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Episode 63: Did a girl from Cork become a Moroccan Empress and other stories

Robert Chambers. 1868. Traditions of Edinburgh. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61314/pg61314-images.html 

Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall, Siân Reynolds. 2018. The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. 

William Lempriere. 1793. A tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Tarudant; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco. Including a particular account of the royal harem, &c. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N20724.0001.001/1:5.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

The Adventures of John Renton. The Colonist. 2 November 1875. P.3 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18751102.2.15 

The Recovery of John Renton from the Solomon Islands. Rockhampton Bulletin 17 September 1875. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51781654 

Nigel Randell. 2004. The White Headhunter: The Story of a 19-Century Sailor Who Survived a South Seas Heart of Darkness. 

Lindsay Fitzharris. 2015. The Insane Story Of A Man Who Was Born A Dwarf And Died A Giant. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/adam-rainer-was-both-a-dwarf-and-a-giant-2015-1?r=US&IR=T 

The Secret Life of a White Headhunter. The Scotsman 2 March 2003. https://www.scotsman.com/news/secret-life-white-headhunter-2473475 

Oscar Hirsch. 1961. Two Different Types of Gigantism Due to Similar Tumors. Discussion of Growth. Confina Neurologica 21. 345-356.

The Tallest Man. 2015. Adam Rainer. https://web.archive.org/web/20171219045451/http://www.thetallestman.com/adamrainer.htm 

Pliny the Elder. Natural History 6.24 https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=6:chapter=24&highlight=king 

https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1c1/caddell-james

https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/32138/john-rutherford-pakeha-maori

https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/30233/barnet-burns-pakeha-maori

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26792/tom-adamson-kupapa-pakeha-maori

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-07-2020/how-we-uncovered-the-oldest-surviving-photograph-of-a-maori-person/

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Episode 62: Where did the idea of human rights come from?

UN. 1948. Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. 1789. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp

Declaration of Independence. 1776. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/declare.asp

Magna Carta. 1215. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp

English Bill of Rights. 1689. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/medieval/magframe.asp

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.

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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.

Tacitus Annals https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Tacitus/Annals/15B*.html

Josephus Jewish Antiquities https://penelope.uchicago.edu/josephus/ant-20.html

Suetonius Life of Claudius https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Claudius*.html

Pliny the Younger, Letters to Trajan http://www.attalus.org/old/pliny10b.html

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

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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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