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!
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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 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.
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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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#439 The Ticker-Tape Parade: A Very New York Celebration
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In 1886, during a miles-long parade celebrating the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, office workers in lower Manhattan began heaving ticker tape out the windows, creating a magical, blizzard-like landscape. That tradition stuck. Today that particular corridor of Broadway -- connecting Battery Park to City Hall -- is known as the "Canyon of Hero…
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Cut The Bull; Heracles vs The Cretan Bull (or Episode 93)
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Our hero is struggling with his mental and personal wellbeing as he approaches his 7th labour. Is Heracles having a mid-labour crisis? Has he fallen out of Love with Labouring? Perhaps wrestling a good looking bull will help? We're talking Chris Hemsworth levels of beefcake yo. Join Heracles as he goes on a bit of a jaunt with daddy Zeus to visit U…
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#438 The Ramones at CBGB: Revolution on the Bowery
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One-two-three-four! The Ramones, a four-man rock band from Forest Hills, Queens, played the Bowery music club CBGB for the very first time on August 16, 1974. Not only would Joey, Johnny, Tommy and Dee Dee reinvigorate downtown New York nightlife here -- creating a unique and energetic form of punk -- but they would join with a small group of music…
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WressleMania; The Origin of the Percy/Neville Beef (or Episode 92)
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OMGosh are we wilfully niche for you this time listener! What starts off as an episode about The Percy Family, turns into a deep dive on Wressle Castle and it's ownership! Some say this conflict over Wressle Castle starts the feud between the families Percy & Neville; which in turn may have given the Wars of the Roses a big old push in the fight di…
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Carl Raymond of The Gilded Gentleman podcast and his guest Keith Taillon invite you into one of the most historically exclusive spaces in New York City -- the romantic and peaceful escape known as Gramercy Park. This small two-acre square, constructed in the 1830s, has been called “America’s Bloomsbury”. Taking the reference from London’s famous ne…
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Nail the doors shut, barricade the fridge, the Silly History Boys are back…and so are the Vikings! Rollo and his gang of idiots return laying siege to the mighty city of Paris. Only two hundred brave souls, a few croissants and quite a lot of hot wax stand between the Viking Horde and the conquest of France…only bickering can stop them…and giant cr…
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Sorry for the delay chums, some of you know how the summer goes! We'll see you tomorrow for Rollo the Viking Part two! WOO!By sillyhistoryboysshow
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#437 Haarlem, Breukelen, Utrecht: Exploring New York's Dutch Roots
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Follow along with Greg and Tom in this stand-alone travelogue episode as they visit several historic cities and towns in the Netherlands -- Utrecht, De Bilt, Breukelen and Haarlem -- wandering through cafe-filled streets and old cobblestone alleyways, the air ringing with church bells and street music. But of course, their mission remains the same …
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#436 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Finding Peter Stuyvesant
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The name Stuyvesant can be found everywhere in New York City -- in the names of neighborhoods, apartments, parks and high schools. Peter Stuyvesant, the last director-general of New Amsterdam, is a hero to some, a villain to others -- and probably a caricature to all. What do we really know about Peter Stuyvesant? In their last days in Amsterdam (b…
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#435 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Radical Walloons
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Our adventure in the Netherlands continues with a quest to find the Walloons, the French-speaking religious refugees who became the first settlers of New Netherland in 1624. Their descendants would last well beyond the existence of New Amsterdam and were among the first people to become New Yorkers. But you can't tell the Walloon story without that…
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#434 Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: Empire of the Seas
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The epic journey begins! The Bowery Boys Podcast heads to old Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands, to find traces of New Amsterdam, the Dutch settlement which became New York. We begin our journey at Amsterdam's Centraal Station and spend the day wandering the streets and canals, peeling back the centuries in search of New York's roots. Our t…
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#433 New Amsterdam Man: An Interview with Russell Shorto
