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The History Podcast with Neil Oliver Season One: Neil Oliver's Love Letter to the British Isles Season Two: Neil Oliver's Love Letter to the World Be prepared to be swept away as Neil turns us all into Time Travellers! In this very personal series Neil takes us on an incredible journey through history - accessible, revealing and down-right mind blowing! Useful links: Neil Oliver Patreon Site – https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Series Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/neiloliverlovelette ...
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‘….the line separating good and evil passes right through every human heart – and through all human hearts!’ In this episode it’s now 1973 as we travel with Neil to Russia and Paris as a book that lifts a corner of the Iron Curtain is published - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every …
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Strange bedfellows come together to change the world! In this week’s episode it is 1969 and Neil takes us to California in the United States of America to meet a group of unlikely collaborators - the US Military and a gang of West coast, acid dropping, tech utopians – as they build the internet. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content …
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The endeavour, the controversy and good luck to Mr Gorsky! In this week’s episode Neil takes us on a journey to the moon. Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins make the incredible voyage into the unknown – ‘…one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind’ To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to N…
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One greatest speeches of the 20th Century – this week we travel with Neil to Washington in the United States of America as Baptist minister and Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King, stands before up to ½ million people and tells them his dream. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.co…
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A great blast like the sweeping hand of a wrathful god! This week we travel with Neil to meet Tomi San in the aftermath of the atomic explosion at Nagasaki. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver.com Shop - check out my s…
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Beyond politics, beyond ideologies, beyond battles – this week it’s 1945 and Neil takes us to southern Poland to a moment in history humanity must never forget. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver.com Shop - check out …
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Only the English Channel stands between Britain and defeat! This week it’s the summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain is raging as we travel with Neil to the Royal Air Force’s Fighter command at Uxbridge to meet Pug Ismay and Winston Churchill as they witness a day like no other! To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sig…
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The day of days. Evil coming our way! This week Neil takes us to 1933 when Adolf Hitler, the charismatic leader of the National Socialists, begins his final assent to ultimate power! To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver…
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Heroism, bravery & reaching for the stars - George Mallory and Andrew Irvine climb Mount Everest. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver.com Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & other channel merchandise, https:/…
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Questions swirl around the most lethal pandemics in history - the Black Death killed a higher proportion of the world’s population, but the Spanish Flu, which started in 1918, killed more people. This week as the First World War is still being fought, Neil travels to Kansas in the United States of America to meet the person who is said to be ‘patie…
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A sealed train speeds through war-torn Europe to deliver revolution to Russia. This week it’s 1917 and we’re travelling with Neil to St Petersburg as Lenin arrives and the world is turned on its head! To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website http…
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Your country needs you! This week we travel with Neil and the Pals Battalions to France. It’s 7.30 a.m. on the first day of the battle of the Somme, the deadliest day in British military history. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://w…
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Beyond the dreams of avarice! In this episode George Reynolds and his team of prospectors discover the world’s largest oil field, and as the black gold begins to flow unbelievable wealth, and oil’s by-products totally transform the world. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://w…
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Two magnificent men and their flying machine change the world and our relationship to it. In this episode, it’s 1903, and we travel with Neil to Kitty Hawk in North Carolina to meet Orville and Wilbur Wright. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Webs…
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A chronic gambler who suffered epileptic seizures all his life and faced the firing squad for disseminating banned literature. This week we travel with Neil to the year 1876 and meet Dostoyevsky as he changed the world of literature. To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.pa…
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In this episode Neil takes us to Edinburgh, Scotland in the late 1800s to meet a forgotten scientific hero, the physicist, James Clerk Maxwell. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver.com Shop - check out my shop for t-shir…
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In this episode we travel with Neil to London, England as the rules of a sport, that will go viral around the world, are being set down in stone. Philosophy of belonging, passion and sometimes brutality – the ‘Beautiful Game’ is born! To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliver at Patreon.com https://www.pa…
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In this episode we travel to America in 1861 as the new nation begins ripping itself apart. This week Neil draws a devastatingly tragic portrait of Sullivan Ballou as he marches towards the first major battle of the American Civil War - the First Battle of Bull Run. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to Neil Oliv…
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This week we are with Neil in London, England as a document that is just 23 pages long, but is destined to change the world is about to be printed – it’s by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and came to be known as the Communist Manifesto. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patr…
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This week we travel with Neil to Paris in 1838 as Louis Daguerre exposes human nature and it's consequences like never before. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver.com Shop - check out my shop for t-shirts, mugs & other chan…
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The most dangerous man in Britain changes the world forever! This week it’s 1836 and we’re stepping ashore with Neil in New South Wales, Australia to meet Charles Darwin. To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Website https://www.neiloliver.com Shop - check…
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This week we travel with Neil to Jamacia as Samuel Sharpe, an eloquent and passionate man, calls on his fellow slaves to rise up and seek their freedom! To help support this podcast & get exclusive videos every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver My Website https://www.neiloliver.com Check out my shop for t-shi…
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Either each of us matters or none of us do and if we live amongst a population where too many people think that none of us matter, that’s the road to a dark place! This week Neil takes us on a mystery tour to the turn of the C19th when the world’s population of homo sapiens tops 1 billion mark for the very first time. To help support this podcast &…
