As the sounds of crickets filled the warm and dry night air, I uncomfortably tossed and turn in bed. Was it the warmth that kept me awake or was it the fact Rwanda was again on a knife edge?        The Two main tribes in our country have been at each other's throats for decades and I  couldn’t help but feel the palpable tension blanketing the capital Kigali.                 Surely the violence that plagued the country in 1990 couldn’t return, surely the ceasefire  signed by President Habyarimana Would hold. But as my eyes be ..read more

The Dimly flickering gas lamps glowed into the darkened Victorian cobbled streets. The peaceful slumber of the twilight, interrupted by the sounds of footsteps. Number 400 the woman thought as she tossed the small paper package into the Thames River. Little did she know this heinous act would be the last in a devilish career that spanned decades.     Soon a grisly discovery would be made, the body of a tiny little girl. This innocent little girl would bring about the end of the dark and evil life of Amelia Dyer.     Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast h ..read more

During the last four decades, the Crusades have become one of the most dynamic areas of historical enquiry, which points to an increasing curiosity to understand and interpret these extraordinary events. What persuaded people in the Christian West to want to recapture Jerusalem? What impact did the success of the First Crusade (1099) have on the Muslim, Christian and Jewish communities of the eastern Mediterranean? What was the effect of crusading on the people and institutions of western Europe? How did people record the Crusades and, finally, what is their legacy?Hi everyone and welcome back ..read more

Hell on Earth, the nightmare depicted by Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel in his mid-16th-century "The Triumph of Death" reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed the plague that devastated medieval Europe. Thought by most to be a scourge of the past, the bacteria of the plague still appears from time to time and has even been researched as a biological weapon by some countries.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hopes everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 3 were going to talk about the Black Death, this topic seems like it was aeons ago but th ..read more

Yugoslavia is a name that to some of the framkenstien creation and the death of two empires. To some it hold find memory of sun sea and sand, the younger among us may never had heard of this once Baltic country but to some it brings memorys of war, death, destruction and genocide.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 2 were going to look at the former country of Yugoslavia, up until recently the war that was fought here was the last fought in Europe. This is going to be another in a long line of grim tales from Eu ..read more

The Middle East, is a land of mystique, wonder and is the cradle of civilization. A land where people have flourished for thousands of years in the backdrop of a harsh and arid landscape, but unfortunately just like many places on this earth the ground is soaked in blood. This once prosperous and technologically advanced part of the world has decayed into a land of pain torture and misery.Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. Well, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and a happy new year, I hope everyone is over their hang ..read more

Hi everyone I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Thank you for all your support through this first year of the podcast. I really hope you enjoy the Christmas special Christmas is a time for cozying up in front of a roaring fire with family and friends, with gifts for giving and receiving, a time to eat drink and be merry and over indulgence. For those who are more religious amount us it’s a spiritual time of year, a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. How ever you spend your time our contemporary Christmas has changed dramatically over the century’s, it’s b ..read more

Hi everyone and welcome to the m dark history podcast hope everyone is well. Thank you everyone for the massive support everyone has shown, I can’t believe how quickly this show is growing. So in episode 7 well were gunna go back to the good old Soviet Union and another one of stalins experiments. We spoke about the holodomor about a month a go now and if you haven’t listen to that episode what you doing go listen to it first, I’m only joking that episode isn’t connected to this episode, but I did talk about the kulaks and how they were arrested and taken to the gulag system unfortunate for th ..read more

Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. In episode 11 I’m going to talk about some that I alluded to way back in the first episode and that is Germany in Africa and the genocide of the nama and herero people, now if you’ve listen to the episode you will have heard about some of the imperialism in Africa by European power and if not then maybe go a listen to that first as I will be skimming certain points that I have spoken about previously like the Berlin conference and the scramble for Africa, yes that was a shameless plug. N ..read more

Botched executions occur when there is a breakdown in, or departure from, the 'protocol' for a particular method of execution. The protocol can be established by the norms, expectations, and advertised virtues of each method or by the government’s officially adopted execution guidelines. Botched executions are 'those involving unanticipated problems or delays that caused, at least arguably, unnecessary agony for the prisoner or that reflect gross incompetence of the executioner.'Hi everyone and welcome back to the dark history podcast hope everyone is well I’m Rob your host as always. For epis ..read more