All Episodes

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Week 34: Edmond Halley Observes His Comet

Tickets for the 2026 Book Tour are now available!

Episode 425: The Capture of the USS Chesapeake

Week 33: The Bermuda Gunpowder Heist

Episode 424: Vincent van Gogh, the Tortured Artist

Week 32: Lt. General Patton Slaps a Soldier... Again

Episode 423: The Plague of Athens

Week 31: The Hammer and Feather on the Moon

Episode 422: Athens vs. Sparta - the Peloponnesian War

Apologies to Apple Podcasts Subscribers

Week 30: Tobacco Comes to England

Episode 421: The Successful Failure of Apollo 13

Week 29: The Football War

Episode 420: The History of Cannabis

Week 28: The First Ascent of the Matterhorn

Episode 419: Mata Hari, the Seductress-Turned-Spy

Week 27: Oxford University’s 500-Year Grudge

Announcing: The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of, the second Half-Arsed History book

Episode 418: The Stonewall Riots, the Origin of Pride

Week 26: The Tunguska Event

Episode 417: The History of the FIFA World Cup - Part 3

Week 25: The Hand of God

Episode 416: The History of the FIFA World Cup - Part 2

Week 24: The 1955 Le Mans Disaster

Episode 415: The History of the FIFA World Cup - Part 1

Week 23: The Treaty of Tordesillas

Episode 414: The Hindenburg Disaster

Week 22: The Disappearance of Maurice Wilson

Episode 413: J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings

Week 21: Pepsi Number Fever

Episode 412: The Seven Voyages of Zheng He

Week 20: The Fall of Acre

Episode 411: The True Story of Pocahontas

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Week 19: The Assassination of Spencer Perceval

Episode 410: John Harrison’s Marine Chronometer

Week 18: George Psalmanazar and the Formosa Hoax

Week 17: The Battle of Clontarf

Episode 408: The 1973 Oil Crisis

Week 16: The Death of the Red Baron

Episode 407: The Avignon Papacy

Week 15: The Invention of Cornflakes

Episode 406: The East India Company - Part 6: Legacies and Lessons

Week 14: The Rescue of Poon Lim

Episode 405: The East India Company - Part 5: Downfall and Dissolution

Week 13: The Spaghetti Tree Hoax

Episode 404: The East India Company - Part 4 Expansion and Empire

Week 12: England Loses the 1966 World Cup

Episode 403: The East India Company - Part 3: Conquest and Corruption

Week 11: The Assassination of Julius Caesar

Episode 402: The East India Company - Part 2: Footholds and Factories

Week 10: The 13 Original Rules of Golf

Episode 401: The East India Company - Part 1: Spices and Stocks

Week 9: The Great Fire of Meireki

Episode 400: What Half-Arsed History Could Have Been

Week 8: Three Presidents in One Hour

Episode 399: Nicolaus Copernicus and Copernican Heliocentrism

Week 7: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre

Episode 398: The Foundation of Modern Singapore

Week 6: The Sack of Baghdad

Episode 397: Catherine the Great, the Enlightened Empress

Week 5: The Day the Music Died

Episode 396: The Horrors of Sarah Island

Week 4: When Some Ships Sailed from Botany Bay to Port Jackson

Episode 395: The Raft of the Medusa

Week 3: The Miracle on the Hudson

Episode 394: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the Great Engineer

