History is too important to be left to the left. The Conservative Historian provides history governed by conservative principles. It is comprehensively researched but also entertainingly presented in a way accessible to history or non history buffs.
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The Seleucids and Alexander's Legacy
Send us Fan Mail We look at the largest of the successor (Diadochi) kingdoms built after the death of Alexander. A mixed legacy of west meets east but also ending in ignominy. Show notes: Antiochus the Great by Michael Taylor
Send us Fan Mail We talk with Jeremy Ryan Slate the founder of the Hidden Forces in History and Roman Pattern podcasts about Romans such as Aurelian, English Kings Henry V and VII, what we can learn today from Roman decline. Notes: Ronald Syme: The Roman Revolution
Send us Fan Mail We travel from 24th Century BC Akkad to the Napoleonic Era looking for good subjects worthy of portrayal. Sargon, St. Louis and Nelson all make appearances.
Two-fer: Directors and Actors who Made More than One Historical Movie
Send us Fan Mail We look at Spielberg/Hanks, Ford/Wayne, Lean/Guinness and reluctantly Griffiths/Gish to view historical movies where a director and actor collaborated more than once.
Send us Fan Mail We are joined on the podcast by Tim Queeney, author of Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization. We travel from the stone age to Egypt, Polynesia, the Age of Sail and even go to Mars.