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  🎧 Mutiny on the Spanish Main

  🎧 Mutiny on the Spanish Main

  Angus Konstam joined me on the podcast to tell the dramatic story of HMS Hermione. In 1797, the British frigate was the site of the bloodiest mutiny in British naval history.

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  🎧 Napoleon with Adam Zamoyski

  🎧 Napoleon with Adam Zamoyski

  Dan talks to Adam Zamoyski, a historian who has recently written a new biography of Napoleon.

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  🎧 Nelson and the Slave Trade

  🎧 Nelson and the Slave Trade

  Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson died at Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. Recently there has been considerable interest in Nelson's views on the slave trade and the plantation economy of the West Indies. A letter of Nelson's written months before his death in 1805 to the infamous Jamaican slave owne...