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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November 15, 2022 Growing up during Belfast Days as a teenage girl
Journalist and author Eimear O Callaghan was just 16-years-of-age when she kept a diary over the course of one year - 1972 - while growing up in Belfast. In this heart-rending and emotional interview Eimear tells us how the discovery of the long-lost diary led to the publication of the best-selling 'Belfast Days' a unique and touching account of the daily life of an ordinary teenager coming of age during one of the worst years of the Troubles.
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November 10, 2022 Alexander the Great sex god
In this episode Tristan Hughes, producer and presenter at History Hit, host of The Ancients history podcast, and author of Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years 323 - 320 brings us back more than 2,000 years to the time of swords and sandals to reveal the untold story of one of history's biggest hitters..
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55min
November 03, 2022 Saving the world from cybercrime
Pulitzer Prize-winner Dan Golden joins us from Boston, Massachusetts to tell us all about the real-life technological thriller he has written with Renee Dudley about a band of eccentric misfits who are taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time by hacking the hackers
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43min
October 27, 2022 Taking down the Islamic State
In ‘The Spymaster of Baghdad’ Pulitzer Prize-finalist Margaret Coker tells the gripping story of the spymaster and two of his agents, the Sudani brothers - one undercover in ISIS for 16 long months, the other his handler - and the disillusioned scientist who turns bomb-maker, threatening the lives of thousands.

After slowly gaining the trust of the characters on all sides, reveals a story of unlikely heroes, unbelievable courage and good old-fashioned spycraft.

A military brat, Ms. Coker grew up around the United States, but considers Georgia home, where she joined us for this episode of The Hipstorians

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44min
October 20, 2022 To battle! From the Normans to the Taliban
From the Normans to the Taliban, Graeme Callister and Rachael Whitbread take us on a wide-ranging tour back through history of some of the world's most iconic battlefields they researched for their fascinating new book, 'Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand'

The Norman Conquest, the Hundred Years War, the Wars of Religion, the Napoleonic Wars and the world wars..we cover a lot of ground in this episode of The Hipstorians..Wellington had the opportunity to blast Napoleon from the back of his horse on the morning of the great Battle of Waterloo..Why didn't he? Find out here in this chat where we also talk about the critical factors that determine the outcome of battles, leadership, terrain, weapons and supplies over more than one thousand years of history..
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58min
October 13, 2022 Former US Navy SEAL tells the real story behind the Osama Bin Laden raid
Since Chuck will be returning to The Hipstorians we thought it might be right to reintroduce him, here he is former US Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer. He takes us on a whirlwind ride from the taking down of Osama Bin Laden (the real story!!) to American myths and his present work mapping the battlefields in Ukraine.

As an award-winning author we also discuss his books, notably his best-selling autobiography, Warrior Soul, The Memoir of a Navy SEAL, and SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden, as well as The Man Without a Country, his new novel. Oh, and his Irish roots!
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53min
October 05, 2022 The real-life Indiana Jones who discovered a new species of modern human in an ancient cave
Professor at the University of Vienna, Tom is into dating (of the ancient variety), archaeological sites, bones, and Neanderthals. Author of 'The World Before Us' he tells the Hipstorians about his fascinating work and how some archeologists 'dig' (excuse the pun!) being viewed as Indiana Jones-like adventurers.

From making historically significant discoveries during his early university studies, Tom went on to work at the Denisova Cave in Siberia, the first place a new species of humans was found – Denisovans
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36min
September 30, 2022 The young diplomat who once met Robert Mugabe, the "brilliant and angry" dictator
Arthur Snell joined the Foreign Office straight out of university and at 23-years-of-age, endured a 'baptism of fire' when he was sent to Zimbabwe as his first posting.

During a turbulent time in that country's troubled past he tells The Hipstorians how he once found himself in the same room as the violent dictator Robert Mugabe.

A fluent Arabic speaker, he would also later serve in Afghanistan, Nigeria, Yemen, the Balkans and Iraq.

The author of 'How Britain Broke the World' he is now a geopolitical consultant and host of the hit podcast Doomsday Watch.

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43min
September 30, 2022 From South Armagh's 'Bandit Country' to the Battle for Fallujah
In this, our first-ever broadcast for The Hipstorians, we talk to the fearless, award-winning reporter Toby Harnden about his adventures over a 25-year career in journalism.

Thrown into the deep end when he found himself in South Armagh's 'Bandit Country' in the mid-1990s, Toby then went on to cover the ferocious Battle for Fallujah before settling in Virginia where he wrote his latest book 'First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11'

If journalism really is the first draft of history, then Toby has been there to document some of its biggest recent chapters.
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52min

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