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Episode 23: What’s the History of the Crimson Wave?

  • Elissa Stein and Susan Kim. 2009. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation.

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Episode 22: What’s the History of Albinism

Enrico Pasini. 2016. ‘A Prodigious Bodily Nature: Debates on Albinism 1609-1745. Natureza, causalidade e formas de corporeidade. 193-236. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1632037#.W-bd3ZP7REY

Andrew Curran. 2009. ‘Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences.’ History and Theory 43.9. 151-179.

Charles D. Martin. 2002. The White African American Body@ A Cultural and Literary Exploration.

Christopher Hohl and Matthias Krings. 2018. ‘Extraordinarily White: The De/Spectacularization of the Albinotic Body and the Normalization of Its Audience’ . In: Liebelt C., Böllinger S., Vierke U. (eds) Beauty and the Norm. Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment. 75-103

Vera Illugadóttir. 2015. “The Invasion of the Ice Family: That Time a Group of Albinos Drove Icelanders Crazy.” The Reykjavik Grapevine (15): 30. https://issuu.com/rvkgrapevine/docs/issue_15_2015_master_issuu_all 

Tom Jack, The Ice King. https://www.thehumanmarvels.com/tom-jack-the-ice-king/

V. Ö. Vilhálmsson. 2013. Tom Jack and His Family. https://fornleifur.blog.is/blog/fornleifur/entry/1301961/

WUWM. 2014. Former Fashion Photographer Aims to Create 'New Standard of Beauty' Beyond Physical Differences. https://www.wuwm.com/podcast/lake-effect-segments/2014-04-04/former-fashion-photographer-aims-to-create-new-standard-of-beauty-beyond-physical-differences#stream/0

United Nations. ND. People With Albinism: Stories. https://albinism.ohchr.org/stories.html

Wendy Mothata. 2018. ‘It’s About Time We Treat People with Albinism as Human Beings not Ghosts’ SA People News. https://www.sapeople.com/2018/04/17/its-about-time-we-treat-people-with-albinism-as-human-beings-not-ghosts/

AP. 2015. ‘These albino children hunted in Africa will break your heart’ NY Post. https://nypost.com/2015/08/18/africas-hunted-albino-children-receive-new-limbs-new-hope/

BlackGirlWhiteSkin. 2015. Historic Art Installation at National Museum. https://medium.com/@nataliedevora/historic-art-installation-at-national-museum-e0ddbb383be1

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Episode 22: What’s The History of Omens?

M Radford & E. Radford. 1947. Encyclopedia of Superstitions

Mark Menjivar. 2015. The Luck Archive. https://cargocollective.com/menjivar 

Stuart A. Vyse. 1997. Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition.

Robert L. Park. 2008. Superstition: Belief in an Age of Science.

Michael Shermer. 1997. Why People Believe in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time.

Torunn Selberg. 2010. ‘Taking Superstition Seriously.’ Folklore 114.3. 297-306.

Jan Fidrmuc. 2015. ‘Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck. Kyklos 68.3. 317-334.#



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Episode 20: What Are the Best Historic Ghost Stories?

HistoryExtra. 2016. Three Curious Medieval Ghost Stories. https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/3-curious-medieval-ghost-stories/

Matthew Joynes. 2001. Medieval Ghost Stories.

Sir Walter Scott. 1814. Illustrations of Northern Antiquities.

Andy Wright. 2014. Devil Dogs: The Mysterious Black Dogs of England. https://modernfarmer.com/2014/06/black-shuck/

The Suffolk Coast. The Legend of the Bungay Black Dog. https://www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk/articles/the-legend-of-the-bungay-black-dog

Pliny the Younger. Ep7.27. http://vroma.org/vromans/hwalker/Pliny/Pliny07-27-E.html

Anna Green. 2015. The Screaming Skulls of England. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70464/screaming-skulls-england

Joshua J. Mark. 2016. A Ghost Story of Ancient Egypt. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/964/a-ghost-story-of-ancient-egypt/

Roger Clarke. 2014. Ghosts: A Natural History.

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Episode 17: Have Children Really Never Had It So Good?

(Incomplete references)

Lloyd DeMause. 1974. The History of Childhood.

Philippe Aries. 1962. Centuries of Childhood

Anna Davin. 1999. What Is A Child? in: Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State. ed. Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey. 15-36.

