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Episode 28: Lebensborn

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https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/world/europe/07nazi.html 

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15548608/ns/world_news-europe/t/secret-nazi-lebensborn-children-go-public/#.XGBGuDP7TRY  

https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/woman-birth-hitler-lebensborn-aryan-child-hildegard-trutz-germany/  

http://www.spiegel.de/international/nazi-program-to-breed-master-race-lebensborn-children-break-silence-a-446978.html  

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-quot-lebensborn-quot-program  

Olsen, Kare, 2005. Under the Care of Lebensborn: Norwegian War Mothers and Their Children in Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy edited by Kjersti Ericsson, Eva Simonsen

Dorothee Schmitz-Köster, A Topic for Life: Children of German Lebensborn Homes in Children of World War II: The Hidden Enemy Legacy edited by Kjersti Ericsson, Eva Simonsen

Von Oelhafen, I and Tate, T. 2015. Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity.

http://www.mychildlebensborn.com/ 

http://www.mychildlebensborn.com/truestory 

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Episode 27: Viking and Mongolian Women

Some secondary sources for the episode:

 Henenstierna-Jonson, C, et al. 2017.  'A female Viking warrior confirmed by genomics' American Journal of Physical Anthropology 164.4. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.23308 

de Nicola, B.  2013. Ruling from tents: the existence and structure of women’ ordos in Ilkhanid Iran. In: Robert Hillenbrand; A.C.S. Peacock and Firuza Abdullaeva, eds. Ferdowsi, The Mongols and Iranian History: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia. London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 116-136.

De Nicola, B. 2010. Women’s Role and Participation in Warfare in the Mongol Empire. In: K. Klaus Latzel; S. Satjukow and F. Maubach, eds. Soldatinnen. Gewalt und Geschlecht im Krieg vom Mittelalter bis Heute. Paderborn: Schöningh, pp. 95-112.

De Nicola, B. 2018. Women in Mogol Iran: The Khatuns, 1206-1335. Edinburgh University Press.

Weatherford, J. 2010. The Secret History of the Mongol Queens. Penguin.

The Secret History of the Mongols in various languages  http://altaica.ru/e_SecretH.php 

Clover, C.J. "Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe," Speculum 68, no. 2 (Apr., 1993): 363-387.

Jesch, J. 1991. Women in the Viking Age. The Boydell Press. 

Diaz-Andreu, M and Sorenson, M.L.S. 1998. Excavating Women: A History of Women in European Archaeology. Routledge. 

Jochens, J. 1995. Women in Old Norse Society. Cornell University Press. 

Magnusdottir, A.G. 2008. Women and Sexual Politics in: S. Brink and N. Price, The Viking World. Routledge. 40-48. 

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Episode 25: Witch Trials

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/11/quarter-people-executed-witchcraft-were-men-and-other-surprising-facts   

Moshe Sluhovsky, The Devil in the Convent, The American Historical Review 107(5) 2002. 1379-1411.
Michel de Certeau, The Possession at Loudun. 1990.
Brian A. Pavlac, Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials. 2009.
Bengt Ankaraloo, Stuart Clerk and William Monter, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. 202.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem 

The pact signed by Germain and the demons and stolen from Satan's very own filing cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudun_possessions#/media/File:UrbainPact2.jpg 

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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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