Week 2: Caesar Crosses the Rubicon

Episode 393: Operation Just Cause

Week 1: The Introduction of the Euro

Update: Half-Arsed History in 2026

QAH Episode 143: William McGonagall, History's Worst Poet

Episode 392: Jean de Carrouges and the Last Duel

Inventions Episode 52: The Smartphone

QAH Episode 142: The Principality of Sealand

Episode 391: History's Weirdest Epithets - Part 2

Inventions Episode 51: The Internet

QAH Episode 141: The Stone of Scone

Episode 390: The Miracle Landing of the Gimli Glider

Inventions Episode 50: The Global Positioning System

QAH Episode 140: A Brief History of Morse Code

Episode 389: The First Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

Inventions Episode 49: The Personal Computer

QAH Episode 139: The SS Princess Alice Disaster

Episode 388: Beatrix Potter, the Enterprising Author

Inventions Episode 48: The Pill

QAH Episode 138: The Mad Trapper of Rat River

Episode 387: Nations Named After People

Inventions Episode 47: Velcro

QAH Episode 137: W.G. Grace, the Great Cricketer

Episode 386: The History of the Ashes

Inventions Episode 46: The Microwave Oven

QAH Episode 136: The Petrov Affair

Episode 385: The 1975 Australian Constitutional Crisis

Inventions Episode 45: The Ballpoint Pen

QAH Episode 135: Robert Curthose, the Mutinous Elder Brother

Episode 384: History’s Problematic Princes

Inventions Episode 44: Penicillin

QAH Episode 134: The Venus de Milo

Episode 383: That Time the Mona Lisa Was Stolen from the Louvre

Inventions Episode 43: Plastic

QAH Episode 133: The Lake Nyos Disaster

Episode 382: The Tichborne Claimant

Inventions Episode 42: The Aeroplane

QAH Episode 132: Roy Sullivan, the Human Lightning Rod

Episode 381: Matthew Flinders, the Man Who Named Australia

Inventions Episode 41: Radio

QAH Episode 131: Australia's Silliest Laws - Part 2

Episode 380: History’s Biggest Misconceptions - Part 3

Inventions Episode 40: Aspirin

QAH Episode 130: Australia's Silliest Laws - Part 1

Episode 379: Matilda of Tuscany, the Great Countess

Inventions Episode 39: The X-Ray Machine

QAH Episode 129: Britain's Silliest Laws

Episode 378: Dick Turpin, the Infamous Highwayman

Inventions Episode 38: The Automobile

QAH Episode 128: The Death of Allan Pinkerton

Episode 377: Krum the Fearsome, Bane of Emperors

Inventions Episode 37: The Light Bulb

QAH Episode 127: HAH Live Q&A from Maroochydore

Episode 376: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Maroochydore

Inventions Episode 36: The Telephone

QAH Episode 126: HAH Live Q&A from Sydney & Brisbane

Episode 375: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Brisbane

Inventions Episode 35: The Internal Combustion Engine

QAH Episode 125: The Death of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar

Episode 374: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Melbourne

Inventions Episode 34: Barbed Wire

QAH Episode 124: Emperor Caracalla’s Wedding Massacre

Episode 373: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Sydney

Inventions Episode 33: The Lift

QAH Episode 123: The Mayerling Incident

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

Inventions Episode 32: The Refrigerator

QAH Episode 122: The Festival of the Supreme Being

History's Strangest Deaths is Out Now!

Episode 371: The French Revolution - Part 5: The Directory

Inventions Episode 31: The Sewing Machine

QAH Episode 121: A Brief History of the Guillotine

Episode 370: The French Revolution - Part 4: The Terror

Inventions Episode 30: The Friction Match

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QAH Episode 120: The Man in the Iron Mask

Episode 369: The French Revolution - Part 3: The Constitution

Inventions Episode 29: The Camera

QAH Episode 119: Charles Boycott and the Boycott Affair

Episode 368: The French Revolution - Part 2: The Revolution

Inventions Episode 28: The Bicycle

QAH Episode 118: Run Like Pheidippides - A Half-Arsed History Couch to 5K

Episode 367: The French Revolution - Part 1: The Crisis

Inventions Episode 27: The Stethoscope

QAH Episode 117: The Canadian Caper

Episode 366: How Iran and the West Became Enemies

Inventions Episode 26: Canned Food

QAH Episode 116: Chevaliere d’Eon, the Spy Who Defied Gender

Episode 365: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 2

Inventions Episode 25: Railways

QAH Episode 115: The St Scholastica Day Riot

Episode 364: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 1

Inventions Episode 24: The Steam Engine

QAH Episode 114: The Legend of Lasseter’s Reef

Episode 363: The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Inventions Episode 23: The Thermometer

Announcing: History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book

QAH Episode 113: Mad Jack Mytton, the Regency Rake

Episode 362: The Sacred Band of Thebes

Inventions Episode 22: The Microscope

QAH Episode 112: Elmer McCurdy, the Mummified Outlaw

Episode 361: The Funniest Art Heists in History - Part 2

Inventions Episode 21: The Telescope

QAH Episode 111: The Egon Kisch Affair

Episode 360: The Knights Templar

Inventions Episode 20: The Flushing Toilet

QAH Episode 110: The Mary Celeste - Remastered

Episode 359: History’s Longest Unfought Wars

Inventions Episode 19: The Printing Press

QAH Episode 109: The Cadaver Synod - Remastered

Episode 358: History’s Weirdest Papal Conclaves

Inventions Episode 18: The Mechanical Clock

QAH Episode 108: The Defenestrations of Prague - Remastered

Episode 357: The History of the Papal Conclave

Inventions Episode 17: Eyeglasses

QAH Episode 107: Lord Timothy Dexter, the Whacko Entrepreneur - Remastered

Episode 356: A Guide to Australian Elections

Inventions Episode 16: The Compass

QAH Episode 106: Jeanne de Clisson, Lioness of Brittany - Remastered

Episode 355: The Jacobite Risings and the Battle of Culloden

Inventions Episode 15: Gunpowder

QAH Episode 105: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand - Remastered

