Names You Should Know

22/06/2023

Join Darren and George to learn about Ivan IV, or as he is known to history, Ivan the Terrible.

17/02/2023

Samurai! Ninja! Warrior monks! On this episode, we go back to the legendary Sengoku Jidai period of Japanese history and talk about the three men who ended 150 years of civil war in the country. First up, we talk about Oda Nobunaga.

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12/01/2023

Listen to the newest episode of the podcast, where I am joined by my first ever guest. We talk about the rise of an illiterate sheepherd named Temujin, who would eventually go on to conquer most of the known world, and go down in history as Genghis Khan, greatest conqueror who ever lived.

13/11/2022

The newest episode of the show takes you back to turn of the 20th century Italy. To a devout socialist who ended up laying the groundwork of fascism and inspiring the likes of Adolf Hi**er. We're of course talking Benito Mussolini and the origins of fascism, and how to spot it near you.

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16/09/2022

This episode of Names You Should Know dives into the history of Allen Dulles, the second head of the CIA and the man who grew it into the shadow government of the USA that we all know and love to this day. Involved with overthrowing several governments, MKULTRA, and possibly the assassination of John F Kennedy, Allen Dulles was one of the biggest pieces of work of the 20th century.
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05/08/2022

Mine worker turned union man turned socialist freedom fighter; Frank Keeney was a West Virginian who grew tired of being exploited by capitalist coal mine operators. When unions wouldn't help, he organised thousands of men by himself and was a rank and file commander during what are now known as the coal wars.

Listen to this episode to hear about why coal mining towns were so horrible, but how they at the same time seem so eerily familiar in recent times.

09/07/2022

Is this Jesus Christ's long lost brother? Probably not, but Hong Xiuquan here was able to convince enough people that he was the son of God, that he was able to start a civil war that ended up being one of the bloodiest conflicts in history.

31/05/2022

The third and final part of our series on Lenin is now up. These episodes give you a look at the man behind all of the myths that the USSR spent decades building up, and tells you how he came to rule over the vast expanse of the fallen Russian Empire.

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11/05/2022

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