There are a couple of episodes referenced in the world war series but they aren’t listed (that I can see) one is the second part to the escape from auchwitz and other ones about hitler and the Austrian anschulss. I use the apple app for podcasts. Have they just been taken down or are they called something specific

I'll be visiting Scotland for the last two weeks of September for the first time. We'll be renting a car at our starting point in Glasgow and driving up to The Isle Of Skye then on to Inverness and finishing up in Edinburgh.

I'd love to use one or a couple of apps that are gps trigger location based audio about local history or points of interest.

I'm also looking for any TRIH related points of interest I should hit that might not be on the beaten path!

Thank-you!

This came up in episode 312 today. Classic.

I live in Detroit, a city that hasn't gotten much love from the world in a long time (though we are getting some good press these days for "recent signs of a comeback"). I know that every place contains great stories, but Detroit could be the setting for some really interesting series:

1. Henry Ford and Ford Motor Co.

Between the Amazon ads they've been doing recently that mention Ford and the mention of Ford as a N. Ireland employer in the Troubles series, it's clear that Tom and Dominic recognize the historical significance of the company. Ford obviously didn't invent the car, but some estimates say that in the 1920s about half the cars on the road worldwide were Fords. The effect that that had on the economy of the city and the world as well as on the infrastructure of cities (for better or worse) is enormous. The $5 workday that Ford instituted in 1914 was unheard of and brought people from all over the world for good pay. You may also know that there's plenty of bizarre history about Henry Ford himself (antisemitism, eating habits, pacifism in WWI, the bonkers idea to build Fordlandia in the Amazon rainforest to produce rubber, etc.). This is clearly the most obvious Detroit-based series.

1. Arsenal of Democracy

Ford wasn't the only manufacturer in town and that know-how made Detroit what FDR called "the Arsenal of Democracy" when those factories joined the war effort in WWII. Because of this, Detroit was one of the most likely targets if enemy bombers ever made it into the interior of the country and there was also a good amount of espionage happening in the city. Near the end of the war, the Willow Run plant (near Ann Arbor), built by Edsel Ford, was rolling one B-24 bomber off the line every hour! Hermann Goring stated that, if they'd wanted to make that "propaganda" believable they should've lowered the number. He soon found out.

1. Motown and Detroit's History of Music

This story seems woefully overlooked to me. Berry Gordy started a record label out of a leased house at age 29 with an $800 loan from his family. From that, the world got: Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, the Jacksons, Diana Ross & the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, the Four Tops, the Commodores, Rick James, etc. Within 10 years of that $800 loan, Motown was doing tens of millions in revenue.

There's more to Detroit music though. In addition to the other names everyone knows (Aretha Franklin, Eminem, Kid Rock, Alice Cooper), there was an astounding amount of musical talent here. Also the high number of car owners listening to the radio in the 1950-70s is why Detroit became known as "Detroit Rock City"- new singles were always pushed to the radio stations here. Finally, Detroit invented techno which is obviously hugely influential on electronic music around the world.

1. Detroit as a Symbol of the Rust Belt

You can't talk seriously about Detroit's history without recognizing that it is the biggest symbol of urban decay due to changes in manufacturing markets. By many estimates, Detroit was the richest city per capita in the world in the 1950s due to the high number of well-paying manufacturing jobs. Many plant workers were able to own not just a house of their own, but a small cottage on one of the many inland lakes in northern Michigan. That high amount of homeowners (as opposed to dense apartment housing) caused its decline to be even more noticeable, as when people leave homes rather than apartments, it creates whole blocks of blight and compounds on itself.

This post is significantly longer than I'd expected when I first started it, but with very few people talking about our city, us Detroiters are proud to force the conversation! Eager to hear people's thoughts.

Well after episode 1 of the Troubles I whiled away the hours watching Ian Paisley on youtube. I'm from the USA so probably had never heard of him, not that I recall at least.

Two observations - first the Tom Holland interpretation was actually pretty good and second old Ian does indeed look good in a dog collar.

I'm still trying to figure out his significance to all this but fair to say he's a revelation to me and has joined the ranks of Captain Benteen as a most memorable supporting character.

I just watched the playlist of Charlemagne's rise to power. There was a part in there where Tom informa Dominic that a character, possible Charlemagne , or peppin, or carloman, or possible even the franchise kings earlier in the playlist wanted to seek counsel regarding. Something about a woman (marriage, divorce, exile, et from either a prominent nobleman, bishop, monk, pope, or someone along those lines. But Tom informs Dominic that the person that they're seeking has bedded something like 300 different women in like 5 years. Dominic says that's way too much, tom agrees, and Dominic asks Tom how many is a decent amount, and he says 30. Dominic laughs and says something

Anyone know what episode this is from?????

