🎧 Anita Anand on the Man Who Set out to Avenge the Amritsar Massacre
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧
•
27m
Udham Singh, legendary in India but barely known in the western world, was present when the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar was perpetrated. Legend has it he picked a clump of bloody soil and swore to avenge the massacre. Twenty-one years later, he walked into Caxton Hall in order to shoot Michael O'Dwyer, who was one of two men behind the murders. Dan talks to Anita Anand, who tells this compelling story in full.
Up Next in Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧
-
🎧 Cult of St. Swithun
According to tradition, if it rains on Saint Swithun's bridge in Winchester on St. Swithun’s day — 15 July — it will continue for 40 days. But who was the real Swithun? And why has his historical importance as an Anglo-Saxon bishop of Winchester been overshadowed by his reputation as a miracle ...
-
🎧 A Victorian Murder with Claire Harman
Dan heads to Mayfair to discuss a very Victorian murder with Claire Harman, a literary writer and novelist. This podcast talks about the murder of Lord William Russell in 1840, and answers the most important question: Who did it?
-
🎧 Sportswashing and the Nazi Olympics
With the 2022 FIFA World Cup well underway, the phenomenon of sportswashing is once again in everybody's minds. Autocracies and democracies alike have long relied on major sporting events to shore up their legitimacy and project their presence on the world stage. But why is sporting prowess so im...
