We Are History

For the final episode in this series, the ever-so-honest John O’Farrell and Angela Barnes find out how and why smuggling in Britain became a crime epidemic that benefited everyone except the tax man.Source:Smuggling in the British Isles by Richard Platt Support We Are History on Patreon and get exclusive benefits including bonus episodes, mugs and more! https://patreon.com/WeAreHistoryAngela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production.https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on We Are History, Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell look at the origins of the Green Belt, what is it and why do we have it? Spoiler alert, it’s not for holding up your green trousers. The Green Belt is a phrase we’ve heard politicians talking about forever, so we wanted to find out whose idea it was, how it has evolved over the last 100 or so years and how it affects the relationship between town and country.Reading List:Outskirts by John GrindrodRepurposing the Green Belt in the 21st Century by Peter Bishop, Alona Martinez Perez, Rob Roggema, and Lesley WilliamsGet all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistoryAngela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production.https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This time on We Are History; our bold and fearless non-historians Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell find out how and why Britain’s first major terrorist plot was conceived and ultimately thwarted. Expect barrels of explosive fun, gory retribution and hear why we burn the wrong person on Bonfire night.Sources:Remember Remember the Fifth of November by James Sharpehttps://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/six-things-you-didnt-know-about-executions-london-docklands#:~:text=Not%20many%20know%2C%20that%20on,was%20then%20disembowelled%20and%20quartered.Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistoryAngela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production.https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The hosts of this podcast explore the history of AI from ancient civilizations to modern developments. They discuss Turing machines, advancements in the 1950s, obstacles faced in the 70s, the rise and fall of expert systems, and even use AI to write jokes.

The podcast explores the history of nudity and its changing attitudes throughout time, including reflections on nudity in Communist East Germany, the evolution of clothing and attitudes towards nudity, the Romans' views on nudity and nakedness, nudity and sexually explicit art in Roman society, the origins and evolution of nudism, and shout-outs to Patreon supporters.

John O’Farrell and Angela Barnes take a not-so-serious look at the most captivating and bizarre moments in history.This time Angela tells John how in 1917, the German Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to his man in Washington. Sounds dull? It isn’t; this telegraph was probably responsible for changing the course of WW1. What could a telegram possibly say that would make peace loving US President Woodrow Wilson take his country into the bloodiest conflict?Recommended reading:The Zimmerman Telegram by Barbara Tuchman.Cryptologic Quarterly, National Security Agency - The Zimmermann Telegram.Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistoryAngela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This time; our eager non-historians Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell discuss the amazing story of the enslaved people of Haiti, who rose up and defeated a major world power and established the New World’s first independent black state. Episode includes violence, voodoo and a zombie.Recommended reading:Avengers of the New World by Laurent DuboisYou are all free : the Haitian revolution and the abolition of slavery by Jeremy PopkinThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. JamesGet all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistoryAngela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production.https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Series 8 of the hit podcast continues to romp its way through history unravelling fascinating and down-right bizarre events.This time: Angela Barnes tells John O’Farrell about The Glamour Boys – a group of courageous queer MPs in buttoned-up Britain of the 1930’s. They put the "party" into "party politics" and were some of the first people to warn the government they needed to stand up to that Hitler.Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistoryReading List:The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant.Angela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production.https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell are back with Series 8 of the hit podcast which romps through history unravelling fascinating and down-right bizarre events.This time: how the Nazis and Allies became locked in a race for the atom bomb, keeping it a total secret from everyone except all the Russian spies.Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistoryReading List:Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 by Jim BaggottAngela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production.https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We put the call out, and you came, in your droves! Thank you so much to everyone who made the first ever We Are History Live Q+A.The video is available to watch back over on our Patreon page and here is a special audio mix. Angela and John answer your questions without fear or favour, but much frivolity! Find out how they select their subjects, whether John really does have a piece of the Berlin Wall and what's coming up in Series 8.We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production.https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices