Half-Arsed History

By: Riley Knight
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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

    Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/halfarsedhistory

    Buy Half-Arsed History merch: https://halfarsedhistory.theprintbar.com


    If you've just discovered the show and aren't sure which of the 350+ episodes to start with, here are some suggestions:

    Episode 139: The History of the Toilet - https://sptfy.com/PK3J • https://apple.co/3Giftt3

    Episode 75: The Great Emu War - https://sptfy.com/PK3K • https://apple.co/4jKCvr7

    Episode 197: The History of Nuclear Weapons - https://sptfy.com/PK3L • https://apple.co/4jygYlc

    Episode 233: The 1930 FIFA World Cup - https://sptfy.com/PK3M • https://apple.co/4iltL9P

    Episode 106: The First Circumnavigation - https://sptfy.com/PK3N • https://apple.co/4jewsLj


    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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Episodes
  • Inventions Episode 18: The Mechanical Clock

    Inventions Episode 18: The Mechanical Clock
    May 2 2025

    Clocks are everywhere - we are more or less always surrounded by timekeeping devices of all different kinds, but it was the mechanical clock, specifically, that ushered in an era of accurate, reliable horology.


    Marshall Sutcliffe from Wristwatch Revival working on the watches I wear:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJFNcfT-7HQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ziU2-9yOo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQp4VAjZ00

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    31 mins
  • QAH Episode 108: The Defenestrations of Prague - Remastered

    QAH Episode 108: The Defenestrations of Prague - Remastered
    Apr 30 2025
    Quarter-Arsed History presents: the Defenestrations of Prague, an account of the multiple time that angry Bohemian Protestants have hurled Catholics out of windows as acts of political protest.

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    20 mins
  • Episode 357: The History of the Papal Conclave

    Episode 357: The History of the Papal Conclave
    Apr 27 2025
    In this week's episode, learn all about the papal conclave: what preceded it, its origins, its centuries of history, and all that we know about how it elects popes today, in the 21st century.

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    1 hr and 7 mins

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