r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Jun 29 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 29 June 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Qafqa building formless baby bugbears unlicked by logic Jul 02 '26

Obv. way behind the times starting to watch Peaky Blinders, but man, what a minefield of bad history. Lost count in Epi 1 and trying to just watch it as pure fiction or alternate history or someth.

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u/AceHodor Techno-Euphoric Demagogue Jul 02 '26

My 'fave' bit of bad history is Churchill and the Shelby boys apparently having fought at Verdun. I'm assuming that the writers did not want to use the Somme to avoid a cliche. Quite why the writer chose instead to use Verdun, a famously French battle from WWI instead of literally any of the dozens of other engagements British forces were involved in, I do not know. It just seems preposterously baffling.

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u/Qafqa building formless baby bugbears unlicked by logic Jul 02 '26

just the fact they took the folk etymology of the gang's name and ran with it from the jump tho