The Randomly Generated History Club

In this episode, we cover the year 1505 and all it entails, including: Oxbow lakes in the cosmos, the Noble Guilds of Picklers and Pimps, ship chandling, Daddy issue Scots, the Great Clockman Procession, the Chief’s Hello Kitty Backpack, and Clan Cameron Diaz. Topics Discussed: Amerigo Vespucci, the Battle of Achnashellach, and Watch 1505. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instag...

In this episode, we cover the year 1393 and all it entails, including: Ye Olde Tescoe Expresse, pie fingers, hechegasms, getting got by God, the uncle of English canoeing, the Iagos of the Court, and Saucy Chaucy.  Topics Discussed: Geoffrey Chaucer, the Siege of Tarnovo, and the Bal des Ardents. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram: @RandomlyHistory Twitter: @Randoml...

In this episode, we cover the year 1632 and all it entails, including: Jasper the Elephant, Pure British Mud, clog-on-clog action, sushi in a brothel, the Clinkettes, detuskment, Galileo’s Diss Tracks, and a very famous building indeed. Topics Discussed: The Holland’s Leaguer, Galileo, and the Taj Mahal. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram: @RandomlyHistory Twitter: @Rand...

In this episode, we cover the year 1881 and all it entails, including: Moustache exclusion, Billy the Adult, Lord Grantham’s War Record, Officer Squirrels, hoity-toity tight-arse Brits, the Naughty Kids Gang, Winfield the Alligator, and assful chaps. Topics Discussed: The assassination of James A. Garfield, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the First Boer War.  Find us:  Patreon: patr...

In this episode, we cover the year 910 BCE and all it entails, including: Battle thespians, idols in a trenchcoat, a lack of Damons, the concept of Zero Popcorn, weird moth people, the Regular Testament, and ritualistic beef-eating.  Topics Discussed: The founding of Sparta, King Omri, and the Olmecs. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram: @RandomlyHistory Twitter: @Ra...

In this episode, we cover the year 177 and all it entails, including: The Battle of 120,000 Legs, an anti-fondness for Scots, the Guild of Wasp Influencers, Ben Stiller is: Xylander, Machiavelli’s inability to count, and the Anti-Banana Horn.  Topics Discussed: The Xianbei Confederacy, Wang Can, and Marcus Aurelius. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram: @RandomlyHisto...

In this episode, we cover the year 1985 and all it entails, including: The Sacred Cow Hunt, purchase pigs, the Grapes of Roth, Eisenhower’s Camel Convoy, God’s Excellent PR Department, the Stratosflat, and the unforeseen consequences of magical gas.  Topics Discussed: New Coke, the Death of Route 66, and the Ozone Layer. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram: @Randomly...

In this episode, we cover the year 1732 and all it entails, including: Vanilla Dave, unexpected Swedes, arguably too many xebecs, Private Foetus, A Warfare Temporal, pedantic Quakers, North African tinned beans, and a damning indictment of 18th-century daycare. Topics Discussed: The Penn-Calvert Boundary Dispute, the Spanish Conquest of Oran, and William Hiseland. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.c...

In this episode, we cover the year 244 and all it entails, including: Tinder with the Ancients, the Designated Sea Snail Survivor, blatypus, golden potato sacks, four gigatonnes of rice, stabby abdications, sufficient dilithium crystals, and Donativium Versace.    Topics Discussed: Philip the Arab, Lady Trieu, and Diocletian. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram:...

In this episode, we cover the year 1347 and all it entails, including: The Gelfs and the Giblians, aesthetically pleasing monks, the Byzantinnies, Serbian Mills & Boon, Anti-Stagma, the Sultan’s HR department, and the Emperor’s brown M&Ms.   Topics Discussed: Ibn Battuta, Dušan the Mighty, and Cola di Rienzo. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram: @RandomlyHist...

In this episode, we cover the year 916 and all it entails, including: Ragnal and Associates, sexually active popes, friendly globulins, the Scarlet T, jammy blaas, the proto-Medicis, Flan Over Ireland, and OnlyHarlots.com.    Topics Discussed: Ottir the Black, Flann Sinna, and Theodora & Marozia. Find us:  Patreon: patreon.com/randomlyhistory Instagram: @RandomlyHistory Twitter:...

It’s Chrimbo Limbo and we’ve eaten so much turkey that we have no more room for facts, so some of them are seeping out. Anna’s fixated on space germs, Ant’s spreading conspiracies about cutlery, and Will’s trying very hard to wrap it all up so we can get back to our pies. Join us for shenanigans… or check back in next week when normal service is resumed. Happy Holidays!   Topics Discusse...

Season's Greetings! In this episode, we cover Christmas Through The Ages, including: Turkey Claus, gazumping Popes, fateful snake dances, the Argy-Bargy Plot, pathetic amounts of silk, the Medici Squid Conspiracy, and Nicolas Cage’s impeccable Glaswegian accent.  Topics Discussed: The Pazzi Conspiracy (1478), The Eggnog Riot (1826), and the theft of the Stone of Scone (1950). Find us:  P...

