Half-Arsed History

Half-Arsed History

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Episodes

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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Episode 354: The Buried Treasure of William Kidd

April 6, 2025
In this week's episode, meet Captain William Kidd, the only pirate in history known to have actually buried treasure - something that gave rise to one of the most common and popular pirate-themed tropes.
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Episode 353: The Historic Origins of Popular Sayings – Part 3, Nautical Edition

March 30, 2025
In this week's episode, learn the origins of five sayings that all have a nautical origin: logbook, not enough room to swing a cat, grog, three sheets to the wind, and average.
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Episode 352: The History of NATO 

March 23, 2025
In this episode, learn all about the origin and history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and the uncertain future it faces in the current global political landscape.
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Episode 351: Saint Patrick, Apostle of Ireland

March 16, 2025
In this week's episode, get to know the real Saint Patrick, whose true life story is often overshadowed by the myths and legends associated with him.
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Episode 350: Frederick the Great – Remastered

March 9, 2025
In this week's episode, meet the Prussian king Frederick the Great for the second time in this podcast's history, with a "remastered" version of the first episode ever released.
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Episode 349: The Writing of Niccolo Machiavelli

March 2, 2025
In this week's episode, meet Niccolo Machiavelli, the father of political science, and learn how his writing helped to shape today's global political landscape.
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Episode 348: The World Series Cricket Crisis

February 23, 2025
In this week's episode, get to know Xerxes I of the Achaemenid Empire, and think about why his historical legacy is perceived in the way that it is today.
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Episode 347: Xerxes the Great, King of Kings

February 16, 2025
In this week's episode, get to know Xerxes I of the Achaemenid Empire, and think about why his historical legacy is perceived in the way that it is today.
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