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
- 2024-12-18 09:05
- last episode published
- 2024-12-17 16:54
- publication frequency
- 8.95 days
- Contributors
- ourfakehistory
- Author
- Sebastian Major
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 385
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
Recommendations
Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-17 |
Episode #217- Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part II) In the 670's something was brewing in the eastern Mediterranean. The Umayyad caliphate had built an impressive navy and was scoring victories at sea over the Roman empire. It looked like the Caliphate was ready to make a move against the Roman capital ... |
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| 2024-12-16 | Check out this trailer for a new history podcast from the BBC. Actress Nicola Coughlan, from Bridgerton and Derry Girls, hosts History’s Youngest Heroes – a podcast telling twelve true stories of rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth. Nicola C... | |
| 2024-12-03 |
Episode #216- Did the Siege of Constantinople Even Happen? (Part I) When the capital of the Roman empire was moved from Rome to the city of Constantinople, the city on the Bosporus strait became one of the most important places on planet earth. One top being the heart of Roman religious, political, and cultural life fo... |
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| 2024-11-26 |
OFH Throwback- Episode #34- Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray? In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to Season 2 Episode #34 - Did Archimedes Build a Death Ray? Archimedes was one of the ancient world’s most important mathematicians. His discoveries would form the foundation upon which all future wes... |
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| 2024-11-19 | Edgar Allan Poe has been remembered as one of America's greatest authors and poets. However, many are less familiar with is career as a hoaxer. In the 1830's and 1840's Poe made a name for himself orchestrating elaborate newspaper hoaxes, and debunking... | |
| 2024-11-05 |
Episode #214- Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part II) Trying to come an "objective" understanding of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot has proved difficult for historians. From the the outset the facts of the case were distorted to help serve the political interests of powerful English ministers. The details were m... |
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| 2024-10-22 |
Episode #213- Have We Misremembered the Gunpowder Plot? (Part I) There is an old English rhyme that implores every patriotic Briton to "Remember, Remember, the 5th of November." This was the date of a foiled attack on the English parliament known as the Gunpowder Plot. The man poised to light the fuse on the 36 barr... |
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| 2024-10-15 | In this throwback episode Sebastian revisits one of the earliest episodes of Our Fake History from 2015. Is the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur just a bedtime story for morbid children or does it contain the kernels of real history? This week we dive ... | |
| 2024-10-08 | In 1976 the bestselling biography A Man Called Intrepid made the Canadian spy Sir. William Stephenson something close to a household name. The book claimed that the previously obscure Stephenson had secretly been the head of one of WWII's most importan... | |
| 2024-09-24 | When King Tutankhamun became King of Egypt at the tender age of eight he inherited a kingdom in chaos. His father's religious revolution had upended the traditional social structure and enraged the old priesthood. In those early years of his reign Tuta... |