The Dubious Book of Famous Deeds
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The Dubious Book of Famous Deeds is a history podcast hosted by The Sonar Network. It has 22 episodes, with the latest published August 2022.
One day, Paul Bates found a book in an alley. It wasn’t a magical book, but it was very old - 132 years old, to be exact. It’s called The Pictorial Treasury of Famous Men and Famous Deeds: its cover is beautiful, its language is flowery, and its tone is problematic. It’s also full of wildly obscure and preposterously inaccurate stories about people and deeds you’ve probably never heard of. And, it’s the basis for this history podcast. Each episode Paul shares a chapter with a guest and together they cut through the rhetoric, fill in the blanks and bring a modern perspective to this relic from the height of the British Empire.
history ·en-CA ·22 episodes
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Chapter 19. Horatio Nelson, or: The Naval Gaze
Chapter 18. Samuel Colt, or: From My Old, Dead Hands
Chapter 17. Walter Raleigh, or: Misadventure Time
Chapter 16. Sir Henry Holland, or: Lady Chatterley’s Doctor
Chapter 15. Great Lighthouse Disasters, or: Lead Belly
Chapter 14. John Milton, or: Walking Tour de Force
Chapter 13. Sir Edwin Landseer, or: Must Love Dog Art
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Chapter 12. Edward Baines of Leeds, or: Trowel Drop
Chapter 11. The Emancipation of the Serfs, or: Happy Butter Week
Chapter 10. Columbus, Magellan, Da Gama & Vespucci, or: The Tale of Enrique
Chapter 9. Sir Titus Salt, or: The Silicon Valley of Wool
Chapter 8. 19th Century Surgeons, or: Time Me Gentlemen, Time Me
BONUS – Nikola Tesla & the AC/DC War, or: Pour One Out for Topsy the Elephant
Chapter 7. Thomas Edison, or: Innovation’s Greatest Monster
Chapter 6. Giovanni Dupré, or: How’s He Hiding the Genitals?
Chapter 5. Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, or: Wall to Wall Freaks
Chapter 4. The Muscovy Company, or: A Huge Plot Hole in the History of the World
Chapter 3. The Longest Tunnel in the World, or: Don’t Worry, the Hospice is Just Around the Corner
Chapter 2. Schamyl, the Circassian Chief, or: Putin’s Erotica
Chapter 1. William Shakespeare, or: Kid Prodigies are Garbage People
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