Women Who Podcast Magazine
April 2023 issue

History Detective

by Chelsea Pegues 

Ironically, Australian podcast host Kelly Chase didn’t always have a love of history. When asked how her interest in the past blossomed, she says with an easy chuckle, “I hated history in school. I went to school in the late eighties, early nineties, and classrooms were a chalkboard and a black-and-white textbook, and occasionally they’d roll in a TV for you, if you were lucky… so it was really, really, boring and I didn’t even like it.” Today, she not only teaches the subject, but also hosts and produces the History Detective podcast, a show for “teachers, students and lovers of history. It delves into stories from the past that don’t always get told in the textbooks.”