We all know him as the leader of the Nazi party, who threw Europe and the world into war, and responsible for one of the most atrocious atrocities in history, the holocaust. But before all this, what happened to shape one of the most notorious dictators of the 20th century? So pour your cuppas because this is Coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; The Rise of Adolf Hitler.

Banished to a cave, a young 15 year old has gone into labour with her baby girl. When the baby is born, it’s cries are disguised by the roaring thunderstorm outside of the cold stone cave walls. This baby would grow up to have premonitions of the future and outlive many people. So pour your cuppas because this is Coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; Old Mother Shipton.

In Pripyat, 49,000 lived peacefully in a newly formed city, complete with schools, a railway, hospital, gyms and all the other amenities you would see in a city in 1986, until 26th April, where in just a couple of weeks it was left abandoned. A ghost town now remains, with a rusting Ferris wheel and windowless apartment blocks. But what happened to the population at Pripyat and why is there now a large metal dome on the horizon at Chernobyl? So pour your cuppas because this is Coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; The Chernobyl Disaster.Instagram:https://instagram.com/coffee.and_history?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=Ko-Fi:https://ko-fi.com/coffeeandasliceofhistory

130 ships, 18,000 men all sent to England on a religious and political mission on the orders of one man, king Phillip II of Spain. He sent what he called ‘La Felicissima armada’, the most fortunate fleet, and what England came to call ‘the Spanish. Armada’. So pour your cuppas because this is Coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; The Spanish Armada.INSTAGRAM:https://instagram.com/coffee.and_history?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=KO-FI:https://ko-fi.com/coffeeandasliceofhistory

A Robin Hood like figure on his horse, Black Bess, riding from London to York in just one night are the myths we have build over many years about an over glamourised highway man, who in fact caused havoc and was part of a violent gang operating in the South of England. Dick Turpin was first a butcher, then a deer poacher before starting to commit more violent crimes, so what’s his story? So pour your cuppas because this is Coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; Dick Turpin.INSTAGRAM:https://instagram.com/coffee.and_history?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=KO-FIhttps://ko-fi.com/coffeeandasliceofhistory

Typhoid, a bacterial disease commonly associated with overcrowded and unsanitary slum. So why in the years between 1900 through to 1907 had wealthy, affluent families in New York fallen ill and in some cases die because of the typhoid fever while they lived in the opposite conditions in which the disease thrived? All families had one common denominator, Mary Mallon, who was a cook for each of these families. So pour your cuppas because this is Coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; Typhoid Mary.Ko-fi and Instagram links:https://ko-fi.com/coffeeandasliceofhistoryhttps://instagram.com/coffee.and_history?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

In Autumn 79AD a city was changed forever. Homes, markets and businesses destroyed. Lives and Society wrecked and preserved in a single moment. Ash clouds and hot gases ploomed out of Mount Vesuvius onto the city below. So pour your cuppas because this is coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; The Destruction of Pompeii.Ko-fi Link:https://ko-fi.com/coffeeandasliceofhistory

Whitechapel in Victorian London, an overcrowded and busy hub of life. The juxtaposition of people and areas, affluent suburbs and poor slums in the centre all with one common fear… Jack the Ripper. A serial killer, striking in the autumn of 1888. So pour your cuppas because this is Coffee and a Slice of HISTORY; Jack the Ripper.This episode might be a bit gruesome for some listeners so if that doesn’t sound like your cup of coffee feel free to listen to any of the other episodes!INSTAGRAM:https://instagram.com/coffee.and_history?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=