16 episodes

Weird UK history by idiots abroad. Or rather, an idiot and a broad.

Albion Albion

    • History

Weird UK history by idiots abroad. Or rather, an idiot and a broad.

    S2 // Episode 3: Cycles of Violence

    S2 // Episode 3: Cycles of Violence

    Elliott learns that racists are everywhere. Casey learns never to send back a glass of wine.

    Sources:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48873611

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton#Personal_life

    https://www.casquette.co.uk/people/queens-of-pain-beryl-burton

    https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/13/tour-de-france-beryl-burton

    http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/government/scholastica.html

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/10/day-1355-university-fracas-ends-93-dead-birth-600-year-long/

    https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9200746.rioting-wine-led-90-deaths/

    • 36 min
    S2 // Episode 2: Flea the Crime Scene

    S2 // Episode 2: Flea the Crime Scene

    Grannies out here making bank,  and all ya'll care about is the sharp end of an egg.



    Sources:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London

    https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/women-of-the-plague/

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-strangest-weird-laws-enforced-christopher-sargeant-sturgeon-armour-a7232586.html

    https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/laws-uk-weird-door-knock-12755849

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17610820

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/calls-for-dead-laws-to-be-repealed-7618201.html

    • 35 min
    S2 // Episode 1: This Fucking Guy

    S2 // Episode 1: This Fucking Guy

    A monarch with a penchant for fertile uteri, plus a pair of innkeepers with a nasty whisky habit, they'll all soon learn that murder is the solution to any problem.

    • 47 min
    S1 // Episode 12: Fun Times in Prison, Funner Times in Hospital

    S1 // Episode 12: Fun Times in Prison, Funner Times in Hospital

    Need to shed a few pounds before mankini season? Try the hot new incarceration diet, and if that doesn't work, try chopping your balls off.

    • 40 min
    S1 // Episode 11: Butt Tobacco & Milky Pudding

    S1 // Episode 11: Butt Tobacco & Milky Pudding

    Half the nation is fleeing workhouses by any means necessary, while the other half is wearing 6 coats and ripping up lawns. Classic.

    • 32 min
    S1 // Episode 10: Ol' Hard Face & the Pewter Tray

    S1 // Episode 10: Ol' Hard Face & the Pewter Tray

    Harry wasn't the first royal to flee the throne, and your sister Peggy's bachelorette party wasn't the first penis straw.

    • 29 min

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