Tag Archive For: education

106. Cricket

26, 7, 2019 - Welcome to Histories of the Unexpected where we demonstrate how everything has a history and .... Read More

Tags: apartheid, colonialism, cricket, education, eighteenth century, empire, history of cricket, sport, Test Match, World War II

Episode 75 – Childhood

18, 4, 2018 - “There comes a time in every rightly-constructed boys life when he has a raging desire to go .... Read More

Tags: accidents, brickbat, child, childhood, children, daughter, education, father, hornbook, John Dee, mother, parents, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, reading, Reformation, scars, son, upbringing

Episode 71: Hats

6, 4, 2018 - For this episode let us join the cat in the hat of history, Professor James Daybell, and the .... Read More

Tags: 17th century, Anthony Eden hat Beaver Beefeaters' hat Bicorne Boater, baldness, Beefeaters' hat, Bicorne hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, chevaliers, children, Cocked hat, coke hat, copatain Caubeen – Irish hat Cavalier hat, copotain, Deerstalker, dunces hat, education, Fedora, Fez, Hanfu, Hats, headwear, Henry VIII, Homburg, hunting cap, Kolpik, Oliver Cromwell, Panama hat, Papakha, punishment, Sir Winston Churchill, Tudor court, Witch, witchcraft, witches

Episode 67: Invasion! & TV History

6, 4, 2018 - For this episode let us join Professor James Daybell, the gardener of all of yesterday’s roses, .... Read More

Tags: 1066, armies, BBC, budgets, bureaucracy, Christopher Columbus, documentary, education, fighting, gong farming, historical documentary, invasion, island, knowledge, Norman Conquest, Simon Schama, Simon Schama's leather jacket, TV history, Vikings, war, warfare

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