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The Bowery Boys Podcast is going to Amsterdam and other parts of the Netherlands for a very special mini-series, marking the 400th anniversary of the Dutch first settling in North America in the region that today we call New York City. But before they go, they're kicking off their international voyage with a special conversation -- with the man who…
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The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands TRAILER
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Announcing an epic new Bowery Boys mini series -- The Bowery Boys Adventures in the Netherlands. Exploring the connections between New York City and that fascinating European country. Simply put, you don't get New York City as it is today without the Dutch who first settled here 400 years ago. The names of Staten Island, Broadway, Bushwick, Greenwi…
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The Silly History of England Part Two: The Hundred Years War
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Its the Silly History of England Part two: Return of Jafar! Swotty Uncle Bob Bob is back for part two of the Silly History of England! A special 'talky' podcast where everyone's favourite History Pervert attempt to bridge gaps in people's knowledge and explain complicated history...in terms that a silly person can understand. This week he over stre…
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#432 The Lenape Nation: Past, Present and Future
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Consider the following show an acknowledgment – of people. For the foundations of 400 years of New York City history were built upon the homeland of the Lenni-Lenape, the tribal stewards of a vast natural area stretching from eastern Pennsylvania to western Long Island. The Lenape were among the first in northeast North America to be displaced by w…
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Rollo is it me your Viking for? (or Episode 90)
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Mr Ritchie there’s something happening in 9th Century France! VIKINGS! There's many a Dane axe to be ground in the story of ROLLO THE WALKER...not to mention FEUDS, people falling in the water and HAIRCUTS worse than DEATH! Join the exiled ROLLO and his extremely SILLY band of VIKINGS as they travel to FRANCE in search of riches and ADVENTURE...whi…
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Rewind: History of the New York City Subway
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The New York City subway system turns 120 years old later this year so we thought we'd honor the world's longest subway system with a supersized overview history -- from the first renegade ride in 1904 to the belated (but sorely welcomed) opening of one portion of the Second Avenue Subway in 2017. New Yorkers like Alfred Ely Beach had envisioned a …
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Heracles vs the Angry Birds (or Episode 89)
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Thumping techno, thumping monsters and over flowing toilets! It's the silliest telling of the labours of Heracles ever!* This week...the taming of the Stymphalian Birds! But where has our favourite Demi God been for almost a year?! Rightings wrongs? Being righteous?** He's not completely sold out has he?*** Join us for the 'unbearable weight of bei…
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#431 Park Avenue: History with a Penthouse View
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The story of a filthy and dangerous train ditch that became one of the swankiest addresses in the world -- Park Avenue. For over 100 years, a Park Avenue address meant wealth, glamour and the high life. The Fred Astaire version of the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' on the Ritz" revised the lyrics to pay tribute to Park Avenue: "High hats and Arrow …
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Feel The Burn: The Great Fire of London part 2 (or Episode 88)
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FIRE! STILL FIRE! If you thought the first part of our tale was overcooked, then get in on this chewy action! The Great Fire of London is taking hold! The Pear Bear is in search of Samuel Pepys and the other Silly Boys! Mayor Bloodworth is flapping and there is nary a fire-hook to be seen! Can the boys help this fine old city? Or will their family …
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#430 The Story of Flushing: Queens History, Old and New
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Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cultural landscape that includes Quakers, trees, Hollywood films, world fairs, and new Asian immigration. In this special on-location episode of the Bowery Boys, Greg and special guest Kieran Gannon explor…
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Get Fired Up; The Great Fire of London part 1 (or Episode 87)
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FIRE! FIRE! That's right, it gets everywhere, even the school national curriculum! So if you know anyone on KS1, force them to listen to this! They'll cry, they'll resit, they'll learn (?) They'll learn everything from [INSERT HISTORY FACT HERE] to [DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN MUMMY? HERE]. Oh the fun you'll have! Join the Silly Boys and a special liter…
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#429 The Moores: A Black Family in 1860s New York
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In today’s episode, Tom visits the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side to walk through the reconstructed two-room apartment of an African-American couple, Joseph and Rachel Moore, who lived in 1870 on Laurens Street in today’s Soho neighborhood. Both Joseph and Rachel moved to New York when they were about 20 years old, in the late 1840s and 185…
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