Episode 125: What’s the Deal with the Tynwald?

• George Broderick. 2003.  Tynwald: a Manx cult-site and institution of pre-Scandinavian origin? https://web.archive.org/web/20141213041925/http://dbweb.liv.ac.uk/manxstudies/sm/articles/gb.htm#1 

• Official Tynwald Site https://www.tynwald.org.im/about 

• Jonathan King. 2013. The Isle of Man: Tynwald. In Nicolas D.J Baldwin (ed.) The Legislatures of Small States: A Comparative Study. 

• E.H. Stenning. 1951. The Isle of Man. County Books Series. 

• Jennifer Jane Woodcock. 2001. In search of a cultural identity: A study of the Manx Bronze Age in its Irish Sea context. Vol 2. The Appendices. Appendix I: A Gazetteer of Sites, Monuments and Cultural Material of the Manx Bronze Age. https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3176197/1/250560_vol2.pdf  

Episode 122-124: The Medici

Sources

• Mary Hollingsworth. 2017. The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty. 

• Mary Hollingsworth. 2025. Catherine De Medici: The Serpent Queen. 

• Catherine Fletcher. 2016. The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de’ Medici

• Christopher Hibbert. 1974. The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. 

• Paul Strathern. 2017. The Medici: Money, Power and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance. 

Episode 121: Aiofe MacMurrough and Isabelle de Clare

Sources

• Marie Therese Flanagan. 2009. Aife, Aoife, Eva. Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/aife-aoife-eva-a0069 

• David Beresford, Isabella Marshal. Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/marshal-isabella-a5461 

• The National Gallery of ireland. The Marriage of Aiofe and Strongbow. https://www.nationalgallery.ie/what-we-do/collections-and-research/conservation/marriage-strongbow-and-aoife-history 

• Richard Lomas. 2022. The Normans in Ireland, Leinster 1167-1247.

• Paddy Nary. 2024. The Wife’s Tale, Isabel Marshal and Ireland (Radio Talk) https://kilkennyarchaeologicalsociety.ie/the-wifes-tale-isabel-marshal-and-ireland/ 

• Julia A. Hickey. 2024. William Marshal’s Wife: Isabel de Clare, Woman of Influence. 

• The History of William Marshall. Trans. Nigel Bryant (2016). 

• Marie Therese Flanagan. 2019. ‘Negotiating across legal and cultural borders: Aife, daughter of Diarmait Mac Murchada, king of Leinster, and marriage, motherhood and widowhood in twelfth-century Ireland and England’ Perita 25. Pp.71-95.

Episode 120: Who Were the Merovingians?

• Merovingian Family Tree https://www.reddit.com/r/UsefulCharts/comments/1d4bneh/family_tree_of_the_merovingians_monarchs_of_the/#lightbox 

• Extracts from Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/gregory-hist.asp 

• The Chronicle of Fredegar (PDF) https://almuslih.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Wallace-Hadrill-J-Fourth-Book-of-the-Chronicle-.pdf 

• Shelley Puhak. 2022. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World. 

• Ian Wood. 1994. The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751. 

• E.T. Dailey. 2022. Queens, Concubines and Consorts: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Medieval Elite

• Emma Southon. 2018. Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West.

Episode 119: Who Was Imhotep? (Copy)

• Jamieson B. Harry. 1926. Imhotep: The Egyptian God of Medicine. (Republished 2011)

• Chris Naughton. 2019. Searching for the Lost Tombs of Egypt. 

• Julia Troche. Death, Power and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

• Dietrich Wilding. 1977. Egyptian Saints: Deification in Pharaonic Egypt. 

• Song of the Harper: https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/harper-song/ 

• Roger Luckhurst. (2010), The mummy's curse: a study in rumour. Critical Quarterly, 52: 6-22. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.2010.01948.x

• Jasmine Day. 2006. The Mummy’s Curse: Mummy-Mania in the English-Speaking World. 

