military history

Become a Patron! We hope you enjoyed the episode! Behold the beautiful duck brooch: Our modern sources include: Hadrian’s Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy BBC News: [...Read More...]

Hadrian’s Wall is a jaw-dropping engineering achievement stretching 73 miles across hundred-foot-high escarpments and rushing rivers, its earthworks dug deep into [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! We hope you enjoyed the episode! Our modern sources include: Hadrian’s Wall by Adrian Goldsworthy Roman Inscriptions of Britain: Hadrian’s Wall [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Our ancient sources for this episode include: Tacitus’ Agricola and Annals (Translated by Alfred Church) Polyaenus’ Strategems (R. Shepherd [...Read More...]

When Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, the Druids suffered a swift and catastrophic loss of status and position. Persecuted and demonized by later Emperors, many fled to Britain, [...Read More...]

More than 1,800 years after Spartacus fought for his freedom, another rebel leader spearheaded the first successful slave revolt in history: the Haitian Revolution. That [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! Here is the start of Mike Duncan’s epic series on Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. Well worth a binge! And here is his episode [...Read More...]

Crixus is dead. Spartacus has given up on crossing the Alps. And he has a new enemy: a man with endless money, endless resources, and a lot to prove. Nobody asked for more [...Read More...]

 Become a Patron!   We’ve reached the end of our epic Spartacus series. This gif pretty much sums up the last episode. But not the feels. We so we’re [...Read More...]

 Become a Patron!   We needed to post this gif for our beloved Crixus (image from the Starz Spartacus TV show). We couldn’t have produced this episode without [...Read More...]