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The Colonial Department — 116 episodes
S8E10 In Paracale, the Faintest Gleam of Gold
S8E9 White-Hot Heat: Climate and Culture in the Late 1800s
INTERVIEW: What was it like to commute in Manila 100 years ago?
S8E8 Pacific Sick Ships: Medicine Aboard the Galleons
S8E7 The Fractured Plateau: Bukidnon in World War II
INTERVIEW: Making a Magellan Comedy Manga
S8E6: After the Black Ships Departed
S8E5: Rajio Taisō; Or, How to Get Fit in a Time of War
INTERVIEW: Restoring historical markers with Project Panandito
S8E4: Edison’s Cameras, Manila’s Trenches
S8E3: Nobody Expects the Philippine Inquisition!
S8E2: Riding a Tram in 1911 Manila
INTERVIEW: Exploring the food history of the Philippines
S8E1: The Philippine Sour-chipelago
An important announcement about the future of The Colonial Dept.
INTERVIEW: Twin timelines, entangled histories
INTERVIEW: Sungka as a wargame?
S7E13: The War and the Weatherpriests
S7E12: Turbulent Times at Manila Bay
S7E11: Paint Me By Your Name
S7E10: Abaca World War
S7E9: Running of the Bulls, Part Two
S7E8: Running of the Bulls, Part One
S7E7: Extramuros
S7E6: Shisōsen—A Japanese Propagandist Confronts the Filipino Psyche
S7E5: Inside Tom’s Dixie Kitchen, Prewar Manila’s Hottest Restaurant
S7E4: The Plague Years
S7E3: A Short Philippine History of Beverages
S7E2: An Ottoman Emissary in Mindanao
S7E1: Foreign Piano Devils
S6E13: If Not Shipwrecks, Scurvy
S6E12: The Skull Photographers
S6E11: Robinson Crusoe Captures a Manila Galleon
S6E10: A Guerilla’s Torment
S6E9: Francisco Goya and the Royal Philippine Dead End
S6E8: The Lost War Boats of Lake Lanao
Special: The Colonial Dept. 2024 Year in Review
S6E7: Manila, Meet the Automobile
S6E6: A Saint, a Samurai, and a Shipwreck
S6E5: Who Murdered Señor Villegas?
S6E4: When Giants Walked the Philippines
S6E3: Rada's Dilemma
Bonus: The Philippine book launch... LIVE!
S6E2: The Last Cavalry Charge
S6E1: The Dudes and Dandies of Colonial Manila
Trailer: What is the Colonial Dept.?
Special: The book launch... live!
Special: All about the book 'Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves'
Special: The book version of this podcast is now live… and so are the remastered eps!
S5E13: Union Jack & Union Jade
S5E12: Who Can Mister Filipino Marry?
S5E11: Sweet Carolines
S5E10: Off With Their Heads
S5E9: Manila Starves!
S5E8: Defending Against the Slave Raids
S5E7: Climbing Banahaw in the Name of Science
S5E6: The Spanish Ore-cuppation
S5E5: The Death March Down South
S5E4: Assembling a Colonial Breakfast
S5E3: An Awkward Armada
S5E2: Hattie the Headhunter
S5E1: The Governor-General’s Love Affair
S4E13: Tour de Tojo
S4E12: A Muscular Christianity
S4E11: When a Romanov Visited Pampanga
S4E10: A Flash Flood of Fast Fashion
S4E9: The Lethal Cost of Building the Galleons
S4E8: British East India Co., Manila Branch
S4E7: Upon This Rock
S4E6: The Big Book of Family Names
S4E5: Shadow of the Fatherland
S4E4: The Bicycle in Peace and War
S4E3: Magellan at the Edge of the World
S4E2: What Happened at Hanapēpē
S4E1: Spies for the Shogun
S3E13: The Friar Who Loved the Flowers and the Trees
S3E12: Anak Sa Hapon—The Nikkeijin at the Outbreak of World War II
S3E11: The Dawning of the Age of Steam
S3E10: Auroran Gods
S3E9: A Day in the Life in Colonial Manila
S3E8: God’s Own Medicine, Part Two
S3E7: God’s Own Medicine, Part One
S3E6: From "Constaboy" to Samurai
S3E5: Sultan of Broadway
S3E4: The Coffee Dons (and Don'ts)
S3E3: Mugger, the Giant Crocodile
S3E2: That Sweet Gangland Music
S3E1: The Silent Service
The Colonial Dept: A Trailer
S2E13: The Hell Atop a Dead Volcano
S2E12: A Very Strange Map, Indeed
S2E11: First Contact Feasts
S2E10: Mr. Burnham Goes to Baguio
S2E9: Aztec Eagles, Philippine Skies
S2E8: Conceiving Concepcion, Part Two (Remastered)
S2E7: Conceiving Concepcion, Part One (Remastered)
S2E6: E-RAT-icate!
S2E5: A Dream of Silk
S2E4: The Walls of Intramuros
S2E3: From Cambodia With Love
S2E2: Homo Caudatus
S2E1: Silk, Silver, Spices, Slaves (Remastered)
A Sneak Peek of Season 2
S1E13: Tornaviaje
S1E12: The Pearl, and Plunder, of the Orient Seas
S1E11: Lights, Camera, Propaganda!
S1E10: You Otter Get Rich In Manila
S1E9: Spain's Last Stand, Part Two
S1E8: Spain's Last Stand, Part One
S1E7: Seven Months of Darkness (Remastered)
S1E6: Manilaner—The Story of a Jewish Refugee in Manila (Remastered)
S1E5: That Strange Disease Called Philippinitis (Remastered Ver.)
S1E4: The Lost Plan of Z (Remastered Version)
S1E3: Baseball Country (Remastered Ver.)
S1E2: The Manilamen Mercs of Shanghai (Remastered Ver.)
S1E1: The Three Mandarins (Remastered Ver.)