The History Chap Podcast
Join Chris Green - The History Chap - as he explores the stories behind British history - the great events, the forgotten stories and the downright bizarre!Chris is a historian by training, and has a way of bringing history to life by making it relevant, interesting and entertaining.www.thehistorychap.com
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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that bring the past to life.
The forgotten 20-year colonial war in Africa, that British fought against one of her most tenacious and elusive opponents.
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, Alfred the Great's daughter, who took England's fight to the Vikings.
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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The audacious plot to kidnap the future King William IV during the American Revolution.
Rhorke's Drift: The Commander Who Wasn't There
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The story of Major Henry Spalding, the man who should have been in command at the battle of Rorke's Drift, but who had ridden off a few hours before the Zulus attacked.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
In this episode we explore how the death of a forgotten heir to the Tudor throne, resulted in Henry VIII becoming king and, ultimately, the English Reformation, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the break between the Church of England and the Pope in Rome.
The real historical events that inspired "The Four Feathers"
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The story of Thomas Highgate, the first of the 346 soldiers executed by the British during the First World War.
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On 14th June 1381, a 14-year-old king rode out to face an army of his own people. London was burning, the Tower of London had been stormed, and the Chancellor's head lay on Tower Hill.
How had England come to this?
The Peasants' Revolt 1381.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
In the light of all the news about the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry in London, I want to go behind the headlines of the Battle of hastings, Harold & William, and find out what really happened in England in 1066.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The film Zulu made the Battle of Rorke's Drift legendary, but it turned its most important defender into a footnote.
In the 1964 classic, James Langley Dalton appears as a quiet, effete commissariat clerk who hands out ammunition and fires not a shot, and somehow ended up with a Victoria Cross.
The real story, however, is fa...
A Strange Memorial in a British military cemetery in Malta, recalls a forgotten story from the First World War.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The story of Alfred before he was great.
The Viking invasion of Wessex during the winter of 870/871 - 6 great battles - and the rise of a king who would save England.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The 1964 film, "Zulu" saw Michael Caine's debut on the big screen.
He played Lt. Gonville Bromhead, one of the 11 men awarded the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, fought in the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879.
But how close was Caine's character to the real Lt. Bromhead?
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
William Bligh is remembered as history's most notorious villain — the tyrant of the Bounty, the captain whose cruelty drove his men to mutiny.
But the real story is stranger, and far more remarkable, than Hollywood ever told you.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The 200-Year Old History of The Argentinian - British dispute over ownership of the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas).
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The real historical events that inspired the story: Last of the Mohicans.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
In the 1964 film Zulu, Stanley Baker's Lieutenant Chard delivers one of cinema's most quietly memorable lines: "I came up here to build a bridge."
This is the real story of Lieutenant John Rouse Merriott Chard VC, officer in command at the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879— possibly, the most reluctant and unlikely hero of one of the most celebrated last stands in British military history.
Chris Gre...
January 1809. A British Army of over 20,000 men is trapped by the French in north west Spain.
This is the story of a forgotten Scottish General, Sir John Moore, who successfully evacuated his entire army, but at the cost of his life at the battle of Corunna.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
Just after midnight on the 22nd October 1904, Russian warships opened fire on British fishing trawlers in the North Sea.
Why?
Because, as they sailed towards the Far East during the Russo-Japanese War, they thought that they were Japanese torpedo boats.
Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
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