Bring Out Your Dead: Latin America vs. The British Empire

Captain Morgan Part 1: Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:30:12 GMT

Season 3 is here! Join us for a long, tall drink, of history's most famous pirate and swashbuckler. Captain Morgan did far more than just making you puke at high-school house party and today we are going to begin breaking down that story. In Part 1 we lay out how Harri Morgan born to uninteresting farmers in an uninteresting village, somehow scampered his way up to the Pirate Admiral of the Caribbean. Dive with us into the brutally violent waters of the 17th century Caribbean with a detailed breakdown of Morgan's first expedition, military triumph and war crime (viewed as such by his 17th century contemporaries). Along the way we'll teach you the difference between a pirate and a buccaneer, and how to pronounce French names!

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Season 2 Epilogue: Elevator to the Abyss

Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:55:06 GMT

Join us for a Season 2 digestif as we gather together the worst figures from our last 6 episodes and follow them into the afterlife. This is our fist full blown attempt at drama so let us know what your thoughts are and if you want to see more in the next season!

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William Lamport Part 3: The Church Does not Thirst for Blood

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 19:44:18 GMT

Join us for our Season 2 Finale! This week we delve into the final part of William Lamport's life, his 17 years in an Inquisition prison. Beginning with the spectacle of William's public trail, where Spanish Criollos watched William use his public platform to air all of his grievances against the Inquisition. Then throughout his first decade in a Mexico City dungeon, William would become a prison activist and organiser doing everything he could to protect his comrades from the appalling and violent conditions of their surroundings. We will see how on Christmas Eve 1650 William escaped from his prison and had a single night of freedom. In just one night William was able to use the Inquisition's tactics against them to permanently alter the political culture of Mexico's colonial population. This is to say nothing of the 1000 Latin language poems William composed before his death at an Auto de Fe or act of faith in which he was one of the dozens of heretics ordered to be publically burned on November 19th, 1659.

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William Lamport Part 2: The First Declaration of Independence in the Americas

Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:14:27 GMT

Welcome to William Lamport Part 2, where we discuss the radical politics and revolutionary potential of the mad lad William Lamport. Today we outline the colonial class structure, and racist caste system that had come to define life in the Spanish Empire during the mid-17th century. An ailing society in which everyone was willing to rebel but lacked a unifying cause. So came William Lamport seeking to galvanize that revolutionary potential and build a post-colonial state in a precapitalist world. We will examine how in 1642, 382 years ago, 134 years before the USA's declaration of Independence, William Lamport already imagined a society with land reparations for the Indigenous peoples of New Spain. We'll look into how more than 150 years before slavery was outlawed in the Western world William Lamport was prepared to fight and die for racial equality. We'll see, how, Just as the British Empire was establishing itself in the Caribbean, Lamport already saw something beyond Imperialism. This was and is the first Declaration of Independence in the Americas, A document that is beautifully progressive, confusingly archaic, and, depressingly forgotten. Today's story shows one lost tale of what could have been, and what was intentionally crushed. It is the story of Western hegemony and just one of the thousands of voices who spoke out against it.

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William Lamport Part 1: An Irish Patriot and Mexican National Hero

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 07:04:52 GMT

This week we begin our 3 parter on the life of William Lamport (AKA Gullién de Lampart, AKA Gullién Lombardo), an Irish Patriot and Mexican National Hero. But before we talk about Guillién de Lampart, The Precursor to Mexican Independence, we first have to talk about William Lamport, the Irish Rebel and North Sea Pirate, before then talking about Gullién Lombardo, the Spanish war hero, court poet, catholic theologian and secret agent. That is just his backstory. Using William's early life as a framework we examine the political and social situation in the Viceroyalty of New Spain through the early 17th century. While in New Spain we find out who the crypto-Jews were and how the Spanish Inquisition drove them to the shores of Mexico, before then heading south to meet Gaspar Yanga, an African Royal and self-liberated slave who, from his base in the mountains of Veracruz, led a 39 year war of liberation against Spain's colonial plantation owners. We finally finish in 1642 with the arrival in New Spain of a new Viceroy and Inquisitor General whose mission is to restore profitability to the ailing colony. In their entourage comes William, with his own secret orders, given to him by the King of Spain himself.

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The Kalinago Genocide or How Britain took the Caribbean

Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:40:30 GMT

In this episode, we are travelling to the islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. This week we are going to see the British shift seamlessly from piracy to capitalist settler colonialism, all on the edges of the Spanish Empire. Much like the Spanish before them, the British will do this at the expense of a long-established Indigenous civilization, engaging in premeditated genocide for the sake of their fledgling tobacco plantations. In this episode, we bring together multiple sources to illuminate the life and death of the Kalinago whose people and history were intentionally annihilated by Britain's first colonists. As well as laying out the series of ill-planned, failed, British colonies, before, unfortunately, outlining how their first successful colony was spawned from a literal river of blood.

