Eccentric tales from History by Simone Whitlow
Tales of History and Imagination
Claim This Podcastby Simone Whitlow
5.0(12 reviews)
119 episodes
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Eccentric tales from History by Simone Whitlow
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Publishing Since
12/1/2020
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Recent Episodes
June 21, 2026
The Strange Case of Kaspar Hauser - One
This week, on Tales we’re in Nuremberg, Bavaria: The year is 1828. A young man has appeared as if from out of nowhere with a horrific tale of captivity. Some wonder if he is some deposed price - but be warned, the following is no fairytale. Part one of a Two parter. Content Warnings: Discussion of war, death, child neglect and imprisonment, violence, conspiratorial thinking and social deception. Sources Include: Kaspar Hauser: The Foundling of Nuremberg by Paul Anselm von FeuerbachThe Great Pretenders by Jan BondersonNapoleon the Great by Andrew RobertsAnd Historical Blindness’ excellent Two-Part podcast on Hauser, created by Nathaniel Lloyd. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |
May 30, 2026
The Storm
This week, on Tales we’re in England, the date November 26th 1703 - as a giant storm settles over the country that would haunt the nation for many years - and give birth to at least one new profession. Content Warnings: Descriptions of animal cruelty, traumatic deaths, and period-appropriate superstitions which may now seem utterly ridiculous. Sources Include:Daniel Defoe’s The Storm. Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |
May 8, 2026
The Sacred Band -Three
This week, on Tales we return to Thebes one last time to discuss what happens when others even the field, the life and death or our two heroes, a young man named Philip - and a giant lion.. This is part three of a three parter. Content Warnings: Battlefield injury and death, some depictions towards the end are quite graphic. Political violence, slavery and hostage taking. Assassination. Suicide-adjacent fatalism. Mass burial. Discussion of LGBTQI+ history not that THAT one should ever need to be a trigger warning - but there you go…Yes I got hate mail a few weeks back, so let’s throw it in there… and back to the actual nasty stuff, discussion of Authoritarianism, tyranny and mass killing. Sources Include:James Romm’s ‘The Sacred Band’Plutarch’s ‘Lives…’ Support Tales on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination can be found on… | Facebook |TikTok | Threads | YouTube | Bluesky |
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