“The Pretenders and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Tudor before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the country”

Now we have that vague logline out of the way we can get all “logged-down” in our next instalment of THE PRETENDERS.

Meet Perkin Warbeck, a handsome silk-merchant from the Low Countries. A handsome silk-merchant with a secret (GASP!) A secret claim to the Throne of England (GASP!). Who will stop at nothing until his secret is revealed, revealed and taken super seriously by the powers that be.  

Thanks to ZapSplat for zips zaps boings and music

Thanks as ever to Scott Buckley for his awesome music

Thanks to Kevin McLeod for his track 'Court of the Queen'

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the theme music

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Finally (but definitely not leastally), massive thanks to all who have seen us over the summer. We have met some lovely people and everyone has been very nice to us. Thanks!!

PRETENDERS....ASSEMBLE!

We're Stoke-ed for this one...Stoke Field to be exact!

The Tudor Crown is in deadly danger from the dreaded Usurper-tron...well a small boy named Lambert Simnel who may not be 100% up for overthrowing the crown...but its too late to turn back now!

William DJ de la Pole and his good buddy Tom Fitz Gerald have invaded Lancashire...but waiting for them is a dastardly collection of Clifford's, Woodville's and Stanleys! 

The road leads west across the dreaded desert of Yorkshire to a Rampire infested hill in Lincolnshire!

Who will be victorious? 

You'll be RED GUTTER-ed if you miss it!

Join us for the tale of Lambert Simnel the boy who would/won't be King!

Find out in this weeks VERY silly telling of the Battle of Stoke Field.

You'll be gutted if you miss it....RED GUTTER-red!

There was an idea...to bring together a group of silly middled aged boys to make even the most dry bits of history...silly...that we never could...

The Silliest boys in history return for....Pretenders...ASSEMBLE!

We're plunged screaming and yawning back in the thorny history bed that is.

THE WARS OF THE ROSES again.

Henry Tudor smoked Richard the Third at the battle of Bosworth* to start the Tudor Dynasty.

But its only two years later and John de Pole Earl of Lincoln is already burying little presents in Henry Tudor's Rose garden...a little White Rose Present...has one of the Princes in the Tower survived?

Or is it just a no mark peasant twit called Lambert Simnel who has a passing resemblance to a dead Prince?**

Queue a mad dash to hire Irish Gallowgass, Antipodal Mercs with a great faith in the Schwartz (Martin) and massive swords!

Join us for the tale of Lambert Simnel the boy who would be King!

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Thanks to zapsplat for the SFX and music

Thanks to scott buckley for his incredible music

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for his music

Strings by Jonny Dyer

*alright actually he got his Mum on them!

**kind of but no

Geoffrey of Monmouth is once more put to the question by The Silly History Investigation Squad Department P.D.

Will he conclude the epic tale of Brutus, First King of the Britons?

...

Yes. He will.

Thanks to zapsplat for the SFX and music

Thanks to scott buckley for his incredible music

Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for his music

For many centuries Geoffrey of Monmouth's book 'The History of the Kings of Britain' was considered the go-to reference for information on British kings, but in recent years doubt has been cast on it's reliability. Only one crack squad of investigators can get to the bottom of this mystery... The Silly History Investigation Squad Department PD!

Come and hear the tale of Brutus, first King of the Britons from Geoffrey of Monmouth himself!!

Thanks to Zapsplat for music and sfx

Thanks to Scott Buckley for his awesome music

Thanks to you for listening!

Apples yeah? Everyone LOVES apples. But imagine if they were GOLD! OMGeeees you'd never have to work again. 

Where was I? Oh yeah, HERACLES! 

Everyone's fave, yet troubled demigod has yet another labour. 

To steal the Golden Apples of the Hesperides.

We'll meet giant men at the space gym. A dude what is tied to a mountain, and yet MORE sons of Poseidon. 

Enchanted apple pie for ZapSplat for Music & SFX 

Burn your mouth off apple turnover for extra SFX by FreeSFX

and the whole run of the mythical garden and all the sin he can eat goes to Scott Buckley for his amazing apple (not apple) related music.

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The Lambton Wyrm a medieval monster tail...gets the Silly treatment!

The Silly History boys are ‘wyrm-ing’ their way back into your affections with a monstrous medieval legend…the Lambton Wyrm!

John Lambton is a little Geordie scamp who loves nothing better than going fishing with his best mate Gazza*.

UNTIL he fishes a DRAGON out of the river Weir...we blame water companies!

Cue an adventure of terrifying monsters, terrifying accents** and the terrifying notion of taking responsibility for your actions!***

Music & SFX by ZapSplat

Strings by Jonny Dyer

Extra music by Scott Buckley

Extra Extra music by Futuremono & The Soundings

Extra Extra Extra music by Shane Ivers at Silverman Sounds

*is it that Gazza? You'll have to find out, will he bring the Dragon some chicken?

**Sorry Northumberland 

***Yes that could be another crack at the Water Companies 

Grab your hacksaw, lock picks  and balaclava and join the Silly History Boys for a historic crime spree...the prize?

Then follow our gang of very silly rascals to to dreaded Tower of London itself!

Will the crown of England be theirs....or has someone failed to bring an adequate bag

Join us the Silly history boys for the funniest trip to the dungeon ever...

Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat

Big thanks to  Carsten Altena of

Big thanks to Lord Fast Fingers seeing nine consecutive life sentences for the intro music! 

Music and SFX by or regular accomplices ZapSplat

Big thanks to  Scott Buckley & Danny Bradley for music that we never used, but hey, we lean on them heavily so have some more thanks anyway.

Colonel Blood and the Crown Jewels Robbery of 1671 is this weeks silly offering to you fine folk!

Marvel at the unabridged, hands down silliest robbery in History!

Yes....alright you've heard it before. 

Sorry.

We have been a bit busy running about this month...new episodes will be forth coming!

Exit the Dragon…in which the Last King of Wales soars to his highest and…well you’ll see.

The Third branch of the tale of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn see the King of Killer Wales assemble an army of outbreak-able shields and unmanageable accents!

AND UNITE WALES! 

And for an encore takes on the Norman Hordes and their suffering Saxon allies in a massive equestrian accident called…the Battle of Hereford!

Its a Good win for Griff…but unfortunately there’s a more than one Godwin this week!

Join the Silly History Boys for a Wales of a time!

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The Glory of old Rome belong to Farya Faraji for his track the Sons of Mars.

Dioch to Puremusic

Dioch to Tuttkile

And of course to ZapSplat for scrums and scrapping noises!

And big sweaty cutch for Time Travelling musicologists Jonny and Vicky at Sounds of Time! 

Tom Jones turns his chair round for Lord fast Fingers for the Silly History Boys show theme!

And big up to Dan Danny Bradley of Daniel Bradley Music 

A Chippy lane black card for Jez Hewitt's incredible Epic Version of Sosban Fach!