Mutiny

That's it folks.  Jamie and I have produced over 90 episodes for this show.  Here we talk about some of our favourites.  Thank you for listening.E79 Spy PlaneE69 WaterlooE80 Civil WarE91 MobsterE76 Disastrous ExpeditionsE77 Dambusters RaidE11 Twentieth Century HeroinesE2 Cavalry ChargeE8 Irish Terrier - True Dogs of WarE49 IED pt2 - The Combat SurgeonE51 PiratesE28 Bomber Harris speech 1977 so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Intro  2.Mutiny through the ages  3.Naval Mutiny  4.Army Mutiny  5.Air Force Mutiny  ps The Wagner GroupThere is always an underlying grievance.  Jamie and Tom dive into the history of Mutiny.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Mob Rule  2.Power Play  3.The Hit  4.Global Rampage  PS ' The 5 Families'Organised crime has huge resources, wealth, high political connections.  They own and operate billion dollar corporations.  Jamie and Tom take a look at the underworld - the mafia man, the gangster, the mobster.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Intro  2.Foundation  3. Genocide  4.Rampage  5.Explotation  6.Cull  ps St Valentine's Day MassacreJamie and Tom take a long look at Massacre - the wholesale, indiscriminate killing of persons.  This episode was recorded before Palestinian Hamas terrorists massacred over 1,300 Israelis, mostly civilian men, women and children on 7th october 2023.It is a difficult subject so we have split it into 5 sub headings, listed above.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson Reference:Richard 1 and the Massacre at Acre - reportage See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.  Royalty v Republic  2.  The 'Crown' tv show  3.  Princess Alice, the Duke of Edinburgh's mother  4.  Mad, bad and bonkers  5. Modernisation of the Royal Family.  6. ConclusionTom talks with the UK's pre-eminent expert on royalty, Hugo Vickers.  He has written many biographies of 20th century figures, including Cecil Beaton, Vivien Leigh, the Duchess of Windsor, Princess Andrew of Greece, and the Queen Mother.  His book, The Quest for Queen Mary, sold 40,000 copies in various forms.  He has attacked the fifty episodes of the Netflix series of The Crown – in his book, The Crown Dissected (2019), all of which are available as an e-book.So It GoesTom Assheton & James JacksonRef:Hugo VickersSee also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Jamie goes solo to keep you up to speed with tech, tactics and time honoured aspects in war, conflict and adversity.  These 'Bloody Bites' are short podcast episodes which will hopefully answer a few questions thrown up in our general podcast discussions. A kind of  BVH glossary.Let us know if you would like to hear Jamie's take on a particular topic.  [email protected] It GoesTom Assheton & James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Chapters cont... 4. Dysentery  5. Typhoid & Cholera  6. Yellow Fever, Typhus and Malaria  7. Small Pox  8. Aids to Covid  ps Biological WarfareThe second and concluding part to our dive into the story of Contagion.Mankind has defeated all comers in the struggles we have had with the animal kingdom – no sabre-tooth tiger, crocodile or shark has been able to stall the Ascent of man … except perhaps our microscopic competitors; pathogens in the form of a virus, bacteria or God forbid, fungus.  Throughout our history these miniscule machines of death have destroyed huge numbers of people across the planet.  And we, humans, seem to positively encourage their many successes with our move to urbanisation, our migrations, our wars.  Pestilence and plague seem to follow our every geopolitical convulsion.  These crafty pathogens find any convenient vector to invade our fragile bodies – they are in the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breath.From the distant past to the present day ‘Plagues’ have been sawing at the trunk of human progress:  in this episode we take a tour through their greatest hits.  Pity the poor Pangolin.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1. Introduction   2.The Plague ...  to be continuedMankind has defeated all comers in the struggles we have had with the animal kingdom – no sabre-tooth tiger, crocodile or shark has been able to stall the Ascent of man … except perhaps our microscopic competitors; pathogens in the form of a virus, bacteria or God forbid, fungus.  Throughout our history these miniscule machines of death have destroyed huge numbers of people across the planet.  And we, humans, seem to positively encourage their many successes with our move to urbanisation, our migrations, our wars.  Pestilence and plague seem to follow our every geopolitical convulsion.  These crafty pathogens find any convenient vector to invade our fragile bodies – they are in the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breath.From the distant past to the present day ‘Plagues’ have been sawing at the trunk of human progress:  in this episode we take a tour through their greatest hits.  Pity the poor Pangolin.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson Reading by David Hartley - The Black Death, 1348, Henry Knighton See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

Chapters cont... 4. Anglo Norman period  5. Medieval  6. Early Modern  7. C20 &21  ps The Queen MotherThe concluding section to 'Royals in War', continuing from th previous episode.  But before we go any further, please SHARE this podcast with a friend – do it nowhttps://www.bloodyviolenthistory.com/episodesTo be King, Queen, Pharaoh, Tsar or Emperor a person had to gain power over people, a person had to hold power over people and lastly that person had to pass that power onto their successor of choice.  ‘War should be the only study of a Prince.  He should consider peace only as breathing time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans’.  Yes Machiavelli; despite being tortured by a prince, was still clear headed enough to understand what a prince, a king, had to do to stay on top.  In peacetime a king can maintain his power with spectacles, tournaments and Royal progression across him realm – bread and circuses.  But when a challenge looms, war is not far behind.  The ruler must don his amour and lead his men to victory.  Or death.Even as young democracies emerged, kings, with their conviction upheld by Divine Right, would only reluctantly surrender the levers of power when a sharp blade is held to their throat.  How can monarchs gain, hold and pass on absolute power – have a listen to find out.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information

1.Setting the Scene  2. Classical World  3. Dark Ages.  Chapters 4 to 8 in the next episodeToday’s episode is Bloody and Violent, but before we go any further, please SHARE this podcast with a friend – do it now https://www.bloodyviolenthistory.com/episodesThank you.  Many of you will recognise the opening quote from the fictional TV series A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin.  It may be fiction but it doesn’t mean the sentiment isn’t true.  What Cersei said.  Before democracy, sovereigns ruled – often with absolute power over their court, their military, their subjects.  To be King, Queen, Pharaoh, Tsar or Emperor a person had to gain power over people, a person had to hold power over people and lastly that person had to pass that power onto their successor of choice.  ‘War should be the only study of a Prince.  He should consider peace only as breathing time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans’.  Yes Machiavelli; despite being tortured by a prince, was still clear headed enough to understand what a prince, a king, had to do to stay on top.  In peacetime a king can maintain his power with spectacles, tournaments and Royal progression across him realm – bread and circuses.  But when a challenge looms, war is not far behind.  The ruler must don his amour and lead his men to victory.  Or death.Even as young democracies emerged, kings, with their conviction upheld by Divine Right, would only reluctantly surrender the levers of power when a sharp blade is held to their throat.  How can monarchs gain, hold and pass on absolute power – have a listen to find out.so it goes,Tom Assheton and James Jackson See also:YouTube: BloodyViolentHistoryhttps://www.instagram.com/bloodyviolenthistory/https://www.jamesjacksonbooks.comhttps://www.tomtom.co.uk If you enjoy the podcast, would you please leave a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify or Google Podcast App? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really helps to spread the wordSee https://simplecast.com/privacy/ for privacy information