Episodes

  • Inventions Episode 25: Railways

    Inventions Episode 25: Railways
    Jun 20 2025

    Railways revolutionised the world of transport, enabling people and goods to be transported great distances at great speed, more cheaply and efficiently than ever before.


    History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book, releases on the 5th of August across the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand region. Pre-order your copy at Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html

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    22 mins
  • Announcing: History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book

    Announcing: History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book
    Jun 18 2025
    History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book, releases on the 5th of August across the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand region. Pre-order your copy at Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html

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    5 mins
  • QAH Episode 115: The St Scholastica Day Riot

    QAH Episode 115: The St Scholastica Day Riot
    Jun 18 2025

    Quarter-Arsed History present: the St Scholastica Day Riot, when the English university town of Oxford was thrown into the midst of a three-day riot over a disagreement about the quality of some wine.


    History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book, releases on the 5th of August across the Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand region. Pre-order your copy at Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html

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    19 mins
  • Episode 364: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 1

    Episode 364: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 1
    Jun 15 2025

    In this week's episode, meet Sir Francis Drake, whose lifelong vendetta against the Spanish led to a life of high adventure - including the circumnavigation of the globe.


    Pre-order History's Strangest Deaths and get 17% off: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Inventions Episode 24: The Steam Engine

    Inventions Episode 24: The Steam Engine
    Jun 13 2025

    The steam engine is a foundational modern technology that underpins today's industrialised world; it also tended to explode and helped to precipitate a climate crisis. So there's that.


    Pre-order History's Strangest Deaths and get 17% off: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html

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    31 mins
  • QAH Episode 114: The Legend of Lasseter’s Reef

    QAH Episode 114: The Legend of Lasseter’s Reef
    Jun 11 2025

    Quarter-Arsed History presents: the legend of Lasseter's Reef, a supposed immense fortune in gold that is lost somewhere out in the Australian desert.


    Pre-order History's Strangest Deaths and get 17% off: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.html

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    21 mins
  • Episode 363: The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

    Episode 363: The Mystery of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
    Jun 8 2025
    In this week's episode, uncover the details of the Dyatlov Pass Incident, when something caused nine Soviet hikers to abandon their mountainside tent and perish in the middle of a freezing night - for reasons that have never been conclusively determined.

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    54 mins
  • Inventions Episode 23: The Thermometer

    Inventions Episode 23: The Thermometer
    Jun 6 2025
    The thermometer has had a huge impact on many aspects of modern life, none more important than in the field of medicine - where it has helped in revolutionising diagnosis and patient monitoring.

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    26 mins