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The History Network

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The History Network

A fortnightly military history podcast looking at all aspect of war throughout the ages.

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3805 Valour Lost - Part 3

In the third of this three part series we conclude our look at the eight recipients of the... more

04 Jan 2026

25 MINS

25:54

04 Jan 2026

#320

3804 Valour Lost - Part 2

In the second of this three part series we continue our look at the eight recipients of th... more

21 Dec 2025

20 MINS

20:49

21 Dec 2025

#319

3803 Valour Lost - Part 1

In this three part series we look at the eight recipients of the Victoria Cross who forfei... more

07 Dec 2025

26 MINS

26:48

07 Dec 2025

#318

3801 Alvarado's Leap

Modern historical scholarship has little lenience for hyperbole and any event that appears... more

09 Nov 2025

28 MINS

28:07

09 Nov 2025

#317

3710 Soccer pitch invasion!: the Vienna battlefield discovery and the battle of Carnuntum, AD 170.

In late October 2024, under a Vienna sports field (Ostbahn-XI-Platz) on the Danube in the ... more

14 Sep 2025

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56:17

14 Sep 2025

#316

3709 Waterloo and the Irishmen of the 27th: The Inniskillings in the Heart of Battle Part2

The French infantry passed by the farm at La Haye Saint and advanced up to the ridge where... more

24 Aug 2025

20 MINS

20:44

24 Aug 2025

#315

3708 Waterloo and the Irishmen of the 27th: The Inniskillings in the Heart of Battle Part1

The Congress of Vienna began in November 1814 and its aim was to provide a plan for a long... more

27 Jul 2025

27 MINS

27:47

27 Jul 2025

#314

3707 The Battle Of The Wabash

"American Indian Wars" in the modern perspective focuses mostly on the American West in th... more

06 Jul 2025

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15:39

06 Jul 2025

#313

3706 I sing of (Welsh) arms and the man: the battles of Taliesin - Part 2

Another poem, "Gwaith Argoed Llwyfain", refers to another campaign against the Angles of B... more

15 Jun 2025

21 MINS

21:22

15 Jun 2025

#312

3705 I sing of (Welsh) arms and the man: the battles of Taliesin - Part 1

The works of the sixth century AD Brittonic poet and bard, Taliesin, survive in a fourteen... more

18 May 2025

21 MINS

21:09

18 May 2025

#311

3704 Australia's Irish Rebellion

On 5 March, 1804, a group of 233 convict rebels revolted against their incarceration in th... more

04 May 2025

28 MINS

28:28

04 May 2025

#310

3703 The Battle of Abritus AD 251 - Part2

It is the dream of every ancient historian that some new discovery will solve a mystery of... more

20 Apr 2025

23 MINS

23:11

20 Apr 2025

#309

3702 The Battle of Abritus AD 251 - Part1

The battle of Abritus saw the death of two emperors in battle against a foreign enemy – Ga... more

30 Mar 2025

32 MINS

32:48

30 Mar 2025

#308

3701 Heroism in Borneo

At the conclusion of the Malayan Emergency in July 1960, plans were put into place to inco... more

16 Mar 2025

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18:07

16 Mar 2025

#307

3802 Colenso: Ireland's Forgotten Sacrifice in the Boer War

Yet another war believed to be over by Christmas. The Second Boer War was fought between t... more

23 Nov 2025

35 MINS

35:42

23 Nov 2025

#306

3610 The Battle of Chaeronea

For the battle of Chaeronea, we get none of the detailed deployment which we get for the s... more

19 Jan 2025

25 MINS

25:31

19 Jan 2025

#305

3609 Australian Bravery in the Vietnam War - Part 2

Australia's involvement and commitment to the Vietnam War continued until 1973 when the la... more

05 Jan 2025

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22:09

05 Jan 2025

#304

3608 Australian Bravery in the Vietnam War - Part 1

Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War began in 1962. In July that year, the Australia... more

15 Dec 2024

24 MINS

24:28

15 Dec 2024

#303

3607 Martin Leake VC

Arthur Martin-Leake, serving as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1914 was t... more

23 Nov 2024

19 MINS

19:55

23 Nov 2024

#302

3606 The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863

On September 22nd, 1862, already almost two years into the US Civil War, President Abraham... more

17 Nov 2024