Half-Arsed History

By 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 Knight feel as though his useless histo

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Half-Arsed History episodes:

May 07, 2025 QAH Episode 109: The Cadaver Synod - Remastered
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the Cadaver Synod, the time a dead pope was dug up out of the ground and put on trial as a corpse.
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19min
May 04, 2025 Episode 358: History’s Weirdest Papal Conclaves
In this week's episode, hear about five of the most ridiculous stories to emerge from the history of papal conclaves - from foul-mouthed brawling, to papier-mache crowns, to the time there were four popes in a single year.
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58min
May 02, 2025 Inventions Episode 18: The Mechanical Clock
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:
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32min
April 30, 2025 QAH Episode 108: The Defenestrations of Prague - Remastered
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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21min
April 27, 2025 Episode 357: The History of the Papal Conclave
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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1h 7min
April 25, 2025 Inventions Episode 17: Eyeglasses
Eyeglasses, as a very important invention, have evolved from an expensive and somewhat unreliable piece of specialist equipment to something that half the world's population makes daily use of.
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22min
April 23, 2025 QAH Episode 107: Lord Timothy Dexter, the Whacko Entrepreneur - Remastered
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the (somewhat unverified) tale of Timothy Dexter, who amassed a vast fortune by making some of the most ludicrous business decisions you'll ever hear.
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26min
April 20, 2025 Episode 356: A Guide to Australian Elections
In this week's episode, learn all about Australian elections - how they originated, how they've changed, how they work today, and how their results lead to parliamentary governments being formed.
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1h 20min
April 18, 2025 Inventions Episode 16: The Compass
The compass has been used as a navigational tool for a thousand years, guiding ships and aeroplanes around the world - but for a thousand years before that, it served a different (and slightly less useful) role.
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26min
April 16, 2025 QAH Episode 106: Jeanne de Clisson, Lioness of Brittany - Remastered
Quarter-Arsed History present: the tale of the 14th-century noblewoman Jeanne de Clisson, who, after the execution of her husband at the hands of the French king, turned to a life of piracy and terrorised French shipping in the English Channel.
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20min

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