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Gather round your camp fires and listen! To tales of daring, horror and high adventure from the worn pages of our History Book Not a talky Podcast. More like Action Radio! Join the man known only as the Pear Bear, the unflappable Tombo and your new favourite Uncles BobBob & Bilbo. Let us take a questionably queasy trip through the squishy bits of history and myth. Fun for all the family? We don’t know yet... But we promise it’ll be silly, it’ll be fun!
The Football History Boys were founded in 2013 and write about the stunning history of the beautiful game. Ben Jones and Gareth Thomas are venturing into the world of podcasts, bringing their love for football to your ears! Give us a listen and check us out on Twitter: @TFHBs.
Just a couple of real ass dudes talking about some american history. Stop listening to the first episode, its the least good. Find us on twitter at https://twitter.com/historyboyspod Contact us at historyboyspod@gmail.com
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The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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The Bowery Boys: New York City History
Tom Meyers, Greg Young
The tides of American history lead through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. The elevated railroad to the Underground Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
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#407 New York by Gaslight: Illuminating the 19th Century
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Enter the magical world of New York by gaslight, the city illuminated by the soft, revolutionary glow of lamps powered by gas, an innovative utility which transformed urban life in the 19th century. Before the introduction of gaslight in the 1820s, New York was a much darker and quieter place after sunset, its streets lit only by dull, foul-smellin…
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The Silly History Boys Show
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Episode 68: Hit me Beowulf, one more time!
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The Silliest of Boys connected with history return once more for a classic saga built for flickering campfires! It’s Beowulf baby! The monster Grendel is loose in dark age Scandinavia and its up to the gravel voiced Prince of Gertland to leave his Warhammer and deal with him! But behind every great monster is an overbearing Mother and this time she…
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The Silly History Boys Show
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Episode 67 - Only the Boaring are Boared; Heracles part 5
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Centaurs! Huge Killer Boars! WINE!!! The things that get dug up, like a disappointing truffle (what do you mean it's not chocolate?!), when the myth is so very thin! Join us dear listeners for the fifth instalment (4th Labour) of everyone's fave Demi-God, Heracles! Big thanks to ZapSplat for breaking glass and driving snow! Freesound & Fesliyan Stu…
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Rewind: When The Irish Came To New York
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We just reedited and reworked our 2017 show on Irish immigration in time for St. Patrick’s Day and a celebration of all things Irish! So much has changed in our world since 2017 and this history feels more relevant and impactful than ever before. You don’t have a New York City without the Irish. In fact, you don’t have a United States of America as…
This is the final instalment in the JORVIK Thing meets Silly History Boys Fact-ravaganza! In this episode we Silly Boys peek behind the cleansing facemask that is "Beauty by Baldr"; the best beauty salon in Asgard* Join us as we exfoliate and peel back some of the other gods from Norse mythology; they may be lesser known, but they're certainly no l…
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#406 How Wall Street Got Its Name
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Wall Street, today a canyon of tall buildings in New York's historic Financial District, is not only one of the most famous streets in the United States, it's also a stand-in for the entire American financial system. One of the first facts you learn as a student of New York City history is that Wall Street is named for an actual wall that once stre…
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The Silly History Boys Show
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Episode 65 - Loki and the Golden Apples
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How d'ya like those Apples???!!! Let us find out! In our third collaboration we go scrumping for Norse Myth & Legend with Miranda & Lucas from That JORVIK Viking Thing Ever wondered how those super attractive Norse Gods stay so youthful and supple? Well if you do can you tell us Silly Boys? We're one half-term thrashing from being sent to the glue …
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The Silly History Boys Show
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Episode 64 - Thor Goes Fishing
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Like Uncle BobBob for compliments, The Pear Bear for box damaged Warhammer, Bilbo for a Twix and Tombo for a good nights sleep, Thor goes Fishing! It's our second hot date with That Jorvik Viking Thing Podcast! Miranda and Lucas bought the tickets and we microwaved our own pop corn at home. Let's see what we catch. It was THIS BIG!!! To hear more f…
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The Bowery Boys: New York City History
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#405 Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's stoic portrait and one of the most valuable paintings on earth, came to America during the winter of 1963, a single-picture loan that was both a special favor to Jackie Kennedy and a symbolic tool during tense conversations between the United States and France about nuclear arms. Its first stop was the National Galler…
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The Football History Boys
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The Best Thing About Football (That Isn't Football) Is...
