Hoodie History

Welcome to the Hoodie History podcast, where the world's most incredible true stories come to life. Hosted by Michael, this is your audio deep dive into the gritty, inspiring, and bizarre events that shaped our world. Forget dry textbook lectures. We’re diving into baffling unsolved mysteries, the genius of overlooked innovators, and the epic human endeavours they didn't teach you in school. Thoroughly researched and told with a conversational vibe, this podcast is for curious minds and lifelong learners. Grab a coffee, settle in, and let's explore the past.

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  Episode #6

  Sykes-Picot: The Secret Deal That Broke the Middle East

  Aug 20, 202619 minS0

  <p>In 1916, two diplomats sat down in a quiet London office and secretly divided a region they barely knew between two empires that hadn't even won it yet. This is the story of the Sykes-Picot Agreement — the deal that drew the borders of the modern Middle East, and the contradictions it built in that the region has never fully resolved.</p><p>While Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot were carving up the Ottoman Empire's Arab provinces on paper, a completely separate arm of the British government was promising that same land to an Arab ally, Sharif Hussein bin Ali, in...

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  Episode #5

  The Berlin Conference No African Was Invited To

  Aug 11, 202618 minS0

  <p>In the winter of 1884, fourteen European nations gathered in Berlin for a conference that would reshape an entire continent – and not one African representative was in the room. Over ninety-three days, they agreed on the rules for carving up Africa, and this episode traces exactly how those rules turned into the ruler-straight borders you can still see on a map of the continent today.</p><p>We start in the world before Berlin, when European survival in Africa's interior was only just becoming possible and a quiet race for territory was already tipping toward outright conflict between the great po...

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  Episode #4

  The Library of Alexandria: How the Ancient World Lost Everything It Knew

  Jul 30, 202619 minS0

  <p>The Library of Alexandria was once humanity's greatest achievement — a single institution that held between 400,000 and 700,000 scrolls, containing every play, every mathematical proof, every astronomical observation, every history the ancient world had ever produced. And then, slowly, across centuries of fire and ideology and violence, it was gone. This is the story of how we lost it — and what the loss means for us still today.</p><p>In around 300 BCE, the Ptolemies of Egypt set out to do something that had never been attempted before: collect every book ever written. Not just Greek texts — works from Egypt, Persia, India...

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  Episode #3

  6 Archaeological Discoveries That Rewrote History

  Jul 1, 202623 minS0

  <p>Six archaeological discoveries. Six moments when a shovel struck something no one was looking for — and everything we thought we knew about the ancient world had to be rewritten from scratch.</p><p><br></p><p>In 1799, French soldiers digging fortifications in Egypt uncovered a broken stone slab covered in three different scripts. Within twenty years, a brilliant linguist would use it to crack a code that had been sealed for 1,400 years — and suddenly, the written voice of ancient Egypt could be heard again. In 1947, a Bedouin shepherd boy threw a rock into a hillside cave looking for a lost...

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  Tupaia: The Polynesian Navigator Who Guided Captain Cook

  May 6, 202625 minS0

  <p>In 1769, a Polynesian high priest stood at the rail of a British sailing ship off the coast of New Zealand and called out to Māori warriors in a language they could understand. He was thousands of kilometres from home. No European on that ship could have done what he did. And for two hundred years, history barely remembered his name.</p><p>This is the story of Tupaia.</p><p>Born on the sacred island of Ra'iatea in the heart of the Pacific, Tupaia was a master navigator, a high priest, and one of the most remarkable individuals o...

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