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Mountebank History of Scotland

'The Mountebank History of Scotland Podcast' by Scottish comedian Daniel Downie mixes Scottish history with lots of jobby jokes and tory-bashing. Learn a little and laugh a lot with this 'hysterical a... Read more

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#31 - The Great Montrose

#31 - The Great Montrose

James Graham, the Marquis of Montrose, the 'Great Montrose' won a series of brilliant, almost impossible victories over ... Read more

13 May 2021

42mins

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#30 - War of the Three Kingdoms

#30 - War of the Three Kingdoms

When civil war broke out in England in 1642 both the English Parliamentarians and Royalists petitioned the Scots Covenan... Read more

29 Apr 2021

35mins

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#29 - The National Covenant

#29 - The National Covenant

Charles I tried desperately to assimilate the Scottish Presbyterian kirk with the English Anglican church, when he intro... Read more

22 Apr 2021

35mins

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#28 - James VI (Union of the Crowns)

#28 - James VI (Union of the Crowns)

Queen Elizabeth I died in the early hours of the 29th of March 1603 having resolutely refused to name an heir, to marry,... Read more

1 Apr 2021

46mins

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#27 - James VI (Satanic Panic)

#27 - James VI (Satanic Panic)

James obsession with sorcery, witchcraft, and satanism would lead to thousands of innocent, predominantly women, being t... Read more

25 Mar 2021

39mins

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#26 - James VI (Exemplary Protestant Leader)

#26 - James VI (Exemplary Protestant Leader)

James was given a vigorous education as a child, he was being raised to be an 'Exemplary Protestant Leader' - which is w... Read more

18 Mar 2021

42mins

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#25 - Mary Queen of Scots (Prison, Plots, and Execution)

#25 - Mary Queen of Scots (Prison, Plots, and Execution)

Mary was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire on the 8th of February 1587. The English went and beheaded ... Read more

11 Mar 2021

38mins

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#24 - Mary Queen of Scots ('Escape' to England)

#24 - Mary Queen of Scots ('Escape' to England)

By the time of Mary’s ‘escape’ to England in May 1568 both her mother and father were dead, she had two dead husbands, s... Read more

4 Mar 2021

35mins

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#23 - Mary Queen of Scots (Marriage and Murder)

#23 - Mary Queen of Scots (Marriage and Murder)

Mary's second husband Lord Henry Darnley was a vindictive, alcoholic, spiteful, womanising, pig-f*cker he had all the ne... Read more

25 Feb 2021

41mins

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#22 - Mary Queen of Scots (Return and Reformation)

#22 - Mary Queen of Scots (Return and Reformation)

John Knox was Scotland's most miserable man before Sir Andy Murray. He was a middle-aged, extreme-Protestant, who despis... Read more

18 Feb 2021

40mins

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