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Episode 60: How Smelly Was the Past?

  • Gemma Janson. 2018. Sewers or Cesspits? Modern Assumptions and Roman Preferences. In Stephanie Hoss (ed). Latrinae: Roman Toilets in the NorthWestern Provinces of the Roman Empire. pp.5-18.

  • Georgios P. Antoniou , Giovanni De Feo, Franz Fardin, Aldo Tamburrino, Saifullah Khan, Fang Tie, Ieva Reklaityte, Eleni Kanetaki, Xiao Y. Zheng, Larry W. Mays, and Andreas N. Angelakis 2016. "Evolution of Toilets Worldwide through the Millennia" Sustainability 8 (8): 779. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8080779

  • Kelly Olson. 2013. Review: Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History by Gemma C. M. Jansen, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, and Eric M. Moorman. Phoenix.67 (¾). pp 427-429

  • Peter Ward. 2019. The Clean Body: A Modern History. 

  • Virginia Smith. 2007. Clean: A History of Personal Cleanliness and Purity. 

  • Suellen Hoy. 1995. Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness.

  • Susan North. 2020. Sweet and Clean? Bodies and Clothes in Early Modern England

  • Dolly Jorgensen. 2014. Modernity and Medieval Muck. Nature and Culture 9 (3).pp 225-237. 

  • N.J. Ciecieznski. 2013. The Stench of Disease: Public Health and the Environment in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities. Health, Culture and Society 4 (1) http://hcs.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/hcs/article/view/114/145 

  • Carol Rawcliffe. 2013. Urban Bodies: Communal Health in Late Medieval English Towns and Cities. 

  • Andrew Wilson, with B. Petznek, S. Radbauer and R. Sauer. 2011. “Urination and defecation Roman-style”, in Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Gemma C. M. Jansen, Eric M. Moormann (eds), Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History. BABesch Supplement 19. pp 95-111.

  • Penelope J. E Davies. 2012. Pollution. Propriety and Urbanism in Republican Rome. in Mark Bradley (ed). Rome, Pollution and Propriety: Dirt, Disease and Hygiene in the Eternal City from Antiquity to Modernity. Pp. 67-80.


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Episode 59: How Big a Dickhead Was Oliver Cromwell?

John Cunningham 2010. ‘Oliver Cromwell and the “Cromwellian” Settlement of Ireland. The Historical Journal 53 (4), pp. 919-937.

Tom Reilly. 2013. Cromwell Was Framed: Ireland 1649.

Tom Reilly. 2014. ‘Opinion: Cromwell was Framed.’ https://www.theirishstory.com/2014/08/13/opinion-cromwell-was-framed/

Martyn Bennett, Ray Gillespie and R. Scott Spurlock. 2021. Cromwell in Ireland: New Perspectives.

Denis Faul 2004. Cromwell in Ireland: The Massacres. Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society, 20(1), 293–298.

Calrla Pestana. 2017. The English Conquest of Jamaica: Cromwell’s Bid for Empire.

Benjamin Woodford 2013. Perceptions of a Monarchy Without a King: Reactions to Oliver Cromwell’s Power.

Christopher Hill 1972. God’s Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution.

Bennett, M. 2006. Oliver Cromwell.

Fraser, Antonia 2011. Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men

Rex Factor Podcast 2012. Episode 43: Oliver Cromwell. https://play.acast.com/s/rexfactor/43.olivercromwell

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Episode 58: Were the Amazons Real?

Sources

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Episode 57: History’s Greatest Escape

Plutarch, The Bravery of Women. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Bravery_of_Women*/A.html 

CMH Millar (1958) Some Escapes and Escapers in the Ancient World. Greece and Rome, 5(1), 57-61.

