Hanging with History

About Hanging with History

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.

Publisher

Harald Hansen

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

24 Mar 2020

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

230 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   227. Tudor Poor Laws and Approach to Poverty

   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 failures. There was one successful poverty program which, despite many flaws, solved the problem of famine among the poor. Just one? How could this possibly be? If we brutally summarize Proust we would say, first of all, most areas did not rationalize thei...

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   226. Luther, Erasmus and the Poor

   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 social changes happening where the power of the central court is growing and that of the knights is weakening. The economy is becoming more dependent on cash and trade and division of labor. Wealth is increasing, but at the same time there are more people and ...

3. 

   16 Sept 2026

   225. Early Modern Poverty, Part 4

   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 look at Lyons, Valladolid and England. It’s not easy, it never is when demons are involved. Anyway, we will have looked at France, the low countries, England, Spain and Italy. One of the points is that Humanist in...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 37 / 100

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Quality

40

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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