History Cafe

By Jon Rosebank, Penelope MiddelboeHistory

History Cafe episodes

November 12, 2023 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - Ep 2 Taster
Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - Ep 2 Taster by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
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3 min
November 12, 2023 #25 ‘Here lieth the Toad’ - Ep 2 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
We take a look at James I’s shadowy chief minister Robert Cecil who manages to implicate most of his Catholic enemies in the plot. Cecil was so desperate to improve King James’s dire view of him (his father had caused the execution of James’ mother, Mary Queen of Scots) he would stoop to anything.
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35 min
November 05, 2023 #24 ‘There is no state trial so totally devoid of reality’ - Ep 1 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot
BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - FOR 5 NOVEMBER! We look at the story the government published as The King’s Book, more than 500 witness statements and other contemporary sources and conclude, like the Victorian antiquarian Jardine who wrote up the trial from the State Papers, there is no reliable corroborating evidence for the gunpowder story we’ve been told.
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33 min
November 01, 2023 Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - Ep 1 Taster
Blowing up the Gunpowder Plot - Ep 1 Taster by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
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6 min
November 01, 2023 #06 London fires were visible from France - ep 6 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Who won the Battle of Britain? For good strategic reasons Churchill claimed victory. But the Germans, who saw the eight months of the Blitz as part of the same campaign, achieved much of what they intended.
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24 min
November 01, 2023 Battle of Britain - London Fires Were Visible From France - Ep 6 Taster Final
Battle of Britain - London Fires Were Visible From France - Ep 6 Taster Final by Jon Rosebank, Penelope Middelboe
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2 min
October 28, 2023 #05 Forcing Britain 'to her knees' - ep 5 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
The Battle of Britain was never as close as the popular story has it. The RAF was too well organised and supplied. But is that why the Luftwaffe switched to bombing London? Or was there another reason?
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26 min
October 24, 2023 Battle of Britain - Taster Ep 5 - Forcing Britain To Her Knees
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2 min
October 24, 2023 #04 More than a double bluff - ep 4 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Churchill talks up the threat of invasion, even though it looks impossible. ‘I might as well send my men straight into a sausage machine,’ writes the German Chief of Staff. But invasion preparations still go on. Who is bluffing who?
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32 min
October 22, 2023 #03 'Always carry pepper to throw in their eyes' - ep 3 of Who really won the Battle of Britain?
Britain is gripped by fear of invasion. Government leaflet 'If the Invader Comes' calls for pepper and ‘a sharp knife to kill them if necessary.’ Churchill goes on BBC and says ‘we await undismayed by the impending assault. Perhaps it will come tonight.’ So why in private is Churchill saying he doubts the invasion would ever take place?
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32 min

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True history storytelling at the History Café. Join BBC Historian Jon Rosebank & HBO, BBC & C4 script and series editor Penelope Middelboe as we give history a new take. Drop in to the History…