Restless Times in History

Part 5: Who was Bluetooth? The beginning of the end

Part 5: After years of fighting external enemies and leading successful Viking raids - Bluetooth finally realizes, that deadly enemies are far closer to home.
Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Danish King, Harald Bluetooth.  But who was Bluetooth, and why did his achievements in the late Viking age, lead a group of young tech inventors in the 20th century to name an innovative technology after him?
 
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Part 4: Who was Bluetooth: A hotheaded enemy

Part 4: Friends may fade away, but enemies are always close at hand...
Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Danish King, Harald Bluetooth.  But who was Bluetooth, and why did his achievements in the late Viking age, lead a group of young tech inventors in the 20th century to name an innovative technology after him?
 
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Part 3: Who was Bluetooth? A viking King takes on the Holy Roman Empire

Part 3: With Norway as an ally, Bluetooth looks south for land to conquer
Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Danish King, Harald Bluetooth.  But who was Bluetooth, and why did his achievements in the late Viking age, lead a group of young tech inventors in the 20th century to name an innovative technology after him?
 
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Part 2: Who was Bluetooth? -Blood Axe, Greycloak and murder on the beach

Amendment to the episode: Next episode will be published Freday 14th (not Wednesday 12th)
This episode: Part 2: Bluetooth rules his kingdom of Denmark even as he covets the lands of his neighbours
Bluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Danish King, Harald Bluetooth.  But who was Bluetooth, and why did his achievements in the late Viking age, lead a group of young tech inventors in the 20th century to name an innovative technology after him?
 
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Part 1: Who was Bluetooth? - Gorm the Old and the kingdom united

Part 1: PrologueBluetooth technology was named after a 10th century Danish King, Harald Bluetooth.  But who was Bluetooth, and why did his achievements in the late Viking age, lead a group of young tech inventors in the 20th century to name an innovative technology after him?
 
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Part 3/3 Tennis and the Tudor Dynasty - Gambling, Greed, and Execution

How did tennis evolve from an 11th century game played behind the cloistered walls of French monasteries to becoming the sport of kings?
Part 3: Henry VIII knew how to acquire a magnificent residence complete with tennis court - by gifting his old friend's possessions to himself. Anne Boleyn never received her winnings - and Elizabeth I enjoyed a bet.
The conclusion to the 3 part series on the history of medieval and early modern tennis - once known as royal tennis - today called real tennis.
 
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Part 2: Medieval Tennis - Dungeons, Balls, and the Wrath of God

Part 2 of the history of royal tennis, today known as real tennis. 
As game courts increased in number, so too did the punishments meted out to those, who attempted to sell dirty balls. By the 15th century, the game had become The Sport of (warrior) Kings. But just as kings played the game, the game could still be the death of kings, leading to sovereigns dying in squalor in France or trapped in tunnels in Scotland.
 
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Part 1: Medieval Tennis - Fun and Death

Part 1 of the history of royal tennis. A ball game once practised by 12th century monks, up against monastic walls,  it came to be the favoured sport of medieval kings.  But even as sovereigns played on their own newly constructed courts,  medieval tennis would be at the heart of several sudden, brutal, and unusual deaths among those, who ruled. 
 
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Part 2/2: The short (and sometimes deadly) history of the fork

From devil's tool to the instrument of modesty - the fork has been called many things! 
A king, who would be beheaded, a sovereign, known as the Sun King, a queen, hailed as Gloriana - all had an opinion on the fork, which saw its fortunes rise and fall, as Empires came and went, and the fork came to represent the ideals of a new era.
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Part 1: The short (and sometimes deadly) history of the fork

"Devil's tool. Murder Weapon, Diplomatic Device"
From the Far East to the Byzantine Empire - from Constantinople to the Jewel of the Renaissance and on to the city of lights. The fork, as we know it, has a colourful history.