#163 Dynasties (Part 2)

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🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed!

This week we’re looking at some of the most famous families that history has to offer. We’ve got the House of Cromwell for you, plus the Astors and the incredible story of the Spencer family and their slow centuries-long rise to power.

Elsewhere, we’re talking about the demise of Antiques Roadshow now Hugh Scully has effectively been replaced by Chat GPT. If you’ve got anything to add on this or anything else, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.com

And from now on Part 1 is released on Monday and Part 2 on Wednesday - but if you want more Oh What A Time and both parts at once, you should sign up for our Patreon! On there you’ll now find:

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0:00.0	Oh, what a time is now on Patreon. You can get main feed episodes before everyone else, ad free,
0:06.4	plus access to our full archive of bonus content, two bonus episodes every month, early access
0:11.9	to live show tickets and access to the Oh Water Time group chat. Plus, if you become an Oh Water
0:16.9	Time All-Timer, myself, Tom and Ellis will riff on your name to postulate where else in history you might have popped up.
0:23.7	For all your options, you can go to patreon.com forward slash O Water Time.
0:28.7	Hello and welcome to Oh What a Time. This is Dynasties. This is Part 2. Let's get on on the show.
0:46.5	Yeah. two. Let's get on with the show. So just before we get into Dynasties, we do have the O-Wastime patron where you get two
0:51.8	bonus episodes every month. and this recent episode we released
0:54.8	as a bonus episode was
0:56.0	exclusively on the biggest sporting upsets
1:00.1	that history has to offer.
1:01.8	Would you like to hear a little bit, boys?
1:03.3	Yes.
1:03.8	Yes, please.
1:05.4	I want to take you back now
1:06.8	to the 13th of August 1919 at Saratoga where we're going to watch one of the most famous American horses in all of history.
1:15.9	Manor War, a towering chestnut cult.
1:19.4	It arrived on the scene like a force of nature.
1:21.4	He was bigger, stronger, faster than anything horse racing fans had ever seen before.
1:27.1	He was winning races at ludicrous margins, often under a tight rain.
1:31.9	Basically, every race he was in, he just battered.
1:35.0	He was on steroids.
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