Episode 48: History’s Greatest Poisonings
John Emsley, 2006. The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison.
Phyllis Granoff. 1993. The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jaina Literature
https://web.archive.org/web/20070303182947/http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/angels/female_nurses/5.html
Robertson, AG. Contact Poisons: A Brief Touch. Australian Military Medicine Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001 Aug: 70-1
Livy. History of Rome, Bk. 8 c. 18
ABC. 2011. Recipe For Murder, ABC Documentary on the Australian Thallium Craze (trailer here https://www.screenhub.com.au/news-article/reviews/film/richard-watts/recipe-for-murder-184053)
Nepovimova, E., Kuca, K. 2019. The history of poisoning: from ancient times until modern ERA. Arch Toxicol 93, 11–24 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-018-2290-0
Una McIvenna, 2016. Scandal and Reputation at the Court of Catherine de Medici.
Retief, F.P. & Cilliers, L. 2000. Poisoning during the Renaissance: The Medicis and the Borgias,1017-3455,The Southern African Society for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12430/549361
Lynn Wood Mollenauer, 2007. Strange Revelations: Magic, Poison and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France.
Karamanou M, Androutsos G, Hayes AW, Tsatsakis A. 2018. Toxicology in the Borgias period: The mystery of Cantarella poison. Toxicology Research and Application. January 2018.
Episode 47: The History of Pets
Erika Fudge. Pets. 2008.
Katherine C. Greer. Pets in America: A History.
Michael MacKinnon. ‘Pets.’ in The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. 2014.
Anthony L. Podberscek, Elizabeth S. Paul, James A. Serpell. Companion Animals and Us: Exploring the Relationships Between People and Pets. 2000.
Amy Nelson ‘Bringing the Beast Back In: The Rehabilitation of Pet Keeping in Soviet Russia
Companion Animals’ in Everyday Life: Situating Human-Animal Engagement within Cultures. 2016.
The Domestication of Cats: The History of the Only Domesticated Felidae Species and Their Relationship with Humans. 2020.
Gavin Ehringer. Leaving the wild: the unnatural history of dogs, cats, cows, and horses. 2017.
Donald Engels. Classical Cats: The Rise and FAll of the Sacred Cat. 2001.
Maria Garb. Egyptian cats, Anatolian cats and Vikings: Separating evidence from fiction about the cat domestication. https://www.anadolukedisi.com/en/cat-domestication-fiction-evidence/
Carlos A. Driscoll, David W. Macdonald, and Stephen J. O'Brien. From wild animals to domestic pets, an evolutionary view of domestication. https://www.pnas.org/content/106/Supplement_1/9971#sec-3
http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?ParagraphID=ayn
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/the-origin-of-dogs/484976/
https://www.anadolukedisi.com/en/cat-domestication-fiction-evidence/
Carolin Johansson. The Origin of the Egyptian Domestic Cat. Uppsala Univerity. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:560231/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Heidi G. Parker, Dayna L. Dreger, Maud Rimbault, Brian W. Davis, Alexandra B. Mullen, Gretchen Carpintero-Ramirez, Elaine A. Ostrander. Genomic Analyses Reveal the Influence of Geographic Origin, Migration, and Hybridization on Modern Dog Breed Development. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExtended/S2211-1247(17)30456-4
Episode 46: How Long Has The Idea of Extraterrestrial Beings Existed
The main sources we used for this one are:
Michael J. Crowe. 1986. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate, 1750 to 1900.
Michael J. Crowe. 2008. The Extraterrestrial Life Debate: Antiquity to 1915: A Source Book.
Steven J. Dick. 1982. Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant.
