Bring Out Your Dead: Latin America vs. The British Empire

Jan 20 2024 37 mins 13
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Bring Out Your Dead: Latin America vs. the British Empire, the only podcast telling the complex history of British Imperialism in Latin America.

Join Gruff and Chris in an auditory picture painting of a forgotten history.

In this podcast we will unpack the deep-rooted history of European colonialists and resistance figures as they fight for control and influence across South and Central America.

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Season 2 Teaser

Jan 20 2024 3 mins  
We are back! Following months of researching, recording, and editing season 2 is in full production. Enjoy this early teaser for our upcoming season. Remember to follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Patreon, where extra recordings, concept art, and research interviews will all be made available. Support the Show.Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/bringoutyourde

Francis Drake and the War in Latin America

Oct 14 2023 43 mins  
In our action-packed season 1 finale, we follow Drake as he twice leads naval flotillas into the heart of the Spanish Empire. On our journey, we'll detail how Cartegena almost became an English colony, why Drake did not invent the Mojito, as well as fun Gaelic facts, as we chart the battles, victories, and ultimately defeats in Drake's desperate middle-aged attempt to hold on to hi

The Anglo-Spanish War: Welcome to the War Room

Oct 07 2023 49 mins  
Join us for our first ever war episode! Today we are covering the Anglo-Spanish war. As the antagonising actions of Francis Drake and imperial confidence of the English blow up into a war on land and sea. This week will be laying out the European course of the war as battles are fought in England, Spain, Holland and Ireland, before returning to Latin America next week.In this war,

Francis Drake Part 2.5: Drake it off!

Sep 29 2023 46 mins  
Welcome to Francis Drake 2.5. Doughty is dead, the ship has finally been named the Golden Hinde, and now Francis and after a quick trip to the captain's quarters, is ready to get up to no good.Follow us through another Hurricane, that will see Francis Drake officially declared dead by the survivors, before he goes on to claim Britain's first overseas territory (never seen by anyone

Francis Drake Part 2: Drake it to Make it

Sep 23 2023 31 mins  
Drake Part 2, will have a bit of a different vibe as we set up the chaotic, storm-plagued, Atlantic leg of Francis Drake's circumnavigation.Most of all we will lay bare the inky insanity that grips the English mind once it finds itself cold and isolated on the other side of the world.Support the Show.Follow us on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/bringoutyourdeadpod/Watch us on Y

Francis Drake Part 1: Drake it to the Limit

Sep 16 2023 41 mins  
In this episode, we will be outlining the history of Spanish colonisation. Touching on the early wars of resistance. As well as the kingdom of the Panamanian Cimarrónes, a society of escaped slaves who challenged Spanish rule for close to a century.As all of this is happening, Francis Drake, a slave trader and coward(bitch!), will seek to rebuild his reputation and gain his place

John Hawkins - Britain's First Slave Trader

Sep 09 2023 48 mins  
Our first episode, will go way back to the early seed of British Imperialism planted in the mid-16th Century. Join us as we lay out the story of John Hawkins, whose singular obsession of trading enslaved Africans to Spanish American colonies will bring an ignored and uncultured Northern European Queendom into direct conflict with the world's first global super-power. The early days