Tales of History and Imagination

Simone Whitlow

Eccentric tales from History by Simone Whitlow

  1. Jul 5

    (More) Tales from the Patreon - Pledge Week 2026

    This week, on Tales - I’m still shaking off a cold, and was planning a Patreon pledge week episode in a month’s time... So, apologies all, I’ve moved things around a little. I’ll record part two of Kaspar Hauser, and the completed script for the episode following that as soon as my voice has returned.    So, this week we’re headed to Bulgaria, Medieval France, and New York’s Chinatown to meet a man and his wife, a smart horse and a mock duck.  Content Warnings: How I met your mother: slavery, inappropriate relationships, and brief talk of genocide. Marocco: Possible animal exploitation? Threats of execution, bodily functions. Mock Duck Meets His Match: Gang warfare, decapitation, domestic violence.   Sources Include: Fascinating Footnotes from History by Giles Milton Circus Life and Circus Celebrities by Thomas Frost The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    (More) Tales from the Patreon - Pledge Week 2026

  2. Jun 21

    The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser - One

    This week, on Tales we’re in Nuremberg, Bavaria: The year is 1828. A young man has appeared as if from out of nowhere with a horrific tale of captivity. Some wonder if he is some deposed price - but be warned, the following is no fairytale. Part one of a Two parter.   Content Warnings: Discussion of war, death, child neglect and imprisonment, violence, conspiratorial thinking and social deception.    Sources Include: Kaspar Hauser: The Foundling of Nuremberg by Paul Anselm von Feuerbach The Great Pretenders by Jan Bonderson Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts And Historical Blindness’ excellent Two-Part podcast on Hauser, created by Nathaniel Lloyd.  Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser - One

  3. May 30

    The Storm

    This week, on Tales we’re in England, the date November 26th 1703 - as a giant storm settles over the country that would haunt the nation for many years - and give birth to at least one new profession.  Content Warnings: Descriptions of animal cruelty, traumatic deaths, and period-appropriate superstitions which may now seem utterly ridiculous.    Sources Include: Daniel Defoe’s The Storm.  Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on…   | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    The Storm

  4. May 8

    The Sacred Band -Three

    This week, on Tales we return to Thebes one last time to discuss what happens when others even the field, the life and death or our two heroes, a young man named Philip - and a giant lion..   This is part three of a three parter.  Content Warnings: Battlefield injury and death, some depictions towards the end are quite graphic. Political violence, slavery and hostage taking. Assassination. Suicide-adjacent fatalism. Mass burial. Discussion of LGBTQI+ history not that THAT one should ever need to be a trigger warning - but there you go…Yes I got hate mail a few weeks back, so let’s throw it in there…  and back to the actual nasty stuff, discussion of Authoritarianism, tyranny and mass killing.    Sources Include: James Romm’s ‘The Sacred Band’ Plutarch’s ‘Lives…’     Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    The Sacred Band -Three

  5. Apr 10

    The Sacred Band -Two

    This week, on Tales we return to Thebes, to see how their Sacred Band is working out for them. We learn a little bit about Spartan King Agesilaus’ lost love, and we meet a warlord named Jason.   This is part two of a three parter.  Content warnings: historical ableism, homophobic attitudes, warfare, assassination, battlefield death, executions and forced displacement.      Sources Include: James Romm’s ‘The Sacred Band’ Plutarch’s ‘Lives…’     Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly.   Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    The Sacred Band -Two

  6. Mar 21

    The Sacred Band - One

    This week, on Tales we journey to ancient Thebes, a Greek City state suddenly - unexpectedly - under the control of their foes, Sparta. When you have lost your freedom to a despot, and are fighting for your very survival, what can you turn to? First you have your foundational myths, and second - if you are Thebes - you have some of the toughest gay men ever to exist.  This week, in part one of a three parter, we discuss the formation of The Sacred Band of Thebes.  Content warnings: brief discussion of sexual violence, incest, anti-LGBTQI+ attitudes, political violence, assassinations and executions.      Sources Include: James Romm’s ‘The Sacred Band’ Plutarch’s ‘Lives…’   Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination can be found on…   | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    The Sacred Band - One

  7. Feb 23

    The Tichborne Claimant - Two

    This week, on a much waylaid episode of Tales we return to the Tichbornes,’ as Tom Castro makes his play for the land, money and titles. Does it turn out he was, in fact Roger Charles Tichborne - long thought lost at sea - or was he some larrikin on the lookout for an easy life?  This is part two of a two parter. Apologies all, I lost a good month and a half to a bout of pneumonia just after Christmas.   Content warnings: I said nothing on the tape: but on reflection: childhood bullying, and more talk of a character’s weight than I am comfortable with.      Sources Include: Robyn Annear’s The Man Who Lost Himself Rohan McWilliam’s The Tichborne Claimant Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.      Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    The Tichborne Claimant - Two

  8. Jan 18 ·  Bonus

    Tales From The Patreon

    This week on Tales I am still, technically, on holiday - and was hoping to re-release one of five old episodes still left from the first season. This plan has been derailed somewhat. My voice is still recovering from my bout of pneumonia; and I’ve written at least a million words since I did those episodes. I opened those old scripts and realised to be content with them I’d need to completely re-do those episodes…  Not so much out of inaccuracies as out of having refined this thing I do a lot since 2020.  I’ll get back to those episodes sometime.  In the meantime, please let me present this episode, compiled from three Patreon bonus episodes. Thank you to the patrons, whose generosity helps me keep the lights on.  The episodes are: Stranded on ‘Ata 400 Word Tales: Countess Zangari Bandi  Walter Powell’s Final Flight   Sources this week include:  The Stolen Island by Scott Hamilton Humankind by Rutger Bregman Borderlands by Mike Dash Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |

    Tales From The Patreon
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Eccentric tales from History by Simone Whitlow

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  • Creator
    Simone Whitlow
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    115
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright 2019 All rights reserved.
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