This week we're staying with the Great War but coming to to dry land, or at least very wet and muddy land. But is it? This week we welcome Historian and Battlefield Guide Dan Hill who wants to rage that TRENCH LIFE IS NOT 4 YEARS OF MUD AND LICE.

We'll be discussing the realities of trench rotation, how long someone spends on the front line, the odds of taking part in a 'Big Push' and how officers are not there to throw their soldiers' lives away to move their drinks cabinet closer to Berlin.

You can follow Dan's work in the battlefields at his website www.danhillmilitaryhistorian.com or www.battleguide.co.uk and you can, of course, follow him on Twitter @danhillhistory 

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This week we're taking to the high seas and departing from the endless misery of the trenches for the endless misery of the WW1 Navy as we are joined by Historian and Podcaster Chris Sams to rage that THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND IS JUST NOT THAT IMPORTANT.

We'll be talking the threat of the German Navy, the losses, the point of it all and approaching that sticky question of who really won?

You can check out more of Chris's work on the excellent History Hack Podcast and can follow him on Twitter @jerijerod14 

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This week we continue to defy one of our previous ragers by banging on about the Tudors as we welcome Historian and Author of "God's Traitors" and "The Siege of Loyalty House" Jessie Childs - and Jessie wants to rage about Good Queen Bess, or more appropriately that ELIZABETH I WAS NOT A TOLERANT QUEEN.

We'll be talking royal paranoia, control orders and the widest use of torture for interrogation by any English or British monarch in history. 

You can buy Jessie's latest book "The Siege of Loyalty House" right here at the History Rage Bookshop and can follow her on Twitter @childs_jessie 

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This week we welcome author, actor, producer, 18th Century enthusiast and long friend of History Rage Chaz Mena. Chaz wants to rage about the Boston Massacre on the Boston Tea Party because these are not what they are cracked up to be.

We'll be talking how the position eight British soldiers found themselves in was used to bolster the independence cry, how they were defended by Americans, and how the Boston Tea Party was a lot less of a protest against Britain than you might think.

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This week we are joined, from sunny Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and the Mary Rose Museum, by Curator Hannah Matthews and Marine Archaeologist Alex Hildred who was one of the divers working on the raising of the Mary Rose. This week's rage is that THE MARY ROSE DID NOT SINK ON HER MAIDEN VOYAGE!

We talk about her career and the many attempts to raise the wreck dating all the way back to Tudor times. We talk about what the wreck can tell us about Tudor people, and ask the question is Henry VIII really that bad?

You can visit the Mary Rose Museum website here, and you can follow the Museum on Twitter @MaryRoseMuseum

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We are joined this week by Military Historian and Secretary of the Royal Engineers Historical Society, Sean Scullion. Sean wants to rage that not all of Spain was neutral in World War 2.

We talk about how the Republicans fled to France and then started to continue the fight. How many joined the Maquis and organised resistance and how more came to be part of the British Army to continue the fight.

You can follow Sean on Twitter at @sean_f_scullion 

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This week we welcome author and military historian Russell Philips who wants to make the case that remembrance needs to look at smaller battles and atrocities as well, because the dead of those are just as dead as those of D-Day.

We'll be talking about the complete erasure of the town of Lidice after the Heydrich assassination and also the curious campaign to take Madagascar.

You can buy "A Strange Campaign: The Battle for Madagascar" at the History Rage Bookshop and you can follow Russell on Twitter at @RPBook 

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This week we are joined by Norfolk Historian and researcher from University of East Anglia, Dr. Danny Buck who wants to get a few things off his chest like 'WE DON'T BURN WITCHES AND THEY'RE NOT ALL OLD HERBALISTS'.

We'll be talking about ducking and water trials, the background to witch panics, 17th Century attitudes to religion and community, and bizarrely, Herring Pirates.

You can follow Danny on Twitter @DannyBuckUEA 

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This week we welcome author and Head of Non Fiction for Head of Zeus Books, Iain MacGregor and Iain wants to rage about Stalingrad. How the Battle just should never have happened in the first place, it was completely unnecessary and how Paulus has been scapegoated for the surrender when he was just the wrong guy.

We talk about the myth of Pavlov's House, the propaganda war and just how do you manage to find the truth of a story when your sources are the Third Reich and Stalin's Russia.

You can pre-order Iain's book "The Lighthouse of Stalingrad" at the History Rage Bookshop and you can follow him on Twitter @Iain_MacGregor1 

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This week welcome US Army Historian Dr. Grant Harward to open Series 7 and he wants to rage that ROMANIAN OFFICERS IN WORLD WAR 1 ARE NOT MAKE UP WEARING FOPS! How niche is that?

We’ll be taking about how the myth of a decadent Romania is capitalised on by Germany in both world War 1 and World War 2. How Romanian actually fought in the Great War and how they changed both as a country and a military.

If you’d like to know more then you can start with Grant’s excellent book on Romania in WW2 here and you can follow him on Twitter @GHarward

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