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?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/bji698/is_there_now_a_scholarly_consensus_or_whether/

• 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 

• Bettany Hughes. 2024. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

• Peter A. Clayton and Martin J. Price. (eds). 1988. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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

• Rex Factor Episodes on Eleanor of Aquitaine https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AxKtfNxryCKdP6dfPz3xt

• 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

Episode 113: (Ant)Arctic Exploration Gone Wrong

• Frank Hurley’s Photos of the Endurance Expidition https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/history-culture/2015/01/gallery-frank-hurleys-antarctic-images-of-shackleton/ 

• Timeline and Map of the Endurance Expedition https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Ernest_Shackleton_map_time_line.php 

• John Franklin (1823) Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ssd?id=uc1.c106106342&seq=1 

• Photos from the Andree Balloon Expedition https://web.archive.org/web/20070930154931/http://www.zwoje-scrolls.com/zwoje41/text08p.htm 

• Riddenburgh Beau (2018). Into the Mists: SA Andree’s Balloon Expedition Towards the North Pole. 

• Alfred Lansing (1959). Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage.

Episode 108: Shakespeare

• Bill Bryson. 2012. Shakespeare: The World as a Stage

• Paul Collins. 2009. The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World

• Jonathan Bate. 2013. The Genius of Shakespeare

• James Shapiro. 2011. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare

• Jonathan Bate. 2011. Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

• Stephen Greenblatt. 2012. Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Episode 105: Tumblr History with HR Owen

The Tumblr posts discussed:

1. The Earth was girliepop before it was multicellular: https://www.tumblr.com/virto-the-weirdo/764616989383802880/oh-yea-stuff-on-ancient-earth-was-really-alien?source=share

2. Uwu Cavalry: https://thebansacredbanned.tumblr.com/post/748921313023967232

3. Chad Craftsmen vs the Virgin Academic https://www.tumblr.com/the-nettle-knight/775671756288573440/sammysdewysensitiveeyes-catchester-pbrim 

4. Susan Doku: https://www.tumblr.com/thyfleshc0nsumed/762447490105622528/in-case-you-dont-know-susan-doku-inventor-of

5. The iron hand of Gotz von Berlichinfgen: https://fuckaspunk.tumblr.com/post/183430587561/brunhiddensmusings

Sources:

• Scientists Discover World’s Oldest Colour: Bright Pink https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/09/scientists-discover-worlds-oldest-colour-bright-pink-sahara#:~:text=Gueneli%20said%20the%20pigments%20were,she%20said%20in%20a%20statement. 

• N. Gueneli et al. 2018. 1.1-billion-year-old porphyrins establish a marine ecosystem dominated by bacterial primary producers. PNAS 115 (30) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1803866115 

• Victor A. Gallardo and Carola Espinoza (2008). The Evolution of Ocean Color. Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XI. Edited by Hoover, Richard B.; Levin, Gilbert V.; Rozanov, Alexei Y.; Davies, Paul C. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7097, article id. 70970G, 7 pp. (2008). https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008SPIE.7097E..0GG/abstract#:~:text=If%20the%20present%20is%20the,later%20stages%20of%20the%20Proterozoic. 

• The Plunger in Turkey cartoon from Punch  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174217968891 

• Etchings by John Leech https://victorianweb.org/art/illustration/leech/swells.html 

• William Proctor Williams (2014).‘Stolne and Surreptitious’: Heywood as a Test Case Early Theatre 17 (2), 134–145

• List of Iron Hands https://de.zxc.wiki/wiki/Liste_Eiserner_H%C3%A4nde

• Autobiography of Gotz https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Mein_Fehd_und_Handlungen 

Episode 103: The history of Manifest Destiny

• John O’ Sullivan. 1869. Annexation. United States Magazine and Democratic Review 17, no.1 (July-August 1845): 5-10 https://web.archive.org/web/20051125043717/http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/HIS/f01/HIS202-01/Documents/OSullivan.html 

• Thomas R. Hietala. 2003. Manifest Design: American Exceptionalism and Empire (Revised Edition) 

• Dee Brown. 1994. The American West. 

• Dee Brown. 1970. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. 

• Mark S. Joy. 2003. American Expansionism, 1783-1860: A Manifest Destiny?

• Robert J. Miller. 2006. Native America Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, and Manifest Destiny. 

• Jeffrey Geiger.. 2015. United States Expansionism and the Pacific. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. Pp 446-454. 

• Pekka Hämäläinen. 2022. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America.

• James Polk Inaugural Address https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/polk.asp  

• Mary Alice Cook. 2011. "Manifest Opportunity: The Alaska Purchase as a Bridge Between United States Expansion and Imperialism". Alaska History. 26.1 1–10.

• Daniel James Brown. 2009. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride,