Latest Awesome history podcast Podcast Episodes
$5 Note Protests at Parliament House Case 18
History Detective - September 30, 2021 18:00 - 8 minutesIn today’s episode, I am not concerned with what goes on inside parliament, I want to explore the story of the people who have gathered in great numbers on the outside of the building to exercise their democratic right to hold a protest. You see, Australians have the right to engage in peaceful ...
Protests at Parliament House Case 18
History Detective - September 30, 2021 18:00 - 8 minutesIn today’s episode, I am not concerned with what goes on inside parliament, I want to explore the story of the people who have gathered in great numbers on the outside of the building to exercise their democratic right to hold a protest. You see, Australians have the right to engage in peaceful ...
Special Announcement Album Release
History Detective - September 27, 2021 07:30 - 3 minutesThe album that includes all of the songs from Season 1 and 2 of the History Detective Podcast has just been released! Click to join my mailing list Click here to listen on any of the streaming platforms. If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Accompanying teaching...
$5 Note Queen Elizabeth II's 1954 Visit to Australia Case 17
History Detective - September 02, 2021 18:00 - 8 minutesIf you are not from Australia and have not seen our pretty plastic money, I highly recommend having a look online. The star of the $5 note is Queen Elizabeth II. Instead of giving you a general overview of the queen, today I am going to tell the story of her first official visit to Australia as...
Queen Elizabeth II's 1954 Visit to Australia Case 17
History Detective - September 02, 2021 18:00 - 8 minutesIf you are not from Australia and have not seen our pretty plastic money, I highly recommend having a look online. The star of the $5 note is Queen Elizabeth II. Instead of giving you a general overview of the queen, today I am going to tell the story of her first official visit to Australia as...
Season 3 All Cashed Up Trailer
History Detective - August 19, 2021 18:00 - 1 minuteA new season of History Detective uncovering some of the quirky stories of those people who feature on the Australian currency. If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee The History Detective Season 1 & 2 Album is now available on Spotify and all of your music streamin...
Gunnhild Viking Mother of Kings Case 16
History Detective - August 05, 2021 18:00 - 14 minutesHear the story of this controversial woman in history Gunnhild, the Mother of Viking Kings, who has been described with the most unflattering of adjectives, such as; witch-like, power hungry, cruel, evil and fierce, but also as ambitious and beautiful. If you would like to support the podcast, ...
Ladies in the House: Janine Haines
History Detective - July 29, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutesThis is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website. In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now...
Janine Haines: Ladies in the House
History Detective - July 29, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutesThis is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Click to join my mailing list Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website. In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliame...
Gay Davidson: Ladies in the House
History Detective - July 22, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutesThis is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Click to join my mailing list Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website. In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliame...
Ladies in the House: Gay Davidson
History Detective - July 22, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutesThis is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website. In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now...
Ladies in the House: Hazel Craig
History Detective - July 15, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutesThis is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website. In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that no...
Hazel Craig: Ladies in the House
History Detective - July 15, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutesThis is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Click to join my mailing list Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website. In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliam...
Irene Longman the First Woman in Queensland Parliament Case 15
History Detective - July 08, 2021 18:00 - 17 minutesMeet Irene Longman, the first woman to be elected into Queensland Parliament in 1929. Could you imagine living in a society where when they were designing the parliament house, they didn’t even bother to put a female toilet in? Well, in 1929 Irene Maud Longman broke the glass ceiling in Queensl...
Child Migrants to Australia after WWII Case 14
History Detective - June 10, 2021 18:00 - 18 minutesWhen you think child migrants of World War II, you are probably thinking of the children who were shipped out of the major cities during the Blitz or the Jewish children who were smuggled out of Germany, but today I want to tell you about a different group of children, children who were often li...
Maria Bochkareva and the Russian Women's Battalion of Death
History Detective - May 13, 2021 18:00 - 15 minutesWhen you think of women participating in World War I, you probably have an image of a nurse or a woman on the home front baking cookies, knitting socks, and writing letters to the chaps on the front line. What doesn’t immediately come to mind is the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death led by the ...
