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After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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  • This is After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal. The podcast that takes you to the shadiest corners of the past, unpicking history’s spookiest, strangest, and most sinister stories.


    Join historians Anthony Delaney and Maddy Pelling, every Monday and Thursday to take a look at the darker side of history. From haunted pubs and Houdini, to witch trials and weird UFO sightings.


    After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds and the Paranormal - a podcast by History Hit, the world's best history channel and creators of award-winning podcasts Dan Snow's History Hit, Gone Medieval, and Betwixt the Sheets.


    Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code AFTERDARK - sign up at historyhit.com/subscribe.


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  • Great Irish Famine: Coffin Ships & the Dark Truth (Part 2)

    Great Irish Famine: Coffin Ships & the Dark Truth (Part 2)
    May 20 2024

    1847 was the darkest year in the spiralling horror of the Great Irish Famine. It is known in Ireland as 'Black '47'. The British Government withdrew its support, leaving famine and disease to stalk the land. Those who could leave Ireland did, sailing on board 'Coffin Ships'.


    Today Anthony concludes his two-part history of the Great Irish Famine with the help of special guest Professor Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University.


    Edited by Tom Delargy. Produced by Charlotte Long and Freddy Chick.


    Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code AFTERDARK sign up at https://historyhit/subscription/


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    41 mins
  • Oliver Cromwell's Decapitated Head & Charles II's Revenge

    Oliver Cromwell's Decapitated Head & Charles II's Revenge
    May 15 2024

    ***Warning: today's episode contains graphic description of violence***


    In 1661 Oliver Cromwell was hung and beheaded...the only problem was he'd been dead two years already. Charles II had returned and revenge was in the air. It took many strange and gruesome forms.


    Anthony and Maddy are joined again today by Ronald Hutton - one of Britain's foremost historians who is working on a three volume biography of Oliver Cromwell. They hear about the strange after life of Cromwell's head and the incredible story of the execution of regicide Thomas Harrison.


    Produced and edited by Freddy Chick. Senior producer is Charlotte Long.
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    39 mins
  • The Great Famine: Ireland’s Darkest Chapter (Part 1)

    The Great Famine: Ireland’s Darkest Chapter (Part 1)
    May 13 2024

    One million people died. Two million emigrated. The Great Irish Famine was the world turned upside down. The darkest chapter in Ireland's past.


    It is not solely Ireland's history to bear. This is a piece of British history as well, one which needs to be faced. What really happened in the Great Irish Famine?


    Written by Anthony Delaney with special guest Professor Christine Kinealy, Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University.


    Edited by Tom Delargy. Produced by Charlotte Long and Freddy Chick.


    Enjoy unlimited access to award-winning original documentaries that are released weekly and AD-FREE podcasts. Get a subscription for £1 per month for 3 months with code AFTERDARK sign up at https://historyhit/subscription/


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    37 mins
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love it

love love absolutely love this podcast the two presenters are fantastic first episode and already hooked can't wait for more

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interesting conversation. enlightened.

beautiful narration, vivid and informative discussion of terrible historical character. Who know countess Bathory herself died from torture and neglect? it's new news to me

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