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Two guys with a passion for all things history
Update frequency:
every 22 days
Average audio length:
9 minutes
English
United States
25 episodes
since Oct. 8, 2024
episodic
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What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War until 1916?
In this special Textbook Dummies episode, Neil and Callum explore one of the biggest alternative-history questions of the twentieth century. What would have happened if Britain had remained neutral when war broke out in 1914, only en…
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In this episode of Textbook Dummies, Neil and Callum explore one of the most brutal years of the First World War.
1916 began with Germany launching a massive assault on the French fortress city of Verdun in an attempt to "bleed France white." The resulting battle would become one of the l…
While millions of soldiers fought in the trenches, another battle was being fought far from the front lines.
In this episode of Textbook Dummies, Neil and Callum explore life on the Home Front during the First World War. Discover how ordinary people in Britain, Germany, France, and beyond coped wit…
World War One is often called the first modern war, and in this episode of Textbook Dummies, Neil and Callum explore the inventions and innovations that changed warfare forever.
From the devastating power of the machine gun and heavy artillery to the terrifying arrival of poison gas, tanks, submari…
World War One – Part 3: 1915 – Stalemate, Gas, and a Global War
In Part Three of our World War One series, we move into 1915 — the year the war stopped being a war of movement and became a brutal, grinding stalemate.
With trench lines stretching from the North Sea to Switzerland, soldiers on the We…
In Part 2 of our First World War series, we dive into the opening year of the conflict — 1914. After the long-term causes set the stage and an assassination lit the fuse in Part 1, this episode follows how Europe’s great powers mobilised for war, how armies clashed in the first battles, and how th…
This is the first episode in a multipart series on the First World War.
Over the next few episodes, we’ll be following the war from its origins, through the fighting itself, and finally to its world-changing consequences.
But before the trenches, before the battles, and before the millions of casua…
In August of 1976, a single act of violence in the Korean Demilitarized Zone pushed the Cold War to the brink.
Two American officers were killed—not in battle, but while trimming a tree.
What followed was one of the most extraordinary shows of force in modern military history. No shots fired. No wa…
In this episode, we dive into one of the most complex, brutal, and transformative struggles of the 20th century: the Algerian War of Independence (1954–1962). What began as a colonial uprising quickly turned into a full-scale war that reshaped France, liberated Algeria, and changed global politics …
In 1605 a small group of conspirators tried to blow up the English Parliament and change the course of history. Neil and Callum tell the story — from the plot’s desperate origins and the men behind it, to the plan, the discovery, and the surprising political fallout.
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