The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles

What happens when you send Indiana Jones into the First World War?

In this episode we are joined by Thomas Riddle.

Thomas runs the website indyintheclassroom.com (which aims to provide teachers with resources to integrate everyone’s favourite archaeologist into the classroom) to discuss the 1990s TV series ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles’.

Along the way we discuss the show as an educational tool, the many historical figures that appear in the series, and the importance of learning foreign languages!

References

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992-1996)
Samuel Hynes, The Soldiers’ Tale: Bearing Witness to Modern War (Allen Lane, 1997)

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Professor of Modern British History at Leeds University. My research interests lie at the intersection of the histories of gender, particularly masculinity, medicine and warfare.

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A historian focusing on the First World War and popular representations of warfare. I received my PhD from the University of Sussex in 2013. My thesis examined relations between British and French soldiers during the First World War.

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Is a Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds University. My current research focuses on manpower and authority in Britain, starting with the First World War and running through until the end of the Second World War.