Episode 354: The Buried Treasure of William Kidd

Inventions Episode 14: The Toothbrush

QAH Episode 104: The War of the Oaken Bucket - Remastered

Episode 353: The Historic Origins of Popular Sayings - Part 3, Nautical Edition

Inventions Episode 13: Toilet Paper

QAH Episode 103: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace - Remastered

Episode 352: The History of NATO

Inventions Episode 12: The Stirrup

QAH Episode 102: D.B. Cooper - Remastered

Episode 351: Saint Patrick, Apostle of Ireland

Inventions Episode 11: The Wheelbarrow

QAH Episode 101: Olga of Kyiv - Remastered

Episode 350: Frederick the Great - Remastered

Inventions Episode 10: Paper

QAH Episode 100: Ask Me Anything

Episode 349: The Writing of Niccolo Machiavelli

Inventions Episode 9: The Arch

QAH Episode 99: Victor Lustig, the Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower

Episode 348: The World Series Cricket Crisis

Inventions Episode 8: Coinage

QAH Episode 98: A Brief History of Seafaring

Episode 347: Xerxes the Great, King of Kings

Inventions Episode 7: Concrete

QAH Episode 97: Humanity’s Mastery of Fire

Episode 346: Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

Inventions Episode 6: Rubber

QAH Episode 96: A Brief History of Stone Tools

Episode 345: The History of Greenland

Inventions Episode 5: Glass

QAH Episode 95: The War of Jenkins’ Ear

Episode 344: The Mutiny on the Wager

Inventions Episode 4: Soap

QAH Episode 94: Samuel Pepys’ Account of the Great Fire of London

Episode 343: The Great Fire of London

Inventions Episode 3: Writing

QAH Episode 93: Kubla Khan, Coleridge’s Opium-Induced Masterpiece

Episode 342: The Travels of Marco Polo

Inventions Episode 2: The Plough

QAH Episode 92: Ubre Blanca, Fidel Castro’s Favourite Cow

Episode 341: The History of Cricket - Part 2

Inventions Episode 1: The Wheel

QAH Episode 91: The 1868 Indigenous Australian Tour of England

Episode 340: The History of Cricket - Part 1

Monuments: the Appendix

Monuments Episode 52: The Sydney Opera House

QAH Episode 90: A Brief History of Santa Claus

Episode 339: The History of Christmas

Monuments Episode 51: The Berlin Wall

QAH Episode 89: Frank Shackleton and the Irish Crown Jewels

Episode 338: Sir Ernest Shackleton and the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Monuments Episode 50: The Hiroshima Peace Memorial

QAH Episode 88: A Brief History of Pigeon Post

Episode 337: Famous Wartime Animals

Monuments Episode 49: Mount Rushmore

QAH Episode 87: Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Adventurer from Adelaide

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Episode 336: Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Monuments Episode 48: The Golden Gate Bridge

QAH Episode 86: The Reign of Caracalla and Geta

Episode 335: The History of the Gladiators

Monuments Episode 47: The Sydney Harbour Bridge

QAH Episode 85: The 1981 Underarm Bowling Scandal

Episode 334: Sir Donald Bradman, the Greatest Sportsman in History

Monuments Episode 46: Christ the Redeemer

QAH Episode 84: The First Airborne Crossing of the English Channel

Episode 333: The Worst US Presidents in History

Monuments Episode 45: The Hollywood Sign

QAH Episode 83: The Death of William Henry Harrison

Episode 332: The Most Controversial US Presidential Elections in History

Monuments Episode 44: Chateau Frontenac

QAH Episode 82: The Melbourne Cup

Episode 331: Alves Reis and the Portuguese Banknote Crisis

Monuments Episode 43: The Eiffel Tower

QAH Episode 81: The Dancing Plague of 1518

Episode 330: Johann Strauss II, the Waltz King

Monuments Episode 42: The Statue of Liberty

QAH Episode 80: Carlos Kaiser, Soccer's Greatest Conman

Episode 329: The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III

Monuments Episode 41: Neuschwanstein Castle

QAH Episode 79: The French Revolution, According to AI

Episode 328: The Crusades - Part 2

Monuments Episode 40: The Sagrada Familia

QAH Episode 78: The Flemish Revolution

Episode 327: The Crusades - Part 1

Monuments Episode 39: The Palace of Westminster & Big Ben

QAH Episode 77: The Six O'Clock Swill

Episode 326: The History of Melbourne LIVE

Monuments Episode 38: The Arc de Triomphe

QAH Episode 76: The Sydney Riot of 1879

Episode 325: The History of Sydney LIVE

Monuments Episode 37: The Brandenburg Gate

QAH Episode 75: Project Habakkuk

Episode 324: The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Monuments Episode 36: The Grand Palace

