Trapped History

Sep 20 2024 42 ep. 29 mins 30
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Trapped History tells the stories of the forgotten – of people who have been ignored by the history we’re taught in school. Their stories have been hidden because of their gender, ethnicity, class or sexuality – hidden because of the times they lived in. We want to do a simple thing at Trapped History: to reboot our sense of history. As the writer and activist James Baldwin wrote, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us – we are our history.” Each episode will tell the story of someone we’ve never heard of, with Oswin and Carla joined by expert guests who help us understand about the past and the present. So tune in to hear all about the African and Jewish war heroes, the women who changed the course of science and of the people who circled the world. And maybe you will also get the chance to meet the greatest singer, the trailblazing sports star and the most fearsome hero you’ve never heard of. Because their histories are our histories. Follow us on instagram and visit our website for bonus episodes and more: https://www.instagram.com/trappedhistory/ https://www.trappedhistory.com/

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The Animal King: Frank Bostock and the Magic of Circus | Episode 29

Sep 20 2024 36 mins  
Roll up, roll up for the Season Four closer — as we take a trip to the circus!At Trapped History, we look at lives and stories which have been forgotten or ignored, and there is one community in Britain which is still shrouded in mystery even in the 21st century: that of the circus people. So who better to lift the curtain than the King of the Ring himself, Zippo the Clown — or

Hall of Fame: Seventy-Five Letters

Sep 13 2024 2 mins  
Join Oswin and Carla for this moving Hall of Fame from historian Clare Mulley as she remembers wartime nurses, Dorothy Field and Mollie Evershed. They are the only women among over 22,000 men to be remembered on the Normandy Memorial in Bayeux.It is a story of courage and selflessness. Prepare to have your heart broken.

The Missing Holes: Agent Zo and the Women of the Home Army | Episode 28

Sep 05 2024 42 mins  
She is one of the most important women of the Second World War — a fighter, a secret agent, a government envoy and a commando. But have we heard of her? Can we sing her name? If not, you've come to the right place.Tune in to hear the astounding story of Elżbieta Zawacka, AKA Agent Zo. It's a tale which takes us from Warsaw and Berlin to Paris and London, a tale of hope and fear,

Hall of Fame: The Meaning of Memory

Aug 29 2024 15 mins  
Tune in to a fascinating Hall of Fame as Professor Chris French nominates Ellizabeth Loftus, a psychologist famed for her work on false, recovered and repressed memory.It's not just Elizabeth's life story here — Chris fills us in on the theory of false memory (remember getting lost in a supermarket?) and the controversies around recovered and repressed childhood memories which sh

Dikki Redux: The Woman Behind The Record | Episode 27

Aug 24 2024 40 mins  
We might have heard of Amelia Earhart or even Amy Johnson, but who remembers Richarda Morrow-Tait, the first woman to fly around the world?Well, someone does because on 19th August this year, a blue plaque was unveiled at Cambridge Airport to mark the 75th anniversary of her truly momentous achievement.We featured Dikki in our first ever season and we couldn't pass up the chance to

The Amazing Randi: Patron Saint of Sceptics | Episode 26

Aug 21 2024 43 mins  
Welcome back after our mid-season break! And what a return – with (drum roll) the mysteries, magic and mayhem of The Amazing Randi. He had everything a conjuror should have – the baffling genius, the cape, the beard, the mortal enemies – but more than anything, he had a mission: to uncover and expose cheats and frauds.Join Carla and Oswin as Goldsmith's Professor Chris French

Hall of Fame: Mark Twain and the Dishonesty of the American Flag

Jul 19 2024 3 mins  
Every episode, we ask our guest to nominate someone for the Trapped History Hall of Fame. Usually, it's someone we've never heard of but really should have. But sometimes, just sometimes, it's someone we think we know all about. In the historian Kim Wagner's nominee, prepare to find out something new about someone you thought you knew.

Making Sense of Murder: From Paris To The Philippines | Episode 25

Jul 11 2024 49 mins  
It's October 1961. The Beatles are in Hamburg, JFK in the White House, Yuri Gagarin has just shot into space. And a state-sponsored killing spree is going down on the streets of a capital city. But this isn't Rio, Washington or Johannesburg. This isn't Moscow or Port-au-Prince or Saigon. This is Paris, the City of LIght, and by the month's end, over 200 north Africans will have bee

Untold Lives: The Power Behind the Throne | Episode 24

Jun 20 2024 41 mins  
Join Oswin and Carla as we go back – way back – to a time before podcasts and instagram, before radio and photographs. Join us as we journey back to the 18th century and meet the people who made monarchy work.And they're not the people you might expect to meet. At a time when Britain's kings and queens barely spoke the language, please let us introduce you to Mehmet and Mustaph

Hall of Fame: Mother of the Nation

Jun 06 2024 8 mins  
We ask all our guests to nominate someone for the Trapped History Hall of Fame. Someone we've not heard of but should have.In this Season Four opener, please meet Mishal Husain's nominee: Fatima Jinnah, known as Madr-e-Millat or 'Mother of the Nation', a woman who broke the rules and the barriers as Pakistan emerged from the chaos of Partition. She became the conscience of Pakistan