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

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

Bring Out Your Dead: Latin America vs. the British Empire, the only podcast telling the complex history of British Imperialism in Latin America. Join Gruff and Chris in an auditory picture painting of a forgotten history. In this podcast we will unpack the deep-rooted history of European colonialists and resistance figures as they fight for control and influence across South and Central America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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September 8, 2023 48 mins

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 t...

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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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September 22, 2023 31 mins

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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September 29, 2023 46 mins

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 Pacif...

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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...

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October 13, 2023 43 mins

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 Joh...

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January 20, 2024 3 mins

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

Remember to follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Patreon, where extra recordings, concept art, and research interviews will all be made available. 

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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...

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September 15, 2024 53 mins

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...

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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 pl...

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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 age...

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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 p...

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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 everyt...

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February 11, 2025 21 mins
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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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 bru...

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