QAH Episode 74: John Dee, Queen Elizabeth's Pet Wizard

Episode 323: Elizabeth I, the Golden Age Queen

Monuments Episode 35: Buckingham Palace

QAH Episode 73: Emmerich Juettner, the Terrible Forger

Episode 322: The Panama Canal

Monuments Episode 34: The Palace of Versailles

QAH Episode 72: The Origin of the Teddy Bear

Episode 321: Theodore Roosevelt, America's Greatest President - Part 2

Monuments Episode 33: Potala Palace

QAH Episode 71: The Leicester Balloon Riot

Episode 320: Theodore Roosevelt, America's Greatest President - Part 1

Monuments Episode 32: The Taj Mahal

QAH Episode 70: The 1968 Olympic Protest Salute

Episode 319: The Modern Olympic Games - Part 2

Monuments Episode 31: The Blue Mosque

QAH Episode 69: Jim Thorpe, the Great Athlete

Episode 318: The Modern Olympic Games - Part 1

Monuments Episode 30: Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey

QAH Episode 68: Pepsi’s Soviet Warships

Episode 317: Assassination Attempts on US Presidents

Monuments Episode 29: Red Square

QAH Episode 67: A Brief History of the Necktie

Episode 316: History’s Biggest Misconceptions - Part 2

Monuments Episode 28: St Peter's Basilica & the Sistine Chapel

QAH Episode 66: The Dublin Whiskey Fire

Episode 315: The Rosetta Stone

Monuments Episode 27: Machu Picchu

QAH Episode 65: Edward Dando, the Oyster Thief

Announcing: Half-Arsed History LIVE!

Episode 314: Frederic Chopin, the Virtuosic Pianist

Monuments Episode 26: The Forbidden City

QAH Episode 64: The Ball of the Burning Men

Episode 313: Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Monuments Episode 25: Kinkaku-ji

QAH Episode 63: Mark Thatcher and the Paris-Dakar Rally

Episode 312: Christina of Sweden, Minerva of the North

Monuments Episode 24: The Great Mosque of Djenne

QAH Episode 62: Legio IX Hispana, the Lost Legion

Episode 311: Emperor Trajan, Optimus Princeps

Monuments Episode 23: Himeji Castle

QAH Episode 61: A Brief History of the State of Origin

Episode 310: Oscar Wilde, the Brilliant Playwright

Monuments Episode 22: Moai

QAH Episode 60: The Nottingham Cheese Riot

Episode 309: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Monuments Episode 21: The Alhambra

QAH Episode 59: Ten Cent Beer Night

Episode 308: The History of the United States - Part 4: Cold War and Global Hegemony

Monuments Episode 20: The Louvre Palace

QAH Episode 58: The Harlem Hellfighters

Episode 307: The History of the United States - Part 3: Reconstruction and World War

Monuments Episode 19: Notre-Dame de Paris

QAH Episode 57: Ea-Nasir, the Fine Copper Merchant

Episode 306: The History of the United States - Part 2: Expansion and Civil War

Monuments Episode 18: Angkor Wat

QAH Episode 56: The Day John Sattler Broke His Jaw

Episode 305: The History of the United States - Part 1: Colonisation and Independence

