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Welcome along to Half-Arsed History! It's a weekly history podcast about nothing in particular. For around half an hour a week, it makes your host Riley Knight feel as though his useless his...
In this week's episode, hear the gruesome tale of the Donner Party, when a group of westward migrants became trapped in snow on the Sierra N...
In this week's episode, explore the lasting consequences of the 1973 Oil Crisis, and compare it with the current energy crisis the world is...
In this week's episode, learn all about the Avignon Papacy, to understand why and how the US recently invoked it as a threat against the Vat...
In this week's episode, explore the historical and contemporary legacies of the British East India Company, examined through nationalist, po...
In this week's episode, discover how and why the British East India Company, an immensely powerful and wealthy imperial institution, came cr...
In this week's episode, hear about the phase of conquest and expansion that transformed the British East India Company into one of the large...
In this week's episode, get across how the British East India Company transformed from a purely commercial enterprise to a sovereign entity...
In this week's episode, hear about the early history of the English East India Company, and how it moved away from the Indonesian spice trad...
In this week's episode, learn about the global 16th century trading conditions that ultimately led to the formation of the East India Compan...
In this week's episode, get a taste of what this show might have sounded like if it had begun as a podcast of a different genre.
In this week's episode, get to know Nicolaus Copernicus, the 15th-century astronomer who brought about a historical paradigm shift with his...
In this week's episode, discover how, why, and perhaps most importantly where modern Singapore was founded, back in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raf...
In this week's episode, meet Catherine the Great, the empress who successfully ruled Russia for almost 35 years despite usurping a throne sh...
In this week's episode, become acquainted with Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, known as Sarah Island, which was one of the cruellest and mo...
In this week's episode, head the gruesome and tragic tale of the Raft of the Medusa, when almost 150 people were set adrift and abandoned on...
In this week's episode, meet Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the famous and immensely influential engineer, whose work encompassed bridges, tunnels...
In this week's episode, get across the story of Operation Just Cause, when the US staged an invasion of Panama in 1989, capturing and airlif...
In week's this episode, hear the tale of Jean de Carrouges, who fought a duel to the death to seek justice for his wife Marguerite.
In this week's episode, meet five more historical figures with strange epithets: Æthelred the Unready, Constantine V Koprónymos, Louis Do-No...
In this week's episode, hear the incredible tale of Air Canada Flight 143, when a Boeing 767 ran out of fuel mid-flight and so had to be flo...
In this week's episode, hear about the series of ridiculous setbacks and disasters that took place as part of the laying of the first transa...
In this week's episode, get to know the remarkable Beatrix Potter, whose historical legacy goes a lot further than just the authorship of an...
In this week's episode, hear about the history behind the names of five nations, all named after real historical figures.
In this episode, get across the origin and history of a fierce century-and-a-half sporting rivalry, brought to life whenever Australia face...
In this week's episode, hear the story of the Dismissal: the 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis, when Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was tu...
In this week's episode, apropos of nothing, meet three historical younger-born princes who nothing but a royal pain in the arse for their ol...
In this week's episode, learn about the Louvre's most infamous heist: the time that the Mona Lisa itself was stolen by an Italian carpenter...
In this week's episode, get stuck into the mystery of the Tichborne Claimant, when a butcher from Wagga Wagga claimed to be the long-lost he...
In this week's episode, get to know Matthew Flinders, the explorer and navigator who was the first person to circumnavigate Australia - and...
In this week's episode, uncover the truth behind five more historical misconceptions: what Roman vomitoriums were used for, mediaeval life e...
In this week's episode, meet Matilda of Tuscany, also known as the "Great Countess", a woman who played a very important role in the politic...
In this week's episode, meet Dick Turpin, an 18th-century highwayman who passed into English folklore for his daring predations as a violent...
In this week's episode, get to know Khan Krum the Fearsome, a 9th-century leader of the Bulgarian Empire who is famous for, amongst other th...
In this week's episode, get the best kind of advice - unsolicited advice - as to how to bring your creative endeavours to life (there are al...
In this week's episode, enjoy a series of shameful confessions about the mistakes - both those that were found and missed - in History's Str...
In this week's episode, hear all about the editing and proofreading process that History's Strangest Deaths underwent, as well as a painful...
In this week's episode, get across the behind-the-scenes details when it came to drafting and pitching process for History's Strangest Death...
In this week's episode, wrap up this six-part mini-series on the French Revolution with its most important legacies - political, social, cul...
In this week's episode, get across the final chapter in the tale of the French Revolution: the broad political failure that was the French D...
In this week's episode, get across the darkest and bloodiest chapter in French revolutionary history: the Reign of Terror, which saw tens of...
In this week's episode, understand some of the most important legacies of the French Revolution as it worked to establish a constitutional m...
In this week's episode, get across the story of the opening days of the French Revolution - the public protests and disorder which culminate...
In this week's episode, learn about the leadup to and origins of the French Revolution, culminating in the breakdown of the Estates-General...
History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book, releases on the 5th of August across the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand r...
In this week's episode, unravel the long and complicated geopolitical history that turned Iran from one of the West's staunchest regional al...
In this week's episode, finish off the story of the famed Sir Francis Drake, and hear about his later campaigns agains the Spanish - both su...
In this week's episode, meet Sir Francis Drake, whose lifelong vendetta against the Spanish led to a life of high adventure - including the...
History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book, releases on the 5th of August across the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand r...
In this week's episode, uncover the details of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, when something caused nine Soviet hikers to abandon their mountain...
In this week's episode, meet the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite heavy infantry unit, made up of 150 pairs of lovers, that took part in imme...