Episode 63: Did a girl from Cork become a Moroccan Empress and other stories
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The Tallest Man. 2015. Adam Rainer. https://web.archive.org/web/20171219045451/http://www.thetallestman.com/adamrainer.htm
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Episode 62: Where did the idea of human rights come from?
UN. 1948. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Magna Carta. 1215. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp
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Micheline Islay. 2007. The History of Human Rights from Ancient Times to the Globalization Era. 2nd edn.
Lynn Hunt. 2007. Inventing Human Rights: A History.
Daniel J. Whelan. 2010. Indivisible Human Rights: A History.
Andrew Clapham. 2007. Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction.
John Robertson. 2015. The Enlightenment: A Very Short Introduction.
Episode 61: Did Jesus really exist?
THE ROOSTER HEADED PENIS MAN STATUE
BibleGateway.com
Catherine M. Murphy. 2008. The Historical Jesus for Dummies.
James D.G. Dunn and Scot McKnight. 2005. The Historical Jesus in Recent Research.
Helen K. Bond. 2012. The Historical Jesus: A Guide for the Perplexed.
Bart D. Ehrman. Did Jesus Exist: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth.
Amy-Jill Levine, Dale C. Allison Jr., and John Dominic Crossan. 2006. The Historical Jesus in Context.
Robert M. Price and Frank R. Zindler. 2013. Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth.
Earl Doherty. 2009. Jesus: Neither God nor Man. The Case for a Mythical Jesus.
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Josephus Jewish Antiquities https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-20.html
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Curran, J. (2017). “To Be or to Be Thought to Be”: The Testimonium Flavianum (again). Novum Testamentum, 59(1), 71-94. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685365-12341552
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.
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
Episode 58: Were the Amazons Real?
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Episode 57: History’s Greatest Escape
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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
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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.
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Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa.
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Episode 54: What’s the History of Malta?
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