Monuments Episode 17: Great Zimbabwe

QAH Episode 55: Simpson and His Donkey

Episode 304: The ANZAC Campaign in Gallipoli

Monuments Episode 16: The Tower of London

QAH Episode 54: The Rebecca Riots

Episode 303: Owain Glyndwr and the Welsh Revolt

Monuments Episode 15: Chichen Itza

QAH Episode 53: The Extinction of the Thylacine

Episode 302: The Extinction of the Dodo

Monuments Episode 14: Borobudur

QAH Episode 52: The 1932 Kimberley Rescue

Episode 301: The Historic Origins of Popular Sayings - Part 2

Monuments Episode 13: The Dome of the Rock

QAH Episode 51: Herodotus, the Father of History

Episode 300: The History of History

Monuments Episode 12: Skellig Michael

QAH Episode 50: Miyamoto Musashi, the Great Duelist

Episode 299: William Adams and the Real-Life History of Shogun

Monuments Episode 11: The Hagia Sophia

QAH Episode: 49 Project Hajile

Episode 298: Grace O’Malley, the Irish Rebel Pirate

Monuments Episode 10: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre

QAH Episode 48: Johan de Witt, the Cannibalised Statesman

Episode 297: The History of Chess

Monuments Episode 9: The Colosseum

QAH Episode 47: The Fine Cotton Affair

Episode 296: Vasco da Gama, the Explorer Who Shrank the World

Monuments Episode 8: The Western Wall

QAH Episode 46: The White Ship Disaster

Episode 295: King Stephen, Empress Matilda, and the Anarchy

Monuments Episode 7: The Pantheon

QAH Episode 45: Louis Edward Curdes, the Friendly Fire Pilot

Episode 294: The Lost Secret of Greek Fire

Monuments Episode 6: Mahabodhi Temple

QAH Episode 44: Michael Howe, the Vandemonian Bushranger

Episode 293: The Treaty of Waitangi

Monuments Episode 5: Petra

QAH Episode 43: Hongi Hika, the Great Rangatira

Episode 292: The Settlement of Aotearoa New Zealand

Monuments Episode 4: The Acropolis of Athens

QAH Episode 42: The 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster

Episode 291: Florence Nightingale, the Lady with the Lamp

Monuments Episode 3: The Nazca Lines

QAH Episode 41: Yoshie Shiratori, the Prison Escape Artist

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Episode 290: The History of Tennis

Monuments Episode 2: The Great Wall of China

QAH Episode 40: HMS Diamond Rock and the Stone Frigates

Episode 289: The Democratic Peace Theory

Monuments Episode 1: Stonehenge

QAH Episode 39: Jenny Diver, Master Pickpocket

Episode 288: Charlemagne, Emperor of Europe

QAH Episode 38: The Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

Episode 287: Charles Darwin, Evolutionary Revolutionary

QAH Episode 37: The Christmas Truce

Episode 286: Pedro II of Brazil, the Magnanimous Emperor

QAH Episode 36: Alfred Nobel, Merchant of Death

Episode 285: The Elgin Marbles

QAH Episode 35: The Principality of Hutt River

Episode 284: The Mughal Empire

QAH Episode 34: A Brief History of Powdered Wigs

Episode 283: The Prophecies of Nostradamus

QAH Episode 33: Operation Cowboy

Episode 282: Johann Sebastian Bach, the Famed Baroque Composer

QAH Episode 32: Adolphe Sax, Inventor of the Saxophone

Episode 281: Kate Sheppard, the Tenacious Suffragette

QAH Episode 31: The Loudun Possessions

Episode 280: History’s Longest Reigns

QAH Episode 30: Sayyida al Hurra, the Moroccan Corsair

Episode 279: The History of Halloween

QAH Episode 29: Al Capone, Chicago's Notorious Gangster

Episode 278: The Sicilian Mafia

QAH Episode 28 George Mallory, Lost on Everest

Episode 277: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

QAH Episode 27: The Astor Place Riot

Episode 276: The People on Australian Money

QAH Episode 26: Bir Tawil, Earth’s Last Unclaimed Land

Episode 275: The Anarchy at Samarra, the Setting for Assassin's Creed Mirage

QAH Episode 25: Samuel Bellamy, Forbes’ Top-Earning Pirate

Episode 274: Edward “Blackbeard” Teach, the Fearsome Pirate

QAH Episode 24: The 1944 Bombay Explosion

Episode 273: A History of Australian Referendums

QAH Episode 23: The TRUTH about the Bermuda Triangle

Episode 272: Catherine de' Medici, Ruler of France

QAH Episode 22: Benedict IX, the Profligate Pope

Episode 271: History’s Weirdest Deaths - Part 4

QAH Episode 21: The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Episode 270: The Eruptions of Mount Tambora and Krakatoa

QAH Episode 20: The Berners Street Hoax

Episode 269: The Six Wives of Henry VIII

QAH Episode 19: Jumbo the Elephant

Episode 268: The Vasa, Sweden's Mighty Warship

QAH Episode 18: The Great Molasses Flood

Episode 267: History's Biggest Misconceptions

QAH Episode 17: Bertha Benz and the First Test Drive

Episode 266: The History of Artificial Light

QAH Episode 16: The Demon Core

Episode 265: J. Robert Oppenheimer, Destroyer of Worlds

QAH Episode 15: Bat Bombs

Episode 264: History's Weirdest Epithets

QAH Episode 14: Hiroo Onoda, the Japanese Holdout

Episode 263: Harald Hardrada, the Last Great Viking

QAH Episode 13: Harald Bluetooth, the Viking King

Episode 262: King Cnut of the North Sea Empire

QAH Episode 12: Violet Jessop, the Unsinkable Woman

Episode 261: The Sinking of the RMS Titanic

QAH Episode 11: Operation Plumbbob

Episode 260: Captain Cook’s Second and Third Voyages

QAH Episode 10: Blas de Lezo, Naval Genius

Episode 259: Captain Cook’s First Voyage

QAH Episode 9: Iron Mike Malloy

Episode 258: The Nika Riots

QAH Episode 8: The Crash at Crush

Episode 257: Hurrem Sultan, Ottoman Empress

QAH Episode 7: Emperor Houfei, the Murderous Teenager

Episode 256: Henry Every, Pirate King

QAH Episode 6: Fart Proudly, by Benjamin Franklin

Episode 255: Benjamin Franklin, American Polymath

QAH Episode 5: Khosrow’s Better Antioch

Episode 254: The Roman Empire

QAH Episode 4: The Capture of the Den Helder Fleet

Episode 253: The Roman Republic

QAH Episode 3: The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Episode 252: The Satsuma Rebellion

