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

    Announcing: History's Strangest Deaths, the first Half-Arsed History book
    2025/06/27
    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 分
  • Inventions Episode 26: Canned Food

    Inventions Episode 26: Canned Food
    2025/06/27
    Canned food has revolutionised the way we eat - by making food last for longer than ever before, it has helped to increase food safety and security for billions of people across hundreds of years.

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    24 分
  • QAH Episode 116: Chevaliere d’Eon, the Spy Who Defied Gender

    QAH Episode 116: Chevaliere d’Eon, the Spy Who Defied Gender
    2025/06/25
    Quarter-Arsed History presents: Chevaliere d’Eon, a spy, soldier, and swashbuckler who blackmailed King Louis XV and lived life as both as man and a woman across the years.

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    27 分
  • Episode 365: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 2

    Episode 365: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 2
    2025/06/22

    In this week's episode, finish off the story of the famed Sir Francis Drake, and hear about his later campaigns agains the Spanish - both successful and unsuccessful.


    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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    56 分
  • Inventions Episode 25: Railways

    Inventions Episode 25: Railways
    2025/06/20

    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 分
  • QAH Episode 115: The St Scholastica Day Riot

    QAH Episode 115: The St Scholastica Day Riot
    2025/06/18

    Quarter-Arsed History presents: 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 分
  • Episode 364: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 1

    Episode 364: Sir Francis Drake, the Dragon of the Seas - Part 1
    2025/06/15

    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 時間 6 分
  • Inventions Episode 24: The Steam Engine

    Inventions Episode 24: The Steam Engine
    2025/06/13

    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 分