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Introducing: History's Youngest Heroes from the BBC
Check out this trailer for a new history podcast from the BBC. Actress Nicola Coughlan, from Bridgerton and Derry Girls, hosts History’s Youngest Her…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode #216 - Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part I)
When the capital of the Roman empire was moved from Rome to the city of Constantinople, the city on the Bosporus strait became one of the most import…
1 year, 4 months ago
OFH Throwback- Episode #34- Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray?
In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to Season 2 Episode #34 - Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray? Archimedes was one of the ancient wor…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode #215 - Edgar Allan Poe: Hoax Master?
Edgar Allan Poe has been remembered as one of America's greatest authors and poets. However, many are less familiar with is career as a hoaxer. In th…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode #214 - Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part II)
Trying to come an "objective" understanding of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot has proved difficult for historians. From the the outset the facts of the case…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode #213 - Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part I)
There is an old English rhyme that implores every patriotic Briton to "Remember, Remember, the 5th of November." This was the date of a foiled attack…
1 year, 5 months ago
OFH Throwback- Episode #3- Was There a Real Labyrinth?
In this throwback episode Sebastian revisits one of the earliest episodes of Our Fake History from 2015. Is the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur just…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode #212 - Was "The Man Called Intrepid" a Fraud?
In 1976 the bestselling biography A Man Called Intrepid made the Canadian spy Sir. William Stephenson something close to a household name. The book c…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode #211 - Who Killed King Tut? (Part II)
When King Tutankhamun became King of Egypt at the tender age of eight he inherited a kingdom in chaos. His father's religious revolution had upended …
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode #210 - Who Killed King Tut? (Part I)
King Tutankhamun may be the best known Egyptian Pharaoh. The discovery of his tomb in 1922 created a wave of "Tut-mania" that has made him a fixture …
1 year, 7 months ago