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Episode 81: History is Rexy! How much of a Qween was Anne Boleyn?

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Ep. 76: Boudicca

  • Johnson, Margueritte. Boudicca. 2012.

  • Margueritte Johnson. 2012. Boudicca.

  • Caitlin Gillespie. 2018. Boudicca, Warrior Woman of Roman Britain.

    • 2015. “The Wolf and the Hare: Boudica’s Political Bodies in Tacitus and Dio.” The Classical World 108 (3), 403-29.

  • Carolyn D. Williams. 2009. Boudica and Her Stories: Narrative Transformations of a Warrior Queen.

  • Vanessa Collingridge. 2006. Boudica.

  • Natasha Harlow. 2021 Belonging and Belongings: Portable Artefacts and Identity in the Citas of the Iceni. BAR Btitish Series 664.

  • John Davis (ed.) 2016. The Iron Age in Northern East Anglia: New Work in the Land of the Iceni. BAR British Series 549.

  • My book! A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women. 2023.

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Ep 75. On Debutantes, Balls and ‘The Season’

  • Sources

  • Kristen Richardson. 2019. The Season: A Social History of the Debutante.

  • Anna Fields. 2010. Confessions of a Rebel Debutante.

  • Lucinda Gosling. 2013. Debutantes and the London Season. 

  • Anne De Courcy. 2005. Debs at War 1939-1945: How the War Changed Their Lives. 

    • 2017. The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York.

  • Jacqueline Ansell. 1999. The Seal of Social Approval, or How Girls Are Presented At Court, The Court Historian, 4:2, 151-160,

  • Nancy W. Ellenberger. 1990. The Transformation of London "Society" at the End of Victoria's Reign: Evidence from the Court Presentation Records. Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 22 (4), 633-653. 

  • Roseanna Dodds. 2022. “The last dance? Inside the Vienna Ball”. Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/7008937d-7a86-43f4-acd2-7c3e165139c5

  • Hattie Crisell. 2022. Inside the Vienna Opera Ball, Where Debutantes Party Like It’s 1877.” The Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/society/inside-the-vienna-opera-ball-debutantes-party/ 

  • Eileen Spring. 1997. Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England, 1300 to 1800.

  • Fiona McCarthy. 2006. The Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes.

  • Amanda Hendrickson’s incredible costumes https://www.amandahendricksoncostumes.com/texas-rose-festival

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Episode 74: What’s the Deal with Matriarchies?

  • Peter Davies. 2010. Myth, Matriarchy and Modernity: Johan Jakob Bachofen in German Culture 1860-1945.

  • Joan M. Cichon. 2022. Matriarchy in Bronze Age Crete: A Perspective from Archaeomythology and Modern Matriarchial Studies. https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803270449

  • Heide Goettner-Abendroth. 2012. Matriarchal Societies: Studies on Indigenous Cultures Across the Globe.

  • - 2017. "Matriarchal studies: Past debates and new foundations". Asian Journal of Women's Studies. 23 (1), 2–6.

  • - 2018. Re-thinking ‘Matriarchy’ in Modern Matriarchal Studies using two examples: The Khasi and the Mosuo. Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 24 (1), 3-27

  • Merlin Stone. 1976. When God Was A Woman.

  • Cynthia Eller. 2000. The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why An Invented Past Will Not Give Women a Future.

  • - 2011. Gentlemen and Amazons: The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory 1861-1900.

  • Nancy Kankum Kusi, Frank Mintah, Valentine Nyame, Uchendu Eugene Chigbu, Menare Rotal Mabakeang, Barikisa Owusu Ansah and Walter Daschaga. 2022. ‘Discourse on Women and Land Tenure in Ghana: Does Matrilineal Land Tenure System Make a Difference for Women?’ in E.C. Chigbu (ed). Land Governance and Gender: The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy. 129-142.

  • Gerda Henkel. 2021. Matriarchy at the Crossroads in Africa: The Class Between its Theoretical and Practical Orientation in Tanzania’s Land Tenure Systems. African Journal on Land Policy and Geospacial Systems. 5 (1). 215-233

  • Rebecca Wragg Sykes. 2020. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art.

  • McDermott, Leroy (1996). "Self-Representation in Upper Paleolithic Female Figurines". Current Anthropology. 37 (2): 227–275

  • Frederick Engels. 1902. English translation of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. First published in German 1881. https://archive.org/details/originoffamilypr00enge

  • Don’s Maps Venus Figurines site https://www.donsmaps.com/venus.html

  • Why Do Men Rule the World? Podcast with Dr. Alice Evans. Factually with Adam Conover. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-do-men-rule-the-world-with-dr-alice-evans/id1463460577?i=1000554933659

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Episode 72: What Was So Great About Alexander? 

  • Ian Worthington. 1999 ’How ‘Great’ was Alexander?’ Ancient History Bulletin 13. https://m-hosseini.ir/esk-solk/articles-1/10.pdf 
  • Ian Worthington. 2005. Alexander the Great: A Reader. Routledge. 
  • Carol G. Thomas. 2007. Alexander the Great in his World. Blackwell. 
  • Ali Ansari. 2012. Alexander the not so Great: History through Persian Eyes. BBC Magazine. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18803290 
  • Jürgen Osterhammel. 1997.  Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, trans. from German by Shelley L. Frisch. Markus Wiener and Kingston Ian Randle Publishers
  • Margaret Kohn and Kavita Reddy, "Colonialism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2023 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2023/entries/colonialism/>.

  • Sven Lindqvist. 2018. ‘Exterminate All The Brutes’

  • Sven Lindqvist. 2012. Terra Nullius. A Journey Through No One's Land.

  • Affiliate links: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/history-is-sexy

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Episode 71: Were Children Ever Really Raised by Wolves?

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