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
- 2024-11-20 22:02
- last episode published
- 2024-11-19 16:35
- publication frequency
- 8.97 days
- Contributors
- ourfakehistory
- Author
- Sebastian Major
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 381
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture History
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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... | |
| 2024-09-10 | King Tutankhamun may be the best known Egyptian Pharaoh. The discovery of his tomb in 1922 created a wave of "Tut-mania" that has made him a fixture of pop-culture ever since. But even though his treasures are among the most visited museum objects in h... | |
| 2024-09-03 |
OFH Throwback- Episode #172- Who Was the African Samurai? (Part II) In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to the conclusion of the African Samurai series. In the 1580’s Japan was a on the precipice of a massive transformation. For over a century the country had been embroiled in war, but by 1581 the end se... |
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| 2024-08-27 |
OFH Throwback- Episode #171- Who Was the African Samurai? (Part I) In this throwback episode Sebastian was inspired by a recent controversy around the Assassin's Creed videogame series to revisit his series on Yasuke, the African Samurai. Near the end of Japan’s “Warring States” period a remarkable visitor arrived in ... |
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| 2024-08-20 |
OFH Throwback- Episode #90- How Bad Was Blackbeard? (Part II) In this throwback episode Sebastian takes you back to Season 4 to finish up the series on Blackbeard. Thanks to the mysterious pirate historian Captain Charles Johnson, Blackbeard became a truly legendary villain. According to the Captain, Blackbeard i... |