Hoots & Hoorays, it’s another historically informed maritime current events podcast inbound!... Or Bilgepumps as we three naval geeks call it – as an explanation, well pretty much imagine three naval historians having a chat while kayaking, but without the kayaks or the sinking, plus it’s done by skype and recorded...

So what is episode three about? Well the #Bilgepumps team are going topical, starting out with statues, then how we teach history before wandering into lessons from history… it’s a little less maritime than usual, but we felt the history side would out.

#Bilgepumps is a new series and new avenue, although it may no longer have the new car smell, in fact more of pineapple/irn bru smell – but we're getting the impression it's liked, so we’d very much like any comments, topic suggestions or ideas for artwork to be tweeted to us, the #Bilgepump Crew (with #Bilgepump) Alex @AC_NavalHistory, Drach @Drachinifel & Jamie @Armouredcarrier or comment on our youtube channels.