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Half-Arsed History

Podcast Half-Arsed History
Riley Knight
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 Kn...

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  • Episode 344: The Mutiny on the Wager
    In this week's episode, hear the tale of the mutiny on the Wager, when a group of sailors stranded off the South American coast rose up against their stubborn captain, leaving him for dead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Inventions Episode 3: Seafaring
    This week's invention is seafaring, a cornerstone of humanity's history as we have explored the world, chased down the horizon, and - very importantly - moved things from one place to another. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • QAH Episode 94: Samuel Pepys’ Account of the Great Fire of London
    Quarter-Arsed History presents: the biggest cop-out episode in this podcast's entire history, one that involves Riley just reading out a week of entries from Samuel Pepys' diary. More like Eighth-Arsed History tbh Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Inventions Episode 2: Fire
    This week's invention is fire, which is... well, not really an invention, strictly speaking, but all the same laid the foundation for more or less the rest of humanity's technological development. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • Inventions Episode 1: Stone Tools
    This week's invention is stone tools, something it feels a bit odd to consider an invention, but nonetheless something that represents one of the most important and foundational pieces of technology humans have ever used. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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About Half-Arsed History

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: [email protected] the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/halfarsedhistoryBuy Half-Arsed History merch: https://halfarsedhistory.theprintbar.comIf 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/PK3JEpisode 75: The Great Emu War - https://sptfy.com/PK3KEpisode 197: The History of Nuclear Weapons - https://sptfy.com/PK3LEpisode 233: The 1930 FIFA World Cup - https://sptfy.com/PK3MEpisode 106: The First Circumnavigation - https://sptfy.com/PK3NHalf-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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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