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12 Days: Massacre of the Innocents and the Tay Bridge disaster

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12 Days: Massacre of the Innocents and the Tay Bridge disaster

FromThe Rest Is History


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12 Days: Massacre of the Innocents and the Tay Bridge disaster

FromThe Rest Is History

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Dec 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In a suitably festive edition, Tom recounts the biblical story of King Herod's massacre of babies in Jerusalem, and Dominic remembers a rail disaster from 1879 and the hilariously bad poetry it inspired. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
Released:
Dec 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are interrogating the past, and attempting to de-tangle the present.They question the nature of Greatness, why the West no longer has civil wars and whether Richard Nixon was more like Caligula or Claudius.  They're distilling the entirety of human history, or, as much as they can fit into about fifty minutes.Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community.Here are some of our favourite episodes to get you started:WATERGATE/NIXON apple.co/3JrVl5hALEXANDER THE GREAT apple.co/3Q4FaNkHARDCORE HISTORY'S DAN CARLIN apple.co/3vqkGa3PUTIN & RUSSIA apple.co/3zMtLfX Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.