Send us a text History isn’t just the tale of kings and queens, of armies and empires. It’s also the story of how we’ve suffered, how we’ve punished, and how far humanity has gone to make death a spectacle. In this Halloween special, The Hungry Historian ventures into the blackest corners of the past. To the places where execution was an art form, and pain was meant to echo. From the slow scrape of the blade to the crack of the rope, from ingenious devices of torment to punishments so ...
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Send us a text History isn’t just the tale of kings and queens, of armies and empires. It’s also the story of how we’ve suffered, how we’ve punished, and how far humanity has gone to make death a spectacle. In this Halloween special, The Hungry Historian ventures into the blackest corners of the past. To the places where execution was an art form, and pain was meant to echo. From the slow scrape of the blade to the crack of the rope, from ingenious devices of torment to punishments so ...
What Do We Have to Loos? - The Battle of Loos: 110 Years Later - General French Fries
The Hungry Historian
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What Do We Have to Loos? - The Battle of Loos: 110 Years Later - General French Fries
Send us a text "The men were simply mown down. They advanced in lines which seemed to melt away under the enemy’s fire." — British officer reflecting on the Battle of Loos In this episode join The Hungry Historian as he turns back to September 1915 and the bloody fields of northern France to examine the Battle of Loos. Often overshadowed today by the Somme and Passchendaele, Loos was nonetheless a watershed moment in Britain’s First World War experience. It marked the first large-...
The Hungry Historian
Send us a text History isn’t just the tale of kings and queens, of armies and empires. It’s also the story of how we’ve suffered, how we’ve punished, and how far humanity has gone to make death a spectacle. In this Halloween special, The Hungry Historian ventures into the blackest corners of the past. To the places where execution was an art form, and pain was meant to echo. From the slow scrape of the blade to the crack of the rope, from ingenious devices of torment to punishments so ...
