22 episodes
Historyzine: The History Podcast Jim Mowatt
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4.4 • 31 Ratings
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History magazine show currently focusing upon the 1918 flu pandemic (also known as Spanish Flu) which, it is estimated, infected almost a third of the world's population. I aim here, to take you on a journey where we investigate what it was like to live in these times; what the governments did to try and control this virus and how people coped with the pain and suffering.
Older episodes of Historyzine (goodness, 10 years ago now) have visited the topic of The War of the Spanish Succession.
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The Spanish Flu Timeline
In The first episode of those series we did an introduction. In the second we tried to make an emotional connection with the pain and suffering caused by the Spanish Flu. In this episode we seek to construct a timeline … Continue reading →
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The Spanish Flu – A Grisly Death Indeed
For this episode of the podcast I wanted to try and get a feel for the actual experience of suffering the disease. I wanted to know what Spanish Flu was like on a personal level. To accomplish this I needed … Continue reading →
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Historyzine – The Spanish Flu Series – Episode 01 – The 1918 Pandemic
History is a series of recurrences. Over and over again we see much that is similar. While history doesn’t exactly repeat itself, it does often rhyme (wish I’d have said that but it was actually Mark Twain). We are currently … Continue reading →
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Historyzine 019: The Battle of Oudenarde
Historyzine’s retelling of The War of the Spanish Succession now reaches the year 1708 and the Battle of Oudenarde. The Duke of Burgundy and the Marshall Vendome make initial gains in the Spanish Netherlands moving swiftly to take control of … Continue reading →
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Historyzine 018: 1707
Historyzine now moves into the year 1707 in the saga of the War of the Spanish Succession. This year the allies are looking to attack Toulon and hopefully make more gains in the Spanish Netherlands. The Duke of Marlborough has … Continue reading →
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Historyzine 017: The Aftermath of Ramillies
Historyzine 17 features 1706 and the Aftermath of Battle of Ramilies as well as the relief of Turin in our War of the Spanish Succession section. In the linguistic history trivia bit we’ll be looking at a couple of printing … Continue reading →
Customer Reviews
A great listen
This is now the 3rd time I've listened to this podcast. This is the only podcast Ive listened to more than once.
Really Interesting Format
Jim is someone who is obviously very into his topic, and history in general, and it comes through in his show. The earlier sections dealing with historical trivia and reviews are really great, and really bring something to the format. It's a bit of a shame to see there's been no podcasts here for a while - hope all is well and Jim will soon be back at work turning them out! I especially like the reviews section in fact, this shows someone who is confident enough about their own work to know they can talk about how good other podcasts are without losing their audience to them. On the whole an excellent podcast that I would be prepared to reccomend to any history buff.
Not for me. Sorry.
Personally, I found this podcast very unfocussed and not particularly interesting. The war lasted from 1701 - 1714 and yet the final episode covers the battle of Oudenarde in mid July 1708. Did nothing really happen thereafter? I'm not so sure.
The other podcast reviews I felt did not add anything and the choices of music were irrelevant and off-putting.
Can't hold a candle to the excellent History of Rome podcast by Mike Duncan who covers his subject in a much more engaging way. Can't wait to start listening to his next project "Revolutions"