AnecdoteswithAnne: Recent Episodes
Anne Rimmer
Through this podcast I hope to share some of my favourite anecdotes from history. The goal is to connect listeners to the past through focusing on the people who made up the grand events.
A discussion of the Fenian Raids on Canada - one of history's less thought through plans.
Episode 7: The dream of the European Common market in the middle ages. Traces the rise and fall of the Hanseatic League.
The story of the 1914 Christmas Truce - a series of spontaneous cease fires that to me embodies some of the best of the human nature.
November Podcast - The life of Bernardo O'Higgins. The bastard son of a colonial administrator, he became one of Chile's great revolutionary leaders.
Anecdotes with Anne - Episode 4: The story the Mytilenian revolt, looking at the dynamics and limits of political discussion in ancient Greece. The themes of the debate: capital punishment, imperialism and corruption in politics remain relevant today.
Third episode of Anecdotes with Anne - This time jumping to 7th Century. England telling the story of St Hilda. She was an educator, a community leader, a politician and all round fascinating person.
August Update - This episode is about sport, WWII and Jewish history. More importantly it is about individual acts of defiance, and having a passion.
The first episode of Anecdotes, a podcast which aims to share fascinating stories about the past and to highlight that history really isn't such a foreign country after all.
This episodes tells the story of the 104th Regiment of Foot who marched across Canada in the middle of winter in 1813.