The Randomly Generated History Club

In this episode, we cover the year 1649 and all it entails, including: superfluous defenestration, chicken and beer, flesh-promoting bacteria, mucking about in Kandahar, perceiving the bad effect of your carelessness, knight raves, and extreme derrings-do. Topics Discussed: the Battle of Prague, the Sumuroy Rebellion, and the Mughal-Safavid War. Comments, questions, or much-needed corrections? We'...

In this episode, we cover the year 1471 and all it entails, including: The Last Jester, prickers, Big Quinoa, necessary nautical know-how, chinchillas in Mauritius, priestly cardigans, and Thomas the Tank Engine’s secret nemesis. Topics Discussed: the Battle of Tewkesbury, Marfa Boretskaya, and Marsilio Ficino & the Corpus Hermeticum . Comments, questions, or much-needed corrections? We'd love...

In this episode, we cover the year 652 and all it entails, including: Lentil futures, ruinous lechery, someone with a name not entirely dissimilar to Rodaldo, King Ant’s edicts, and how Odin is basically responsible for modern European history.  Topics Discussed: Rodoald & the Lombards, King Penda & King Oswiu, and the Baqt. Comments, questions, or much-needed corrections? We'd love t...

In this episode, we cover the year 1133 and all it entails, including: Jaffa Cakes, Eva Green's grandmother, shoehorning Merlin into things, King Funk, historians named Geoff, and the fact that nothing actually happened in 1133.  Topics Discussed: King Fulk of Jerusalem, Geoffrey of Monmouth & the Historia Regum Britanniae , and King Lothair III. Comments, questions, or much-needed correc...

In this, our very first episode, we cover the year 1629 and all it entails, including: Primitive steam cleaning technologies, partially blinding your sons, terrible Scottish poetry, Empires Ant’s Never Heard Of, bad colonisation tactics, and anti-sloop warfare.  Topics Discussed: Giovanni Branca's steam turbine, Abbas the Great, and William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling. Comments, questions...

Club Announcement: The first episode will be released on 23rd August! We'd love to hear from you! Contact us: Twitter: @RandomlyHistory Website: randomlygeneratedhistory.com Instagram: @RandomlyHistory Or find the co-hosts on Twitter: Ant: @AntRandomly Anna: @RandomlyAMFM Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three non-historians pick a year at random and try to teach each other stuff. Results mixed. First episode coming later in August! Get in touch at: Twitter: @RandomlyHistory Website: randomlygeneratedhistory.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.