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History magazine show currently focusing upon the 1918 flu pandemic (also known as Spanish Flu) which, it is estimated, infected almost a third of the world's population. I aim here, to take you on a journey where we investigate what it was like to live in these times; what the governments did to try and control this virus and how people coped with the pain and suffering. Older episodes of Historyzine (goodness, 10 years ago now) have visited the topic of The War of the Spanish Succession.
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In The first episode of those series we did an introduction. In the second we tried to make an emotional connection with the pain and suffering caused by the Spanish Flu. In this episode we seek to construct a timeline so that we have something coherent, on which we can hang all the events, and reactions to the events, that we will look at later in…
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For this episode of the podcast I wanted to try and get a feel for the actual experience of suffering the disease. I wanted to know what Spanish Flu was like on a personal level. To accomplish this I needed to uncover contemporary accounts from the time, that gave details of the damage inflicted and the distress caused by the influenza. I was surpr…
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Historyzine – The Spanish Flu Series – Episode 01 – The 1918 Pandemic
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History is a series of recurrences. Over and over again we see much that is similar. While history doesn’t exactly repeat itself, it does often rhyme (wish I’d have said that but it was actually Mark Twain). We are currently (spring 2020) in the middle of a global pandemic, the like of which we could not have imagined only a few short months ago. H…
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It’s Friday night at the UK Eastercon. Professor Elemental entertains the fans and then offers moist cuddles all around. https://archive.org/download/03Eastercon2015/03%20Eastercon%202015.mp3 RSS feed for the Eastercon podcasts is here: You should also be able to find it on Itunes by searching for Eastercon in podcasts.…
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Friday night at the 2015 UK Eastercon. Drinking some dreadful beer and watching a wonderful show. Saw the amazing Mr John Robertson performing, ‘The Dark Room’. Very shouty and completely immersive. Enjoyed it a lot. https://archive.org/download/02Eastercon2015/02%20Eastercon%202015.mp3 RSS feed for the Eastercon podcasts is here: You should also b…
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Arrival at the Park Inn at Heathrow. Registration. Dealers rooms Beer. https://ia601505.us.archive.org/32/items/01Eastercon2015/01%20Eastercon%202015.mp3 RSS feed for the Eastercon podcasts is here:By Jim Mowatt
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Monday at the Eastercon where I am in a panel about virtual cons, we sing the praises of the con guidebook app and a whole bunch of tweets seem to find their way into the podcast http://archive.org/download/05Eastercon2012/05eastercon2012.mp3 05 Eastercon 2012By Jim Mowatt
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Sunday at the Eastercon and we have a podcasting workshop. I interviewed Martin Easterbrook who is, together with Margaret Austin,Fan Guest of Honour here. [audio http://archive.org/download/04Eastercon2012_396/04eastercon2012.mp3] 04 Eastercon 2012By Jim Mowatt
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It’s Saturday at the convention. Carrie and I man the dealer table. Children and sandwiches are tortured. There’s a panel in the fan room about fanzines (whowouldathunkit) and there’s lots of desperate fun http://archive.org/download/03Eastercon2012/03eastercon2012.mp3 03 Eastercon PodcastsBy Jim Mowatt
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We’re back at the Radisson Edwardian and it’s the usual maze of twisty passages all alike. This is day one of my Eastercon experience and it’s been one fraught with various difficulties but still, it’s great to be here again at SF fandoms grand weekend of play. Here is podcast number 2 but actually my arrival at the convention. Enjoy the podcast: h…
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This is the first of my Eastercon podcasts for 2012. It’s a promo for the podcast workshop I’ll be running at the Radisson Edwardian in Heathrow on Sunday at 5pm. http://archive.org/download/01EasterconPodcasts2012/01Eastercon2012.mp3 01 Eastercon Podcasts 2012 Eastercon Fish To create and post your podcast you need: Audacity – to edit the podcast …
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Historyzine’s retelling of The War of the Spanish Succession now reaches the year 1708 and the Battle of Oudenarde. The Duke of Burgundy and the Marshall Vendome make initial gains in the Spanish Netherlands moving swiftly to take control of the fortress cities of Ghent and Bruges. Looking to strengthen their supply routes back toward France they m…
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Historyzine now moves into the year 1707 in the saga of the War of the Spanish Succession. This year the allies are looking to attack Toulon and hopefully make more gains in the Spanish Netherlands. The Duke of Marlborough has an army of 80,000 in the Low countries facing off against Villars who has 100,000 under his control. Prince Eugene leads an…
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Historyzine 017: The Aftermath of Ramillies
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Historyzine 17 features 1706 and the Aftermath of Battle of Ramilies as well as the relief of Turin in our War of the Spanish Succession section. In the linguistic history trivia bit we’ll be looking at a couple of printing terms which have morphed into regularly used modern day phrases. The phrases I’ll be focussing upon are, uppercase and lowerca…
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This is Historyzine, Episode 16 featuring 1706 and the War of the Spanish Succession. In Spain, Lord Peterborough and the Archduke Charles are busily not speaking to each other when perhaps they should be putting Charles on the throne and consolidating their power. In Flanders in this same year the Duke of Marlborough is leading his troops up again…
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Historyzine 015: Winter Diplomacy in 1705
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Historyzine follows the Duke of Marlborough as he conducts an epic journey of almost 2000 miles by carriage and barge during the fierce winter months in order to soothe and cajole the various allies. The Duke visits the Elector Palatine, The Margrave of Baden, the King of Prussia and the Electoral Prince of Hanover and then returns to the Hague in …
