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Single Malt History with Gareth Russell

Gareth Russell

Historian Gareth Russell"s podcast with demented and delightful stories from the past

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00:28:51

A World Transformed: How slavery in the Americas...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/08/02

Our interview with Professor James Walvin, author of the new book A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power. Professor Walvin discusses working on the history of enslavement over the past four decades and his most recent work, in which he explores how the brutal enforced transportation and labour of millions of Africans continues to have significant consequences today. Slavery shaped many of the dominant features of Western taste: items and habits or rare and

00:26:12

Anna of Denmark's Jeweller

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/07/28

Jean Findlay, author of the new novel "The Queen's Lender," stops by Single Malt History to discuss what drew her to the dramatic world of 16th-century Scotland and its artistic Danish queen.

00:39:43

Murder on the Orient Express

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/07/26

The brutal real-life history that inspired Agatha Christie's iconic 1934 detective novel. WARNING: Contains discussions of home invasion, suicide, and pregnancy loss, which some listeners may find distressing.

00:21:05

Hearstopping history and the world of Elizabethan spies

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/07/05

Dr Tim Ashby joins us today to discuss the thrilling life of Elizabethan spy, and fellow Ashby, William. And I catch-up on the books I've been reading, including Heartstopper by Alice Oseman (why I love the TV adaptation), Elizabeth Fremantle's The Poison Bed, and Jane Ridley's biography of King George V. An eclectic bag today!

01:40:15

The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/06/28

Franz Ferdinand's death is one of the most famous in history. But who was this man killed on 28th June 1914 by 'the shot heard round the world'? And how did it lead to the First World War? WARNING: This episode contains discussions of suicide which some listeners may find distressing.

00:39:55

New season, last Viking, and a Norwegian king

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/06/21

Single Malt History is back with a trip to the 11th century in the company of Don Hollway, author of THE LAST VIKING.

00:20:53

Secrets hidden in Anne Boleyn's prayer book

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/03/25

I am joined by my friend Kate McCaffrey to discuss her genuinely astonishing research into the sixteenth-century network whose secrets she discovered hidden in Anne Boleyn’s Books of Hours.

00:45:25

The Windsors' secret mission to save the Hapsburgs:...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/03/17

Why did the House of Windsor refuse to save the Romanovs? And why, in 1919, did the British royals then launch a secret mission, headed by a dashing spy, to save the Emperor of Austria? This episode is about a thrilling story from secret meetings at Buckingham Palace through war-torn Austria to a small hunting lodge where a fallen emperor lay trapped with his wife and children. Featuring: Rebecca Lenaghan (Empress Zita), Paul Storrs (Lt.-Col. Edward Lisle Strutt)

00:25:06

How the Titanic featured in Nazi propaganda

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/02/11

In the 1940s, the Nazis were producing a series of anti-British and anti-American costume dramas, when a high-ranking Nazi's attention settled on the 'Titanic' disaster. In this episode, I discuss what happened and read an exclusive of my author's note to "The Ship of Dreams," my book about the 'Titanic,' which was not included in the audio version. (Authors' notes usually aren't!) Why did I write the book and what is it about that night in 1912 that has kept both moral heroes and moral monsters

01:16:34

Bestselling author Deanna Raybourn talks history,...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2022/01/26

It’s not often you find out that you’re related to your guest, but that’s what happened in the new episode when I was joined by award-winning New York Times bestselling author, Deanna Raybourn, author of the Veronica Speedwell and Lady Julia Grey mysteries. We talk about how Anne Boleyn helped inspire her love of history, our love for Murder on the Orient Express and Suzannah Lipscomb’s podcast, Catherine de Medici and Marie-Antoinette, what we can learn from the Victorians, the ways in which

00:39:15

Meet the Georgians

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/12/16

I’m joined by Robert Peal to discuss two Irish Protestant aristocratic women who fell in love, a survivor of slavery who became a bestselling author, sultans and Stuart princes, a radical who befriended King George III, the ‘pirate queens of the Caribbean,’ and many more, who feature in Rob’s debut book, “Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century”.

