🎧 Vikings: A History of the Northmen
Archive of Dan Snow's History Hit 🎧 • 35m
The Vikings have never lost their appeal to scholars and enthusiasts. Now Wayne Bartlett has written a great new survey of the Viking World from Newfoundland to Central Asia. Dan got him on the podcast to ask him the central questions of the Viking Age. What does Viking even mean? Why did they explode onto the world stage when they do? Are the myths true? What is their legacy?
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🎧 The Battle of Agincourt with Tobias...
Dan discusses the Battle of Agincourt, a major English victory in the Hundred Years’ War, with Tobias Capwell, Curator of Arms and Armour at The Wallace Collection.
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🎧 Vincent Van Gogh with Martin Bailey
With the release of At Eternity's Gate starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh, Dan set off to find someone who knows about Vincent Van Gogh. He found Martin Bailey, co-curator of the new Van Gogh museum at the Tate, which is devoted to Van Gogh's relationship with England. They chat about Van ...
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🎧 The Battle of Austerlitz
On 2 December 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte won his greatest victory at the Battle of Austerlitz, crushing a combined Austro-Russian Allied force. Victory was total;Napoleon forever boasted this as the military success he was most proud of. In this podcast Dan chats to Ian Castle, an expert on the Batt...
