HistoryPod | The Daily History Podcast
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History Pod is written and presented by Scott Allsop, an experienced History teacher and graduate of the University of Cambridge. In addition to History Pod, he also runs www.MrAllsopHistory.com, an award winning educational website. His work has been featured in the national press, and he has made a number of television and radio appearances discussing different aspects of History.
HistoryPod | The Daily History Podcast
21h ago
Flight 609 hit slush on the runway, causing the plane to skid off the end of the runway before crashing through the airport fence, speeding across a road, and losing its port wing after catching on a ..read more
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3d ago
The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war ..read more
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4d ago
Despite their elegant mahogany and brass design, and an extensive promotional campaign that featured the distribution of 50,000 handbills alongside an advertisement in The Times newspaper, the toilets proved ..read more
HistoryPod | The Daily History Podcast
6d ago
Charles was executed on 30 January, having requested to wear two shirts as protection from the cold so that the crowd wouldn’t think he was shaking from fear. Six days later, Parliament abolished the ..read more
HistoryPod | The Daily History Podcast
1w ago
At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to disintegrate following a huge fireball. All seven members of crew were killed, and the disaster led to NASA suspending all Space Shuttle missions for over two and a half ..read more
HistoryPod | The Daily History Podcast
2w ago
Why the soldiers began firing on the peaceful march is unclear. Even the number of marchers killed or injured is uncertain with estimates ranging from the government’s official figure of 96 dead to revolutionary claims of more than ..read more
HistoryPod | The Daily History Podcast
2w ago
SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich called the meeting in the Berlin suburb, in which he outlined the deportation of European Jews to extermination camps in Poland where they would be systematically ..read more
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3w ago
Operation Desert Storm set out to destroy Iraq’s military and civilian infrastructure through an aerial bombing campaign in which over 2,250 coalition aircraft flew in excess of 1,000 sorties a day for five ..read more
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3w ago
Antipope John XXIII made the Medici Bank the official bank of the ..read more
HistoryPod | The Daily History Podcast
3w ago
The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 ..read more