396 episodes
Half-Arsed History Riley Knight
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5.0 • 6 Ratings
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Welcome along to Half-Arsed History! It's a weekly podcast highlighting absurd and entertaining stories from history. Three times a week, it helps host Riley Knight feel as though his useless history degree has some kind of real-world relevance.
Get in touch: halfarsedhistory@gmail.com
Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/halfarsedhistory
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If you've just discovered the show and aren't sure which of the 300+ episodes to start with, here are some suggestions:
Episode 139: The History of the Toilet - https://sptfy.com/PK3J
Episode 75: The Great Emu War - https://sptfy.com/PK3K
Episode 197: The History of Nuclear Weapons - https://sptfy.com/PK3L
Episode 233: The 1930 FIFA World Cup - https://sptfy.com/PK3M
Episode 106: The First Circumnavigation - https://sptfy.com/PK3N
Half-Arsed History acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the unceded Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) Land on which the podcast is written and recorded, and pays respect to First Nations Elders past, present, and emerging. Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded. This continent always was, and always will be, Aboriginal Land.
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Monuments Episode: 23 Himeji Castle
This week's monument is Himeji Castle, a complex in Japan that is perhaps the finest and most magnificent example of Japanese castle-building.
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QAH Episode 61: A Brief History of the State of Origin
Quarter Arsed History presents: a brief history of the State of Origin, an very popular rugby league series that sees representatives from Queensland and New South Wales face off every year.
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Episode 310: Oscar Wilde, the Brilliant Playwright
In this week's episode, learn all about Oscar Wilde, the famous Anglo-Irish playwright who is still remembered for his dazzling wit, and hear the tragic tale of his downfall due to the harsh social attitudes of the time.
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Monuments Episode 22: Moai
This week's monument is the Moai, huge monolithic statues carved from volcanic rock and transported all across Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in the remote south Pacific Ocean.
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QAH Episode 60: The Nottingham Cheese Riot
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the Nottingham Cheese Riot of 1766, when the English town of Nottingham was thrown into civil unrest due to... well, as you probably guessed, cheese.
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Episode 309: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
In this week's episode, listen to the tale of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, when actor John Wilkes Booth shot the sitting US president in Ford's Theatre.
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Customer Reviews
Unique historical insight and wit!
Riley Knight’s immense passion for history is only rivaled by his similarly immense dry humour in regaling past historical highlights. He is an inspired storyteller and puts a great effort into contextualizing the time in which they occur, often putting it into political, economical and even at times technical perspectives for the laylistener. Every week he maintains the same high quality and also goes into meta-historic matters such as source-critique, counterfactuals, what-ifs popular myth debunks. One of the few podcast for which a 6th star should be opened up for the sheer work Riley puts into this spectacular listen.
Very very good
Most probably the best history podcast out there. Good job mate!