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Walter Raleigh's Quest for El Dorado

Sun, 15 Sep 2024 18:24:27 GMT

Join us for the forgotten tale of Walter Raleigh's El Dorado obsession. This week's episode details the famous courtier's entire life. His failure to graduate from Oxford University, his numerous war crimes in Ireland and his decade as the unofficial royal toyboy. This is just the background to Raleigh's two El Dorado expeditions in Venezuela. While the first is an embarrassing failure, the second will lead to his execution. During these journeys, we take a few stops to read Raleigh's poetry, detail the historical origin of El Dorado, and make it clear that Walter Raleigh is uniquely responsible for locking El Dorado into the collective unconscious.

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The Conquest of the Indigenous Body and Spirit

Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:21:54 GMT

Join us for our epic second season where we begin with a deep dive into the early Spanish Empire. In this episode: we explore the Conquistador Hernán Cortés' relationship with the King of Spain, the life of the supposed father of human rights, Bartolomé de las Casas, and why we no longer refer to the Central Mexican Empire as the Aztecs. We're excited to continue telling the story of British Imperialism in Latin America and will be dropping this seasons episodes every two weeks. So sit back and enjoy our latest season!

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Season 2 Teaser

Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

We are back! Following months of researching, recording, and editing season 2 is in full production. Enjoy this early teaser for our upcoming season.

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Francis Drake and the War in Latin America

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:00:00 GMT

In our action-packed season 1 finale, we follow Drake as he twice leads naval flotillas into the heart of the Spanish Empire.

On our journey, we'll detail how Cartegena almost became an English colony, why Drake did not invent the Mojito, as well as fun Gaelic facts, as we chart the battles, victories, and ultimately defeats in Drake's desperate middle-aged attempt to hold on to his glory before both he and John Hawkins meet an enemy they cannot defeat, their bowels.

We also want to extend our deepest thanks to all of you listeners who have stuck with us through this experimental first season. We're still working it out as we go but the positive feedback from all of you guys has convinced us to keep going.

We will be taking a 1-month break before coming back with a series covering the 17th century.

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The Anglo-Spanish War: Welcome to the War Room

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:00:00 GMT

Join us for our first ever war episode! Today we are covering the Anglo-Spanish war. As the antagonising actions of Francis Drake and imperial confidence of the English blow up into a war on land and sea. This week will be laying out the European course of the war as battles are fought in England, Spain, Holland and Ireland, before returning to Latin America next week.

In this war, we will explore the new imperial ideology that has given the English so much confidence. Why the Spanish campaign to stop them is a complete failure, and how, as a result the English, the Dutch and the French begin their globe spanning empires. Remember there is no fighting in the war room!

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Francis Drake Part 2.5: Drake it off!

Sat, 30 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome to Francis Drake 2.5. Doughty is dead, the ship has finally been named the Golden Hinde, and now Francis and after a quick trip to the captain's quarters, is ready to get up to no good.

Follow us through another Hurricane, that will see Francis Drake officially declared dead by the survivors, before he goes on to claim Britain's first overseas territory (never seen by anyone ever again) in the South Pacific, and found the first ever colony in the British Empire (never returned to) in sunny San Francisco.

As we follow Drake on his journey your faithful tour guides Gruff and Chris will draw your attention to everything around you. From the wars of resistance being fought by the Mapuche of Southern Chile, to relative quality of Spanish ship names, all while we tell you how the British Empire was born.

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Francis Drake Part 2: Drake it to Make it

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 18:00:00 GMT

Drake Part 2, will have a bit of a different vibe as we set up the chaotic, storm-plagued, Atlantic leg of Francis Drake's circumnavigation.

Most of all we will lay bare the inky insanity that grips the English mind once it finds itself cold and isolated on the other side of the world.

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Francis Drake Part 1: Drake it to the Limit

Sat, 16 Sep 2023 18:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we will be outlining the history of Spanish colonisation. Touching on the early wars of resistance. As well as the kingdom of the Panamanian Cimarrónes, a society of escaped slaves who challenged Spanish rule for close to a century.

As all of this is happening, Francis Drake, a slave trader and coward(bitch!), will seek to rebuild his reputation and gain his place in the colonial pantheon.

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John Hawkins - Britain's First Slave Trader

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:00:00 GMT

Our first episode, will go way back to the early seed of British Imperialism planted in the mid-16th Century. Join us as we lay out the story of John Hawkins, whose singular obsession of trading enslaved Africans to Spanish American colonies will bring an ignored and uncultured Northern European Queendom into direct conflict with the world's first global super-power.

The early days of the horrific industry known as the Atlantic slave trade will be laid bare. How and why it developed, and its central role in building the framework of the early British Empire.

So join us to find out how a British capitalist invented the Triangular Trade, and why Queen Elizabeth I gave it the full backing of the British crown. On the lighter side, you will also learn why the British got the Sweet Potato years before they ever tasted a Potato and the disappointing realities of historical ship names. All before the Spanish Empire intervenes and brings the enterprise to a fiery end.

Join Gruff and Chris, as we examine the first brick laid in the building of the British Empire.

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