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The Colonial Department

History

The Colonial Department

Lio Mangubat

INTERVIEW: Making a Magellan Comedy Manga

June 27, 2026 3:30am 40 min

In the offbeat manga Ferdie!, Ferdinand Magellan and Antonio Pigafetta are caught up in a storm right before they arrive in the Philippines…and find themselves transported five hundred years into the future into a place ...

S8E6: After the Black Ships Departed

June 13, 2026 7:30am 17 min

The island of Balangingi stands halfway between Borneo and Mindanao. Surrounding Balangingi were sharp reefs and surging cross-currents that would be lethal to any boatman… except for the Balangingi Samal, of course. Sur...

S8E5: Rajio Taisō; Or, How to Get Fit in a Time of War

May 29, 2026 9:42am 15 min

At seven o’clock on the dot, a high-pitched Japanese voice blared out from speakers and switched-on radios all across the archipelago. The program came on like clockwork, chirping in immediately after every station signe...

INTERVIEW: Restoring historical markers with Project Panandito

May 23, 2026 5:30am 50 min

You pass by them every day: plaques of metal set onto walls and plinths, heavy with text and history. You may have wondered—how do you maintain these historical markers?A group of students in the University of the Philip...

S8E4: Edison’s Cameras, Manila’s Trenches

May 08, 2026 10:25pm 15 min

Yes, Edison as in Thomas Edison, the light bulb guy. At the turn of his century, the tech wizard of Menlo Park produced thousands of movies as a showcase for his company’s vitascopes. Among those movies are five films ab...

S8E3: Nobody Expects the Philippine Inquisition!

April 25, 2026 8:45am 17 min

When you pulled up to the dock, they were there waiting for you, those holy men of God.But beyond inspecting ships that docked in the ports of Manila and Cavite for blasphemers and banned items, the Inquisition in the Ph...

S8E2: Riding a Tram in 1911 Manila

April 10, 2026 6:00pm 17 min

What kind of city was waiting for Dutch scholar Gerret Pieter Rouffaer when he got to Manila?After more than a decade of occupation, the Americans had given the colonial capital some thorough nips and tucks. Aside from t...

INTERVIEW: Exploring the food history of the Philippines

April 04, 2026 11:01am 37 min

“There’s a message to it: It’s our responsibility to keep Filipino food popular!”At the launch for her book What Recipes Don’t Tell: Philippine Food History in Fifty Words, author and historian Felice Prudente Sta. Maria...

S8E1: The Philippine Sour-chipelago

March 21, 2026 11:01am 17 min

Sourness, according to Doreen Fernandez, “is a favored Philippine flavor.” Just how sour is sour? “Sour enough to savor, to make the lips pucker and the eyes squint slightly, and yet not too sour—just at the point of per...

An important announcement about the future of The Colonial Dept.

February 26, 2026 7:33pm 6 min

Before we start Season 8, I have an important announcement about this little podcast. For more info, check out this Instagram post.

INTERVIEW: Twin timelines, entangled histories

February 06, 2026 6:00pm 37 min

“What does it take for a culture that has caused a lot of pain and suffering to have any chance at redemption… or any sense of justice?”Tom Sykes’ riotous new book—a collision of a neon-powered 1980s Manila and a disaste...

INTERVIEW: Sungka as a wargame?

January 27, 2026 10:01pm 45 min

What a folk game can tell us about how a datu waged war. An interview with Micah Perez of the UP Diliman Department of History. The Colonial Dept. Interview is a bonus show where I talk to researchers and authors shining...

Extra Credit: The supersized storms that hit the Philippines

December 29, 2025 6:02am 4 min

From the archives of Philippine history, meteorologist Fr. Manuel Selga makes a historical list of some deadly typhoons. (Listen to S7E13 before listening to this one!)

S7E13: The War and the Weatherpriests

December 20, 2025 9:46am 17 min

Ever since its founding in the 1860s, the Manila Observatory had stood watch against the typhoons and hurricanes that threatened to strike the Philippines. But decades later, they were unprepared for a different kind of ...

Extra Credit: What we can still learn from the Laguna Copperplate Inscription

December 05, 2025 6:00pm 5 min

One of the Philippines’ most important archaeological finds, this thin sheet of metal still contains many mysteries. (Listen to S7E12 before listening to this one!)

S7E12: Turbulent Times at Manila Bay

November 28, 2025 6:28pm 16 min

In the late 1500s, sultans, kings, and outlaws alike all wanted a little slice of Manila. And over two turbulent decades, everyone from faraway Spain to neighboring Brunei asserted their claims over the rajahs and datus ...

Extra Credit: The Indian-Armenian who preserved and produced Philippine art

November 23, 2025 1:44am 4 min

Born in Calcutta and in love with Philippine fashion, Rafael Daniel Baboom was a true partner in the creation of 19th-century Philippine art. (Listen to S7E11 before listening to this one!)

S7E11: Paint Me By Your Name

November 15, 2025 8:41am 17 min

The nineteenth century—steamships, family names, world trade, foreign firms, liberal ideas. Great tides of change are roiling Manila. In the middle of the chaos, a new art trend captures the imagination of local elites. ...

Extra Credit: On Tomas Claudio and other Filipinos in the frontlines of World War I

November 08, 2025 6:57pm 4 min

Tomas Claudio wasn’t the only Filipino who fought in the trenches of the Great War. Thousands of others also enlisted. (Listen to S7E10 before listening to this one!)

S7E10: Abaca World War

November 01, 2025 9:54am 17 min

It was the Great War, the War to End All the Wars… and Philippine abaca merchants were raking in sky-high profits. The world’s most powerful navies relied on this plant—which is native to the Philippines—to keep their wa...

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