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Single Malt History with Gareth Russell

Gareth Russell

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

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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.

01:38:56

Historical Fiction and the Power of Storytelling with...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/08/18

I sit down with Nichelle Tramble Spellman, award-winning producer and showrunner of AppleTV+'s TRUTH BE TOLD to discuss historical fiction, the writing process, favourite reads, ghost stories, bodice rippers, and the power of story telling. .

00:43:28

The Boleyns: A Scandalous History - Behind the Scenes

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/08/15

If you enjoyed the hit new BBC docu-drama series “The Boleyns,” or are just waiting until it shows internationally, I sat down to talk with a few of my fellow contributors to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what’s new, what’s different, and what’s exciting about “The Boleyns”. (Featuring: doctors Estelle Paranque, Lauren Mackay, and Owen Emmerson)

00:30:12

The Knight who choked to death on a frog

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/08/05

Join me for some of the grizzly, weird deaths in the 16th century - Sir Marmaduke Constable, who choked to death on a frog; a poisoned earl; a splinter in a king’s eye, a female pastor with other-worldly courage, and an Irish prince killed because of a hangover?

00:34:43

Dr Nicola Clark and the women of the Howard family

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/07/31

I'm joined in this episode by Dr Nicola Clark to discuss the remarkable women produced by the House of Howard during the Tudor era - queens, duchesses, countesses, rebels, and ladies in waiting who immersed themselves in the debates of the Protestant Reformation.

00:26:09

The Nine Day Queen with Leanda de Lisle

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/07/22

I’m joined by best-selling historian Leanda de Lisle to talk about her critically acclaimed books, Lady Jane Grey’s personality, James I’s sexuality, Leanda’s breakthrough with previously unpublished royal letters from the civil war, Margaret Beaufort’s tragedy, and how a Welsh warrior and womaniser changed the monarchy forever.

00:30:52

The Murder of the Romanovs

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/07/17

On 17th July 1918, Russia's ex-tsar, Nicholas II, his wife, their five children, and four servants were murdered in a cellar by members of the local Communist party. Who gave the final order? Why was there a rumour that the youngest Romanov daughter, Anastasia, had escaped death that night? Did the British Royal Family really abandon their Russian cousins? And how close were they to being rescued by their supporters?

00:24:10

Nur Jahan: The Empress they called the Light of the...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/06/22

The 16th century produced many remarkable royal women, few more so than Nur Jahan, the refugee who became an empress. Nur Jahan’s extraordinary life is a story of persecution, murder, opulence, art, tiger hunts, drug addiction, and rebellions.

00:29:33

Margaret Beaufort: Killer Countess?

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/06/12

Dr. Nicola Tallis joins me to talk about her most recent book - a biography of Margaret Beaufort. Beaufort has been accused of infanticide, murder, treason, and cruelty in her quest to put her son on the throne of England as King Henry VII. Who better to ask than the author of “Uncrowned Queen” about just how much of this is true?

00:40:19

Séances, Suicides, and Spiritualism: AJ West...

Single Malt History with Gareth Russell ·

2021/05/31

AJ West stops by to discuss the thrillingly dark true story that inspired his début novel, "The Spirit Engineer". In the summer of 1920, a professor's suicide in the northern Irish seaside town of Bangor lifted the lid on a Belfast Spiritualist church headed by a working-class blouse cutter called Kathleen Goligher, who attracted the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini with her claims to be able to speak to the Dead. Now, this forgotten drama, long overshadowed by the "Titanic,"

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