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The Hungry Historian

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A stripped down history podcast with a culinary twist. New episodes on a bi-weekly basis.

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49:53

The War to End All Wars - Part I - On the Road to War...

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2025/12/09

Send us a text “The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.” - Guglielmo Marconi, 1912 Long before the first shots were fired in August 1914, Europe had been quietly preparing for disaster. In this episode, join the Hungry Historian as he traces the tangled web of events, ambitions, and anxieties that pushed the continent towards the brink of total war. From the rise of nationalist movements to colonial rivalries, from shifting alliances...

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46:07

King Leopold II of Belgium and the Congo - Black Belgian

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2025/11/14

Send us a text "In fourteen years Leopold has deliberately destroyed more lives than have suffered death on all the battlefields of this planet for the past thousand years..." - Mark Twain In this episode of The Hungry Historian, we dive into one of the darkest and most disturbing chapters of colonial history: the reign of King Leopold II over the Congo Free State. What began as a supposed humanitarian mission quickly descended into a brutal system of forced labour, mutilation, and terr...

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44:17

Horrific History - History's Worst Deaths -...

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2025/10/20

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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35:07

James Dean: Life, Death, and Everlasting Cool - James...

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2025/10/10

Send us a text "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man." - James Dean Before he was a legend frozen in time, James Dean was a small-town boy with a hunger for something greater. In this episode, The Hungry Historian explores the brief but blazing life of one of Hollywood’s most enduring icons. Follow along through his humble beginnings in Indiana to his meteoric rise in 1950s cinema, as Dean captured the restl...

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47:35

What Do We Have to Loos? - The Battle of Loos: 110...

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2025/09/20

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-...

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38:40

Hits and Near Misses: Presidential Assassinations and...

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2025/09/12

Send us a text "Assassination has never changed the history of the world." - Benjamin Disraeli From Abraham Lincoln’s fateful night at Ford’s Theatre, to the near-misses that almost changed the course of American politics forever, presidential assassinations and assassination attempts have left lasting marks on the nation’s history. In this episode, join the Hungry Historian as he dives into the stories behind the tragedies, close calls, and how these moments of violence reshaped presid...

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39:54

The Last Voyage of the Lusitania - Chocolate...

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2025/08/21

Send us a text “Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany . . . and Great Britain . . . and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk.” - German Advertisement the day the Lusitania set sail On May 7th, 1915, the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people. The disaster unfolded at...

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40:36

Beaver Fever: The History of The Hudson's Bay Company...

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2025/08/10

Send us a text “Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. … The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.” — Harold Innis From the fur-clad frontiers of Rupert’s Land to the corridors of British colonial power, the Hudson’s Bay Company stood as one of the most influential and controversial forces in North American history. In this episode, join The Hungry Historian as he paddles into the heart of Canada’s coloni...

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44:06

Beaver Fever: The History of The Hudson's Bay Company...

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2025/07/20

Send us a text “The Beaver does everything perfectly well: it makes kettles, hatchets, swords, knives, bread; in short, it makes everything.” - Unknown Innu Hunter On this episode of The Hungry Historian, our historical hero ventures deep into the northern Canadian wilderness to trace the origins and rise of one of the oldest and most influential commercial enterprises in North America — the Hudson’s Bay Company. Founded in 1670, but rooted in the explorations of the 1660s, the HB...

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60:14

On the Road With The Hungry Historian - Part II -...

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2025/06/19

Send us a text "From Paints to Saints and the beachs between, visit the Normandie region through the eyes of the Hungry Historian." On this second episode of a two part look back at his travels through France and Belgium, the Hungry Historian is once again joined by his Mrs (The Hungry Herstorian) as he leaves the beaches of Normandy in the rear view and heads for his next adventure. Follow along as he walks the beach at Dieppe, the trenches of Beaumont-Hamel and Vimy Ridge, and the f...

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53:40

On the Road With the Hungry Historian - France - Part...

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2025/05/30

Send us a text "From Paints to Saints and the beachs between, visit the Normandie region through the eyes of the Hungry Historian." On this first episode of a two part look back at his travels through France and Belgium, the Hungry Historian lands in Paris and heads for his base of operations, the Normandie capital city of Caen. Follow along as he walks the beaches and bunkers that saw the D-Day invasions over 80 years ago. If that's not your cup of tea, don't fret, because the Hungry Histori...

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54:59