Battle of Britain 'What Ifs'

Warfare

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4.5 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Jamie Wood and Professor Niall Mackay at the University of York are mathematicians who love history. They released a paper which sent the rest of the history world into a meltdown when they tried to use the statistics of airframe losses from the Battle of Britain to test just how close Germany might have come to victory in the battle. This is a fantastic crossover between history and maths, and Dan loved chatting to these guys.

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0:00.0	Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,
0:06.0	three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized tent,
0:10.7	Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.
0:13.1	All right.
0:14.0	Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.
0:16.8	And don't get us started on Mel.
0:19.4	But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.
0:22.8	All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat.
0:25.8	Keep everyone's plans alive when you travel with us.
0:28.0	P and O'Ferees, there is another way.
0:30.0	Hello everyone, I'm your host James Rogers and this is the history hit
0:35.8	Warfare podcast. For this episode I've dug back through the Dan Snow's history
0:40.2	hit archive and I've pulled out a gem of an episode with Dr. Jamie Wood and Professor
0:44.8	Neil McKay from the University of York. Now they're both mathematicians who love history and
0:49.9	what they've done is they've taken their research and their way in which they solve problems
0:55.1	within mathematics and they've applied it to work out the loss ratios on certain days during
1:00.9	the Battle of Britain and calculated what would have happened if this had
1:05.1	been replicated consistently through the period. Basically, they've worked out the what-ifs of the
1:11.7	Battle of Britain. It is truly a fascinating and
1:16.1	fantastic take so here it is Jamie Wood and Professor Neil McKay on the
1:21.6	what-ifs of the Battle of Britain you
1:45.0	B tried to apply some mathematical interrogation which historians get very
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