Our Fake History
A podcast about myths we think are history and history that might be hidden in myths! Awesome stories that really (maybe) happened!
- Website
- http://ourfakehistory.podbean.com
- Description
- Historical Myths Relished and Ruined!
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-29 22:43
- last episode published
- 2024-05-28 19:42
- publication frequency
- 8.93 days
- Contributors
- ourfakehistory
- Author
- Sebastian Major
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 363
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-05-28 | In the late 19th century many Victorian's were experiencing a crisis of faith. Changing technology and scientific breakthroughs had many questioning the traditional explanations of humanities place in the cosmos. Some reacted by seeking answers in the... | |
| 2024-05-21 |
OFH Throwback- Episode #31- What Was the Charge of the Light Brigade? In this throwback episode we revisit Episode #31 from Season 2. The Crimean War cavalry action known as “the charge of light brigade” was immortalized by the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. The poet described a glorious charge into the mouth of hell carried... |
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| 2024-05-14 | In the Imjin year of 1592 the Japanese orchestrated a blitzkreig invasion of Korea. Within just two months they had captured both Seoul and Pyongyang. However, conquering Korea and holding Korea turned out to be two very different propositions. The vic... | |
| 2024-04-30 | When the Japanese army landed in Korea in 1592 the Korean defenders were woefully underprepared. Confused diplomacy and divisive court politics had hampered Korean preparations for the coming Japanese attack. The only Korean commander who came out look... | |
| 2024-04-16 | In 1592 the Japanese launched a massive invasion of the Korean Peninsula. The Japanese leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi believed that Korea would submit without much of a fight and that his army would very quickly move on to the real target, the capital of Mi... | |
| 2024-04-09 | For this throwback Sebastian takes you all the way back to a first season favorite. Ninjas, Japan’s shadow warriors, have been a pop-culture staple for generations. The legend of the ninjas has become so overblown, that some have gone so far to suggest... | |
| 2024-04-01 | Our Fake History celebrates 200 episodes by opening up the phonelines and taking calls from listeners and past guests. Fans from all over the world pose questions and queries and Sebastian does his best to answer thoughtfully. How does Sebastian choose... | |
| 2024-03-26 | There are few Christian saints more misunderstood than St. Patrick. Ireland’s patron saint is best known for driving the snakes off the island, but that isn’t even close to the most interesting thing about him. Both the legend of St. Patrick and the de... | |
| 2024-03-19 | The attempted invasion of England in 1588 was doomed even before the first ship left harbor. The Spanish plan was fatally flawed and pretty much every commander knew it. The plan was audacious, but it was also weirdly vague. The Spanish also made a fat... | |
| 2024-03-05 | In 1588 King Phillip II of Spain constructed the largest fleet ever seen on the Atlantic in attempt to invade England. This attempt famously flopped. At the time this was celebrated as an English triumph in the face of impossible odds, and over the cen... |