• David Robson, 2012. The Mummy.

• Barking mad website about Imhotep being Joseph of the amazing technicolour Dreamcoat Fame. https://josephandisraelinegypt.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/the-tomb-of-imhotep-found-the-coffin-was-empty-and-orientated-to-the-north/ 

Episode 118: Why is Charles II Our Favourite King?

• https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/frost-fairs-festivities-frozen-river-thames/  

• Claire Jackson. 2016. Charles II: The Star King. Penguin Monarchs Series. 

• Linda Porter. 2020. Mistresses: Sex and Scandal at the Court of Charles II. 

• Ronald Hutton. 1989. Charles II: King of England, Scotland and Ireland.

• https://horriblehistoriestv.wixsite.com/horriblehistoriestv/song-charles-ii-king-of-bling 

Episode 117: Did Humans Develop Beer before Bread?

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• Grosman L. and Munro, N.D. 2017. ‘The Natufian Culture: The Harbinger of Food-Producing Societies.’ In: Enzel Y, Bar-Yosef O, eds. Quaternary of the Levant: Environments, Climate Change, and Humans. Cambridge University Press, 699-708.

• A. Arranz-Otaegui, L. Gonzalez Carretero, M.N. Ramsey, D.Q. Fuller, & T. Richter, 2018. ‘Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan,’ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 115 (31) 7925-7930

• Zeldovich, L. 2019. ‘Did Humans Once Live by Beer Alone? An October Fest Tale.’ JSTOR Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/did-humans-once-live-by-beer-alone-an-oktoberfest-tale/ 

• Li Liu, Jiajing Wang, Danny Rosenberg, Hao Zhao, György Lengyel, Dani Nadel, 2018. ‘Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports,’ 21 783-793,

• Braidwood, Robert J., et al. 1953. ‘Symposium: Did Man Once Live by Beer Alone?’ American Anthropologist, 55 (4), 515–26. 

• Hayden, B., Canuel, N. and Shanse, J. 2012. ‘What was Brewing in the Natufian? An Archaeological Assessment of Brewing Technology in the Epipaleolithic.’ Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 20 (1), 102-150. 

• Juan Ibáñez, Patricia Anderson, Amaia Arranz-Otaegui et al. The Evolution of Plant Harvesting at The Dawn of Agriculture: Perspectives from Sickle Gloss Texture Analyses, 04 January 2021, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-136472/v1] 

Episode 116: What Were the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?

• Tim Parkin’s Idiosyncratic Guide to Researching the Seven Wonders: https://web.archive.org/web/20041011114644/http://www.clas.canterbury.ac.nz/wonders.html 

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Episode 115: What’s the Deal with Eleanor of Aquitane

• Alison Weir. 1999. Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England 

• Ralph V. Turner. 2009. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England. 

• You’re Dead to Me on Eleanor of Aquitaine https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p087r8kb

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• Karen Sullivan. 2023. Eleanor of Aquitaine, As It Was Said: Truth and Tales about The Medieval Queen.

Episode 114: Was Pope Joan Real?

• Peter Stanford. 1999. The She Pope: A Quest for the Truth Behind the Mystery of Pope Joan. 

• Emily Maguire. 2025. Rapture. 

• Thomas X. Noble. 1999. The Legend of Pope Joan: In Search of the Truth by Peter Stanford (review). The Catholic Historical Review 85 (4), 603-4

• Thomas X. Noble. 2013. Why Pope Joan? The Catholic Historical Review 99 (2), 219-38

• Kirkus. 1999. Review of The Legend of Pope Joan. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/peter-stanford/the-legend-of-pope-joan/. 

• Alain Boureau. 2001. The Myth of Pope Joan (trans. Lydia G. Cochrane). 

• Emmanuil Roidis. 1979. La Papessa Giovanna.

• The chairs in the Vatican: https://www.flickr.com/photos/redreplicant/5233270697