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We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

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The less-than-serious history podcast with stand up comedian Angela Barnes (The News Quiz, Mock The Week and Live at The Apollo) and writer John O'Farrell (An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, Things Can Only Get Better, Spitting Image). In each podcast our two history nerds discuss, explain and laugh at interesting and quirky episodes from the olden days, such as East German Nudism, Spy Pigeons or Vlad the Impaler. Angela and John’s in-depth knowledge of world history has been described as...

Notable Guests

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Episodes (113)

The 1960s - The advent of the permissive society

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The Painful History of Dentistry

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British Shops and Shopping Centres

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The Brighton Bomb – 1984

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The History of April Fool’s Day

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The Grand Tour

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The French Revolution

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The Story of Live Aid

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International Women’s Day

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The Glorious Revolution of 1688

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The Golden Age of Smuggling

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The Green Belt: Contentious countryside

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The Gunpowder Plot: He didn’t start the fire

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Oct 31, 202346:45pending

From Bits to Bots: A History of AI

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Oct 24, 20231:03:44pending

Nudity down the centuries

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The Zimmermann Telegram

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The Haitian Revolution - the slave rebellion that succeeded

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Oct 3, 202340:59pending

The Glamour Boys

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The Race for the Bomb

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Bonuscast: Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell answer your questions.

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The Legend of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass

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The Story of Nancy Wake: The Mouse that ran rings around the Nazis

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The 1904 St Louis Olympics: A Marathon Event

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St Patrick and the Patriarchy: Women’s rights in Ireland

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Saucy Seaside Postcards - A Celebration of Great British Smut

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Jun 27, 202355:02pending

Great Fire of London: Burning down the house

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Navajo Code Talkers – America's secret WWII weapon

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Albania: Communism, capitalism, chaos

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The 1968 US Presidential Election: Rotting from the head down

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Radium: A toxic love affair

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Christmas Number Ones

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Mussolini - the rubbish war leader

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The Domestication of Dogs

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The Birth of the BBC

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The Stasi Poetry Circle - the East Germans secret police advancing socialism thr...

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The Fascist Who Switched Sides and Spied on the British Far Right

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The 60s Satire Boom

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The slow death of John Major’s government 1992-97

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Oct 24, 202259:45pending

The Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp

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Mar 28, 20221:02:51pending

Agent Sonya

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Richard III and the Princes in the Tower

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Maud West, the unlikely private investigator

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Mar 5, 20221:12:54pending

Victorian Anti-vaxxers

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The Great Exhibition 1851

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The Scottish Witch Panic

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Bill Clinton & Monica Lewinsky

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The American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz, 1969-71

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MI9 - the secret agency helping British POWs

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Christopher Columbus, the man who didn't discover America

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The Rise of Fall of Robert Maxwell

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