Dildar Ahmed, 2006. The Qur'an and the Aliens. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dildar_Ahmed/publication/283811987_The_Qur'an_and_the_Aliens/links/5647f6ef08ae9f9c13e97444/The-Quran-and-the-Aliens.pdf
If you want to read Lucien's very fun A True Story, then it's here (in parallel with the Greek) https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/true/tru01.htm
Episode 44: Women's Suffrage
NZ Women and the Vote https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/womens-suffrage/brief-history
That Bloody Woman https://open.spotify.com/album/27pikGLOASw0WtUnfxBbCh?si=bgANPckGSSuULrBoJMJpdg
Studer, Brigitte: Universal Suffrage and Direct Democracy : The Swiss Case, 1848-1990, in: Fauré, Christine (Hrsg.): Political and Historical Encyclopedia of Women (New York: Routledge, 2003), 687-703. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25595/403
John Bendix (1992) Women's Suffrage and Political Culture:, Women & Politics, 12:3, 27-56,
Elizabeth Crawford (2001) The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928
Francisco O. Ramirez, Yasemin Soysal and Suzanne Shanahan (1997) The Changing Logic of Political Citizenship: Cross-National Acquisition of Women's Suffrage Rights, 1890 to 1990. American Sociological Review Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 735-745
Haverty, Anne (1993). Constance Markievicz: Irish Revolutionary.
Episode 43: Red Headed History
The main source for this one was Jacky Colliss Harvey, 2015, Red: A Natural History of the Redhead.
The article which claimed that redheads are more resistant to pain meds was Edwin B. Liem et al., 2004, 'Anesthetic Requirement is Increased in Redheads', Anaesthesiology 1010 (2), 279-283. and you can read the abstract here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1362956/
A takedown of that article with links to newer research is
Christopher O'Connor, 2019, Myths in Anaesthesiology: Do Redheads have Special Needs?' At Op-Med. https://opmed.doximity.com/articles/myths-in-anesthesiology-do-redheads-have-special-needs?_csrf_attempted=yes
The art here is Jules Joseph Lefebvre's Maray Magdelene in the Grotto. More info at https://www.wikiart.org/en/jules-joseph-lefebvre/mary-magdalene-in-the-cave-1876
Some of Rosetti's paintings of Alice (aka Alexa) Wilding can be seen at the Rosetti Archive:
Monna Vanna: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s191.rap.html
The Blessed Damozel: http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s244.rap.html
Alexa Wilding portraits http://www.rossettiarchive.org/rose/?query=title%3A%22alexa+wilding%22
Episode 42: More Short Questions
Sources (some of them)
English Sweating Sickness:
Bridson, E. The English “sweate” (Sudor Anglicus) and Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome. Br. J. Biomed. Sci. 2001, 58, 1–6.
Pay Heyman, Leopold Simons and Christel Cochez, 2014. 'Were
the English Sweating Sickness and the Picardy Sweat Caused by Hantaviruses?' Viruses 6 (1), 151-171.
CDC, Hantavirus: Signs and Symptoms -https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hps/symptoms.html
Adam Patrick, 1965, 'A Consideration of the Nature of the English Sweating Disease,', Medical History 9 (3), 272-279.
Languages:
Youtube NativeLang https://www.youtube.com/user/NativLang
What Latin Sounded Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_enn7NIo-S0&t=293s
Elagabalus:
Domitilla Campanile, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Margherita Facella (eds.) 2017. TransAntiquity: Cross-Dressing and Transgender Dynamics in the Ancient World
Martijn Icks (2011) The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome’s Decadent Boy Emperor.
Episode 41: Who were the coolest women in Rome after 68CE
Sources
-Annelise Freisenbuch, 2010, The First Ladies of Rome.
- Guy De La Bedoyere, 2019, Domina.
- Barbara Levick, 2007, Julia Domna: Syrian Empress.
-Cassius Dio books 75-80 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/home.html
Episode 40: Were pirates really communists?
Sources!
Edward Fox, 2013. ‘Piratical Schemes and Contracts’: Pirate Articles and their Society, 1660-1730. PhD Thesis. University of Exeter https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/14872/FoxE.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Marcus Rediker, 2004. Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
Captain Charles Johnson, 1724. The General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates 2nd ed.
Vol.1 (inc Blackbeard) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40580/40580-h/40580-h.htm
Vol. 2 (inc Libertalia) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57005/57005-h/57005-h.htm
Chris Land, 2007. Flying the black flag: Revolt, revolution and the social organization of piracy in the ‘golden age’, Management & Organizational History, 2:2, 169-192
Peter T. Leeson, 2007. An-arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization. The Journal of Political Economy 115 (6), 1049-1094
Benerson Little, 2005. The Sea Rover’s Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730.
