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Episode 372: The French Revolution - Part 6: The Legacy
Episode 10372
In this week's episode, wrap up this six-part mini-series on the French Revolution with its most important legacies - political, social, cultural, an…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Inventions Episode 32: The Refrigerator
Episode 40032
The refrigerator changed so much about how we store and eat perishable food - it opened up global food markets with refrigerated transport, improved …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
QAH Episode 122: The Festival of the Supreme Being
Episode 20122
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the Festival of the Supreme Being, the unhinged religious festival put on by Maxilimilien Robespierre as he attempted…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
History's Strangest Deaths is Out Now!
Half-Arsed History's first book, History's Strangest Deaths, is now available at all good bookstores, and probably some bad ones as well. You can buy…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 371: The French Revolution - Part 5: The Directory
Episode 10371
In this week's episode, get across the final chapter in the tale of the French Revolution: the broad political failure that was the French Directory,…
9 months ago
Inventions Episode 31: The Sewing Machine
Episode 40031
The sewing machine is a piece of technology that has had an outsized historical influence - not just on the textile industry, but on society, culture…
9 months ago
QAH Episode 121: A Brief History of the Guillotine
Episode 20121
Quarter-Arsed History presents: a brief history of the guillotine, a device popularised during the French Revolution, responsible for the deaths of c…
9 months ago
Episode 370: The French Revolution - Part 4: The Terror
Episode 10370
In this week's episode, get across the darkest and bloodiest chapter in French revolutionary history: the Reign of Terror, which saw tens of thousand…
9 months ago
Inventions Episode 30: The Friction Match
Episode 40030
The friction match and its subsequent developments helped to democratise fire - matches have made it possible for anyone, at any time, to make use of…
9 months, 1 week ago
Tickets for the 2025 Book Tour are now available!
Join me in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Maroochydore as I go through some of the stories from History's Strangest Deaths, and share juicy behind-…
9 months, 1 week ago