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Hosted by Harald Hansen · history · EN-US
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment.
Hanging with History is hosted by Harald Hansen. The show has published 229 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "230. Did the Poor Laws Make England Rich?" (28 October 2026, 33 minutes), "229 The English Poor Laws" (21 October 2026, 34 minutes), and "228. The Dangerous Poor; Poverty in Tudor and Stuart England" (14 October 2026, 35 minutes).
Hanging with History publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 38 minutes across 229 episodes.
Booking probability for Hanging with History is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Hanging with History requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Hanging with History's contact route on record: verified email.
Harald Hansen hosts Hanging with History, a history podcast with 229 episodes published.
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Episode #16
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The question seems crazy and yet there are entangled facts that we need to consider. This is a 16th and 17th century issue. 1. The obsession over employment...
Episode #15
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Poverty policy was deeply entangled with other obsessions of the 16th and 17th century England. Combine these obsessions with the local dictatorial power of...
Episode #14
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Great context on English society and the Poor Law mechanism. “According to the 16th century stereotype, the undeserving pauper was typically rootless...
Episode #13
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Europe wide, there were Humanist driven policy responses to poverty in the 16th century, which we have covered in some detail. These were essentially all...
Episode #12
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. During the 16th century, this whole social controversy over the treatment of the poor ranged across and intersected with the Reformation. You also have the...
Episode #11
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We left last episode with the policy response of Venice, Ypres, Rouen and Grenoble to first the 1527-1531 famine and later structural response. Today, we’ll...
Hanging with History
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are summarizing the problem circa 1525, before we get into the pan-European, well, Western European, solutions to the problem, driven by the Humanists. We...
Episode #9
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Last episode we had the emotional episode about the sufferings of paupers in 16th century Italy. So we are now done.. with autophagy, cannibalism, dung...
Episode #8
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Quoting Dante: “The disease of the starving, I mean hunger, is a pitiable affliction. Of human calamities hunger is certainly supreme. It brings about the...
Episode #7
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are trying to take a look at the life of a knight. A look at the life in full, stripped of idealizations and self righteous outrage on behalf of oppressed...
Episode #6
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We are going to start with trivialities, then get into some serious differences between now and the medieval psyche. Around gross stuff, aggression and...
Episode #5
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. It was probably while the brutal siege in Vienna went on, and the little boys and girls of the region were being sold into slavery, after being raped a few...
Episode #4
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. There are two stories here, their opposition is part of a theme. Erasmus, the great Erasmus , Erasmus of Rotterdam was even more a product of the Devotio...
Episode #3
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. A miner’s son, decided one day, to nail 95 thesis to the door of All Saints Church in Wittenberg in the year of our lord 1517. It seems unlikely he intended...
Episode #2
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. We explore the roots of Humanism and the Reformation. Taking a long look at the Devotio Moderna, the Brethren of the Common Life. These were key influences on...
Episode #1
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. This episode is just a little introduction to the theories of the causes of the industrial revolution as of right now. We look at the Sheilagh Ogilvie...
Episode #214
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. Consider the British Empire in 1792, the year of Macartney’s expedition to China and the year young Emperor Francis began to look askance at the French...
Episode #213
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. More focus on Mexico and California than is ideal, but there is a general overview of Spanish America. Spanish America, more than anywhere else, shows us the...
Episode #212
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The challenges to recruiting enough men for service in the Royal Navy and the Army and Militia were formidable. It is revealed that the War of 1812 was really...
Episode #211
You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. The trade war between Britain and Napoleon reached a new level in 1807. British merchants were desperate for new markets. The French were finding trouble...
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