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Episode 71: Were Children Ever Really Raised by Wolves?

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Episode 70: What Are Men’s Clothes So Boring?

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Episode 69: What’s the Deal With Vikings pt 2 - Sagas and Religion


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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. 

  • http://viking.archeurope.info/


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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

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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.

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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 


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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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