History bad accents, with @Holland_Tom & @DCSandbrook. From @GoalhangerPods
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This Friday, we have an exclusive interview with a very special guest.
Introducing...
Tom Holland talks to Paul McCartney
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📣NEW EPISODE
🏴GOD SAVE THE KING🏴
As Thomas Tuchel's men embark on a patriotic adventure, Tom and Dominic recount the story of the song they will (hopefully) be singing many times over the next few weeks...
🤔Why did over 30 countries steal it?
🎵Why did Bach and Beethoven write arrangements of it?
🗡️Was it originally a Jacobin song?
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As today is the first day of the World Cup, @dcsandbrook crowns an unlikely player as the greatest of all time...
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📣NEW BONUS EPISODE
👑ISABELLA OF FRANCE: THE FIRST FEMME FATALE
EXCLUSIVELY for Club members!
🎙️Tom and Helen Castor discuss an incredible life:
🏴Isabella marries England’s most useless king and immediately realises she’s in a prestige drama.
🤩Edward II gives all the money, jewels, land, and emotional availability to his favourites.
🇫🇷Isabella goes to France on a diplomatic mission and accidentally invents divorce-by-invasion.
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📣NEW EPISODE
🔫SLAUGHTER AT GALLIPOLI🔫
Tom and Dominic discuss:
🤔Churchill coming up with a plan so mad even Churchill once said it was impossible…
🗡️Rupert Brooke setting off to reenact Troy and is immediately defeated by a mosquito…
🇦🇺And Australians discover that Gallipoli is a considerably worse beach holiday than advertised.
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📣NEW EPISODE📣
⚔️The First World War: The Spy Who Took on the Germans⚔️
Tom and Dominic discuss:
🇧🇪 Just how badly did the Germans behave in Belgium?
🧢 Is the sight of a peaked Prussian helmet scary or reassuring?
🧑⚕️Was Edith Cavell a British spy or an innocent victim of war?
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📣NEW BONUS EPISODE
Our series on THE WOMEN WHO RULED ENGLAND continues...
Today: Eleanor of Aquitaine
Tom and Helen Castor discuss:
⚔️ Eleanor’s disastrous marriage to Louis VII
🔥 Her fiery partnership with Henry II
👑 Richard the Lionheart, King John, and the ultimate Plantagenet family meltdown
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NEW EPISODE
🇮🇹The First World War: Italy's Doomed Campaign🇮🇹
Tom and Dominic discuss:
🤔Why was Italy so useless?
😱Was it tricked into fighting in the first place?
🚽The worst thing about fighting on the Italian Front
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When the British accidentally unleashed poison gas on their own lines
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What is 'trench fever' and why did every famous novelist seem to get it?
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📣NEW SERIES
🔫THE FIRST WORLD WAR: BLOOD IN THE TRENCHES🔫
Tom and Dominic discuss:
🍞The man who responded to an poison-gas attack by calling for a pot of marmalade
😳When the British accidentally gassed their own troops
🥳Why lots of people actually loved the trenches
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This Friday, we have an exclusive interview with a very special guest.
Introducing...
Tom Holland talks to Paul McCartney
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The full interview is available now: youtu.be/kSp9K058Tbk
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