QAH Episode 2: “Typhoid” Mary Mallon

Episode 251: The Western Schism

QAH Episode 1: Roland the Farter

Episode 250: Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot

Episode 249: The History of Flight - Part 3

Episode 248: The History of Flight - Part 2

Episode 247: The History of Flight - Part 1

Episode 246: Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Eleven-Time President

Episode 245: The Salem Witch Trials

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Episode 244: Fritz Haber, the Man Who Fed the World

Episode 243: Mutiny on the Hermione

Episode 242: The Race to the North Pole

Episode 241: History's Weirdest Deaths - Part 3

Episode 240: The Federation of Australia

Episode 239: The Colonisation of Australia

Episode 238: Hatshepsut, the Builder Queen

Episode 237: The Funniest Art Heists in History - Part 1

Episode 236: The Gregorian Calendar

Episode 235: Frederick Douglass, the Voice of Abolitionism - Part 2

Episode 234: Frederick Douglass, the Voice of Abolitionism - Part 1

Episode 233: The 1930 FIFA World Cup

Episode 232: Tokugawa Ieyasu, First of the Last Shoguns

Episode 231: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Lowborn Conqueror

Episode 230: Oda Nobunaga, the Great Unifier

Episode 229: The World’s Smallest Nations

Episode 228: Benedict Arnold, Traitor to America

Episode 227: Isabella I of Castile, Catholic Queen

Episode 226: Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, Inca Founder

Episode 225: Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor

Episode 224: Jan Zizka, the Undefeated Innovator

Episode 223: The Hundred Years’ War

Episode 222: The Fall of Constantinople

Episode 221: Charles I of England, the Beheaded King

Episode 220: Mahatma Gandhi, the Revolutionary Pacifist - Part 2

Episode 219: Mahatma Gandhi, the Revolutionary Pacifist - Part 1

Episode 218: Amelia Earhart, Aviation Pioneer

Episode 217: Johannes Gutenberg and the Printing Press

Episode 216: Isaac Newton, a Genius without Equal

Episode 215: Hammurabi, the Ancient Lawmaker

Episode 214: Sargon of Akkad, the First Emperor

Episode 213: Simon Bolivar, El Libertador

Episode 212: Napoleon Bonaparte, Conqueror of Europe - Part 2

Episode 211: Napoleon Bonaparte, Conqueror of Europe - Part 1

Episode 210: Galileo Galilei, Heretical Genius - Part 2

Episode 209: Galileo Galilei, Heretical Genius - Part 1

Episode 208: Queen Victoria, the Queen Who Defined an Era

Episode 207: Genghis Khan, the Unstoppable Conqueror - Part 2

Episode 206: Genghis Khan, the Unstoppable Conqueror - Part 1

Episode 205: Julius Caesar, the Populist Dictator

Episode 204: Leonardo da Vinci, Legendary Polymath

Episode 203: William Shakespeare, the Great Poet

Episode 202 Alexander the Great, the Real-World Achilles

Episode 201: Saladin, Defender of the Holy Land

Episode 200: Six More Short Stories

Episode 199: Tamar, Georgia's Golden Age Queen

Episode 198: The Cuban Missile Crisis

Episode 197: The History of Nuclear Weapons

Episode 196: Bartholomew Roberts, the Great Pirate - Part 2

Episode 195: Bartholomew Roberts, the Great Pirate - Part 1

Episode 194: Ludwig van Beethoven, the Musical Innovator

Episode 193: The History of Ukraine

Episode 192: Le Loi and the Lam Son Uprising

Episode 191: Cleopatra, Egypt's Last Queen - Part 2

Episode 190: Cleopatra, Egypt's Last Queen - Part 1

Episode 189: The Capture of Guam

Episode 188: Operation Mincemeat

Episode 187: The Great Train Robbery

Episode 186: The Battles of Salamis and Plataea

Episode 185: The Battle of Thermopylae

Episode 184: The Battle of Marathon

Episode 183: The 1908 New York to Paris Race

Episode 182: The Nine Years’ War and the End of Gaelic Ireland

Episode 181: Caravaggio, the Brawling Painter

Episode 180: Fritz Duquesne, Vengeful Adventurer

Episode 179: The Rum Rebellion

Episode 178: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Legendary Composer - Part 2

