Episode 117: Did Humans Develop Beer before Bread?
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:
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
Uwu Cavalry: https://thebansacredbanned.tumblr.com/post/748921313023967232
Chad Craftsmen vs the Virgin Academic https://www.tumblr.com/the-nettle-knight/775671756288573440/sammysdewysensitiveeyes-catchester-pbrim
Susan Doku: https://www.tumblr.com/thyfleshc0nsumed/762447490105622528/in-case-you-dont-know-susan-doku-inventor-of
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,
Episode 102: Sex Work in History
Sources
Gone Medieval on Medieval Sex Work https://open.spotify.com/episode/1S0Iv7hN5xE9Tpa0mPG062?si=ed1620480dc44ca1
Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge. 2009. Review of Stephanie Budin (2008). The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/31538/1/CR_Budin.pdf
Stephanie Budin. 2008. The Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity.
Mary Beard, J. Henderson, "With This Body I Thee Worship: Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity", in M. Wyke (ed.), Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean, Oxford, 1998, p. 56-79.
Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure. (eds). 2006. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World.
Magaly Rodriguez Garcia, Lex Heerma van Voss, and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk (eds). 2017. Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution 1600s-2000s.
Juno Mac and Molly Smith. 2018. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights.
Katie Dowd. 2020. The remarkable life of 'Alice Smith,' once San Francisco's most famous sex worker https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/Alice-Smith-Barbary-Coast-prostitute-california-15169787.php
Harriet T. Zuendorfer. 2011. Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550-1644). International Review of Social history 56 (s19), 197-206.
Episode 101: What’s the Deal with the Marquis de Sade
Sources:
John Phillips. 2005. Marquis de Sade: A Very Short Introduction.
Margaret Crossland. 1991. Selected Writings of the Marquis de Sade. Dover Thrift Editions.
Francine du Plessix Gray. 1998. At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
Neil Schaffer. 1999. The Marquis de Sade: A Life.
Richard Seaver. (trans) 1999. Marquis de Sade: Letters from Prison.
Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse. (trans) 2002. Marquis de Sade: 120 Days of Sodom.