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The Football History Boys are joined by journalist and author @ChrisEvansWrite to discuss his new book, 'How to Win the World Cup: Secrets and Insights from International Football’s Top Managers'. Join us as we chat the difference between international and club management, the perils of qualification campaigns, the curse of attempting to retain the…
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The Silly History Boys Show
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Episode 63 - Odin and the Mead of Poetry
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Come gather ye friends around your flickering campfires and listen, to tales of teamwork, shared effort and collaboration as we Silly Boys skip hand in hand with That JORVIK Viking Thing Podcast over the rainbow bridge. In this episode we tell the story of Odin and the Mead of Poetry, and then Jorvik's own Lucas and Miranda will take you through th…
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The First Woman Ever Photographed
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Dorothy Catherine Draper is a truly forgotten figure in American history. She was the first woman to ever sit for a photograph — a daguerrotype, in the year 1840, upon the rooftop of the school which would become New York University. Catherine was the older sister of professor John William Draper, later the founder of the university’s school of med…
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#404 Nighthawks and Automats: Edward Hopper's New York
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Within the New York City of Edward Hopper's imagination, the skyscrapers have vanished, the sidewalks are mysteriously wide and all the diners and Chop Suey restaurants are sparsely populated with well-dressed lonely people. In this art-filled episode of the Bowery Boys, Tom and Greg look at Hopper's life, influence and specific fascination with th…
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The Football History Boys
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Happy 10th Birthday TFHB!
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The Football History Boys are back with a special 10th birthday episode! We remember the early days of TFHB and share our top 10 moments from 2013-2022, check out Ben's choices here, and Gareth's here. We also make our predictions for the end of this season, will Liverpool make the top 4? Will Cardiff survive in the Championship?Get involved over o…
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#403 The Fulton Fish Market: History at the Seaport
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In the 19th century, the Fulton Fish Market in downtown Manhattan was to seafood what the Chicago stock yards were to the meat industry, the primary place where Americans got fish for their dinner tables. Over the decades it went from a retail market to a wholesale business, distributing fish across the country – although as you’ll hear, that was a…
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Rewind: A Bar Named Julius', New York's Newest Landmark
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New York City has a new landmark, a little bar in the West Village named Julius', officially recognized by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on December 6th, 2022. Now it may not look like much from the outside, but it's here that one moment of protest (the Sip-In of 1966) set the stage for a political revolution, “a signature eve…
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The Silly History Boys / Jorvik Collaboration
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Hi Friend! We silly boys are teaming up with those Norsey folks at Jorvik on their That JORVIK Viking Thing Podcast Throughout the month of February, they, and by association we, will be taking a look at some famous (and not so famous) Norse Gods. There will be searing insight, light heated banter and interesting story facts. Oh and we'll be there …
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#402 Treasures from the World's Fair
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Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in the borough of Queens is the home of the New York Mets, the U.S. Open, the Queens Zoo, the New York Hall of Science and many other recreational delights. But it will always be forever known as the launching pad for the future as represented in two extraordinary 20th century world's fairs. There is so much nostalgia t…
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Side Streets: Good Diners, Great Pizza and Mars 2112
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Greg and Tom -- with some help from producer Kieran Gannon -- reflect nostalgically upon old New York City restaurants from the 1990s (Mars 2112, anyone?), wonder what it was like to eat at a chop suey restaurant, praise the strange wonders of Chez Josephine and Congee Village and reveal their favorite places to get pizza in New York City. --- Here…
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The Silly History Boys Show
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Episode 62 - X-Mas Origins: The Silly Christmassy Boys
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It's that time of year dear listener! Christmas episoooooooode!!! For your holiday history fix this year we're telling two tales of different festive traditions that have heavily influenced our annual celebrations... Join Caesar and Mark Antony as they celebrate Saturnalia, a Roman festival that gave us presents, gambling and drinking whilst wearin…
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#401 The World Before Wordle: Talking Puzzles With AJ Jacobs
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Crosswords, jigsaws, mazes, rebuses, Rubik's cubes, Myst, Words With Friends -- and now Wordle? Not only have people loved puzzles for centuries, they've actually gone wild for them. Every few years, a new tantalizing puzzle comes along to captivate the nation. But each of these little games has an extraordinary history and for this special show, w…
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The Mysteries of Absinthe: Dancing With The Green Fairy
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A Special Presentation: We know some of you like to celebrate the holiday spirit with actual alcoholic spirits so we thought you'd enjoy this episode of The Gilded Gentleman, the Bowery Boys spin-off podcast hosted by Carl Raymond, which lays out everything you've wanted to know (but were afraid to ask) about absinthe -- aka the green fairy. Absint…
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The Silly History Boys Show
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Episode 61 - ’Deer Hard’ the Hind of Artemis; Heracles part 4
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The Silly History Boys are back again to continue the laborious labours of everyone’s fave Demi God…Heracles! Weary of our hero’s popularity the wicked King and naughty goddess Queen Hera plan to set our hero up for a fall… He must hunt the fastest thing alive…no not Sonic! The Golden Hind of Artemis! Can he catch it? What happens if he does? Will …
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#400 Jacob Riis: 'The Other Half' of the Gilded Age
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In 1890 the Danish-American journalist Jacob Riis turned his eye-opening reporting and lecture series into a ground-breaking book called How The Other Half Lives, a best seller which awoke Americans to the plight of the poor and laid the groundwork for the Progressive Era. Riis exposed more than a humanitarian crisis. He laid bare the city's compla…