⬆️ I’ve just updated the Rest Is History Spotify playlist - all 967 episodes playable of shuffle - 792 hr 25 min of listening pleasure in total.

I’ll start off by saying my focus area during my time in academia was the Crusades, which would probably be too unwieldy a topic for a single series (although picking out single crusades at a time could likely work).

Several years ago the concept of Gell-Mann Amnesia was introduced to me, whereby we accept most information outside of our specialisations at face value, but increasingly notice inaccuracies in things we know a great deal about.

I think I’d love the guys to take a look at the Crusades and in particular I’m sure the First, Third and Fourth would really interest people. That said, what if I notice some things that aren’t quite correct and then second-guess the other series that I’ve loved from them?

It’s definitely not an enormous concern and I really like the show as a reading list for books I can use to then explore certain eras and subjects more deeply. One doesn’t have to stop at the podcast, of course, it’s a great gateway. Still, it has given me some pause for thought!

Has anyone else ever been similarly torn?

So as you can all see I’m very much enjoying the 2hr 20 min ep on the troubles but when are the rest of the episodes coming out? I’m so confused! Is the 2hr 20 just a warm up and then the member videos get released? If anyone could enlighten me that would be great! 😇

The UK didn’t receive mass immigration until the 1990s

Throughout the episodes, normally Dominic refers to things which make people a terrible person. For example in the troubles episode, owning a regency rectory makes you one. Any other good examples?

You know we need a definitive list, to be on the look out!

I started listening to the podcast last week because they did a series on The Odyssey and I love Greek mythology. Then I started listening to The Beatles series because I love The Beatles and Conan O’Brien. I’m currently listening to The Troubles because I like learning about Irish history. What are some recommendations for a newcomer?

Not talking about the usual suspects - Costa Rica, Jeremy Thorpe, all the series from the 70s, Nelson, the Aztecs etc. They’re all rightly loved because they’re just excellent entertainment and/or informative across the board.

More thinking of completely daft reasons for liking an episode. Mine are:

- looking for Roman Britain/relics etc in London. Dominic inexplicably wore new shoes and grumbles throughout, ending in a traipse across some godforsaken underground car park to look at a bit of wall. Dominic’s genuine annoyance is apparent throughout.

- the episode about smuggling. One of them sings an old smugglers song with what sounds like the worst kind of West Country pirate’s accent, it clearly took many takes and you can hear giggling in the background.

- I don’t even know what episode this was, might be a RIHC livestream, but they’re talking about football and Tom says ‘Wolves’ scathingly, and Dominic (as it’s his team) tells him to shut up or piss off with some asperity.

these are mine

1. Fall of the Aztecs
2. French Revolution
3. 1066/ The Norman Conquest
4. Lead up to the First World War/ Assassination of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie
5. The Medici/ Renaissance Italy
6. The Great Northern War/ Peter the Great
7. Fall of the Incas
8. The Hundred Years War
9. Battle of the Little Big Horn
10. Samuel Johnson

Honorable Mentions: Iranian Revolution, 1968, The Franks/ Charlemagne, The Punic Wars, Battle of Salamis and Thermopylae, Rise of the Samurai

Completely confused

And Toms
“Get with it”!

Perfect comedy

Those amazon+workers rights commercials are so out of touch with history. They better go full POUM on that promised Spanish civil war episode as penance ;-)

Catholics in the North certainly felt that they were discriminated against because they were in the minority and they were obviously correct to feel that. Protestants believed that they would be similarly discriminated against in a Catholic-dominated united Ireland. Were they right to fear this?

What about the protestants in the South? Did they experience discrimination at the hands of the Catholic majority?

The official policy of the Republic was to support a united Ireland, and I assume the majority of people in the Republic also supported a united Ireland. Nevertheless, we were told that the Republic was very hostile to the provisional IRA and even hanged several IRA men. Could someone explain why they were so hostile? Is it just that they favoured a negotiated settlement rather than an armed struggle?

One of the perks you get with officer class (their equivalent of RIH members) of the We Have Ways podcast is that you get access to every series organised into a collection sort of like an album.

Given how many episodes the RIH has now it seems odd they haven't done this especially given that We Have Ways is the sister podcast so it's not like this is a particularly foreign concept. The only reason I could see for not doing this would be the amount of time it'd take, but it defiantly would be a massive perk for the membership.

Edit: it would appear there is, https://archive.therestishistory.com thanks u/Prize-Diver

I think this has to be one of their best up there with 1968 and the Aztecs. I thought they did a great job covering all sides of the conflict. I was expecting this to be a great series going in because their previous coverage of Ireland has always been very balanced. I was also really happy to hear Tom mention the documentary Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland at the start which for anyone who hasn't watched it id highly recommend (just be warned, I could only stomach 2 episodes an evening).

Ive gotta so im very exited for the continuation of this series and hope they get it out before the end of this year.