The Hipstorians

By Derek Mulligan

Two perhaps not so hip middle-aged amateur historians sharing their acquired knowledge and passion for all things past in their search to discover something new

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March 16, 2023 Rocket man Homer Hickam
Almost Octogenerian Homer Hickam takes us on the rocket ship that is his life. Homer is probably best known for the movie about his childhood ‘October Sky’ which starred a young Jake Gyllenhaal, and his book Rocket Boys. We discuss so many topics in addition to the obvious which literally left myself and Neil spinning and feeling like underachievers 😂
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1h 4min
March 15, 2023 Tim Brannigan, black Irish Socialist Republican
Black IRA man Tim Brannigan shares his incredible story of life on the Falls Road Belfast, his time in the Maze Prison, his Irishness, his being black in a white Catholic community and his views on the Queen's funeral. Tim is a great storyteller and this shines right through a very honest conversation.

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1h 18min
March 09, 2023 Airship down
In N-4 Down author Mark Piesing tells the unforgettable true story of what happened when the largest polar rescue mission in history was launched to find the survivors of the glamorous Arctic airship Italia, which crashed near the North Pole in 1928.

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48min
February 26, 2023 Sex cult survivor who escaped the Children of God
Daniella Mestyanek Young is an author, a TEDx Speaker, a sex-cult survivor, and US Army Combat Veteran who joined us on the HIpstorians tell us about her extraordinary life as captured in her book Uncultured. After being born into the Children of God which also counted the actors River and Joaquin Phoenix as members, Daniella escaped at just 15 before joining the US military where she was member of the Female Engagement Team participating in ground combat operations.
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59min
February 23, 2023 Delving into big history
Professor Michael Burleigh is a world-renowned historian whose massive books including The Racial State; Death and Deliverance; Germany Turns Eastwards; The Third Reich; Earthly Powers and Sacred Causes; Blood and Rage; and Moral Combat: A History of WW2 have been translated into 20 languages.

He won the 2001 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non Fiction, as well as three prizes for TV documentaries based on his work, notably a British Film Institute Award for Archival Achievement in 1991 for ‘Selling Murder’ and a NYTV Festival Award for ‘Heil Herbie’.

He took time out of his busy schedule to tell the Hipstorians about the writing life of an author whose acclaimed, award-winning histories explore many of the most challenging issues of our time much as euthanasia, genocide, terrorism, the nature of religion and globalisation.

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53min
February 20, 2023 The best (and worst!) conspiracies ever
We have great fun in this episode with Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) as we explore some of the wackiest conspiracy theories out there, which the lads have hilariously compiled in their brilliant book 'Conspiracy: A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them'
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58min
February 09, 2023 The Nazi billionaries
David de Jong's groundbreaking investigation into how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions off the horrors of the Third Reich and World War II
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32min
February 09, 2023 Former SAS man and Falklands veteran
Nigel ‘Spud’ Ely’s soldiering career in the Parachute Regiment, the SAS, as a Military Consultant and as a war photojournalist has taken him in to some of the most deadly, high-octane, violent battles of the modern era, from Northern Ireland, the Falklands, to Africa, Afghanistan and Iraq. He was arrested by British Police and threatened with a seven stretch for stealing a large piece of Saddam Hussein’s bronze left buttock.
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1h 3min
January 26, 2023 The Falklands War - The unknown story
Best-selling military historian and author Ricky D Phillips tells us the inside story of the Falklands War, revealing what he has discovered through research into books like The First Casualty: The Untold Story of the Falklands War and the 2021 follow-up Last Letters from Stanley. There is also The Falklands Invasion: A Pictorial History and Tied With Wires: The Incredible Argentine Inventions & Weapons of the Falklands War which lifts the lid on previously unknown facts about the batttle
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1h 2min
January 19, 2023 Voices from the Irish Civil War
Described by one commentator as the “unspeakable war" and “a story that nobody dared to tell," the tragic Irish Civil War of 1922-1923 has often been considered one of the darkest periods of the country's history. Much of that story has never been told before..until now with the publication of ground-breaking books such as Síobhra Aiken's 'Spiritual Wounds: Trauma, Testimony and the Irish Civil War.' In this episode of The Hipstorians the Irish historian and author tells us how she uncovered the voices of those who were there and the moving story of what they endured.
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41min

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