Half-Arsed History
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Half-Arsed History
Half-Arsed History's first book, History's Strangest Deaths, is now available: https://www.booktopia.com.au/history-s-strangest-deaths-riley-knight/book/9781761472589.htmlWelcome along to Half-Arsed History! It's a weekly podcast highlighting absurd and entertaining stories from history. Three times...
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Episode 381: Matthew Flinders, the Man Who Named Australia
In this week's episode, get to know Matthew Flinders, the explorer and navigator who was the first person to circumnavigate Australia - and later popu...
Inventions Episode 41: Radio
Radio brought about a revolution in communications technology, allowing widespread wireless communication across great distances and bringing about an...
QAH Episode 131: Australia's Silliest Laws - Part 2
Quarter-Arsed History presents: more of the silliest laws still in effect in Tasmania, Western Australia, and South Australia including posing an an a...
Episode 380: History’s Biggest Misconceptions - Part 3
In this week's episode, uncover the truth behind five more historical misconceptions: what Roman vomitoriums were used for, mediaeval life expectancie...
Inventions Episode 40: Aspirin
Aspirin was one of the very first mass-produced pharmaceuticals, and its invention and development has a very interesting backstory filled with disagr...
QAH Episode 130: Australia's Silliest Laws - Part 1
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the silliest laws still on the books in Victoria, NSW, and Queensland - including prohibitions against corresponding w...
Episode 379: Matilda of Tuscany, the Great Countess
In this week's episode, meet Matilda of Tuscany, also known as the "Great Countess", a woman who played a very important role in the politics of the P...
Inventions Episode 39: The X-Ray Machine
The X-ray machine changed medicine forever, enabling an easy and (eventually) safe way to see inside the human body non-invasively for diagnosis and t...
QAH Episode 129: Britain's Silliest Laws
Quarter-Arsed History presents: a brief summary of some of the most absurd laws that are, technically speaking, still in force across the UK - includi...
Episode 378: Dick Turpin, the Infamous Highwayman
In this week's episode, meet Dick Turpin, an 18th-century highwayman who passed into English folklore for his daring predations as a violent criminal....
Inventions Episode 38: The Automobile
The automobile is one of the most transformative inventions in human history, completely changing the way transportation, society, culture, business,...
QAH Episode 128: The Death of Allan Pinkerton
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the story of the death of Allan Pinkerton, a story that is completely and totally distinct from the one cut from Histo...
Episode 377: Krum the Fearsome, Bane of Emperors
In this week's episode, get to know Khan Krum the Fearsome, a 9th-century leader of the Bulgarian Empire who is famous for, amongst other things, drin...
Inventions Episode 37: The Light Bulb
The light bulb is something found in more or less every room in our homes, today - and while its form and function hasn't changed too much, it has und...
QAH Episode 127: HAH Live Q&A from Maroochydore
Quarter-Arsed History presents: highlights from the Q&A sessions from the live show in Maroochydore, including questions on the research that went int...
Episode 376: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Maroochydore
In this week's episode, get the best kind of advice - unsolicited advice - as to how to bring your creative endeavours to life (there are also a coupl...
Inventions Episode 36: The Telephone
The telephone completely changed the way we communicate with one another, making it possible to have an instant back-and-forth conversation across vas...
QAH Episode 126: HAH Live Q&A from Sydney & Brisbane
Quarter-Arsed History presents: highlights from the Q&A sessions from the live shows in Sydney and Brisbane, including questions on the book's cover,...
Episode 375: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Brisbane
In this week's episode, enjoy a series of shameful confessions about the mistakes - both those that were found and missed - in History's Strangest Dea...
Inventions Episode 35: The Internal Combustion Engine
The internal combustion engine is an invention that has completely and irreversibly changed human civilisation and the way we live our lives, unlockin...
QAH Episode 125: The Death of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the story of the death of Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, a glaring omission from History's Strangest deaths - the shah sent...
Episode 374: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Melbourne
In this week's episode, hear all about the editing and proofreading process that History's Strangest Deaths underwent, as well as a painful confession...
Inventions Episode 34: Barbed Wire
Barbed wire has had a surprisingly large impact on human civilisation, completely changing the agricultural industry across much of the world, while a...
QAH Episode 124: Emperor Caracalla’s Wedding Massacre
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the story of the massacre carried out after Caracalla proposed wedding between himself and the daughter of the Parthia...
Episode 373: The Book Tour 2025 - LIVE in Sydney
In this week's episode, get across the behind-the-scenes details when it came to drafting and pitching process for History's Strangest Deaths, as well...
Inventions Episode 33: The Lift
The lift has played a very important role in modern building design and construction, sending skyscrapers higher and higher into the air and transform...
QAH Episode 123: The Mayerling Incident
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the tragic and gruesome story of the Mayerling Incident, a murder-suicide pact involving the heir to the Austro-Hungar...
Episode 372: The French Revolution - Part 6: The Legacy
In this week's episode, wrap up this six-part mini-series on the French Revolution with its most important legacies - political, social, cultural, and...
Inventions Episode 32: The Refrigerator
The refrigerator changed so much about how we store and eat perishable food - it opened up global food markets with refrigerated transport, improved f...
QAH Episode 122: The Festival of the Supreme Being
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the Festival of the Supreme Being, the unhinged religious festival put on by Maxilimilien Robespierre as he attempted...
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...
Episode 371: The French Revolution - Part 5: The Directory
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,...
Inventions Episode 31: The Sewing Machine
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,...
QAH Episode 121: A Brief History of the Guillotine
Quarter-Arsed History presents: a brief history of the guillotine, a device popularised during the French Revolution, responsible for the deaths of co...
Episode 370: The French Revolution - Part 4: The Terror
In this week's episode, get across the darkest and bloodiest chapter in French revolutionary history: the Reign of Terror, which saw tens of thousands...
Inventions Episode 30: The Friction Match
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...
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-t...
QAH Episode 120: The Man in the Iron Mask
Quarter-Arsed History presents: the Man in the Iron Mask, a mysterious prisoner of the French king Louis XIV, who was imprisoned for 34 years without...
Episode 369: The French Revolution - Part 3: The Constitution
In this week's episode, understand some of the most important legacies of the French Revolution as it worked to establish a constitutional monarchy, b...
Inventions Episode 29: The Camera
The camera is everywhere, today - we carry them around with us in our pockets - but it has a two-hundred year history that has brought us to this poin...