Half-Arsed History

By Riley Knight

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Half-Arsed History episodes:

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.

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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
April 13, 2025 Episode 355: The Jacobite Risings and the Battle of Culloden
In this week's episode, get stuck into another tragic chapter in Scottish history with the stories of the Jacobite Risings and the famous Battle of Culloden.
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1h 7min

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