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!
Episodes
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
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 direction.
This episode is ram packed with interesting tidbits listener! Why it has contract law, local and not so local caretakers, and many familiar characters from History.
Why there's Henry Percy (you can call him Harry Hotspur), his son Henry Percy, and who can forget Henry Percy's son, Henry Percy?
You'll laugh with Henry VI, cry with Richard Duke of York, and be slightly weirded out by the Kingmaker himself, Richard Neville Earl of Warwick.
If we could bequeath a wressle castle shaped prezzie to ZapSplat for music and sfx we would!
Big Scotty Buckley get all the roses for his tracks Absolution and Legionnaire
Brian Bolger gets a cinnamon bun from St Albans market for his track Black Mass
and Lord Fast Fingers Rob Tristram gets to keep being our friend.
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Please do rate and review! Give five stars if you were confused by this episode! It's how we roll.
LOVE YOU!!!
Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
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 cross bows.
Join the Silliest boys in history for a most irreverent dive into Abbo Cernuus Bella Parisiacæ urbis and discover how Viking Hot Bod Rollo the Walker founded the Duchy of Normandy!
A big pile of tax free Danegeld to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Scott Buckley will be placed in a Longship and set on fire to thank him for his glorious music!
We honour Lord Fast Fingers and his very fast fingers for penning the intro
Hit us up on our Ko-Fi and your place in Valhalla is assured!
Please Rate and Review and Odin's Ravens will fly down from his throne and do the washing up!
Friday May 24, 2024
Friday May 24, 2024
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 stretches himself by trying to get through the Hundred Years War (and the wars of the roses but he does not get there)
A generational dust up between two neighbours who have more in common than they'd care to admit!
Longbows, underpants and well baked saints are the order of the day as one silly boy wrestles with 116 plus years of awfulness!
Tune into our regular show in two weeks time where they'll be just as much talking but way more explosions!
Friday May 10, 2024
Friday May 10, 2024
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...which another way of saying STEALING and murder...we remind you this is still supposed to be a show for families!
It's just that Vikings are horrible!
Next week the siege of Paris, the birth of Normandy and more people going 'ARGH' as they fall in the water await!
A big pile of tax free Danegeld to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Scott Buckley will be placed in a Longship and set on fire to thank him for his glorious music!
We honour Lord Fast Fingers and his very fast fingers for penning the intro
Hit us up on our Ko-Fi and your place in Valhalla is assured!
Please Rate and Review and Odin's Ravens will fly down from his throne and do the washing up!
Friday Apr 26, 2024
Friday Apr 26, 2024
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 being a Demi god' for vengeful goddesses, killer birds and karma police on the acoustic guitar!
Here's the Kofi!
For anyone who would like to contribute to our labours of love!
Please do rate and review on your chosen platform, it really helps!
Thanks to ZapSplat to Bangs, Boings and Burning SFX.
Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
And to Scott Buckley for his epic tracks
Dan Henig for his track Danger Snow
And to Synthezx - Portfolio for the Terminator Trailer Track!
AND to Jez Hewitt productions for the Legend of Svetlana
* look we're putting it out there, its the silliest version ever! Come at us bro and you can bring your dinner an all!
** he has yeah
***big time man he'll be punching a Towie on celebrity big brother at this rate.
Friday Apr 12, 2024
Friday Apr 12, 2024
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 MegaBus seasonal pass prove a waste?
We'll meet Kings and Dukes, hang with shifty bakers and feel conflicted regarding poor watchmakers.
Come inside! It's warm. (and why not listen to Fire part 1 if this is your first exposure to us?)
Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX
And to Lord Fast Fingers for the intro
Hit us up on our Ko-Fi if you like what we do :)
Please do Rate and Review - we'll love you for it.
Friday Mar 29, 2024
Friday Mar 29, 2024
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 literary guest as they explore 17th C London.
Thanks to ZapSplat to Bangs, Boings and Burning SFX (and a sliver of music)
Thanks to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
And thanks to you listener for donating on our Kofi
(no? we'll get you one of these days)
Please do rate and review on your chosen platform, it really helps!
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
The Silly History Boys are on trial...and they plead silly!
