Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Thematic / Biographical series

This thematic/biographical era spans prehistory to modern political history, grouping episodes by topic or life to illuminate specific events, movements, and leadership. Series include "12 (or 13) Days of Christmas" (significant events from Dec 25–Jan 4, from early Christian history to African modernization), "America in 1968" (Vietnam, political upheaval, social change), "American Crusades" (Christianity’s influence on US foreign policy and warfare), "Amsterdam" (city’s rise from a 13th‑century fishing village to a financial hub), and "Australian Prime Ministers" (federal politics from 1901 onward). Sample episodes cover Britain’s greatest prime ministers, Viking history and popular culture, church architecture, French history in film, Rome’s worst emperor and Jacobite uprisings. Figures and topics discussed include Jeffrey Parker, Amani Reynos, Eva Perón’s secret burial (1955), poll taxes, Doggerland submergence, the Younger Dryas, Neanderthal extinction, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene event. Recommended books cited include The Geometry of Love, Face of Battle, History of the English‑Speaking Peoples, and A History of the World.