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  1. #191 Jonny Owen on Industrial Wales (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re joined by friend of the show, producer, writer and actor (and proud Welshman), Jonny Owen to discuss the golden age of Industrial Revolution era Wales! We’ll chat copper in Swansea

  2. #191 Jonny Owen on Industrial Wales (Part 1)

    This week we’re joined by friend of the show, producer, writer and actor (and proud Welshman), Jonny Owen to discuss the golden age of Industrial Revolution era Wales! We’ll chat copper in Swansea, the iron town of Merthyr Tydfil, and the s

  3. #190 Plants & Dad’s Race Injuries (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re turning to the natural world to see how humans have adapted various plants for all kinds of uses through history. We’ve got the chequered history of opium, the controversial garlic

  4. #190 Plants & Dad’s Race Injuries (Part 1)

    This week we’re turning to the natural world to see how humans have adapted various plants for all kinds of uses through history. We’ve got the chequered history of opium, the controversial garlic backstory and the true story of the humble

  5. #188 Surviving First Ladies and Elis Eats Gravel (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re looking at what happened to the First Ladies of assassinated US Presidents. The tale of Mary Todd Lincoln, Jackie Kennedy and the loser-known story of Lucretia Garfield. Elsewhere,

  6. #188 Surviving First Ladies and Elis Eats Gravel (Part 1)

    This week we’re looking at what happened to the First Ladies of assassinated US Presidents. The tale of Mary Todd Lincoln, Jackie Kennedy and the loser-known story of Lucretia Garfield. Elsewhere, Elis thinks it’s okay to eat the presentati

  7. #186 Recycled Berlin Buildings & The Invention of Vaseline (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re taking a look at buildings which have had an interesting second life in Germany’s capital; East Germany’s Palast der Republik, what became of Albert Speer’s New Reich Chancellery a

  8. #186 Recycled Berlin Buildings & The Invention of Vaseline (Part 1)

    This week we’re taking a look at buildings which have had an interesting second life in Germany’s capital; East Germany’s Palast der Republik, what became of Albert Speer’s New Reich Chancellery and lastly the Museumsinsel or Museum Island.

  9. #185 Abandoned Theme Parks (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re looking at theme parks which simply no longer exist! We’ve got London’s glamorous and failed Segaworld, the slightly less glamorous Mr Blobby inspired Blobbyland and Wales’ own Pen

  10. #185 Abandoned Theme Parks (Part 1)

    This week we’re looking at theme parks which simply no longer exist! We’ve got London’s glamorous and failed Segaworld, the slightly less glamorous Mr Blobby inspired Blobbyland and Wales’ own Penscynor Wild Life Park. Elsewhere, who was th

  11. #184 Tough Gigs featuring Elis ‘3x microphones’ James (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! We’ve got a brilliant episode this week: we’ve turned to history to find the worst jobs we can. We’ve got tanning (leather, not the sun beds), bridge painting, and the Victorian workhouse.. and ta

  12. #184 Tough Gigs featuring Elis ‘3x microphones’ James (Part 1)

    We’ve got a brilliant episode this week: we’ve turned to history to find the worst jobs we can. We’ve got tanning (leather, not the sun beds), bridge painting, and the Victorian workhouse.. and take our word for it, they are all absolutely

  13. #117 Your Letters (May 2025) [Bonus Episode]

    ** We're 'off' this week due to half term, so please enjoy these old subscriber episodes in the mean time! And for more bonus episodes (and next week's episode) head to: patreon.com/ohwhatatime ** Once again, you’ve been hitting up our inbo

  14. #107 Hitler by Ian Kershaw [Bonus Episode]

    ** We're 'off' this week due to half term, so please enjoy these old subscriber episodes in the mean time! And for more bonus episodes (and next week's episode) head to: patreon.com/ohwhatatime ** For one of this month’s subscriber specials

  15. #183 BIG Companies and ELIS RAN THE HACKNEY HALF (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re looking at commercial entities that went bigger than their wildest dreams. We’ve got for you: Japanese consumer electronics firm Casio, how did Cadbury make that chocolate money an

