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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January 12, 2023 On drugs and music
And now, for something a little bit different as we talk to Harry Shapiro, author and journalist who has been working in the UK drugs charity sector and as a music biographer. His books include, Recreational Drugs: A Directory, Waiting for the Man: the Story of Drugs and Popular Music and Shooting Stars: Drugs, Hollywood and the Movies. His history of the UK drug scene Fierce Chemistry was published in 2021 and he is the author of biographies on Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Alexis Korner, Graham Bond and Gary Moore. His latest work in progress is a biography of the Louisiana blues guitarist John Campbell
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54min
January 05, 2023 The battle for Syria
Christopher Phillips tells us the background story about how the United States and other nations have played a part in Syria’s ongoing civil war. Although the war-torn country's brutal, long-lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 Christopher reveals how the US, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar were involved right from the start.

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51min
December 29, 2022 The CIA spy turned stay-at-home-mom
Former CIA agent Christina Hillsburgh lets us in on the secret world of spycraft and the techniques and skills she learned to teach parents how to raise resourceful, self-sufficient children that she shares in her insightful book, License to Parent
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33min
December 22, 2022 Area 51, aliens and nuclear war
American investigative journalist, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times best-selling author, Annie Jacobsen, will keep you up at night wondering about the secrets she has unearthed in works like 'Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base'; 'Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America'; 'The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency' and
'First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance'

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56min
December 15, 2022 Travelling through Muslim Europe
In his enlightening new book Minarets in the Mountains, Tharik Hussain brings to life the rarely told story of Muslim Europe, and the 600-year-old Ottoman Muslim heritage and culture of the Balkans
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46min
December 08, 2022 First to fight Hitler!
Poland was the first country to face the full onslaught of the murderous force of the Nazis at the start of World War Two. By the end of the war, one in five of its people had perished. Roger Moorehouse tells us about an often overlooked, but crucial conflict at the outbreak of the worst conflagration that would envelop the world, and how the consequences of those dark days in September 1939 still affect Europe today.
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41min
December 01, 2022 A true historical detective story set in the 16th Century
Edward Wilson-Lee's 'A History of Water' is a true historical detective story set in sixteenth-century Portugal. We follow two men - one a collector, historian and expert on water-music who ends up dying a grisly death - the other a ruffian, vagabond and braggart who ends up as the country's national poet

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39min
November 24, 2022 The monk who lit up the Dark Ages
Author Seb Falk brings us on a fascinating journey back to the so-called Dark Ages to meet our guide, an enlightened 14th-century English monk, who was also a pathbreaking astronomer, in his book The Light Ages.
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40min
November 17, 2022 The Irish SAS legend
Soldier, rugby star, lawyer, amateur boxer and founding member of the Special Air Service (SAS), Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blair 'Paddy' Mayne became one of the British Army's most highly decorated soldiers and was controversially denied the VC. He was also a rogue, a troubled young man and would die at just 40 years of age in a car crash after surviving numerous dangerous missions throughout the Second World War. His story is brilliantly told in author Damien Lewis’ latest book: ‘SAS Brothers In Arms' which describes how these ‘rough diamonds’ answered Churchill’s call for volunteers to go deep behind enemy lines in North Africa.
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52min
November 15, 2022 Coming of age in Northern Ireland's year of Chaos
As a cub reporter Malachi O Doherty cut his teeth covering one of the worst years of the so-called Troubles. He was just 21-years-of-age, as the conflict escalated in 1972, but would go on to become one of the most prolific authors on Northern Ireland. Here, he tells us about the Tartan Gangs, dodging British Army 'Duck Squads' and dancing with Protestant girls before Northern Ireland descended into chaos.
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48min

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The podcast currently has 59 episodes available.