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Loved by his people a charismatic demagogue rises to ultimate power. This week Neil takes us across revolutionary France as Napoleon Bonaparte, a true military genius, becomes emperor. A brilliant soldier and leader, Napoleon captivates his country and makes the rest of continental Europe cower. On land, he was militarily unsurpassed, but at sea hi…
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Noble thoughts and the mob are swirling around the city as the streets run red with blood. This week it’s 1789 as we travel with Neil to Paris, France, to witness a moment in history that comes to define the politics of revolution the world over! To help support this podcast & get exclusive content every week sign up to NeilOliver@Patreon.com https…
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My obsession with this remarkable story changed my life! The ‘fun of the roads’ goes too far and a child is conceived - the ‘little blazing fire’ who becomes king of the Zulu. This week Neil travel to southern Africa to meet the king whose iron rule laid the foundations for his people’s greatness. To help support this podcast series & get exclusive…
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The best idea for a country there has ever been – period! This week Neil travels to America to visit James Madison the man credited with writing the opening to the Constitution of the United States a profound document whose base note is ‘the power of the people’, a note that resonates with us still. To help support this podcast series & get exclusi…
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A beautiful woman is led in chains to a town square packed with onlookers: standing before the crowd an executioner swings his sword and cuts off her head! This week we travel with Neil to Switzerland as the last person in Europe to be tried and convicted of witchcraft is executed. To help support this podcast series & get exclusive content every w…
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Religious zealotry, factional fighting and a new kid on the block! This week we travel with Neil to the Indian city of Murshidabad as Lieutenant Colonel Robert Clive lines up his troops against the forces of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, at the Battle of Plassey – a battle that changed the world! To help support this podcast series & get ex…
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Invention, innovation, and entrepreneurial dynamism are at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. This week we travel with Neil to Devon in England. It’s 1712 and the brilliant engineer Tomas Newcomen is harnessing the power of steam and helping to kick start the Industrial Revolution. To help support this podcast series & get access to exclusive …
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A battle many regard as one of the most significant in history! This week we travel with Neil to Blenheim in Germany as the cauldron of bitter royal rivalries vying for ultimate control of Europe boils over into the Spanish War of Succession. To help support this podcast series & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oli…
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A genius who changed the way we understand the Universe. In this episode we travel with Neil to Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, England to meet Isaac Newton - the man, the mind and the greatest work of science ever written. To help support this podcast series & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.…
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Ghoulish apparitions haunting a city square, and an approach to science that is still vital today. This week Neil takes us to meet Francis Bacon at the picturesque Pond Square, in Highgate, London. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.pat…
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In this episode we travel to Stationers Hall in the City of London to hear a version of this book, that has taken over seven years to research and write, being read. It’s undergoing an exhaustive year-long check as it’s team of authors check the cadences and rhythms of its language determined to ensure it sounds powerful and uplifting as it’s read …
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In this episode Neil takes us to a place that starts out as a malarial hellhole but will come to play a pivotal role in the development of North America. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube…
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In this episode Neil takes us across Europe to meet the man with the gold nose – one half of the inspired, but bad-tempered intellectual marriage that put us in our rightful place in the universe! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patr…
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In this episode Queen Elizabeth I of England puts in place an opening power play which in good time will transform the people of England, the Indian subcontinent and the world! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver C…
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In this episode Neil stands beside one of the world’s great leaders as she delivers a speech that cements her reputation and makes her an icon! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube Channel h…
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In this episode we travel with Neil to Valladolid in Spain to hear an impassioned debate about one of the great questions of the age; a debate that still has ramifications for us all today. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com…
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In this episode Neil travels to Russia to meet Ivan the Terrible. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVR-SdKxQeTvXtUSPFCL7g The series Instagram a…
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In this episode we travel with Neil to Bolivia in 1545 as Diego Gualpa discovers an entire mountain made of silver – untold wealth for a few but a hell on earth for thousands of others! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/nei…
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In this episode Neil travels to South America as gold and silver flows out on the way to Spain, but amidst these astonishing riches a humble ingredient comes to light which will have a profound influence on shaping the world. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on…
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In this episode a deadly secret weapon is unleashed on the Indian subcontinent for the very first time! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVR-SdK…
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In this episode we travel with Neil to the court of King Henry VIII – there is no rage like love turned to hatred! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channe…
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In this episode we set off on a voyage that will never be forgotten – Magellan & Elcano, 5 ships, 270 sailors, attempting to sail around the globe for the very first time! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check …
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In this episode we travel with Neil to Aachen in Germany and Bologna in Italy as the kingdoms of Europe respond to dangerous unrest from within and threats from powerful enemies without. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/ne…
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In this episode we’re travelling with Neil to the beautiful German town of Wittenberg as a document is nailed to the door of All Saints church, an act that sends cataclysmic shock waves across Europe and down through time. To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Pa…
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In this episode we travel with Neil to the Americas as an animal that would help define the two continents is reintroduced. The horse is back! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube Channel ht…
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Prophesy stalks the streets of this great city, and now with a formidable force outside its walls its crunch time, as the world map is about to be redrawn! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTu…
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A man with a brilliant brain meets a merchant with money, and together they kick start an information revolution that turns the world on its head! To help support the making of Neil’s podcasts & get access to extra, exclusive videos every week sign up to 'Neil Oliver' on Patreon.com https://www.patreon.com/neiloliver Check out Neil’s YouTube Channe…
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