Episode 68: What’s The Deal with Vikings?
Anders Winroth. 2014. The Age of the Vikings. Princeton University Press.
Julian D. Richards. 2005. Vikings: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
Sæbjørg Walaker Nordeide and Kevin J. Edwards. 2019. The Vikings. ARC Humanities Press.
Cat Jarman. 2021. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads. William Collins.
Neil Price. 2020. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings. Basic Books.
Episode 67: Were the Victorians Really Prudes?
Zisowitz Stearns, C & Stearns, P.N. 1985. Victorian Sexuality: Can Historians Do It Better? Journal of Social History 18 (4): 625-34
Kincaid, J. 1988. ‘What The VIctorians Knew About Sex’, Browning Institute Studies 16: 91-99
Cott, N.F. 1978. Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790-1850. Signs 4 (2): 219-36
Furneaux, H. 2011. Victorian Sexualities. Literature Compass 8/10: 767–775,
Sweet, M. 2001. Inventing the Victorians.
Cody, LF. 1996. Review of The Making of Victorian Sexuality by Michael Mason; The Making of Victorian Sexual Attitudes by Michael Mason.Victorian Studies 39 (3): 466-468.
Clements, N. 1998. The Myth of Victorian Prudery: Promoting an Image. Articulāte 3: https://digitalcommons.denison.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/&httpsredir=1&article=1043&context=articulate
Crozier, I. 2010. William Acton and the history of sexuality: the medical and professional context. Journal of Victorian Culture 5 (1): 1-27.
Ridell, F. 2014. A Victorian Guide to Sex.
Ridell, F. 2014. ‘No, no, no! Victorians didn’t invent the vibrator’ The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/10/victorians-invent-vibrator-orgasms-women-doctors-fantasy
Episode 66: Did the Illuminati cause the French Revolution?
References
Augustin Barruel, 1797. Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism.
John Robison. 1797. Proofs of a Conspiracy Against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Freemasons, Illuminati and Reading Societies.
Claus Oberhauser. 2020. Simonini’s letter: The 19th century text that influenced antisemitic conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. The Conversation.
Christine Jacobson. 2021. A Look at Anthropodermic Bibliopegy: On Megan Rosenbloom’s “Dark Archives”. LA Review of Books.
Jonathon Israel. 2011. Democratic Enlightenment Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750–1790. OUP.
Megan Rosenbloom. 2020. Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin.
Dieter Groh. 1987. ‘The Temptation of Conspiracy Theory, or: Why Do Bad Things Happen to Good People? Part II: Case Studies’ in Carl F. Graumann and Serge Moscovici (eds) Changing Conceptions of Conspiracy, pp. 15-38.
Amos Hofman. 1993. ‘Opinion, Illusion, and the Illusion of Opinion: Barruel's Theory of Conspiracy.’ Eighteenth-Century Studies 27 (1) pp.27-60.
Thomas Milan Konda. 2019. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Took Over America.
Michael Taylor. 2014. ‘British Conservatism, the Illuminati, and the Conspiracy Theory of the French Revolution, 1797–1802’. Eighteenth-Century Studies 47 (3) 239-312.
Josef Wages & Reinhard Markner. (trans 2017). Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati.
Episode 65: What’s The History of Petra?
References
P. J. Parr (1960) Excavations at Petra, 1958–59, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 92:2, 124-135,
al-bashaireh, Khaled & Hodgins, Gregory. (2014). The Chronology of Qsar El-Bint, Petra: Discussion and New Radiocarbon Dates. Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 146. 281-292. 10.1179/1743130114Y.0000000003.
Sivan, Hagith. Review of The Petra Papyri IV ed. by Antti Arjava et al., and: The Petra Papyri II eds. by Ludwig Koenen, Jorma Kaimio, Robert W. Daniel. Journal of Late Antiquity, vol. 7 no. 1, 2014, p. 194-196. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jla.2014.0003.
Kouki, P. (2012) The Hinterland of a City: Rural Settlement and Land Use in the Petra Region from the Nabatean-Romans to the Early Islamic Period. Doctoral Thesis. University of Helsinki. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/33133/thehinter.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Lawler, Andrew (2007) ‘Reconstructing Petra.’ Smithsonian 38 (3). Pp. 42-49
Bikai, P. M. (2002). The Churches of Byzantine Petra. Near Eastern Archaeology, 65(4), 271–276. https://doi.org/10.2307/3210859
Wenning, Robert (2013). ‘Nabatean Niches and the Formation of Early Petra’ in Mouton, M. & Schmid, G. (eds) Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabatean Petra. Pp 343-350.
Wenning, Robert (2013). ‘Towards “Early Petra”: An Overview of the Early History of the Nabateans in its Context. in Mouton, M. & Schmid, G. (eds) Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabatean Petra. Pp 7 -23
Russell, K. W. (1980). The Earthquake of May 19, A. D. 363. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 238, 47–64. https://doi.org/10.2307/1356515
Manuel Bravo (2021) The Hidden History of Petra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QdKNyrpWA
UNESCO. Petra. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/326
Episode 64: What’s The History of Alchemy?
P.G. Maxwell-Stuart. 2012. The Chemical Choir: A History of Alchemy.
Sean Martin. 2006. Alchemy and Alchemists.
The Alchemy Website including ‘Nicola Flamel’s’ alchemical heiroglyphs and a great many (nonsensical) alchemical texts https://web.archive.org/web/20190612044100/http://www.levity.com/alchemy/flam_h6.html
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
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https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/30233/barnet-burns-pakeha-maori
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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.
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
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