Episode 177: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Legendary Composer - Part 1

Episode 176: Zoe and Theodora Porphyrogenita

Episode 175: Marcus Licinius Crassus, Roman Oligarch

Episode 174: History’s Weirdest Deaths - Part 2

Episode 173: Famous Last Words

Episode 172: The Erfurt Latrine Disaster

Episode 171: Atahualpa and the Massacre of Cajamarca

Episode 170: King Shaka kaSenzangakhona, the Warrior King

Episode 169: Attila the Hun, Breaker of Rome

Episode 168: Jadwiga of Poland, the Peacekeeper

Episode 167: Jeanne Baret, the First Woman to Circumnavigate Earth

Episode 166: Charles Ponzi, the Famous Con Artist

Episode 165: Wild Bill Hickok, the Frontier Lawman

Episode 164: The Time of Troubles

Episode 163: Moondyne Joe, the Jailbreaking Bushranger

Episode 162: The History of the Bicycle

Episode 161: The Ancient Olympic Games

Episode 160: The Watergate Scandal

Episode 159: Hudson’s Bay Company

Episode 158: The History of the Castle

Episode 157: El Cid, the Iberian Warlord

Episode 156: Brunhilda and Fredegund, Feuding Queens

Episode 155: The Battle of Castle Itter

Episode 154: Afonso I, the Father of Portugal

Episode 153: The Forty-Seven Ronin

Episode 152: The Eureka Rebellion

Episode 151: The History of Penicillin

Episode 150: The Apollo Program

Episode 149: William and Caroline Herschel, Stargazing Siblings

Episode 148: Ashurbanipal, King of the Universe

Episode 147: The Servile Wars

Episode 146: The Final Voyage of the Whaleship Essex

Episode 145: The Suez Canal

Episode 144: Assassination Attempts on Fidel Castro

Episode 143: The Four Great Inventions

Episode 142: Marie Sklodowska Curie, Radiation Pioneer

Episode 141: Alcibiades, the Ancient Greek Playboy

Episode 140: The Lafitte Brothers, the Roguish Pirates

Episode 139: The History of the Toilet

Episode 138: The Order of Assassins

Episode 137: Alexander Selkirk, the Real-World Crusoe

Episode 136: King Ludwig II, the Fairytale King

Episode 135: The History of Football

Episode 134: Eleanor of Aquitaine, Grandmother of Europe

Episode 133: The First-Term Achievements of Every Single US President

Episode 132: History’s Shortest Reigns

Episode 131: The Mongol Invasions of Japan

Episode 130: The Historic Origins of Popular Sayings

Episode 129: The White Australia Policy

Episode 128: Moctezuma II and the Fall of the Aztecs

Episode 127: Moctezuma I and the Rise of the Aztecs

Episode 126: History’s Weirdest Deaths

Episode 125: Burke and Hare, Murderous Bodysnatchers

Episode 124: History of Birth Control

Episode 123: The Lancashire Witch Trials

Episode 122: The Great Stink

Episode 121: Giacomo Casanova, the Famous Philanderer - Part 2

Episode 120: Giacomo Casanova, the Famous Philanderer - Part 1

Episode 119: Bonnie and Clyde, the Bank-Robbing Couple

Episode 118: Franklin’s Lost Expedition

Episode 117: Hasekura Tsunenaga, First Diplomat to Europe

Episode 116: The Battle of Kadesh

Episode 115: The History of Gunpowder

Episode 114: Joan of Arc, the Saviour of France

Episode 113: History’s Shortest Wars

Episode 112: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Part 2

Episode 111: The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - Part 1

Episode 110: The History of Money

Episode 109: Sir William Wallace, Guardian of Scotland

Episode 108: The Shark Arm Murder

Episode 107: The Münster Rebellion

Episode 106: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth

Episode 105: Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr

Episode 104: Joseph Bologne, Virtuosic Swordsman

Episode 103: The Insurrection Act of 1807

Episode 102: The History of Clocks - Part 2

Episode 101: The History of Clocks - Part 1

Episode 100: Seven Short Stories

Episode 99: The History of Coffee

Episode 98: Ching Shih, Pirate Queen

Episode 97: Colonel Blood, Thief of Crowns

Episode 96: The Bone Wars

Episode 95: The Mechanical Turk

Episode 94: The March of the Ten Thousand

Episode 93: The Cod Wars

Episode 92: The History of the Potato

Episode 91: The Tragedy of Ignaz Semmelweis

Episode 90: The Black Death

Episode 89: Diogenes, the Hardcore Cynic

Episode 88: The English Longbow

Episode 87: Edward Jenner, Father of the Vaccine

Episode 86: Irene, Byzantine Empress

Episode 85: Peter Tordenskjold, Norway’s Han Solo

Episode 84: Black Agnes and the Siege of Dunbar

Episode 83: Johann Friedrich Struensee, Paramour of Queens

Episode 82: Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage

Episode 81: The Beast of Gévaudan

Episode 80: Tycho Brahe, the Brass-Nosed Astronomer

Episode 79: Operation Pastorius - Part 2

Episode 78: Operation Pastorius - Part 1

Episode 77: Artemisia and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Episode 76: The Norman Conquest of England

