The Colonial Department

Lio Mangubat 184 - S8E12 Borderline Bureaucrats: An Early History of La Union

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S8E12 Borderline Bureaucrats: An Early History of La Union

INTERVIEW: Mapping a life on time—the making of a historian

S8E11: We're Off to the 1924 Paris Olympics!

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.

S3E10: Auroran Gods

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.?