Lindsey E. Jones. 2016. Intersectional Critiques of the Criminalization of Black Girls, Past & Present. https://www.aaihs.org/intersectional-critiques-of-the-criminalization-of-black-girls-past-present/

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx

Paul Slack. 1988. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England.

D. Toddman. 2007. Childbirth In Ancient Rome: From Traditional Folklore To Obstetrics. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 47, 82–85.

Tim Parkin .1992. Demography and Roman Society.


Roald Dahl. 1984. Boy: Tales of Childhood.

National Archives. Extracts from Lord Ashley’s Report 1842. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/industrial/source4.htm

Robert Krulwich. 2012. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Is That Always A Good Thing? https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/01/162079442/do-you-know-where-your-children-are-is-that-always-a-good-thing?t=1626009602656

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Episode 13: Did The Nazis Really Go Looking for the Lance of Longinus?

Eric Kurlander, 2017. Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. 

Eric Kurlander, 2017. A Song of Ice and Fire. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/song-ice-and-fire

Peter Levanda, 2002. Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult.

Nicolas Goodridge-Clarke, 1985. The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. 


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Episode 10: How Has Music Changed over History? ft. Dr Anna Scott.

Paleolithic flute made from a vulture bone 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCBBDV2Tzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUFRmQ4eso 

Hurrian hymn #6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhB9gRnIHE 


Ancient Greek music - the work of Armand D’Angour on reconstructing hymns and sections of dramatic chorus https://youtu.be/4hOK7bU0S1Y 

Earliest surviving complete piece of composition is the Seikilos epitaph c.100ad from Turkey. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%CE%9F_%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A3%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85_-_Epitaph_of_Seikilos.ogg

Indian Hindu vedic arts - the Samaveda - 1000BC - sections of the Rigveda set to a melody and chanted http://www.vedchant.com/Yajur.mp3 

Chinese Xun - like egg flutes made of clay. Oldest are about 5000bc . https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ARecording_of_Xun.ogg 

Solitary Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode - written for the guqin in 7thC AD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqX2rgCAok 

Synaulia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0

Musica Romana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4KqvAhqFA 

Music of the Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHzH5iDcGQ

Le Jeu De Robin Et Marion by Adam de le Halle, troubadour in the 13thC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIx07t14jw

Hildegard of Bingen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk

Hermann of Reichenau 11thC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petits_Chanteurs_de_Passy_-_Salve_Regina_de_Hermann_Contract.ogg 

John Dowland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4

"A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp86xtRUokA

Baroque:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0

Classical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o

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Episode 8: Did Women Really Dress As Men to Join the Army?

Catherine Baker: https://twitter.com/richmondbridge/status/983619848973553664?s=09

Mark Stoyle. 2018.‘Give mee a Souldier's Coat’: Female Cross‐Dressing during the English Civil War. History 103 (354) pp. 5-26. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-229X.12542

Catherine Baker. 2018. Montrous Regiment. History Today. https://www.historytoday.com/catherine-baker/monstrous-regiment

Cheryl Morgan. 2018.  How Not To Erase Trans History.  http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/erase-trans-history/ 

 Julie Wheelwright. 1990. Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness

 DeAnne Blanton, Lauren Cook Wike. 2002. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

Fraser Easton. 2003, Gender's Two Bodies: Women Warriors, Female Husbands and Plebeian Life. Past and Present 108, pp. 131-174. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600742 

Jing Yin, 2011. Popular Culture and Public Imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese Stories of Mulan. Javnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture 18 (10), pp. 53-74.

Peter Boag. 2011.Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past. 

Lila Guadêncio, nd. The Pillars of Mimicry: Performativity and 'Realness' in Hua Mulan. http://www.academia.edu/24696528/The_Pillars_of_Mimicry_Performativity_and_Realness_in_Hua_Mulan 


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Episode 7: When In Rome, What Did the Romans Do?

Comitia in Smith, W. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Comitia.html

Sarah Bond. 2016. Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professions in the Roman Mediterranean.

Koenraad Verboven and Christian Laes (eds). 2016. Work, Labour and Professions in the Roman World.
Gregory S. Aldrete. 2004. Daily Life in the Roman City: Rome, Pompeii, and Ostia.
Florence Dupont. 1993. Daily Life in Ancient Rome.
Jorg Rupke. 2018. Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion.
Ray Lawrence. 2009. Roman Passions: A History of Pleasure in Ancient Rome.


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