00:41:32

Piers Gaveston and Edward II

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/12/07

The tumultuous life of a handsome Gascon knight who became the lover of England's king, Edward II. How did he become Lord Lieutenant of Ireland? What happened that terrible night at Warwick Castle? How did the consequences of their love affair shape politics for a decade? And what happened to Edward II when he suddenly disappeared in 1327?

00:23:14

Dr. Elizabeth Norton on Anne of Cleves, Thomas...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/12/03

I am joined in today's episode by Dr. Elizabeth Norton, who chats about her biography of Henry VIII's fourth wife Anne of Cleves, England's first crowned queen Elfrida, and her research into the controversy between Thomas Seymour and the future Elizabeth I.

00:57:23

The Schemes and Dreams of Lord Londonderry

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/12/01

At the start of the 1920s, a firmly right-wing aristocrat became embroiled in the political chaos surrounding Irish independence, alongside the maintenance of the British state in Northern Ireland. How, and why, did the ultra-conservative Lord Londonderry decide to try a truly radical plan to save the new state's working-class children from inheriting the sectarian bitterness of previous generations? In this episode I talk about the Londonderry dynasty's role as they witnessed the Home Rule

00:34:02

The Boleyns of Hever Castle

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/11/24

I’m joined by Dr. Owen Emmerson (from TV’s “The Boleyns”, “Who Do You Think You Are?”) and Claire Ridgway (“On This Day in Tudor History”, The Anne Boleyn Files) to discuss their new book “The Boleyns of Hever Castle,” exploring the private lives of an aristocratic dynasty and what everyday life was like in a manor house at the dawn of the Tudor era.

00:38:36

Olaudah Equiano: Aristocrat, Abolitionist, and...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/11/12

Olaudah Equiano's life took him from a blissful childhood in the African kingdom of Benin to the slave auctions of Barbados. He endured life on a tobacco plantations in Virginia, fought battles off the coast of Portugal, he sailed to the Arctic, met Queen Charlotte in Georgian London, and addressed anti-slavery conventions in Belfast.

00:53:08

Eustace Chapuys: Sixteenth-century Savant and Spy

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/11/01

I am joined by friend of the show, Dr Lauren Mackay, to discuss Eustace Chapuys, whose fascinating life took him from studying near the Holy Shroud of Turin to the heart of the Habsburg and Tudor courts on the eve of the Reformation. He wrote in cyphers, spied for an emperor, and stood witness to rebellions, miscarriages of justice, and diplomatic scandals. Did this erudite clergyman really become Anne Boleyn's mortal enemy, as has been claimed? And how did he become a confidant of Emperor Charles V

01:31:25

Mary I, Katherine Parr, and Royal Mistresses

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/10/20

Dr. Linda Porter discusses her acclaimed biographies of Tudor queens - Mary I and Katherine Parr - as well as her recent bestseller “Mistresses,” on the scandals, politics, adultery, tragedy, and glamour at Charles II’s court.

00:44:02

Marie-Antoinette's Execution

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/10/17

On 16th October 1793, "the most hated woman in France" was publicly beheaded. How had the former queen fallen from life at Versailles to death before a crowd of thousands? From her controversial trial to her last letter and final journey, Marie-Antoinette's execution became a cultural Rubicon. Seen by some as a moment of revolutionary justice and by others as a warning about the dangers posed by political extremism, the execution also helped solidify the growing ideology of western European

00:44:31

The Real Sansa Stark?

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/10/14

Single Malt History is back for its second season with an episode about Isobel of Gloucester, the queen England never had. Isobel's life is a window into misogyny, monarchy, terrible betrayal, kidnapping, and courage at the heart of the Middle Ages. She was the first, forgotten wife of one of England's most unpopular rulers - and she might even have been Queen of Ireland, too, had things gone differently. Isobel's story is a cocktail of revenge and rebellion.

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