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Historyzine 014: Forcing the lines of Brabant (1705)
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Family History – connecting up with large scale history. I’ve recently spent a considerable amount of time delving into my family history and been quite delighted by the reflection of large scale events such as the industrial revolution, highland clearances and the potato blight of 1846 that are to be found in the movements of my ancestors. Explori…
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Historyzine 013: History Podcast – The Aftermath of Blenheim
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The history of Europe was altered forever by the Battle of Blenheim. In this episode I talk about the aftermath of the battle and look at the celebrations in England. The country is delirious with delight and Marlborough is granted the estate of Woodstock and given funds toward the building of a palace to commemorate the victory. That palace was bu…
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In Historyzine 12 our main feature is 1704 and the battle of Blenheim. John Churchill (Duke of Marlborough) is rampaging around Bavaria with the Dutch, Hesse, Austrian, Hanoverian and English troops. Gathering against him under the command of Marshall Tallard, Marshall Marsin and the Elector of Bavaria are the troops of France and Bavaria accompani…
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The 2nd special episode from the reenactment weekend of 12th, 13th of July 2008 in the town of Oudenaarde in Belgium. This was the 300th anniversary of the battle of Oudenaarde in which the forces of the Anglo Dutch Austro German alliance managed to achieve a convincing victory over Louis XIV and the forces of the French and Spanish crowns. We inte…
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A special episode featuring a report from the reenactment of the battle of Oudenaarde over the weekend of 12th and 13th of July, 2008. I’ve travelled over to Belgium and am staying in the town of Oudenaarde as they commemorate this battle from 300 years just outside the town. Reenactors from all over Europe are here with guns, cannons, horses and b…
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This issue features a review of the Richard Holmes book on Marlborough and in the section on the War of the Spanish Succession we look at the march of the allied troops across Europe and take a peek at some of the planning and attention to detail that made this march a success. John Churchill Some of the sources I use for this podcast can be found …
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Historyzine 008: War of the Spanish Succession 1703
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It’s 1703 and all is not going well for the allies. Churchill’s ‘Great Design’ goes awry; the Hungarians revolt against the Empire and the Elector of Bavaria joins up with the French forces to directly threaten Vienna. This map should give you some idea of the threats to Austria in this year with armies in both Bavaria and Hungary posing serious th…
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Historyzine 007: 1702, Admiral Rooke attacks Cadiz
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In this episode we explore the phrase to gird your loins. We examine the case of Admiral Byng who was executed to encourage the others and we interview Tony Cox of the Binge Thinking History Podcast. There’s a shout out for a splendid forum at http://historum.com. I hope to meet up with some of you on there. In our section on the War of the Spanish…
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In episode 6 of Historyzine we look at early 18th century sieges, the changing nature of warfare and some of the reasons behind the reticence to commit troops to a fully fledged battle in this War of the Spanish Succession. We will focus particularly on the great French engineer Vauban, his fortresses and his techniques for laying siege to a fortre…
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Historyzine 005:1702, taking back the River Meuse
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In episode 5 of Historyzine we have a review of the National Archives Podcast Series; Historical webby gems Harry Lamin’s war correspondence Here we go around Wakefield Prison’s Mulberry Bush. And Episode 5 of our series on The War of the Spanish Succession features the campaigns of the Allies against the French forces on the Meuse in 1702. Marlbor…
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Historyzine 004: John Churchill given overall command of allied armies
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This is episode four of Historyzine. In this episode we review Parnell’s History Podcast and History Podcast plus we look at the requirement to read the Banns before a wedding can be legalised. In the feature on the War of the Spanish Succession the allies are busily arguing among themselves at the Hague trying to decide who will lead the allied ar…
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Historyzine 003: Prince Eugene in Northern Italy
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This is episode three of Historyzine. In this episode we take a look at the podcast series, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. We pick apart the phrase, ‘sleep tight, mind the bed bugs don’t bite’ and of course we have the next part of our series looking at the War of the Spanish Succession. This week Eugene performs some fancy footwork in Northern Ita…
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Historyzine 002: The many claimants to the Spanish throne
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This is episode two of Historyzine. In this episode we review the delightful podcast TPN Napoleon, hosted by Cameron Reilly and J. David Markham and offer a shout out to ‘The Binge Thinking History podcast which, in episode 3 of that podcast gives some useful background to the English situation at the end of the 17th century. The main feature of th…
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Historyzine 001: Prelude to the War of the Spanish Succession
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The first episode of Historyzine features a review of the podcast, History According to Bob and a look at the phrase, ‘burning the candle at both ends.’ My featured subject at the moment is the ‘War of the Spanish Succession.’ In this episode we look at the 3 wars preceding this one and get some idea of the balance of power in Europe at the end of …
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