This weeks episode puts the 'ARGH' in Courtroom Drama as we are flung screaming into the bubbling cauldron of medieval justice...with Trial by Ordeal.
Water, Fire and Combat are the only to freedom this week via the stories of...
Queen Emma of Normandy's red hot trial by FIRE
The PAINFUL trial by COMBAT between Guy of Steenvord and Iron Herman
And Thomas 'Tom FOOL' Fermor vs the Sweet Shop Owners of Derby. Lets hope they throw the book at him.
The court orders you get in your ears and laugh as much as you learn!
Or else!
The court recognises ZapSplat for their awesome music and SFX and will have them put up in a nice hotel!
Scott Buckley is awarded damages for the use of his epic music in such a silly show.
Lord Fast Fingers is let off with a slap on the wrist for his rendition of the Silly History Boys show theme tune!
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
He's back!
Katana's sing and hearts flutter as one of the show's early heroes returns!
Miyamoto Musashi is thirteen going on forty (judging by his voice)
He yearns to be the best swordsman in all Japan but his Father wants him to commit to the family business...
Unfulfilling Saturday jobs and duels to the death are the order of the day in this definitely true retelling of the boy hood of perhaps the most famous Samurai of all...
And what the historical record lacks in detail...the Silly History Boys fill with gags!
Want to give us a (sword) tip? Then hit the link and hit us up :)
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Friday Feb 16, 2024
Oh hi there our lovelies.
You looked stressed and/or full of sugar. It must be half term!
That means the Silly Boys aren't here, but babysitting your ungrateful brood of-... little darlings.
The Pear Bear and Bilbo have been at the Jorvik Viking Festival (at least one of them will have broken their hand in sword school) and it gave the us an idea for content.
We've smashed together four Norse Myths (starring all your fave gods) from a cross-over we did last year.
All four tales in one place.
The Mead of Poetry
Thor goes Fishing for the Midgard Serpent
Loki and the Golden Apples
and
Beauty by Baldur
Big thanks to
For Music and SFX!
Friday Feb 09, 2024
Friday Feb 09, 2024
And here we go listener. Closing the Sarcophagus lid on our first (but hopefully not last) Egyptian tale.
Big thanks to the nation of Egypt for being a good sport with all the fun liberties taken with your rich history.
A weighty box of gold talons for ZapSplat for all the music and murder noises.
A bit of the Pyramid of Unas (that Pear Bear chipped off) goes to Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
Come visit us on our socials! The usual places like Insta and Facebook. Type in The Silly History Boys
If you like what we do then why not tip us on Ko-Fi ? (at the moment it's mainly our good mate Rick. We'll have to start calling him Dad! And he DOES NOT want that)
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
Mummy! Mummy! The Man Mummy!
It's Myth time again dear listener!
Let us away to ancient Egypt to hear the suntanned tale of how the first mummy came to be.
We don't actually do that here but we lay all the ground work!
There's sibling, er, lets say Rivalry. Fratricide! And Braiding of Hair! All the things your stuffy history prof wouldn't teach you coz it's just too silly...and dangerous and sexy.
Big thanks to ZapSplat for their awesome music and SFX
The biggest pyramid is reserved for Scott Buckley and his top notch music when he dies
Lord Fast Fingers will be getting his own SIGNED* Panini sticker of former Boro striker Mido. (* by PearBear)
"Do The Battle Of Hastings like you promised"
- Henry Coates (Skegness)
"I'm still waiting on the American Civil War you melts"
- Ed Holdcroft (Kings Lynn)
"Please just stop"
- Our mums (all over)
ALL GREAT TIPS! But if you do want to tip us, come on to our Ko-Fi
and put your money where our mouth is.
Come get us on all the socials and please do rate and review. It would mean the world to us and our mums.
Thaaaaaaannnnnnkkkkssssssss
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
Happy 2024!
Now that the new year is here...we all deserve a holiday!
So pack your sun cream, chainmail and Song of Roland double cassette!
Cos it’s a Norman holiday!
It’s 999AD and everyone’s least favourite French Vikings on horses are off to see Jerusalem!
