Co-host Nikki and I are hosting a virtual Boston history happy hour and trivia night. Nikki is writing up some trivia questions, so we can have virtual bar trivia at our virtual bar night. On Friday, May 15, we’re bringing the nerdiest bar in town to you, from 5:30 to 7pm. So warm up your webcam, crack open a cold one, and come hang out with us!
Just submit your email address below, and we’ll send out a link to our Zoom meeting.
Here are some past episodes to help you celebrate Black History Month. They’re not always happy and uplifting, but they are an honest appraisal of our city’s troubled history with race. Continue reading Black History Month 2019
If you follow us on Twitter, you know that we share daily historical trivia about what happened on that day in Boston history through the years. What’s that? You don’t follow @HUBhistory on Twitter? You should start.) I have a real job, so I can’t troll through the historical sources every day to find these tidbits. Instead, I let my Twitter archive do the work for me, building a giant chronological spreadsheet of Boston trivia that I can quickly check each day. As I find and tweet new resources, the spreadsheet grows each year.
Around the first week of January each year, I download my archive and convert it into a spreadsheet so I have an updated list. If you have chronological content in Twitter, you might find this process useful, too. (And even if you don’t, it can’t hurt to have a backup of your tweets that’s easy to use.) Continue reading New Year, New… Twitter Archive?
In conjunction with this weekend’s History Camp Boston, I (Jake) am offering a walking tour of the Back Bay on Sunday, July 8. We’ll meet at the corner of Beacon and Charles inside the gate of the Common at 10am. Please register in advance or come see me at History Camp.
Details: The Back Bay is the Grande Dame of Boston’s neighborhoods. Here you will find fine dining, upscale shopping, and a grid of streets that actually makes sense. Looking around at the the cultural institutions located in Copley Square or the public art along the Commonwealth Avenue Promenade, it is hard to imagine that this area was once a trash and sewage filled lagoon. Continue reading Back Bay walking tour, July 8
After 18 months of podcasting, we decided to reward ourselves with new microphones. I ended up spending hours – literally hours – trying to figure out why my voice sounded like a demon from the depths of hell with the new gear. Only after trying all kinds of hardware and software tweaks did I think to plug in the second mic… which worked fine. Turns out one of our mics was faulty. You can hear the difference below.
Do you like our show and Boston history? Would you like to win a free walking tour for up to 12 people? All you have to do is like HUB History on Facebook by March 31, 2017, and you will be entered in a drawing to win a tour led by your humble hosts. Continue reading Win a Walking Tour with Nikki & Jake
We have an exciting new project launching soon!
