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Holistic History Pod

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History isn't just about dates and dead kings.

It's about the decisions, ideas, triumphs and disasters that shaped the world we live in today.

Welcome to Holistic History, I’m Russell Myrie.

Once a month, ill delve into a fascinating topic or event from the past, exploring the people, conflicts and turning points that changed the course of history. From political conspiracies and social upheaval to war, revolution and the stories that are often overlooked, I’ll examine the past in its full context.

Discover the events that shaped the world—for better or worse—and gain the most powerful tool you could ever hope for: hindsight.

Because when we understand where we've been, we see the present a little more clearly.

And for the first month, you lucky lot get two topics instead of one.

So join us as we take a holistic look at history and uncover the stories that still echo through our world today.

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shows.acast.com/holistic-history to listen ad free and for the third and final episode of every season.

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  • 1. The Nazi Inspired Plot To Overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt: The Prelude To The Plot

    35:12||Season 1, Ep. 1
    When The Great Depression follows the Wall Street Crash and the rise of fascism in Europe, the seeds are sown for an immoral and unlawful plot to overthrow President Roosevelt, the person whose job it is to steer the United States through the extremely difficult times.

  • 1. The Lancashire Cotton Famine: Is Cotton King?

    28:24||Season 2, Ep. 1
    How did the outbreak of the civil war in the United States affect aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain? What happened when the cotton stopped arriving in Britain after the hostilities began?

  • 2. The Nazi Inspired Plot To Overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt: The Plot Thickens

    31:08||Season 1, Ep. 2
    As President Roosevelt's New Deal is introduced across America, powerful forces organise in order to overthrow the President who they feel has forgotten what class he comes from.

  • 2. The Lancashire Cotton Famine: The Hardship Hits

    33:18||Season 2, Ep. 2
    As the civil war intensifies, the lack of cotton causes Lancashire's cotton mills to grind to a halt. How do the people who relied on the cotton for their livelihoods cope?

  • 1. Convict Leasing & The Chain Gangs: The 13th Amendment

    40:08||Season 3, Ep. 1
    The American Civil War may have ended slavery, but one crucial clause in the 13th Amendment left the door open to a new form of exploitation. This episode explores how that loophole shaped the decades that followed, tracing the origins of convict leasing and asking whether slavery truly ended—or simply evolved.

  • 2. Convict Leasing & The Chain Gang: The Chain Remains

    30:15||Season 3, Ep. 2
    Reconstruction briefly offered hope for genuine freedom and equality, but that hope was systematically dismantled. From the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Codes to the writings of George Washington Cable and the tragedy of President James Garfield's assassination, this episode examines how opportunity gave way to oppression and how convict leasing became embedded across the American South.