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A podcast exploring how documentation shapes power across history—from medieval manorial rolls to Hollywood contracts. Each episode examines how archives become weapons, and how people throughout history have resisted erasure through paperwork. Hosted by Samuel Stephen, novelist and historian. theblackarchiveuk.substack.com
The Black Archive -Samuel Stephen hosts The Black Archive, a history show with 15 episodes published.
On 30 January 1649, Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was beheaded on a scaffold outside the Banqueting House, Whitehall. The execution followed a nine-day trial convened under an ordinance passed by the
King Arthur — What the Sources Actually Say The earliest surviving account of post-Roman Britain is a sermon. It was written around 540 AD by a cleric named Gildas. It describes the Saxon invasions, the British resistanc
Primary sources referenced in this episode include KB 8/9 (the Baga de Secretis indictment), the Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, the dispatches of Eustace Chapuys, the correspondence of Thomas Cromw
On the morning of Wednesday the 26th of April, 1871, a police constable walking a lane in south-east London found a seventeen-year-old girl on her hands and knees in the dark. She was alive. She would not be alive for mu
The killing of Julia Martha Thomas. Richmond, 1879. Kate Webster murdered her employer, dismembered and boiled the body, and spent twenty-seven days impersonating her. The victim's skull was missing for 131 years. This e
The Black Archive is a documentary series examining crimes from British history, reconstructed from contemporary sources and inquest records. Each episode presents a structured account of events alongside the evidential
Episode 3: The Fiscal Crisis (1377-1380) Edward III is dead. Richard II is ten years old. France is winning the war. And the English government needs money it does not have. This is the story of three poll taxes in four
Episode 2: The Corruption Machine (1351-1377) The Statute of Labourers wasn't just an economic regulation—it was a new kind of law that turned everyday negotiations into crimes. And the men enforcing it? The same men who
Episode 1: The Black Death's Golden Age In June 1348, a ship arrived at England's southern coast carrying a disease that would kill half the population. But for the survivors, the Black Death created something unexpected
June 918. Æthelflæd dies at Tamworth, eight weeks before she could formalize York’s submission. The moment that would unify England—gone. But her nephew Æthelstan understood what she built. And he would finish it. Not th
Episode 3 — Æthelstan and the Architecture of Power In this episode, we examine the most consequential succession crisis in early medieval England — and the quiet political machinery that resolved it. After the death of
Episode 3 — Æthelstan and the Architecture of Power In this episode, we examine the most consequential succession crisis in early medieval England — and the quiet political machinery that resolved it. After the death of
The Lady’s Fortresses | The Mercian Series Æthelflæd inherited a collapsing kingdom. In the early tenth century, Mercia no longer held together through personal rule, dynastic authority, or royal prestige. What replaced
How do you build power that survives you? Three medieval rulers tried three different answers. One built a hegemony that collapsed in 141 days. One built institutions that outlasted her. One made it permanent. The Mercia
A podcast exploring how documentation shapes power across history—from medieval manorial rolls to Hollywood contracts. Each episode examines how archives become weapons, and how people throughout history have resisted er
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