Episode 75: The Great Emu War

Episode 74: Mutiny on the Batavia

Episode 73: USS William D. Porter, History’s Unluckiest Ship

Episode 72: Bowie, Crockett, and the Battle of the Alamo

Episode 71: Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba

Episode 70: Four Generations of the Dumas Family

Episode 69: The Eighty Years’ War - Part 2

Episode 68: The Eighty Years’ War - Part 1

Episode 67: Josephine Baker, the Singing Spy

Episode 66: Juan Pujol García, the Self-Made Spy

Episode 65: Tarrare, the Eating Machine

Episode 64: John Paul Jones, Father of the US Navy

Episode 63: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin, the Great Admiral

Episode 62: James Lind and the Cure for Scurvy

Episode 61: John R. Brinkley, the Goat Testicle Quack

Episode 60: Alexander the Great’s Siege of Tyre

Episode 59: Neutral Moresnet

Episode 58: Elagabalus, Rome’s Salacious Emperor

Episode 57: Stede Bonnet, Gentleman Pirate

Episode 56: Robert Smalls, War Hero and Congressman

Episode 55: Gregor MacGregor, the Poyaisian Con Man - Part 2

Episode 54: Gregor MacGregor, the Poyaisian Con Man - Part 1

Episode 53: La Maupin, Operatic Swashbuckler

Episode 52: Arkipov and Petrov, the Men Who Saved the World

Episode 51: William Buckley, Escaped Convict

Episode 50: The Darien Scheme

Episode 49: Calico Jack, Anne Bonny, and Mary Read

Episode 48: The 1904 Olympic Marathon

Episode 47: Mutiny on the Bounty - Part 2

Episode 46: Mutiny on the Bounty - Part 1

Episode 45: The Second Pacific Squadron

Episode 44: Qin Shi Huang, China's First Emperor

Episode 43: Korean Axe Murder Incident

Episode 42: Boudica, the Rebel Queen

Episode 41: Hannibal Barca, the Great Tactician - Part 2

Episode 40: Hannibal Barca, the Great Tactician - Part 1

Episode 39: Le Gentil and the Transits of Venus

Episode 38: The Great Race of Mercy

Episode 37: Burke and Wills, Australian Pioneers

Episode 36: Queen Zenobia, the Palmyrene Empress

Episode 35: The Spanish Armada

Episode 34: Mary Anning, the Prolific Palaeontologist

Episode 33: Caligula, the Mad Roman Emperor

Episode 32: Andree's Arctic Balloon Expedition

Episode 31: Thomas Midgley, the Walking Environmental Disaster

Episode 30: Vlad Dracula, the Impaler

Episode 29: The Mary Celeste

Episode 28: Wu Zetian, Empress of China

Episode 27: Wilhelm II, the Last German Emperor

Episode 26: The Cadaver Synod

Episode 25: The Defenestrations of Prague

Episode 24: Lord Timothy Dexter, the Whacko Entrepreneur

Episode 23: Georg Elser and his Plot to Kill Hitler

Episode 22: Jeanne de Clisson, Lioness of Brittany

Episode 21: Ned Kelly, Australia's Famous Outlaw - Part 2

Episode 20: Ned Kelly, Australia's Famous Outlaw - Part 1

Episode 19: Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I

Episode 18: Léo Major, the Québécois Rambo

Episode 17: The Mongol Conquest of Khwarezmia

Episode 16: Deborah Sampson, American Revolutionary

Episode 15: The Battle of Tours - Part 2

Episode 14: The Battle of Tours - Part 1

Episode 13: The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Episode 12: British K-Class Submarines

Episode 11: The War of the Oaken Bucket

Episode 10: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace

Episode 9: The Battle of New Orleans

Episode 8: The War of 1812

Episode 7: D.B. Cooper, the Mystery Hijacker

Episode 6: The Fenian Raids

Episode 5: The Fourth Crusade

Episode 4: Olga of Kyiv, the Merciless Queen

Episode 3: The Assassination of James A. Garfield

Episode 2: The Terra Nova Expedition

Episode 1: Frederick the Great