  16. #183 BIG Companies and ELIS RAN THE HACKNEY HALF (Part 1)

    This week we’re looking at commercial entities that went bigger than their wildest dreams. We’ve got for you: Japanese consumer electronics firm Casio, how did Cadbury make that chocolate money and lastly, how Andrew Carnegie acquired insan

  17. #182 The Grand Tour and are The Killers better than The Beatles? (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! For the eighteenth-century gentleman few things marked a rite of passage more than the grand tour - so this week we’re seeing what exploring Europe, the UK and North America was like in the 18th a

  18. #182 The Grand Tour and are The Killers better than The Beatles? (Part 1)

    For the eighteenth-century gentleman few things marked a rite of passage more than the grand tour - so this week we’re seeing what exploring Europe, the UK and North America was like in the 18th and 19th Centuries. Elsewhere, Elis has been

  19. #180 A History of Female Pleasure with Dr Kate Lister (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! **THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND THEMES OF AN ADULT NATURE** Our guest this week is British historian and author Dr Kate Lister who is here to discuss her new book ‘Flick’ which explore

  20. #180 A History of Female Pleasure with Dr Kate Lister (Part 1)

    **THIS EPISODE CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND THEMES OF AN ADULT NATURE** Our guest this week is British historian and author Dr Kate Lister who is here to discuss her new book ‘Flick’ which explores female pleasure throughout history; from A

  21. #178 Education! Education! Education! (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re chatting education: what did schooling look like in Ancient Greece and Rome? What has corporal punishment looked like in schools through history? And how has the concept of the ‘sc

  22. #178 Education! Education! Education! (Part 1)

    This week we’re chatting education: what did schooling look like in Ancient Greece and Rome? What has corporal punishment looked like in schools through history? And how has the concept of the ‘school meal’ evolved over time? Elsewhere, why

  23. #177 Katja Hoyer on the Weimar Republic and ‘have you heard of Samuel Pepys?’ (Part 1)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! We are truly honoured this week to be joined by one of our favourite historians in the world; it’s German-British author, who penned of one of Elis’ favourite ever books (Beyond the Wall: East Ger

  24. #177 Katja Hoyer on the Weimar Republic and ‘have you heard of Samuel Pepys?’ (Part 1)

    We are truly honoured this week to be joined by one of our favourite historians in the world; it’s German-British author, who penned of one of Elis’ favourite ever books (Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949–1990), it’s Katja Hoyer! Katja is

  25. #176 Sporting Revolutionaries And Tom Gets Stuck On A Rollercoaster (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week on the show we’re talking about the sporting prowess of history’s most well-known revolutionaries; we have baseball-loving Fidel Castro, Chairman Mao’s love of ping pong and we’ve got Vl

  26. #122 Your Letters - June 2025 (Bonus episode)

    It's a special bonus episode! This one from June 2025, never heard before on the main feed! If you want more Oh What A Time and both parts at once, you should sign up for our Patreon! On there you’ll now find: •The full archive of bonus epi

  27. #176 Sporting Revolutionaries And Tom Gets Stuck On A Rollercoaster (Part 1)

    This week on the show we’re talking about the sporting prowess of history’s most well-known revolutionaries; we have baseball-loving Fidel Castro, Chairman Mao’s love of ping pong and we’ve got Vladimir Lenin and his love of the bicycle. El

  28. #174 Mass Observation and how did Ultimate Warrior eat cookies? (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re looking at attempts through history at mass observation; we have Britain in the late 1930s, American culture after the Great Depression and the Soviet diaspora in Europe in the 195

  29. #174 Mass Observation and how did Ultimate Warrior eat cookies? (Part 1)

    This week we’re looking at attempts through history at mass observation; we have Britain in the late 1930s, American culture after the Great Depression and the Soviet diaspora in Europe in the 1950s. Elsewhere, is looking at a picture of a

  30. #173 Australia and crucially, who discovered it?! (Part 2)

    This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed! This week we’re discussing that wonderful land of Australia! We’ll be finding out what was suspected about a land down under in Antiquity, south-east Asia’s Australian mythology and we’ll answer t

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