Think history is boring? That’s because you’ve only ever heard the fake version.
On History Rage, professional historians come in swinging — smashing the myths, clichés, and half-truths that keep getting recycled in classrooms, documentaries, and TikToks. Vikings with horned helmets? Nope. Britain standing alone in 1940? Wrong. Medieval people never bathed? Rubbish.
Why listen? Because the truth is way more exciting. You’ll leave every episode with jaw-dropping stories, killer facts to shut down pub bores, and the smug satisfaction of knowing what really happened.
🎧 Episodes drop every Monday.
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Think history is boring? That’s because you’ve only ever heard the fake version.
On History Rage, professional historians come in swinging — smashing the myths, clichés, and half-truths that keep getting recycled in classrooms, documentaries, and TikToks. Vikings with horned helmets? Nope. Britain standing alone in 1940? Wrong. Medieval people never bathed? Rubbish.
Why listen? Because the truth is way more exciting. You’ll leave every episode with jaw-dropping stories, killer facts to shut down pub bores, and the smug satisfaction of knowing what really happened.
🎧 Episodes drop every Monday.
📲 Follow now and get the history they don’t teach you — raw, raging, and real.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Henry VIII: beloved monarch or mass-murdering tyrant we refuse to confront?
Why do we glorify a king who executed 1% of England and displaced over 10,000 people for his own power?
It’s time to dismantle everything you thought you knew about Henry VIII.
Historian and educator Jackson Van Uden joins History Rage to expose the real Tudor ruler: a man his own contemporaries labelled a tyrant, not the charming Christmas-bauble king of Hampton Court gift shops. Henry didn’t just kill wives — he destroyed lives, seized land, staged show trials, and crushed dissent with Stalin-level brutality.
We dig into:
If pop culture has convinced you Henry was a misunderstood romantic, strap in — Jackson launches a rage that puts Henry in the same moral category as history’s worst dictators.
By the time we’re finished, those Holbein portraits will never look the same again.
Festival Info:
The Katherine of Aragon Festival Talks are on January 31st and February 1st 2026 at Peterborough Cathedral:
Tickets are available at: https://peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/about/history/katharine-of-aragon/kofa_26/
🎙 Guest: Jackson Van Uden
Historian • Teacher • Host of History With Jackson
Katherine of Aragon Festival contributor and organiser
Tickets for the festival via Peterborough Cathedral link in show notes
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