The Escape of King Charles II http://www.thefugitiveking.uk/ 

Nova, History’s Great Escapes https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/history-great-escapes/

Mary Queen of Scots’s Great Escape https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/mary-queen-of-scots-great-escape/

The Escape from Alcatraz https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/alcatraz-escape

Bucky Philips’ Escape https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/07/nyregion/07bucky.html

Search Goes On for Prisoner who Escaped with Sheets: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/07/nyregion/search-goes-on-for-prisoner-who-used-sheets-to-escape.html


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Episode 55: Great Arabic Libraries

Violet Moller. 2019. The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found. A History in Seven Cities. 

Rahim Kaviani, Nafiseh Salehi, Ahmad Zaki Berahim Ibrahim, Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor, Faisal Ahmad Faisal Abdul Hamid, Norhayati Hj Hamzah and Abdullah Yusof. 2012. The Significance of the Bayt Al-Hikma (House of Wisdom) in Early Abbasid Caliphate (132A.H-218A.H). Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research 11 (9), 1272-1277

Jim Al-Khalili. 2010. ‘When Baghdad was centre of the scientific world’ The Guardian 26/10/2010. https://www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/Math/Aydin/Teach/Fall18/128/1WhenBaghdadWas.pdf

Jonathan Lyons. 2009. The House of Wisdom: How Arab Learning Transformed Western Civilization. 

Tayeb El Hibri ‘The Empire in Iraq’ in Chase F. Robinson (ed). The New Cambridge History of Islam Vol 1: The Formation of the Islamic World Sixth to Eleventh Centuries, 269-304.

Tayeb El Hibri. 2021. The Abbasid Caliphate: A History. 


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Episode 56: What’s the History of Timbuktu?

Joshua Hammer. 2014. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and their Race to save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts. 


Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle. 2007. Timbuktu: The Sahara’s Fabled City of Gold. 


Frank T. Kryza. 2006. The Race for Timbuktu. 


Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa. 

John. O. Hunwick. Timbuktu and the Songhay Empire: Al-Sa’dis Ta’rikh al-sudan down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents. 


D. Vance Smith. 2021. “Africa Writes Back.” https://aeon.co/essays/africas-ancient-scripts-counter-european-ideas-of-literacy


Joshua Hammer, 2014. ‘The Brave Sage of Timbuktu: Abdel Kader Haidara’ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/140421-haidara-timbuktu-manuscripts-mali-library-conservation


Ibn Batuta. Travels in Asia and Africa 1325-1354. Trans. A.A.R Gibb. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.62617/page/n5/mode/2up .

Francois-Xavier Fauvelle. 2018.The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages. Trans. Trans. Troy Tice.

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Episode 54: What’s the History of Malta?

Sources:

  • Kathryn Rountree (2002) Re-inventing Malta's neolithic temples: Contemporary interpretations and agendas, History and Anthropology, 13:1, 31-51

  • Dennis Castillo (2006). The Maltese Cross: A Strategic History of Malta.

  • Anthony Bonanno & PIetro Miletello (eds) (2008) Interconnections in the Central Mediterranaean: The Maltese Islands and Sicily in History (Proceeding of the Conference St Julians, Malta, 2nd and 3rd November 2007).

  • T. Gambin (2003) The Maritime Heritage of Malta: Past, Present and Future. Transactions of the Built Environment 65, 5-16. 

  • Alicia I. Meza (2003) Ancient Egyptian Art in Malta. Mediterranean Archaeology 16, 99-105.

    Anthony Bonanno (1983) The Tradition of an Ancient Greek Colony in Malta. Hyphen 4.1, 1-17.

  • Carolina Malone, Anthony Bonanno, Tancred Gouder, Simon Stoddart and David Trump (1993) The Death Cults of Prehistoric Malta. Scientific American 269.6, 110-17. 

  • Ina Wunn & Davina Grojnowski (2009) The Religion of Ancient Malta – an Evolutionary Approach, in: Religion in the History of European Culture. Proceedings of the 9th EASR Conference and IAHR Special Conference, 14.-17.09.2009.

  • Marcello Maria Marrocco Trischitta (1995) The Knights of Malta: A Legend Towards the Future.


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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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