Episode 25: The Defenestrations of Prague

In this episode of Half-Arsed History, hear about how a group of angry Bohemians chucked some blokes out of a window to trigger a religious war – and then did it again two hundred years later.

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Image: Brožík, Václav. La Defénestration. 1618. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Victoria, Fucken Melbourne Mate, Greatest City on Earth. Via NGV.

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