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Half-Arsed History — 696 episodes
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
Update: I'm Really Sick So Episodes Will Be Delayed
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
Tickets for the 2025 Book Tour are now available!
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
Update: They Gave This Man a Book Deal
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