry Mob today and get this early release ad free.💲
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Never in the field of social media have so many community notes appeared on so few tweets.
Time for a Churchill thread? Time for a Churchill thread. Let's do this. Why I think Churchill was a chief villain of World War 2. /0.
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🚨🚨TOMORROW 🚨🚨.We're going to get #medieval, and earlier as we welcome historian of belief @DrFrancisYoung who wants to rant that PAGANISM DIDN'T GO UNDERGROUND. That there aren't rebel #pagan symbols carved into churches and that the Green Man can just do one!
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#OnThisDay 25 Feb 1947 marks the official abolition of #Prussia .Author and historian @hoyer_kat joined us to rage that there is more to Prussia that German militarism, and more to German militarism than Prussia. 💰 #otd #History #WW1 #WWI #ww2 #wwii
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🎧 Don't miss our latest episode from the @GlosHistFest @DrJaninaRamirez dives into the rich history of women in mediaeval times and the transformative power of monastic life. #GloucesterHistoryFestival #WomenInHistory. 🎧 Listen now: #history #podcast
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🎈 🥂 🚩 MILESTONE🚩 🥂🎈.It's our HALF-CENTURY 🏏 this week as it's our 50th episode on general release. You know. we never thought we'd get the guests to get as far as 20. last week we booked guest 95. Thank you to everyone who got us this far. #podcast #milestone
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🚨 📣THIS WEEK🚨 📣We're going Tudor and Irish as @neilojim1972 rages that the Nine Years War in Ireland was not a guerrilla war that the Irish could never win. Tyrone was a different sort of opponent and he had a long game plan. 🎧
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and there it goes. we have hit 75,000 downloads!!!. I don't know what to say
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🚨OUT NOW!🚨.We are joined by osteologist @noddinggoth who rages that ' #medieval people were not short and dead at 30', and human beings do not fall into these convenient pigeon holes we give them. 🎧#History #medievaltwitter #podcast #victorian
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It's the day for it. don't make me tap the mug.@AnatomicalCat @DiggingUp1800 @DrLindseyFitz @surgeonshall @TeviotPlace #histmed #histsci
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AND OUR #1 MOST LISTENED TO RAGE IN #2022, a towering leviathan of Military History! in June we welcomed the legend that is @militaryhistori on board the rage train as he took to task the ridiculous idea that the Nazis were some sort of tech powerhouse. 🎧
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We continue our #TOP10 of #2022 and at #9 we welcomed the delightful, and somewhat calm @SpitfireFilly from early February and she came to get us all past the idea of the Clean Luftwaffe myth:. 🎧
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🚨 NEXT WEEK ON PATREON🚨.🚀 Dive into WWII aviation history with @LydiaJane13 ! Discover the untold story of the Halifax bomber and its crucial role in the war. Uncover the truth behind the 'Lancastrification' of WWII history. Don't miss out! #WWII #Aviation #History #Podcast
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🚨NEW EPISODE! 🚨 Step into the hidden world of East Germany and learn about life under the Cold War at @hoyer_kat rages that it’s not just Stasiland. 🌟 Don't miss this remarkable journey through history! 🎧🇩🇪 #coldwar #history.🎙️ Listen Now:
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For #ThrowbackThursday our random pick from the archives is Series 2 Episode 9 where @SilenceInPolish came to rage about the Polish contribution to #WW2 and that there is more to #Poland than the bear. It's quite the rant. 🎧 #ww2 #history #podcast
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An awesome night being a guest on another podcast tonight. A pleasure to join @GoingMedieval and @lukeisamazing on @wnsdpod to bang on about duelling. I do hope satisfaction was granted
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Another rager mug delivered. A pleasure to meet the excellent @SpitfireFilly and 'there is no clean Luftwaffe' @CVHISTORYFEST #amazinghistory #historyrage
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Who wants a bonus episode where @ZwhiteHistory rails on Ridley Scott's take on historical accuracy?. I'm thinking a release alongside his upcoming episode on Napoleon.
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🗓️ #OnThisDay in 1944, #SOE agent Krystyna Skarbeck parachuted into France, becoming a #WWII heroine. 🇫🇷🌟🇵🇱 Hear @claremulley share the story of this remarkable, often unsung agent in Series 2. 🎧 Listen now: .#otd #onthisdate #history #podcast
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Want to meet your History Ragers in person?.Tomorrow @PaulBavill and @KyleGHistory will be fighting pistol duels in Winchester City Museum. Why not come in and say hello?.#winchester #museumdate #History #
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🚨FOURTH SPECIAL🚨from @GlosHistFest OUT NOW! Festival president @DrJaninaRamirez rages about women who were written out of history. Women whose works were destroyed because they are 'Femina'. 🎧 #medievaltwitter #medieval #History #women #womenshistory
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I know it's only January but we plan ahead. 2023 Christmas Special - @bigandylock @churchill_alex - would you be willing to record a Christmas episode to bin off the Christmas football match?. Ragers - who'd like to hear that?
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