Share

cover art for Half-Arsed History

Half-Arsed History

A Very Serious History Podcast


Latest episode

  • 10430. Episode 430: The Viking Age - Part 5: Decline

    52:38||Ep. 10430
    In this week's episode, learn about the decline of the Viking Age - how it was an inconsistent and gradual process that, paradoxically, also resulted in some of the greatest Viking triumphs in history.

More episodes

View all episodes

  • 50045. Week 45: Pheasant Island and the Treaty of the Pyrenees

    27:27||Ep. 50045
    This week in history we’ve got an infamous plot to blow up the English Parliament, we’ve got the hanging of Australia’s most notorious bushranger, we’ve got a failed attempt to kill Hitler - and we’ve got a tiny little island that belongs to two countries at the same time.
  • 50044. Week 44: The Spruce Goose Takes Flight

    29:10||Ep. 50044
    This week in history we’ve got a tale of mutiny on the high seas, we’ve got Scotland’s disastrous attempt to colonise Central America, we’ve got a major US landmark being “finished” - and we’ve got the first and only flight of a massive aircraft called the Spruce Goose.
  • 10435. Episode 435: The Book Tour 2026 - Chapter Readings

    01:02:00||Ep. 10435
    In this week's episode, get across four of the chapters taken from the new book, The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of: Tarrare, William Buckley, Unaarrimin, and Countess Black Agnes Dunbar.
  • 50043. Week 43: The Charge of the Light Brigade

    25:21||Ep. 50043
    This week in history we’ve got yet another important historical battle, we’ve got a very stupidly named war, we’ve got the closest we ever came to the Third World War - and we’ve got the story behind the famous Charge of the Light Brigade.
  • 10434. Episode 434: The Book Tour 2026 - LIVE in Perth

    53:58||Ep. 10434
    In this week's episode, learn more about what went into the creation of The Most Interesting People You've Never Heard Of, while enjoying some truly first-rate gear making fun of Perth.
  • 40042. Week 42: The "Discovery" of the Cardiff Giant

    18:34||Ep. 40042
    This week in history we’ve got a twelve-year-old girl crowned as a king, we’ve got a turning point in Japanese history, we’ve got a disastrous Russian naval campaign - and we’ve got a huge petrified figure proving the existence ancient race of giants.