Poisons and Pestilence

A History of Biological and Chemical Warfare

Episodes

Total: 41

Karl Dewey (2022) Poisonous affairs: Russia’s evolving use of poisons in targeted killings https://k

A history of the foundation of the French BW programme. You can find a list of Etienne's publication

In this episode, we examine the western gunpowder revolution and consider ideas for poison weapons w

In this episode we examine preparations by the US in the advent of Operation Desert Storm (2003) for

The latest installment- covering the spread of gunpowder west, via the Mongols.  Show notes availabl

You can check out Glenn's book here: Dirty War: Rhodesia and Chemical Biological Warfare 1975-1980 -

You can find a link to Simon's work on this subject over at https://simonjoneshistorian.com/2019/08/

Image and sound from the US national archives.    Check out Reid's website over at Military Historia

11: Great Balls of Fire

2022/10/27

In this episode we examine the impact of the development of gunpowder on chemical and biological war

In this episode Dan discusses his work examining the life of Edmund Tilly. After WW2 Tilly interroga

During World War II, the Polish resistance movement used chemical and biological weapons (CBW) again

Season 2 Teaser

2022/5/3

Won't be long until we are back looking at poison arrows, toxic smoke, water poisoning and the laws

In this episode, we look at transitions in Chemical and Biological defence in the British army betwe

7: If you buboe me by now

2022/2/20

Hello! And welcome to episode 7 of the poisons and pestilence podcast- If you buboe me by now. Now I

You can check out the Declassified MOD film on the Lyme Bay Trials here (a clip of this appears in t

Welcome to the first-ever bonus episode of the poisons and pestilence podcast!   This episode is the

4: Fire in the hole

2021/11/5

This episode we're going to be looking at the time- period between roughly 1 AD and 500AD.  As we co

In Episode 3, we examine the history of biological and chemical warfare from 1000BC to 1AD   You can

In Episode 2, we continue our discussion of pre-historic biological warfare Check out the show notes

The first episode covers the pre-history of poison arrows- check out the show notes here:   https://