Half-Arsed History

By: Riley Knight
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  • Welcome along to Half-Arsed History! It's a weekly podcast highlighting absurd and entertaining stories from history. Three times a week, it helps host Riley Knight feel as though his useless history degree has some kind of real-world relevance.


    Get in touch: halfarsedhistory@gmail.com

    Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/halfarsedhistory

    Buy Half-Arsed History merch: https://halfarsedhistory.theprintbar.com


    If you've just discovered the show and aren't sure which of the 300+ episodes to start with, here are some suggestions:

    Episode 139: The History of the Toilet - https://sptfy.com/PK3J

    Episode 75: The Great Emu War - https://sptfy.com/PK3K

    Episode 197: The History of Nuclear Weapons - https://sptfy.com/PK3L

    Episode 233: The 1930 FIFA World Cup - https://sptfy.com/PK3M

    Episode 106: The First Circumnavigation - https://sptfy.com/PK3N


    Half-Arsed History acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the unceded Gubbi Gubbi (Kabi Kabi) Land on which the podcast is written and recorded, and pays respect to First Nations Elders past, present, and emerging. Indigenous sovereignty was never ceded. This continent always was, and always will be, Aboriginal Land.


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Episodes
  • Inventions Episode 7: Concrete

    Inventions Episode 7: Concrete
    Mar 2 2025
    Concrete is, unbelivably, the second-most-used substance in the world - second only to water - and has a truly fascinating history, its secrets lost to time for a millennia or so before re-emerging in the modern era.

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    37 mins
  • Update: Apologies for Ongoing Delays; Upcoming AMA

    Update: Apologies for Ongoing Delays; Upcoming AMA
    Mar 1 2025
    I've returned from my overseas trip feeling a bit unwell, so have had trouble getting episodes out the door on time - also, I'm planning to do an AMA (Ask Me Anything) episode for QAH next week, so send in any questions you want answered!

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    8 mins
  • Episode 348: The World Series Cricket Crisis

    Episode 348: The World Series Cricket Crisis
    Feb 23 2025
    In this week's episode, get across a crisis that posed a potentially existential threat to official international cricket in the 1970s, when media mogul Kerry Packer established a private, unofficial cricketing competition known as World Series Cricket.

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    1 hr and 8 mins

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