Gabriel Kuhn, 2010. Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy.
C.R. Pennell (ed), 2001. Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader.
Marcus Rediker, 2001. The Seaman as Pirate: Plunder and Social Banditry at Sea in Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader.
Marcus Rediker, ‘“Under the Banner of King Death”: The Social World of Anglo-American Pirates, 1716-1726’, The William and Mary Quarterly, Third series, 38 (1981), 203-227
Crystal Williams, ‘Nascent Socialists or Resourceful Criminals? A Reconsideration of Transatlantic Piracy’, in Paul A. Gilje and William Pencak (eds). Pirates, Jack Tar, and Memory: New Directions in American Maritime History (Mystic, 2007) 31-50
Episode 39: Queer Royals
Sources!
Sources
Jeffry J. Iovannone. 2018. A Brief History of the LGBTQ Initialism. https://medium.com/queer-history-for-the-people/a-brief-history-of-the-lgbtq-initialism-e89db1cf06e3
Scott Bravmann. 1997. Queer Fictions of the Past: History, Culture and Difference.
Clare Hayward, 2016. Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality. http://notchesblog.com/2016/06/09/queer-terminology-lgbtq-histories-and-the-semantics-of-sexuality/
Rachel Moss 2015. Seeing Sodomy: An Interview with Robert Mills http://notchesblog.com/2015/07/02/seeing-sodomy-an-interview-with-robert-mills/
Umberto Grassi, 2016. Acts or Identities: Rethinking Foucault on Homosexuality. Cultural History 5 (2) 200-221.
John D’Emilio, 1993.Capitalism and Gay Identity in The Gay and Lesbian Studies Reader ed. H. Abelove, M. A. Barele & D.M. Halperin. http://sites.middlebury.edu/sexandsociety/files/2015/01/DEmilio-Capitalism-and-Gay-Identity.pdf
Episode 38: The Weird History of Gynecology
Steinberg, W., & Muntner, S. (1965). Maimonides’ views on gynecology and obstetrics. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 91(3), 443–448.
Soranus, Gynecology
Thierry, M. 1997. Vaginal speculum: the developmental history of a gynecologic instrument. Verh K Acad Geneeskd Belg. 1997;59(1):13-8.
Monica Green. Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe Signs, Vol. 14, No. 2, Working Together in the Middle Ages: Perspectives on Women's Communities (Winter, 1989), pp. 434-473
Sandelowski, M. (2000). ‘This Most Dangerous Instrument Propriety, Power, and the Vaginal Speculum. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 29(1), 73–82.
Jennifer Stroud Rossmann 2008. Built to Spec? The vaginal speculum as a case study of inadequate design. Ambidextrous. https://dspace.lafayette.edu/bitstream/handle/10385/589/Rossmann-Ambidextrous-vol10-2008.pdf?sequence=1
Jeffrey S. Sartin. 2004. J. Marion Sims, the Father of Gynecology: Hero or villain? Southern Medical Journal Vol. 97, Issue 5.
Rose Elveleth. 2014. Why No One Can Design a Better Speculum. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/why-no-one-can-design-a-better-speculum/382534/
Peter M. Dunn. 1999. The Chamberlen family (1560–1728) and obstetric forceps. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed. 81.
Sukhera Sheikh, Inithan Ganesaratnam, and Haider Jan. 2013. The Birth of Forceps. JRSM Short Rep. Jul; 4(7): 1–4.
Lauren Dundes. 1987. The Evolution of Maternal Birthing Position. Public Health Then and Now. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.77.5.636
J. Patrick O'Leary. 2004. J. Marion Sims: a defense of the Father of Gynecology. Southern Medical Journal. Vol. 97, Issue 5.
Selim Kadioglu, Oya Ogenler and Ilter Uzel, 2017. A Classical Wooden Vaginal Speculum Mentioned in Old Medical Manuscripts. Arch. Iran. Med. 20(3) 193-195.