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Podcast title Historyzine: The History Podcast
Website URL http://historyzine.com
Description History narrative, linguistic history trivia and history podcast reviews, all topped off with the current special feature, which is the War of the Spanish Succession.
Updated Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:42:12 +0000
Category History
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Episodes

1. Historyzine 012: The Battle of Blenheim
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Description: In Historyzine 12 our main feature is 1704 and the battle of Blenheim. John Churchill (Duke of Marlborough) is rampaging around Bavaria with the Dutch, Hesse, Austrian, Hanoverian and English troops. Gathering against him under the command of Marshall Tallard, Marshall Marsin and the Elector of Bavaria are the troops of France and Bavaria accompanied [...]

2. Historyzine 011: The 2nd special from Oudenaarde
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Description: The 2nd special episode from the reenactment weekend of 12th, 13th of July 2008 in the town of Oudenaarde in Belgium. This was the 300th anniversary of the battle of Oudenaarde in which the forces of the Anglo Dutch Austro German alliance managed to achieve a convincing victory over Louis XIV and the forces of the [...]

3. Historyzine 010: A special from Oudenaarde
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Description: A special episode featuring a report from the reenactment of the battle of Oudenaarde over the weekend of 12th and 13th of July, 2008. I’ve travelled over to Belgium and am staying in the town of Oudenaarde as they commemorate this battle from 300 years just outside the town. Reenactors from all over Europe are [...]

4. Historyzine 009: The March to Blenheim
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Description: This issue features a review of the Richard Holmes book on Marlborough and in the section on the War of the Spanish Succession we look at the march of the allied troops across Europe and take a peek at some of the planning and attention to detail that made this march a success. John Churchill Some of [...]

5. Historyzine 008: War of the Spanish Succession 1703
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Description: It’s 1703 and all is not going well for the allies. Churchill’s ‘Great Design’ goes awry; the Hungarians revolt against the Empire and the Elector of Bavaria joins up with the French forces to directly threaten Vienna. This map should give you some idea of the threats to Austria in this year with armies in both [...]

6. Historyzine 007: 1702, Admiral Rooke attacks Cadiz
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Description: In this episode we explore the phrase to gird your loins. We examine the case of Admiral Byng who was executed to encourage the others and we interview Tony Cox of the Binge Thinking History Podcast. There’s a shout out for a splendid forum at http://historum.com. I hope to meet up with some of you on there. In [...]

7. Historyzine 006: Siege Warfare
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Description: In episode 6 of Historyzine we look at early 18th century sieges, the changing nature of warfare and some of the reasons behind the reticence to commit troops to a fully fledged battle in this War of the Spanish Succession. We will focus particularly on the great French engineer Vauban, his fortresses and his techniques [...]

8. Historyzine 005:1702, taking back the River Meuse
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Description: In episode 5 of Historyzine we have a review of the National Archives Podcast Series; Historical webby gems Harry Lamin’s war correspondence Here we go around Wakefield Prison’s Mulberry Bush. And Episode 5 of our series on The War of the Spanish Succession features the campaigns of the Allies against the French forces on the Meuse in 1702. Marlborough [...]

9. Historyzine004: John Churchill given overall command of allied armies
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Description: This is episode four of Historyzine. Historyzine004.mp3 In this episode we review Parnell’s History Podcast and History Podcast plus we look at the requirement to read the Banns before a wedding can be legalised. In the feature on the War of the Spanish Succession the allies are busily arguing among themselves at the Hague trying to decide who [...]

10. Historyzine003: Prince Eugene in Northern Italy
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Description: This is episode three of Historyzine. Historyzine003.mp3 In this episode we take a look at the podcast series, Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. We pick apart the phrase, ’sleep tight, mind the bed bugs don’t bite’ and of course we have the next part of our series looking at the War of the Spanish Succession. This week Eugene performs some [...]