Historical Hysteria

Historical Hysteria

By Nicholas WardHistory
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Historical Hysteria episodes

  • 4. Modern Medicine: Part 2 Drugs!

    After the heady days of orphan torture, modern medicine moved onwards to the magical world of drugs! And yet the one of the fathers of drugs has been discreetly shoved into a corner and forgotten to protect the reputation of everything before and since. Why not find out more and listen right now to the magical modern medical world of Drugs!

    19 min
  • 3. Modern Medicine: Part 1 Vaccines and Hygiene

    Modern medecine today is our gleaming city on a hill, no more constrained by the dark days of leeches as panacea's. But how did we move from the world of leeches and maggots to our modern understandings of the human body? Over a pile of corpses.

    20 min
  • 2. 5 Ways History was Sillier than you Think

    Did you know that Pop Culture has a problem with History? Because history is often, stupid. Full of slap stick shenanigans and silly styles. In this weeks episode we are exploring parts of history that are simply to silly to ever properly be replicated in pop culture, from Abraham Lincolns voice to the Spanish inquisition, and the ultra masculine Spartans and Vikings. Find out about histories silly side

    20 min
  • 1. 5 Myths of the American Revolution

    From Washingtons teeth to the freedom of speech, come tear down the beautiful fascades of popular American history and learn about how everyone you ever admired was a jerk and every idea you hold sacrosanct is based on lies.

    18 min
  • 0. Introduction

    Welcome to the wacky world of history where everything you thought was true is actually a magnificent lie, and all your heroes turn out to be horrible monsters. Welcome to the world of Historical Hysteria.

    6 min

About Historical Hysteria

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Explore the myths and misunderstandings of pop' history and experience the unvarnished and unapologetic insanity of real history.