In this episode, we cover the year 1795 and all it entails, including: Stone-flipping, beach goulash, wet wars, the perfidious French, Will's morning routine, portable sheep dips, proto-democracy, and several minutes of canoe maths.    Topics Discussed: The Kingdom of Hawaii, the Third Partition of Poland, and the Battle of Genoa. Find us:  Patreon: RandomlyHistory Instagram: @Rando...

In this episode, we cover the year 527 BCE and all it entails, including: Pig listeners, excubitoration, the Astrogoths, gruntling your businessmen, Tomyris the Virus, ostrich-cism, the elusive Triple Wench, and our biggest historical whoopsie to date.   Topics Discussed: Cyrus the Great, Pisistratus of Athens, and Justinian I. Find us:  Patreon: RandomlyHistory Instagram: @RandomlyHisto...

In this episode, we cover the year 1066 and all it entails, including: Doing an Aragorn, sack punishments, terse Northern plaques, tarantula infestations, Roger the Inert, besotted Byzantine historians, and well-proportioned weasels.    Topics Discussed: Edward the Confessor, William the Conqueror & the Battle of Hastings, and the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy. Find us:  Pat...

In this episode, we cover the year 1933 and all it entails, including: Non-miraculous grape juice, autumnal chickens, the Other Phil Collins, the Man in the Green Hat, flapper girl physicists, Congressional hypocrisy, barley futures, and the Rosalind Franklin of board games.    Topics Discussed: The repeal of Prohibition, Leo Szilard, and the invention of Monopoly.  Find us:  P...

In this episode, we cover the year 1969 and all it entails, including: Flawless JFK impressions, the Basic Projects Club, wet moon dust scented candles, messenger foxes, the French Scapecat, Mayor Puke, and the Fort Lauderdale of the North.    Topics Discussed: ARPANET, the Moon Landing, and Zip to Zap.   Find us:  Patreon: RandomlyHistory Instagram: @RandomlyHistory Twitt...

In this episode, we cover the year 261 and all it entails, including: Footstool transmogrification, exotic warfare, The Seagull Conspiracy, propagandous torture, the Disney School of History, and empresses that are actually otters.    Topics Discussed: Emperor Valerian, Shapur I of the Sasanians, and Odaenathus & Zenobia. Find us:  Patreon: RandomlyHistory  Instagram: @Rand...

In this episode, we cover the year 1818 and all it entails, including: Joey Boney aka Jimmy Bones, melodramatic resignations, ice ferrets, the return of the tinctures, dunking on Oklahoma, and dog-and-bead-based communication protocols.  Topics Discussed: The Chilean War of Independence, John Ross & the Northwest Passage, and the First Seminole War. Find us:  Patreon: RandomlyHistory...

In this episode, we cover the year 1531 and all it entails, including: Cosmic Britain, toadful islands, the Great Podcasting Omen of 1986, ritual schmalkaldicking, Martin Luther in the Burn Book, and far more maths than you would expect from a history podcast.    Topics Discussed: Halley’s Comet, Timbuktu & the Songhai Empire, and the Schmalkaldic League. Find us:  Patreon: patr...

In this episode, we cover the year 237 BCE and all it entails, including: the Ptolemaic Library Overflow Unit, confusing pacifism, Alexander the Great Project Manager, tech magnets, and Weekend at Bernie’sing the Emperor.    Topics Discussed: Ptolemy III of Egypt, Ashoka the Great, and Qin Shi Huang. Find us:  Patreon: RandomlyHistory Instagram: @RandomlyHistory Twitter: @RandomlyHi...

In this episode, we cover the year 1245 and all it entails, including: The House of Bjelbo, imaginary crusades, the patron saint of needleworkers, double-glazed monks, and Kate Middleton’s explicit endorsement of the podcast.  Topics Discussed: The Second Swedish Crusade, Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, and the history of Westminster Abbey. Find us:  Patreon: RandomlyHistory Instagram: @Ra...

In this episode, we cover the year 1902 and all it entails, including: Rigid upper lips, tummy sledding, the evolution of the foot, Loud Young Ruffians, yeast paste and wool liniments, and Otto von Bismarck on the harpsichord.  Topics Discussed: The founding of Manchester United, the voyage of the Discovery , and the assassination of Dmitry Sipyagin. Find us:   Patreon: patreon.com/Rando...

In this episode, we cover the year 851 and all it entails, including: Wives that may or may not have existed, brothers from a mother, London nightclub bouncers, Kardashiawulf, The Overking, and river nannies.  Topics Discussed: Cináed mac Conaing & Máel Sechnaill, Æthelwulf & Danish Vikings, and Iñigo Arista, King of Pamplona. Comments, questions, or much-needed corrections? We'd love...