• After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

By: History Hit
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  • This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories.


    Join historians Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling, every Monday and Thursday to take a look at the darker side of history. From haunted pubs and Houdini, to witch trials and weird UFO sightings.


    After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal - a podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets.


    Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code AFTERDARK - sign up at historyhit.com/subscribe.


    You can take part in our listener survey here.
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  • Hidden History of Garden Gnomes

    Hidden History of Garden Gnomes
    May 23 2024

    Garden gnomes have a secret life all of their own. If you don't believe us, then go ask Paris Hilton.


    Today we discover the hidden history of garden gnomes and meet the eccentric aristocrat - Sir Charles Isham - who firmly believed that the mountains of the world really filled with little folk with pointy red hats and pickaxes.


    Our guest is Twigs Way author of Garden Gnomes: A History.


    Edited by Tomos Delargy, Produced by Freddy Chick, Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.


    Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code AFTERDARK sign up at https://historyhit.com/subscription/

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    33 mins
  • Great Irish Famine: Coffin Ships & the Dark Truth (Part 2)

    Great Irish Famine: Coffin Ships & the Dark Truth (Part 2)
    May 20 2024

    1847 was the darkest year in the spiralling horror of the Great Irish Famine. It is known in Ireland as 'Black '47'. The British Government withdrew its support, leaving famine and disease to stalk the land. Those who could leave Ireland did, sailing on board 'Coffin Ships'.


    Today Anthony concludes his two-part history of the Great Irish Famine with the help of special guest Professor Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University.


    Edited by Tom Delargy. Produced by Charlotte Long and Freddy Chick.


    Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code AFTERDARK sign up at https://historyhit/subscription/


    You can take part in our listener survey here.
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    41 mins
  • Oliver Cromwell's Decapitated Head & Charles II's Revenge

    Oliver Cromwell's Decapitated Head & Charles II's Revenge
    May 15 2024

    ***Warning: today's episode contains graphic description of violence***


    In 1661 Oliver Cromwell was hung and beheaded...the only problem was he'd been dead two years already. Charles II had returned and revenge was in the air. It took many strange and gruesome forms.


    Anthony and Maddy are joined again today by Ronald Hutton - one of Britain's foremost historians who is working on a three volume biography of Oliver Cromwell. They hear about the strange after life of Cromwell's head and the incredible story of the execution of regicide Thomas Harrison.


    Produced and edited by Freddy Chick. Senior producer is Charlotte Long.
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    39 mins
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