Are Science and Religion perhaps the oldest of rivals? Reason vs faith. Scripture vs hypothesise. Maybe, or maybe it’s just the power-hungry people who live their life by one or the other who perpetuate this eternal rivalry.

This week’s episode follows a man who epitomises this rivalry. A man of science whose flagrant disregard for ecclesiastical teachings brought down upon him the wrath of the Catholic Church. So was he a hero or a heretic? We’ll let you decide…

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Icelanders are a people forged in the fires of volcanoes and tempered in the frosts of glaciers. They are the descendants of Vikings who found the freezing winters of Norway too gentle. And they are masters of a land and sea which the gods themselves think twice about before entering.

So when a foreign power dares to lay claim to the treasures of Iceland, you can be damn sure these hardy folk will fight tooth and nail to defend their island. This is the tale of one of the most important wars on the 20th Century, if not all of human history…

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Long before the rise of his brother Adolf Hitler to Fuhrer of the Third Reich, Alois Hitler left his home in Austria and landed on the Emerald Isle to start a new life. Tune in to find out what happened in this odd twist of history.

The glorious revolution is a tale that almost every country in world considers part of its history, in one form or another. An underdog tale of dashing revolutionaries taking on insurmountable odds in the name of freedom, liberty and justice. And while tragedy may befall them for a time, all these tales end in the toppling of statues and the triumphant horns of victory.

Sadly, this sort of tale is a rarity . Our history is littered with failed coups and crushed revolts. And this is one such failed revolution.

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Hello hello everyone! We are so happy that we have finally got a new episode to give to you after a long pause! Here Patrick and Will chat with fellow podcasters Patrick Little and Jamie Graham (from A Little History Podcast and Jammy History Podcast respectively) about the magnicently awful masterpiece Gods of Egypt (2016) - so sit back and listen to us trash this terrible movie!

Will and Patrick had the great honour of being asked to make an episode for the History of England Podcast and this was the result!

1307, Westminster. King Edward I has moved his court to York whilst he wages war on the Scots. Westminster is almost empty of people, however, a small gang of lowly functionaries are drinking in the pub one night and decide to steal from the king.

This story is remarkable in both its improbable success and the amount of wealth we are talking about - approximately £1 trillion!

Listen in to find out the details of medieval London's answer to Ocean's 11.

War is a time when heroes and villains are born from the crucible of battle. Or at least that’s what the legends and tales that sprout forth from a war-torn people would tell us. But how do you separate the true history from the poetry? In this final episode of the Cloak and Dagger Battles miniseries, we attempt just that as we journey to ancient China and hear a tale from the legendary saga of the Three Kingdoms…

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Check out this bonus episode where we join our friends from A Little History Podcast and The Jammy History Podcast to review to fantastically unique 2011 film Immortals.

War is a time where ingenuity can win the day, even in some unusual circumstances. As it is in martial arts, one sure path to victory on the battlefield can be taking your opponent's strength and turning it against them. And on a sunbaked day in western Africa in the 16th century, that lesson would be learned the hard way by one of the continent's mightiest empires.

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War is a time when soldiers fight and die for reasons bigger than themselves. For a soldier, the world collapses down to the comrades at their side, the gun in their hand, and the enemy over the hill. But what happens when the reasons for war are so far removed from a soldier, that they cease to matter? What happens when a soldier's immediate reality becomes more important than the lofty ideals they were enlisted to fight for?

In the second episode of the Cloak and Dagger Podcast: Battles, we hear the tale of a band of soldiers who chose to walk their own path, and fight for what was right during some of our darkest days.

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