Bonus Episode: Dan Snow - The History Guy
Dan Snow is a BAFTA award winning historian, broadcaster and television presenter. Dan makes programmes around the world on a range of historical topics, from the abandoned Viking churches of Greenland to war damaged sites of Timbuktu. He is the host of one of the world’s biggest history podcasts, Dan Snow’s History Hit and is the Founder and Creative Director of History Hit TV, a digital history television channel described by the Times as ‘The Netflix of History.’
Dan Snow is a BAFTA aware winning historian, broadcaster and television presenter. Dan makes programmes around the world on a range of historical topics, from the abandoned Viking Churches of Greenland to war damaged sites of Timbuktu. He is the host of one of the world’s biggest history podcasts, Dan Snow’s History Hit and is the Founder and Creative Director of History Hit TV, a digital history television channel described by the Times as ‘The Netflix of History.’
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Evelyn Dunbar & Sparsholt College
Dunbar's work is featured heavily in the newly opened Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, London. Dunbar's work is the subject of a talk at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
Dunbar's work is featured heavily in the newly opened Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Galleries at the Imperial War Museum, London. Dunbar's work is the subject of a talk at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
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Licoricia Part 2
Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.
Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.
Rebecca produces both fiction and non-fiction. Her 2022 book ‘Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England’ was written in collaboration with The Licoricia of Winchester Appeal, and has met withcritical success in the UK and beyond. Other works include Touching Distance;The Jewish Journey (in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum); When Parents Die; and Three Shoes One Sock & No Hairbrush.
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Licoricia Part 1
Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.
Rebecca Abrams is a British author, teacher and journalist, based in Oxford. She is a long-standing tutor on the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and a regular literary critic for the Financial Times.
Rebecca produces both fiction and non-fiction. Her 2022 book ‘Licoricia of Winchester: Power and Prejudice in Medieval England’ was written in collaboration with The Licoricia of Winchester Appeal, and has met withcritical success in the UK and beyond. Other works include Touching Distance;The Jewish Journey (in collaboration with the Ashmolean Museum); When Parents Die; and Three Shoes One Sock & No Hairbrush.
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Hampshire Archives Trust
Daniella Gonzalez is a Medievalist and Cataloguer at the UK Parliamentary Archives. She is also a member of the Hampshire Archives Trust team, where she is responsible for.
Daniella Gonzalez is a Medievalist and Cataloguer at the UK Parliamentary Archives. She is also a member of the Hampshire Archives Trust team, where she is responsible for…
Useful reference sources:
https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/ https://hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/
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Hovercraft Museum
Join HistBites’ host Julian Gerry as he interviews Doug Coulson, curator and trustee of the world’s only Hovercraft Museum, located in Lee-on-the-Solent. Founded in 1987, the museum boasts the largest collection of hovercraft archives, films, and historical crafts globally. Doug, who has been a volunteer since the late 90s, shares insights into this unique institution.
Join HistBites’ host, Julian Gerry as he speaks with Doug Coulson, curator of the Hovercraft Museum at Lee-on-the-Solent. The Hovercraft Museum is the only of one of its kind in the world and holds greatest collection of Hovercraft archive, film, and historic craft. Founded in 1987, Doug has been volunteering there since the late 90s and he is also a trustee.
For more information about the Hovercraft Museum, including visiting information please visit The Hovercraft Museum – The worlds largest collection of hovercraft (hovercraft-museum.org).
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Queen Emma of Normandy Part 2
Emma of Normandy is often remembered as the wife of King Cnut and the mother of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England. However, her life was much more than her roles as queen and mother. Join Johanna Strong as she interviews Steven Bishop about Emma’s remarkable life and her final resting place in Winchester.
History generally remembers Emma of Normandy as the wife of King Cnut and the mother of the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Edward the Confessor. However, Emma’s life, as with most Queens, was so much more than the wife and mother of Kings.
Join Johanna Strong as she interviews Steven Bishop about Emma’s amazing life and discover how Winchester became Emma’s final resting place.
Steven Bishop is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Essex, researching how problematic statues can be handled. Steven is also a member of History Indoors, an organisation which has provided free weekly/fortnightly online history talks on topics ranging from the American Civil War to Lady Godiva. To discover more, please see the History Indoors YouTube channel History Indoors - YouTube.
Johanna Strong is no stranger when it comes to Queens of England, having completed her PhD on Mary I at the University of Winchester. Her research has been featured in two Winchester Heritage Open Days “Hampshire HistBites” episodes, on the Team Queens blog, with Tudors Dynasty, on the Tudor Society site, on the Talking Tudors podcast and most recently in a series for Winchester Cathedral. Her first chapter was published in early 2022 in Valerie Schutte and Jessica S. Hower’s Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction. If you would like to follow her research, she can be found on Twitter @jo_strong_, Instagram @_johanna.strong_ and at her Linktree.
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