Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History
Join two brothers for a hilarious dive into the untold stories of history's most obscure figures. Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History unearths the hidden tales your teachers forgot to mention—If you love a good laugh with a bit of sibling rivalry, and learning about remarkable everyday people who did extraordinary things, subscribe for your weekly dose of banter and historical deep dives. It’s the history podcast where the underdogs finally get their due.
Honourable Mentions: Hilarious History
Latest Episodes
Henry Every & history's largest pirate treasure
How did an English sailor carry out the most lucrative pirate heist in human history, trigger the world's first global manhunt, and vanish into thin air with millions in gold?In this episode, we set sail for the legend of Henry Every (...
The prison break that stunned the world
In 1986, Nadine Vaujour, supposedly a bored French housewife, took flying lessons under a fake name with one goal in mind: to steal a helicopter, fly over Paris and pluck her husband, the notorious bank robber Michel Vaujour, off the roof of th...
Krystyna Skarbek: The greatest female spy of all time.
Meet Krystyna Skarbek (alias Christine Granville), Britain’s first and longest-serving female secret agent of World War II. Long before the world knew of Ian Fleming's James Bond or Vesper Lynd, this Polish-born countess was pulling off the mos...
The Tragic Arctic Balloon Crash of S. A. Andrée
In 1897, Swedish explorer S.A. Andrée set out to fly a hydrogen balloon over the North Pole. Alongside Knut Frænkel and Nils Strindberg, he launched The Eagle (or the Ornen) into the freezing unknown. Less than three days later, they were fight...
Did a Pope put a corpse on trial?
What happens when the supreme leader of the Catholic Church goes completely mad with power? You get the Cadaver Synod. Join us for the terrifying medieval courtroom drama of 897, when Pope Formosus was put on trial by Pope Stephen VI. The probl...
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