What’s the History?

21/10/2023

Season 2, Episode 5. It's got everything; time travel, fireworks, embarrassing Facebook posts and more. We love you listeners; please feel free to send us in your creepy experiences for our next episode 😜

13/03/2023

We will be back, very soon! In the meantime, why not catch up on our back catalogue? We have over 60 episodes for you to binge right now on any podcast directory 💛🖤🤍

11/12/2022

We have an episode coming to you today 🥰

01/08/2022

If you like to laugh and learn, we’ve got you covered. Listen to our podcast now:

‎History · 2022

01/08/2022

Hidilly Ho Histerinoes!

Our episode is late this week due to us both going to a music festival yesterday and being in our mid 30s 🥴

Why not listen to one of our older episodes? We have a pretty big back catalogue built up now!

Remember you can vote for us in the Listeners’ Choice category at the Irish Podcast Awards
at the link below. Thanks to those who have ❤️

The Listeners' Choice All of our main category winners have been chosen by our judges, and will be revealed on the 16th September, but there's one last podcast to crown - the one chosen by you! You can search for your favourite podcast below until the closing date, Sunday 11th September 2022 at

26/07/2022

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04/06/2022

Hi all! We set up a Twitter for the pod if you’d like to hear riveting details of our lives 💚

08/05/2022

Look… if you think your family is messed up, at least you’re not a posse of sadistic serial killers like the Benders who disappeared and were never heard from again. Listen to our tale about them and their ghastly B&B from today’s episode in the link above. Talk about 1 star reviews 😬

08/05/2022

✨⭐️✨⭐️In episode 43 of , we cover some very interesting criminal history, from the 12th century right up to the 20th century. It’s a Historical Crime Bonanza!😎🥸🚨🚓🧙‍♀️

01/05/2022

A brand new podcast episode just for you lovely wonderful folks! 🥰 Episode 42! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

24/04/2022

It’s a bit of a BONANZA and also a bit personal but you can skip if you don’t like it ☺️ We discuss a lot 🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏔

17/04/2022

Episode 40 of is here and it’s another wild one. We got Wrestling and Robots, what more could you want on a rainy Sunday with those Easter Eggs?!🐣

Happy Easter to you all! Thank you very much for your continued support. Please share us to your podcast amigos if you like! Lots of love!🤖🤼🤼‍♂️

16/04/2022

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PianoDreams • Chopin - Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2 In E Flat Major

15/04/2022

On this day… 1861 🗓
Abraham Lincoln mobilises 75,000 volunteers to join the Federal Army for a period of 90 days following the Confederate Army’s attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, SC. No one foresaw the bloodshed that lay ahead.

15/04/2022

On this day in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called on 75,000 volunteers to mobilise and join the Federal Army following the confederate army’s attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. These volunteers were initially called upon for a period of 90 days.

15/04/2022

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13/04/2022

HOPES that Vladimir Putin may be preparing to withdraw his troops from Ukraine and end months of slaughter in the country were dashed today, after a Kremlin source leaked that the dictator's last Google search …

13/04/2022

Let me tell you about stats. This is the amount of times our podcast has been listened to since its inception. Seems like a big number, doesn’t it? It’s not. It’s tiny. The most successful podcasts in Ireland get upwards of 50,000 downloads PER EPISODE IN A WEEK. We get about 150 listens per week. We will probably never get close to those numbers and we know that. We are nowhere near successful and we’ve probably exceeded the acceptable limit of asking people to subscribe and share so we’re trying to just plod along.

So why would we share this? Why would we put it out there that our audience is absolutely tiny? I’m not going to pretend that it wouldn’t be cool to have a big audience. It must be amazing. We would love someday to be able to do something like a live show. We would love to feel our bonkers brand of history is entertaining more people.

But. What we seem to have is a tiny but wonderful group of people who listen week in and week out and I can’t express how it warms our weird little hearts. It means so much to us, especially as I think we’re two gals who’ve probably always felt a little on the fringes of what is normal or acceptable. We know we’re weird, we know we’re out there and it’s lovely to have found our people.

I know the thank yous might be getting a little cloying but in the absence of our families listening, it’s like we’ve built a little podcast family of our own and it’s really, really nice. So you get a hug, and you get a hug, EVERYONE GETS A HUG.

Every download, every listen, every like, share, subscription is appreciated. Thank you ❤️‍🔥

10/04/2022

It’s finally here, it’s a little q***r and we’re so excited 🏳️‍🌈 Fi talks about Pearl Hart, badass gunslinger. Claire shares some classic Hollywood tea 🍵

07/04/2022

When the Great Famine began in Ireland in 1845, Tory Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel failed to intervene in any impactful manner due to his party’s entrenched laissez-faire economic policies and prejudice towards the Irish. By the time he was in opposition in 1846, he stated "There is such a tendency to exaggeration and inaccuracy in Irish reports that delay in acting on them is always desirable".
His successor, the Whig Lord John Russell, also led a disastrous response to the Famine. Following the failure of public work schemes, Russell’s government introduced a series of relief schemes through workhouses and soup kitchens. The Irish Poor Laws meant that the financing of these schemes was mostly left to the landlord class in Ireland, made up primarily of the Anglo-Irish Protestant Ascendancy.
One of these landlords was the absent Lord Palmerston, then British Foreign Secretary, who chose to evict 2,000 of his tenants to absolve himself of this financial burden. He did finance the emigration of Irish tenants across the Atlantic, but conditions on board these Coffin Ships were so deplorable that some had a mortality rate as high as 30%.

27/03/2022

We’re here with a new episode! Link in bio, it’s a good one 🖤