Hopefully the journey will stop them being quite so horrible*, certainly once they see the holy city** they’ll no doubt become much nicer! They won’t just get into a scuffle with some Saracens and lay the foundation for the conquest of Italy and the Crusades…***
Join the Silly History Boys in a conjecture heavy adventure across boiling seas and sweltering deserts where we finally learn the origin of
The Salerno Tradition…what’s that you ask?
Erm just listen!
Thanks as ever to ZapSplat
And to Scott Buckley
And to...
You.
*it won’t
**no
***yeah it’s that
Friday Dec 22, 2023
Friday Dec 22, 2023
CRUSAAAAAAAADE!!!!!
The Third Crusade to be precise! Join the Silly Boys as they examine the motivation of all the key players of the Lionheartiest of all the crusades.
Oh alright, it's silly voices, sword noises and facts.
Get amongst it!
Thanks as ever to ZapSplat
And to Scott Buckley
And to...
You.
See you in 2024 dear listener! OKTHANKSBYEEEEEE!
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Join us as we continue the tale of Richard I 'The Lionheart'... greatest King ever?
Find out this week!
Alright, you won't find out as that's an answer entirely too subjective to tackle in a show with silly voices and sword noises... but the silly voices and sword noises are extra good this week to make up for it.
Thanks for...
Music & SFX ZapSplat
The track Juggernaut by Scott Buckley
The track Medieval Banquet by Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound
The track Pendulum Waltz by Audionautix
Friday Nov 17, 2023
Friday Nov 17, 2023
This week we're taking a look at a King so famous he's on the football clothes - Richard I, The Lionheart!
But how did he become known as 'Couer de Lion' (The Lionheart)?
Join us as we deconstruct the events of the day and provide fresh analysis on the early life of probably the best King to ever have Kinged... or was he?
He wasn't he was terrible.
Also the 'analysis' is just our usual silly voices.
And noises from www.Zapsplat.com
And music from www.Zapsplat.com
But mainly music from Scott Buckley www.scottbuckley.com.au
With thanks to all of you for listening.
Kbye.
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Watch out listener! It's Halloween and the passing of the season of the sun has brought a thinning of the veil between the worlds of the living and the dead...
Or it's just people putting on costumes and wandering the neighbourhood begging for sweets...
Either way it's time for another SpOoOoky episode of The Silly History Boys Show!
This week the boys have, once again, left Pear Bear by himself whilst they swan off to perform for actual people. This week's episode gives you a taste of what they've been doing live!
Then Pear Bear reads a poem.
A SpOoOoky poem!
Prepare your backup underpants!!
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Who are the most famous family in history? The Tudors? The Stuarts? The Osmonds?
No! Wrong! Silly!
Just before 1066 and all that...the Godwin Family were 'god winning' the Dark ages!
Mainly through murder plotting and ACID.
So join the Silliest Boys in history and Tremble at the torrid tale of the house that Earl* built...
right before Anglo Saxon England got 'one in the eye' from William the Conqueror!
Vikings, Saxons, Normans and ACID** Oh and laughs! Lots of Silly Laughs!
An Earldome and a luxury hamper is winging its way to musical science man Scott Buckley
ZapSplat get to marrywhich ever of us has a daughter/Hazmat first for the their sounds effects
For the 78th Time we thank Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
and you kind listener for buying us a decaff juice on Ko-Fi ...
Come find us on your fave anti-social media for updates on our live shows and general boobery.
RATE and COMMENT leave THREATS on your platform! We're big boys, we can take it.
*He was an Earl, he wasn't called Earl, its a title. Stop being Silly.
** No. Behave.
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Friday Oct 06, 2023
Oh God no! Not another Game of Death of Thrones of Death episode!
Shaddup and take your medicine.
You've had Kings from Ancient Greece shoppin' in Argos
Chinese Rulers on the bog
Holy Roman Emperors doin' scream therapy
But now it's the turn of the French not yet French!
It's the slightly embellished tale of Louis III. Not sure if he had a nickname. Louis the questionably amorous? We just don't know.
For always awesome music a big thanks to Scott Buckley
ZapSplat for some lovely SFX and more music
Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro
and you kind listener for buying us a decaff juice on Ko-Fi ... oh come on! Take the bait will you?!
