NYE | Glitter, Midnight & Superstitions
New Year’s Eve has never been chill.In this episode of Barely Historical, hosts JoLynne and Amanda explore the strange, dark, and often unhinged history of New Year’s Eve superstitions from around the...
30 Dec 202536min
Anastasia & The Romanovs | Basements, Bats, & Bayonets
There are two types of people in the world:People who accept that Anastasia Romanov died in 1918…and people who saw the animated movie once and said absolutely not.In this episode, Amanda and Jo final...
23 Dec 20251h 7min
The Stolen History of Christmas | Mistletoe Sex, Jesus Stickers, & Audacity
🎄 How Christmas Was StolenThis week on Barely Historical, Amanda and JoLynne are sharing a full Patreon-style deep dive for free as a Christmas gift.Christmas history is messier than most people real...
19 Dec 202556min
336 CE Rome: Constantine, Arius, and the First Dec 25 Christmas
Welcome back to Barely Historical, the comedy history podcast where we ruin the past one year at a time. This episode drops us into 336 CE Rome and the chaos of the late Roman Empire, when Christianit...
16 Dec 202538min
Patreon Sneak Peek | Frogs, Festivity, & Freakouts
Victorian Christmas cards were not cozy snowmen and Hallmark hearts. They were dead robins, frogs with firearms, demonic turnips, Krampus kidnappings, and families roasting in hell… all wishing you a ...
12 Dec 20253min
1883 United States | Bridges, Bandits, & B*tches
The year is 1883. Volcanoes are exploding, bridges are causing stampedes, and a stagecoach robber is leaving poetry like a Victorian theater kid on the loose. JoLynne and Amanda ruin one of the most c...
9 Dec 20251h 18min
Mother's Little Helpers |Dear Abby, Dissociation, & Don Draper
The 1950s and 60s looked cute on the outside.Pastels. Casseroles. Aprons.Inside the house?Mid-century America was held together with Valium, denial, and whatever advice Dear Abby tossed into the newsp...
5 Dec 202524min
1963 | Vacuums, Vows, & Vitamin D
1963 looks polished in the photos. Pastel dresses, church picnics, men in suits who definitely smell like cigarettes and bad coffee. Underneath, it is a year of civil rights marches, Cold War nerves, ...
2 Dec 202552min
