Half-Arsed History

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Week 13: The Spaghetti Tree Hoax

This week in history we’ve got the origin of gerrymandering, the renaming of Constantinople, we’ve got the birthdays of composers and scientists and painters, and we’ve got the time the BBC convinced half of Britain that spaghetti grew on trees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  Episode 406: The East India Company - Part 6: Legacies and Lessons

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  Week 14: The Rescue of Poon Lim

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  Episode 405: The East India Company - Part 5: Downfall and Dissolution

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  Episode 404: The East India Company - Part 4 Expansion and Empire

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  Week 12: England Loses the 1966 World Cup

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  Episode 403: The East India Company - Part 3: Conquest and Corruption

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  Week 11: The Assassination of Julius Caesar

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  Episode 402: The East India Company - Part 2: Footholds and Factories

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  Week 10: The 13 Original Rules of Golf

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  Episode 401: The East India Company - Part 1: Spices and Stocks

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  Week 9: The Great Fire of Meireki

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  Episode 400: What Half-Arsed History Could Have Been

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  Week 8: Three Presidents in One Hour

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  Episode 399: Nicolaus Copernicus and Copernican Heliocentrism

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  Week 7: The Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre