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📣NEW BONUS EPISODE📣

🚨@dcsandbrook is joined by @jonawils to discuss THE MOST IMPORTANT MATCH IN THE HISTORY OF FOOTBALL...

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Budapest Honvéd, December 13th 1954.

The match that invented the European Cup? 🤔
And crowned the champions of the world? 🌍
🇧Why did English football fall behind in the 1950s?
⚽️The invention of tactics
🇭🇺And who exactly was Puskás, and why was he so good?

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📣CALLING ALL MEMBERS📣

Our new series on 1956 is now available IN FULL, a whole day early !

2x episodes on Suez.
2x episodes on the Hungarian Revolution.

Want to find out a day early just how close the people of Hungary came to throwing off the Soviet yoke? Exactly how many taking as he plunged the British Empire into its final denouement? Well, now you can.

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The very long road to Shape of You begins here.
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The first love song in English!

Beautifully performed by the incomparable Muco.

Many more such medieval bangers here: therestishistory.com x.com/TheRestHistory…
The very long road to Shape of You begins here.
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If you ever get arrested, be like Danton.
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An opinion of Robespierre's we can all relate to.
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🪓THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE

Blood is flowing once again on the streets of Paris in the THRILLING CLIMAX to our multi-year history of the French Revolution...

🔫 Could Robespierre have really established his Republic of Virtue?
🎭 Why was everyone in the Convention hy you should NEVER give Robespierre the floor, unless you want to live to regret it.

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📺: youtu.be/bh1fCuvlUmY
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📣NEW BONUS EPISODE

Did the Illuminati Secretly Control the French Revolution?

On today's bonus episode:

⚡️ One man is struck by lightning.
📚 A Bavarian professor tries to take over the world.
🦎 And Tom asks whether the Royal Family are secretly lizards.

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🩸NEW EPISODE🩸

🪓THE TERROR: KILLING GOD🪓

Today on The Rest Is History:

🔥Robespierre literally sets fire to atheism
🤔The French Revolution abolishes Sunday
😱And a former physics teacher discovers that the guillotine simply isn’t efficient enough

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📺: youtu.be/iri_akaOLSs
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🩸THE TERROR: DEATH AT THE GUILLOTINE🩸

Today on The Rest Is History:

💀 Danton decides the Terror has gone a bit too far
🇬🇧 Robespierre discovers that Britain is apparently behind absolutely everything
🪓 Hébert learns that calling for everyone else to be drawbacks
⚔️ And two old friends prepare for the ultimate showdown: Danton vs Robespierre

The French Revolution continues, inching closer to its bloody climax at (where else?) the guillotine...

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🎙️NEW BONUS EPISODE🎙️

Why Did the French Revolution Turn Violent? With @simon_schama

Author of Citizens, maybe the best history of the Revolution in English, Simon Schama joins @dcsandbrook to discuss:

💀Why revolutionaries always feared it spinning out of control, even as doing so
🔫Why the Revolution revelled in violence from the very start
⏰The moment it probably became irrecoverable, and it's not one of the dates usually discussed

Available on YouTube here: youtu.be/KDxnZYBDldk
And available to all club members IN FULL here: therestishistory.com/club
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☠️THE REIGN OF ROBESPIERRE☠️

Tom and Dominic discuss the rise to power of Maximilien Robespierre:

😇How can high ideals lead you to believing only TERROR can save France?
🪓How did he go from opposing the death penalty to, well, you know...
💀And Madame ally crank up in her deadly work

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📺: youtu.be/5u2SLaHzwZA
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You live in France in early 1793. Whose side are you on?
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☠️THE TERROR☠️

The French Revolution's lofty ideals collapse into an orgy of death!

Tom and Dominic discuss:

🤔What went wrong?
🎨Why Montmartre should really still be named after Marat
🇫🇷Meanwhile, out there, in the darkness, the forces of counter-revolution .co/DCzorQsdph
📺: youtu.be/N3yVc7CDWYE
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

🇬🇧Queen Victoria's Revenge: The Mad Emperor of Abyssinia🇬🇧

Tom and Dominic discuss:

👑Queen Victoria forgets to answer a letter
⛓️An Ethiopian emperor responds by taking a collection of British diplomats and missionaries hostage
🇬🇧And Britain decides the only send an army halfway across the world

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📺: youtu.be/oaqf89-7tkU
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