Episode 402: The East India Company - Part 2: Footholds and Factories
In this week's episode, hear about the early history of the English East India Company, and how it moved away from the Indonesian spice trade and instead gained a foothold on the Indian subcontinent u...
8 Mar 1h 3min
Week 10: The 13 Original Rules of Golf
This week in history we’ve got the foundation of the French Foreign Legion and frozen food, we’ve got the birthdays of explorers and artists and activists, and we’ve got the establishment of the origi...
4 Mar 47min
Episode 401: The East India Company - Part 1: Spices and Stocks
In this week's episode, learn about the global 16th century trading conditions that ultimately led to the formation of the East India Company, an institution that would eventually grow to effectively ...
1 Mar 56min
Week 9: The Great Fire of Meireki
This week in history we’ve got the first Europeans in Australia, we’ve got the first Sherlock Holmes stories, we’ve got famous composers and an even famouser crook, and we’ve got the time the city tha...
25 Feb 38min
Episode 400: What Half-Arsed History Could Have Been
In this week's episode, get a taste of what this show might have sounded like if it had begun as a podcast of a different genre. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
22 Feb 1h 20min
Week 8: Three Presidents in One Hour
This week in history we’ve got monuments, calendars, and the disastrous premiere of a popular opera, we’ve got the birthdays of astronomers and diarists and presidents, and we’ve got that time that Me...
18 Feb 35min
Episode 399: Nicolaus Copernicus and Copernican Heliocentrism
In this week's episode, get to know Nicolaus Copernicus, the 15th-century astronomer who brought about a historical paradigm shift with his radical proposal that the Sun, not the Earth, is at the cent...
15 Feb 55min
Week 7: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre
This week in history we’ve got famous martyrdoms, global car races, and the discovery of former planets, we’ve got the birthdays of scientists and leaders and activists, and we’ve also got the story o...
11 Feb 40min
