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Episodes

Episode 372: The French Revolution – Part 6: The Legacy

August 10, 2025
In this week's episode, wrap up this six-part mini-series on the French Revolution with its most important legacies - political, social, cultural, and historical.
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Episode 371: The French Revolution – Part 5: The Directory

August 3, 2025
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 Directory, the collapse of which represented the end of the revolution itself.
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Episode 370: The French Revolution – Part 4: The Terror

July 27, 2025
In this week's episode, get across the darkest and bloodiest chapter in French revolutionary history: the Reign of Terror, which saw tens of thousands of people killed by political violence.
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Episode 369: The French Revolution – Part 3: The Constitution

July 20, 2025
In this week's episode, understand some of the most important legacies of the French Revolution as it worked to establish a constitutional monarchy, before the ultimate abolition of the monarchy and establishment of a republic in 1792.
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Episode 368: The French Revolution – Part 2: The Revolution

July 13, 2025
In this week's episode, get across the story of the opening days of the French Revolution - the public protests and disorder which culminated in the legendarily famous Storming of the Bastille.
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Episode 367: The French Revolution – Part 1: The Crisis

July 6, 2025
In this week's episode, learn about the leadup to and origins of the French Revolution, culminating in the breakdown of the Estates-General and the Tennis Court Oath in 1789.
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Half-Arsed History LIVE: The Book Tour

July 4, 2025
History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book, releases on the 5th of August across the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand region. Pre-order your copy at Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html
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Episode 366: How Iran and the West Became Enemies

June 29, 2025
In this week's episode, unravel the long and complicated geopolitical history that turned Iran from one of the West's staunchest regional allies in the Middle East into one of its bitterest foes.
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Episode 365: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas – Part 2

June 22, 2025
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 successful and unsuccessful.
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Episode 364: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas – Part 1

June 15, 2025
In this week's episode, meet Sir Francis Drake, whose lifelong vendetta against the Spanish led to a life of high adventure - including the circumnavigation of the globe.
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Announcing: History’s Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book

June 12, 2025
History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book, releases on the 5th of August across the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand region. Pre-order your copy at Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html
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Episode 363: The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

June 8, 2025
In this week's episode, uncover the details of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, when something caused nine Soviet hikers to abandon their mountainside tent and perish in the middle of a freezing night - for reasons that have never been conclusively determined.
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Episode 362: The Sacred Band of Thebes

June 1, 2025
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 immensely important ancient battles.
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Episode 361: The Funniest Art Heists in History – Part 2

May 25, 2025
In this week's episode, get across a few more of the funniest art heists in history - including, unusually, an update on something featured in a previous episode.
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Episode 360: The Knights Templar

May 18, 2025
In this week's episode, learn all about the Knights Templar - who they were, why they were founded, what they did, and what led to their ultimate downfall.
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Episode 359: History’s Longest Unfought Wars

May 11, 2025
In this week's episode, hear about some of the longest wars that were never actually fought - four different conflicts where war was declared before being ignored or just plain forgotten about, in some cases for several centuries.
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Episode 358: History’s Weirdest Papal Conclaves

May 4, 2025
In this week's episode, hear about five of the most ridiculous stories to emerge from the history of papal conclaves - from foul-mouthed brawling, to papier-mache crowns, to the time there were four popes in a single year.
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Episode 357: The History of the Papal Conclave

April 27, 2025
In this week's episode, learn all about the papal conclave: what preceded it, its origins, its centuries of history, and all that we know about how it elects popes today, in the 21st century.
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Episode 356: A Guide to Australian Elections

April 20, 2025
In this week's episode, learn all about Australian elections - how they originated, how they've changed, how they work today, and how their results lead to parliamentary governments being formed.
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Episode 355: The Jacobite Risings and the Battle of Culloden

April 13, 2025
In this week's episode, get stuck into another tragic chapter in Scottish history with the stories of the Jacobite Risings and the famous Battle of Culloden.
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