The Skeptical Historian
oleh Juliana Byers
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Join historian Juliana Byers to take a deep dive into some of the most famous events from Australia and around the world, and answer that all important question: did that REALLY happen?
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- Before Apple Cider Vinegar: Cures, Cons and Quacks in Colonial Australia · 47 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 5At the time of recording, the most watched drama on Netflix in Australia was "Apple Cider Vinegar" which was inspired by the story of fraudster Belle Gibson, who built an empire…
- The Death Fleet · 46 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 4The horror of the Second Fleet is one of Australia's most shameful untold stories. Just two years after the First Fleet landed with barely any European causalities, six more…
- Bad Cops: The Shooting of Detective Brophy · 41 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 3On 22 May 1936, Victoria's most famous detective John O'Connell Brophy, was shot four times in Royal Park, while sitting in an idling car with three civilians. After a bungled…
- Victoria's Burning: Black Thursday, 1851 · 47 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 2On February 6 1851, the most extensive bushfire in Victoria’s history roared through the unprepared colony. At least twelve people, one million sheep, thousands of cattle and…
- Australia's Deadliest Picnic · 40 mnt · Musim 3 Episode 1On New Year's Day 1915, Gool Mohamed and "Mullah" Abdullah, two local cameleers from Broken Hill, New South Wales, opened fire on a train full of people setting off to enjoy a…
- The Tragedy of Henry Wise · 53 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 13Captain Henry Wise, 40th Regiment, is the most famous of the soldiers who stormed the Eureka Stockade in 1854. His death rocked Ballarat to its core and, even today, debate rages…
- A Short History of the Age of Consent · 56 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 12In 1885, the British parliament passed laws which made it illegal to rape a minor child, i.e. anyone under the age of sixteen. This came after more than a decade of campaigning…
- Skeptical Short: The Tale of Two Johns · 26 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 11We're talked about Melbourne after the gold rush... but what happened before the shiny metal was found, and what were the dreams of the early Europeans when they arrived on the…
- The Impossible Japanese Invasion · 51 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 10On the 8th of December 1941, Australia declared war on Japan. Just over two months later, Japanese planes appeared over Darwin and rained hell on our northernmost city. But was…
- Back in Time: Australia's Favourite War Criminal · 53 mnt · Musim 2Back in Time: After twelve months of campaigning, the Adelaide city council recently announced that they WILL NOT be adding the name of infamous war criminal Harry Morant to the…
- 200 Yanks vs. 800 Poms: The American Eurkea Story · 1 jam 4 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 9Out on the road near Ballarat, a party of 200 armed Americans lay in wait for a column of British infantry making haste to the restless goldfield. What would have happened if…
- Back In Time: Five Final Minutes · 30 mnt · Musim 2Juliana's away this fortnight, but listen in as she goes back in time and revisits an early episode from Season 1 of "The Skeptical Historian." 'Five Final Minutes' examines the…
- Eureka: The Military Perspective · 58 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 8In the 170 years or so since Eureka, there have been two perspectives which have commanded attention: those of the stockaders, and that of the Victorian Government. The military…
- "To the Colonists!" - A Letter from a Liar? : Part II · 58 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 7In April 1855, while in hiding from the law after the Battle of the Eureka Stockade, Peter Lalor, the rebel Commander-in-Chief, wrote an open letter that has since become the…
- "To the Colonists!" - A Letter from a Liar?: Part I · 1 jam 12 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 6In April 1855, while in hiding from the law after the Battle of the Eureka Stockade, Peter Lalor, the rebel Commander-in-Chief, wrote an open letter that has since become the…
- Burning Down the House · 57 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 5On the 17th of October 1854, just six weeks before the famous Battle of the Eureka Stockade, a mob of furious diggers surrounded the opulent Eureka Hotel in Ballarat and burned…
- Dictation-ship: Morals, Marriage & Italian · 35 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 4Just one year after trying to keep activist Egon Kisch out, the Australian government set their sights on excluding Mabel Freer, a British Indian woman who was coming to…
- Dictation-ship: Communism & Scottish Gaelic · 42 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 3In 1934, Czechoslovakian activist Egon Kisch, an anti-war, anti-fascist campaigner who had escaped the horrors of Nazi Germany was invited to speak at an anti-fascist rally in…
- BONUS: Time to Stick the 26th? · 48 mnt · Musim 2Australia Day. Invasion Day. An arbitrary date in January everyone likes to argue about. Whatever the 26th of January is for you, there's no other day in the Australian calendar…
- The 40th Regiment & The Crisis of 1851 · 41 mnt · Musim 2 Episode 2In 1851, the colony of Victoria was hovering on the verge of complete collapse as gold fever swept the inhabitants. Unable to cope, facing record high levels of inflation and…
