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Episodes 51, 52, 53: Ra Ra Rasputin

Rasputin’s alleged dick (NOT AT ALL SAFE FOR WORK)

Majestic x Boney M Rasputin music video, featuring Bimini Bon Boulash

Hoskings, G. 2012. Russian History: A Very Short Introduction. OUP.

Gleason, A. (ed). 2009. A Companion to Russian History. Wiley-Blackwell.

Field, D. 2009. ‘The “Great Reforms” of the 1860s’ in Gleason, A. (ed). 2009. A Companion to Russian History. Wiley-Blackwell.196-209.

Stockdale, M. 2009. ‘The Russian Experience of the First World War,” in Gleason, A. (ed). 2009. A Companion to Russian History. Wiley-Blackwell.311-334.

Owen, T.C. 2009. ‘Industrialization and Capitalism’ in Gleason, A. (ed). 2009. A Companion to Russian History. Wiley-Blackwell. 210-224.

Ely, C. ‘The Question of Civil Society in Late Imperial Russia’ Gleason, A. (ed). 2009. A Companion to Russian History. Wiley-Blackwell. 225-242.

Polunuv, A. Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Autocracy, Reform and Social Change, 1814-1914. trans. M.S. Shatz. M.E. Sharpe.

Figes, O. 1996. A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution. Penguin.

Smith, D. 2016. Rasputin. Macmillan.

Furhmann, J. T. 2012. Rasputin: The Untold Story. John Wiley & Sons.

Todd, A. 1998. Revolutions 1789-1917. Cambridge University Press

Cook, A. 2011. To Kill Rasputin: The Life and Death of Grigori Rasputin. The History Press.

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Episode 50: The History of Clothing That Was Forbidden (and underwear)

Finanne, A. (2008). Chancing Clothes in China: Fashion, History, Nation. Columbia University Press.

Jaster, M. R. (2007). Breeding Dissoluteness and Disobedience: Clothing Laws as Tudor Colonialist Discourse. Critical Survey, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.3167/001115701782483390

Quataert, D. (1997). Clothing laws, state, and society in the Ottoman empire, 1720-1829. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 29(3), 403–425. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800064837

Lillethun, L. W. and A. (2013). Fashion History: A Global View. 53(9), 1689–1699.

Kirtio, L. (2012). ‘The inordinate excess in apparel’: Sumptuary Legislation in Tudor England. Constellations, 3(1). https://doi.org/10.29173/cons16283

Earle, Rebecca (2019) Clothing, race and identity : sumptuary laws in colonial Spanish America. In: Riello, Giorgio and Rublack, Ulinka, (eds.) The Right to Dress : Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 325-345.

Riello, G., & Rublack, U. (2019). The Right to Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perpective, c.1200-1800. Cambridge University Press.

Stillman, Y. K., & Stillman, N. A. (2003). Arab Dress: A Short History, from the Dawn of Islam to Modern Times. Brill. 

Willett, C. and Cunningham, P. 1992. The History of Underclothes. Dover Publications. 

Gaskill, A.L. 2013. “Clothed Upon With Glory”: Sacred Underwear and the Consecrated Life’ Journal of Interreligious Dialogue 12,: 9–22.

Cole, S. 2011. The History of Men’s Underwear. Parkstone.


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Episode 49: The History of Birth Control

  • Olszynko-Gryn, J. (2018). Technologies of Contraception and Abortion. In N. Hopwood, R. Flemming, & L. Kassell (Eds.), Reproduction: Antiquity to the Present Day (pp. 535-552). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781107705647.045

  • Noonan, J. T. (1986). Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by Catholic Theologians and Canonists. Harvard University Press.

  • Hopkins, K. (1965). Contraception in the Roman Empire. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 8(1), 124–151.

  • Ogden, D. (2002). Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Source Book. In Oxford University Press. Oxford University Press.

  • Riddle, J. M. (1997). Eve’s Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West . John. Harvard University Press.

  • John M. Riddle. (1994). Contraception and Abortion from the Ancient World to the Renaissance. Harvard University Press.

  • Norman R. Farnsworth, Audrey S. Bingel, Geoffrey A. Cordell, Frank A. Crane, and Harry H. S. Fong, (1975)“Potential Value of Plants as Sources of New Antifertility Agents,” Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 64 : 552 [pt. 1: 535-598; pt. 2: 717-754]; 

  • Adelina de S. Matsui, Somsong Hoskin, Midori Kashiwagi, Bonnie W. Aguda, Barbara E. Zegart, T. R. Norton, and W. C. Cutting, (1971) “A Survey of Natural Products from Hawaii and Other Areas of the Pacific for an Antifertility Effect in Mice,” Internationale Zeitschrift fiir klinische Pharmakologie, Therapie und Toxikologie 1 : 65-69 at 66.  

  • C. D. Casey,(1960) “Alleged Anti-fertility Plants of India,” Indian Journal of Medical Sciences 14 : 590-600 at 597; 

  • R. N. Chopra, S. L. Nayar, and I. C. Chopra, (1956) Glossary of Indian Medicinal Plants (New Delhi), p. 220; 

  • Carmen Ciganda M.D. & Amalia Laborde M.D. (2003) Herbal Infusions Used for Induced Abortion, Journal of Toxicology: Clinical Toxicology, 41:3, 235-239, DOI: 10.1081/CLT-120021104

  • Aubert, Jean-Jacques. (1989) "Threatened wombs: aspects of ancient uterine magic." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 30.3: 421-449.

  • Gaimster, D., Boland, P., Linnane, S., & Cartwright, C. (1996). The archaeology of private life: The dudley castle condoms. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 30(1), 129–142. https://doi.org/10.1179/pma.1996.003

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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.


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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 

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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 

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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.

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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 

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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. 

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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  

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