Maria Bochkareva and the Russian Women's Battalion of Death Case 13
History Detective - May 13, 2021 18:00 - 15 minutesWhen you think of women participating in World War I, you probably have an image of a nurse or a woman on the home front baking cookies, knitting socks, and writing letters to the chaps on the front line. What doesn’t immediately come to mind is the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death led by the ...
WWII Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit Case 12
History Detective - April 15, 2021 18:00 - 18 minutesDuring World War II, Aboriginal Australians were generally not accepted into the armed forces, the Army, Navy nor Airforce. However, this all changed after Japan entered the war and the government began to fear the security of the Northern Territory. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Soldier...
Marie Antionette's Portrait Artist: Vigée Le Brun Case 11
History Detective - March 18, 2021 18:00 - 18 minutesElizabeth Vigée Le Brun painted over 30 portraits of Marie Antionette. Find out what life was like for a female artist who rose up from poverty to prominence to become Marie Antionette's artist during the lead up to the French Revolution. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to su...
Queensland Native Mounted Police, Case 10
History Detective - February 18, 2021 18:00 - 18 minutesThe Queensland Native Mounted Police were a violent organisation set up in the mid 1800s to systematically wipe out the Aboriginal population from Queensland. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Listen to the lyric video on YouTube...
Roza Shanina WWII Russian Sniper Case 9
History Detective - February 04, 2021 18:00 - 18 minutesRoza Shanina, Russian Sniper was the propaganda poster girl for the Red Army during WWII, but being a woman in the army wasn't always as glossy as the magazines made out. Click to join my mailing list Warning: This episode has references to sexual assault. If you would like to support the p...
History Detective Season 2 Trailer
History Detective - January 21, 2021 18:00 - 1 minuteIf you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Here is a sneak peak of what is in stall for season 2 of History Detective! Roza Shanina, WWII Russian Sniper Queensland Native Police Marie Antionette's Portrait Artist Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun The Northern Territory Special ...
10 Civil Rights Podcasts for the Classroom
History Detective - January 07, 2021 18:00 - 10 minutesPodcasts are a great source of historical information, but there are so many out there. In this episode of History Detective. I have curated a list of 10 episodes on various civil rights movements. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee ...
Lunch of Christmas Past
History Detective - December 24, 2020 06:00 - 9 minutesIs it okay to have a cold Christmas Lunch in a scorching hot country? Journalists of 1867 didn't think so. But that taboo had turned around by 1892 where cold lunch recipes were published across the land. Join me as I uncover the controversies of a cold Chrissy lunch. Click to join my mailing l...
How to use a digital archive
History Detective - December 10, 2020 18:00 - 9 minutesSometimes the idea of going to a real archive can be intimidating, or just impossible based on your location. Learning to navigate a digital archive can be incredibly useful when it comes to researching and a great starting point for any research assignment. Many newspaper archives are...
How to solve a Chernobyl cheese mystery
History Detective - December 10, 2020 18:00 - 9 minutesSometimes the idea of going to a real archive can be intimidating, or just impossible based on your location. Learning to navigate a digital archive can be incredibly useful when it comes to researching and a great starting point for any research assignment. Many newspaper archives are a paid s...
Bonus 2: How to evaluate reliability
History Detective - November 26, 2020 18:00 - 8 minutesThe skill of assessing reliability should not be sidelined to just the study of history, it can be used in every aspect of your life, especially when we get most of our information from the internet, which is quite frankly swirling cesspit of misinformation. Pre-Listening Vocabulary: ...
How to evaluate reliability
History Detective - November 26, 2020 18:00 - 8 minutesClick to join my mailing list The skill of assessing reliability should not be sidelined to just the study of history, it can be used in every aspect of your life, especially when we get most of our information from the internet, which is quite frankly swirling cesspit of misinformation. Pre-L...
How to evaluate usefulness
History Detective - November 12, 2020 18:00 - 7 minutesWhen you are researching for history or even geography for that matter, you will come across a mountain of information on the Internet or in books or archives, wherever you are looking, and one of the most important skills you need to develop is to be a little judgemental about the sources you c...
Bonus 1: How to evaluate usefulness
History Detective - November 12, 2020 18:00 - 7 minutesWhen you are researching for history or even geography for that matter, you will come across a mountain of information on the Internet or in books or archives, wherever you are looking, and one of the most important skills you need to develop is to be a little judgemental about the sour...
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