Well, there's half a dozen episodes of History Bang out now, so I guess we're really doing this! Best we get some kind of social media presence going, eh? To those discovering this from the Squire account, who have yet to experience the podcast, go here - tinyurl.com/HistoryBang

If this publication of the time is to be believed, then the German infiltrators of Operation Pastorius were "highly-skilled saboteurs". Although surely a good propaganda win for the US, this could hardly have been further from the truth! Find out more - open.spotify.com/episode/0IrNt0…

Next week's episode on Rorke's Drift is now available to subscribers! In writing this episode we learned that the Zulu name kwaJimu, meaning "Jim's Land", whilst not a direct translation, did in fact recall the same namesake as the English - James Rorke. open.spotify.com/episode/1vmrrf…

A few weeks ago we debated the Maginot Line: was it a complete waste of time, money and resources? Or underattedly brilliant and never had the chance to prove itself? Could the Saar Offensive have ended the war in 1939? Was it all Belgium's fault? open.spotify.com/episode/42RnmE…

A website member recently asked if we might consider an episode on the Russification of the historic Baltic and Finno-Ugric peoples that lived in what is now modern day Russia. To that, I say, I don't know... but if we do, I know where I'm starting my research. I've read a

The Battle of Bossenden Wood (1838) - often referred to as "the last battle on English soil" - was more than a little unusual. open.spotify.com/episode/6ih278… When John Nichols Tom, a Cornish maltster and failed solicitor, turned up in the sleepy Kent countryside under the pseudonym

Jolly pleased with our #SpotifyWrapped for History Bang. Cheers to those who've followed the progress so far!

It's perhaps a well known anachronism from the film Zulu that the 24th Regiment of Foot was not yet renamed the South Wales Borderers, and thus most people assume this to be the reason that they shouldn't have all been depicted with Welsh accents. However, the regiment had in

Episode 10 is now live To many people the Dunkirk evacuation is seen as the bookend to the British involvement in the Battle of France, and that we didn't have a substantial presence in the European Theatre again until Italy, a little over three years later. Whilst Operation

Episode 12 is now live, and we're looking at tank myths with Nicholas Moran, aka The Chieftain. At least, we're trying to... we did get side-tracked a lot. In fact, we ended up covering everything from why Fury was a good film to making bets on the development of next

Australian tunneller Sapper Michael Francis Lynch was killed in action on this day in 1918. I didn’t notice it at first, but I’ve since realised there’s something unusual about his headstone. Can you spot it too? 📍 Menin Road South Military Cemetery 🇧🇪

Don't miss what's looking to be our most popular episode yet - Operation Mincemeat: Britain's plan to hide their invasion of Sicily by dropping a body off of Spain to make Germany think they were invading Greece... confused yet? Good! That's the idea. open.spotify.com/episode/3WUEOo…

We're jolly excited to announce that we have just become official brand ambassadors of Dispatches Magazine, a publication for re-enactors, historians, vehicle owners, history enthusiasts, and everything in between! It's a quarterly magazine available both online and in print,