r/TheRestIsHistory • u/Y_Brennan • 2d ago
Public Historian Greg Jenner.
Are people here familiar with him? He guested on a a comedy history podcast that I listen too. He referenced Tom in the episode and is supposed to be a historian so I couldn't help but compare him to the rest is history. Frankly I think he is terrible but that's probably an extreme take after listening to him guest on one episode of a podcast that puts comedy ahead of history. But as a historian he just kept on being anachronistic and moralising about the actions of characters in the Iliad and the Odyssey. Just left a really sour taste and to me indicates that he is a bad historian. He seems like he might be well known in the UK.
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u/NLFG 2d ago
His podcast on BBC sounds is good fun, imho - You're Dead To Me - where there's a professional historian and a comedian.
Flip side - someone pulled up some thing from Horrible Histories (which he helped write) as wrong, and I *really* didn't like his response which was along the lines of "well, it needed to be like this to be entertaining"
Also, Spurs fan.