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Over a glass of green tea, we are going to dive into history and take a look at political leaders, movements, and events which helped shape our world. If you like history, wars, dictatorships, Europe, Africa, and/or politics then tune in and take a listen.
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From the author who started it all and New Zealand's original podcast authoress, Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine return to Podiobooks.com with Tales from the Archives, a collection of original steampunk short stories set in the world of their award-winning series, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Featuring voices familiar and new, Pip and Tee invite you to sample the fantastic world of their shadowy organisation that fights for Queen and Empire against the mysterious and unknown. This vol ...
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Episode 1.9 Antonio Salazar - The Second World War
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Episode 1.9 covers Portugal's role in the Second World War with a focus on how Antonio Salazar managed to keep Portugal neutral whilst stuck between a rock (Allies) and a hard place (Nazi Germany).By Cory Faust
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Episode 1.8 Antonio Salazar - The Gathering Storm
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Tiny Portugal longed for respect and influence as she had demonstrated during her heyday in the Age of Exploration. Under Antonio Salazar's guiding hand, Portugal would prove to punch above her own weight as Germany and Italy attempted to woo her into the Axis orbit, and the British figured out they actually had to treat her with respect and an equ…
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Episode 1.7 Antonio Salazar - Portugal And The Spanish Civil War
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Just as the Great Depression railroaded Antonio Salazar's economic efforts, the Spanish Civil War sent his diplomatic efforts into overdrive. Tiny Portugal spent the years of 1936-1939 trying to chart a pro-Portugal foreign policy while showing its longtime British ally that Salazar was able to punch above his weight. Between surviving assassinatio…
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Episode 1.6a Antonio Salazar - Intelligence And Security Apparatus
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Every government relies on a protective structure to defend itself against its enemies, be they foreign or domestic, and Portugal under Antonio Salazar was no different. In this episode we will talk about the major intelligence and security organizations of the Estado Novo as well as the legal methods used to keep its enemies at bay.…
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Episode 1.5b Antonio Salazar - 1933 Constitution Part Two
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Second supplement to episode 1.5. In this episode I conduct a reading of the second part of the New State Constitution of 1933.By Cory Faust
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Archives 14: The Precarious Child (Pip Ballantine)
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The street urchins that will one day be called the Ministry Seven, have a task from Agent Harrison Thorne. It seems simple enough, however their leader Miss Verity Fitzroy discovers that a surprise from her past is tangled up with this mysterious man which leads to a very precarious situation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad…
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Archives 13: From Paris, with Regret (Starla Huchton)
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On assignment in the City of Light, Ministry agents Eliza D. Braun and Harrison Thorne chase down a murderer condemning descendants of a royal bloodline to a horrific death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris | Scribl
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Archives 12: Darkest before the Darkwater (Tee Morris)
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A group of survivors from the airship GUY FAWKES find themselves washed ashore on an uncharted island. In their search for survival, they uncover one mystery after another. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris | Scribl
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Archives 11: The Shadows of Calcutta (Phil Rossi)
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Agent Robert Smith, on return from a mission in Nepal, is diverted to India where he is charged to find a missing agent. Alex Tanner had been investigating a series of thefts and murders holding the Ministry’s attention, and now it falls on Agent Smith to find his missing comrade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Archives 10: Night's Plutonian Shore - Part Two (Jack Mangan)
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We rejoin our epic tale across the America’s as Agent Bruce Campbell remains on the trail of Usher assassin, Mikael Scharnusser, who has fellow Ministry agent Brandon Hill captive. With a narrow window of time granted by the enigmatic agent of the States’ OSM agency, Bruce must rescue Agent Hill from this madman’s locomotive lair… Learn more about …
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Archives 09: Night's Plutonian Shore - Part One (Jack Mangan)
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This epic tale opens in 1849 when a poet is murdered in the streets of Baltimore. The man behind the seemingly random murder manages to elude the law until — in 1889 — Agents Bruce Campbell and Brandon Hill track him down. The assassin, Mikael Scharnusser, gives the slip to the agents on revealing his “talent” and the madman’s intentions to bring d…
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Archives 08: Hanuman's Gift - Part Two (Helen E.H. Madden)
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After hearing Agent Harrison Thorne’s impossible tale of cursed monkeys and undead womenWhitby must file away the physical evidence. However it just may be that Hanuman’s Gift was not totally left behind in India, and the Archives are not as boring and safe as he believes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Archives 07: Hanuman's Gift - Part One (Helen E.H. Madden)
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Deep in the Archives, Augustus Whitby toils through his duties in the Archives, dreaming up romantic stories far more plausible than the supposed “investigations” of the field agents. A story from Agent Harrison Thorne and an unassuming artifact from his recent case, however, proves much to Whitby’s chagrin that there are some truths that are far s…
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Archives 06: A Ruby in Rain (Grant Stone)
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From the farthest edge of the Empire, New Zealand agents Lachlan King and Barry Ferguson are called to interview a recent arrival to Auckland’s prisons. An infamous gambler, according to the constable’s account, has turned himself into their custody, not for the safety of society but for his own. The Ministry steps in to uncover a man’s story of im…
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Agent Brandon Hill is on assignment in South America, enjoying the local culture and women, when a mystery that could lead to El Dorado falls into his lap. Before the intrepid agent knows it, he is the jungle uncovering a plot but the devilish Illuminati. He will need all his monkey knife fighting skills to survive this one. Learn more about your a…
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Archives 04: The Sun Never Sets (Val Griswold-Ford)
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Agent Isaac Martin receives a note, imploring him to investigate the nearly completed clock tower at the Palace at Westminster. He and his partner, Agent Andrew Kensington, start looking into the construction and uncover unanswered questions concerning this new landmark’s creators. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Archives 03: The Astonishing Amulet of Amenartas (Nathan Lowell)
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Agent Heathcliff Durham finds himself crisscrossing Africa, looking for an Amulet that could spell disaster for any who come near it. Battling blistering heat, starvation, wild animals, and despair, he is not comforted by the company of a rough and ready sort named Morrison. Soon Durham begins to suspect he may never return home—and to top it all o…
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Archives 02: Dust on the Davenport (O.M. Grey)
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Agent Simon R. Boswell, still considered the green agent of the Ministry, takes on his own a supposed haunting in Islington. Hauntings tend to be nothing too serious for agents specializing in the unexplained; but for Simon, this case supplies surprises of all kinds, around every corner… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice…
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Archives 01: The Evil that Befell Samson (Pip Ballantine)
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It is revealed just how Miss Braun ended up being exiled from her native country, New Zealand, and working for the Ministry in its London Offices. It’s a tale of nefarious doings, stalwart ladies, and the sound of clockwork. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris | Scribl
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