Come find us on your fave anti-social media for updates on our live shows and general boobery.
Rate and comment on your platform! We're big boys, we can take it.
Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
The Silliest boys in history are back! For the LAST INVASION of BRITAIN!
A true tale from Welsh and British history that is so silly, you'll think we made it up!
in the 1797 all roads lead to Fishguard, a small village on the Welsh coast including....
A sinisterly Yorkshire sounding French Convict army
The two biggest idiots in the British army (which 1797 is saying something)
One of Wales's greatest heroines with a shoe shop and a hammer
And A LOT of dodgy Portuguese plonk!
The Battle of Fishguard is one of the oddest/silliest events in history and what better set of idiots to tell you this tale than the Silly History Boys!
Thanks for joining us for Season 5 and thank you to....
ZapSplat for all the zapas plats and other sound effects
Scott Buckley For is his wodner music
Danny Bradley for his brilliant redition of Land of my Fathers
If you enjoyed us why not buy us a coffee or a tea or a hot juice on Ko-Fi
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
In school, remember that far back? Did you ever have that badly dressed man bore the pants off you teaching history?
His vocal monotony rapping his way through our dull backstory? WELL UNLUCKY FOR YOU!
For the sexily well healed sonic powerhouse that is you dear Uncle BobBob is going to take you through the ENTIRE History of England (part1)
Sit back (with your red pen?) and smugly raise the side of your mouth along with SHB's premium Zoom Historian.
You'll learn, you'll laugh, you'll something else beginning with L.
Thanksseeyalaterbyeeeeeee
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
It's another Strange Demise in the unfortunate sphere of The Game of Death of Thrones of Death!
And we're in Rome, in and about Rome, sort of near Rome, ok he's Roman at least! Valentinian The First.
Come hear how he screamed himself to death! (spoilers)
Big thanks to Scott Buckley for some lovely music
ZapSplat for Music, Marching and Bears!
Pay us money to stop on Ko-Fi. WE DARE YOU.
Visit the Socials - Facebook, Insta, Twitter (we're not callin' it X, I mean come on. It's like an awful student film that Bilbo wrote thinking he were proper cuttin' edge)
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Oh man what's that smell?!
It's the Silly History Boys doing their thing! waitwhat?
Our Hero Heracles is charged with cleaning out some mucking old stables. Thirty years of filth pooped out by Immortal Cows no less.
If that doesn't have you downloading, we don't know what will!
Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Henry from BattleForge Productions for his track Through Fire and War
Lord Fast Fingers for the intro
and YOU for donating on Ko-Fi (ooo we'll get cha one of these days)
please do rate and review
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
Thursday Jun 29, 2023
The Silliest boys in history are in Japan for the 'Revenge of the Forty Seven Ronin'.
The classic and true tale of old Japan...now with silly bits and sword fights!
The Samurai of Asano are dishonoured when their master is teased into poking a civil servant with his Tanto! And sentenced to a gruesome death (don't worry we only used balloons)
They decide that Revenge is dish best served...silly!
Big thanks
to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro.
YOU for being so generous on our Ko-Fi page (damn, so close)
Come visit us on our socials @SillyHistoryBoys or @SillyHistoryBoysShow (ooo I've got to check both now, they're so similar!)
Please do Rate & Review and we wills end Ninjas with sweets!
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
No way?! A second Game of Death of Thrones of Death (itsaworkingtitle).
We had so much fun in Argos on our first GOTODOT, that we're back for number two.
Let us away to Ancient China! To meet Duke Jing, the ruler of the State of Jin, and ask "how did he die"?
Yachting Accident?
A Sedentary lifestyle coupled with a Bad Diet? The Silly History Boy ending?
Or maybe it was for a Bet?
There's so many ways!
Big thanks to ZapSplat for music & SFX
Big Scotty Buckley for his track "Legionnaire"
Lord Fast Fingers for the Intro.
YOU for being so generous on our Ko-Fi page (damn, so close)
Come visit us on our socials @SillyHistoryBoys or @SillyHistoryBoysShow (ooo I've got to check both now, they're so similar!)
Please do Rate & Review (we're tired of haranguing strangers at train stations with iPhone's on show)