Episode 102: Sex Work in History
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Episode 101: What’s the Deal with the Marquis de Sade
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Episode 99: Short Roman Questions
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https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/17A3*.html
Episode 98: What’s the deal with Druids and Celtic gods and goddesses?
Barry Cunliffe. 1997. Ancient Celts.
Webster, J. 1995. “Interpretatio”: Roman Word Power and the Celtic Gods. Britannia, 26, 153.
Barry Cunliffe. 2010. Druids: A Very Short Introduction.
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Anthoons, G. 2021. Iron Age Chariot Burials in Britain and the Near Continent_ Networks of mobility, exchange and belief in the third and second centuries.
Episode 97: Holy Faces and Holy Shrouds
P.E. Damon et al. 1989. Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin. Nature 337. Pp. 611-615 https://www.nature.com/articles/337611a0
Raymond N. Rogers 2005. Studies on the Radiocarbon Sample from the Shroud of Turin. Thermochimica Acta 425 (1-2). pp. 189-194
Episode 96: Mansa Musa
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Episode 95: A History of Yugoslavia Part Four
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Adam LeBor (2004) Milošević: A Biography.
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Episode 94: The History of Yugoslavia Part Three
Milovan Djlas interview with the New York Times December 25th 1954. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1954/12/25/85674267.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0
Donald Niebyl. 2020. Examining the 34 Villas of Tito..https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/post/examining-the-34-villas-of-yugoslav-president-josip-broz-tito
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Robert Service (2004) Stalin. P.592
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Marie-Janine Calic. 2019. A History of Yugoslavia (trans. Dona Geyer)
Tito’s Death announced at Football Game https://www.tokyvideo.com/video/announcement-death-of-tito-in-the-hajduk-split-match-against-red-star-of-belgrade
Tito’s Death Announced and Funeral (in Serbo-Croat) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3xcS967AHY
Episode 93: The History of Yugoslavia Part Two
Leslie Benson. 2001. Yogoslavia: A Concise History.
Marie-Janine Calic. 2019. A History of Yugoslavia (trans. Dona Geyer)
Geoffry Swain. 2011. Tito: A Biography.
Stevan K. Pavolwitch. 2008. Hitler’s New Disorder: The Second World War in Yugoslavia.
Peter Kornachak. Remembering Yugoslavia Project: https://rememberingyugoslavia.com/podcast/episode-list/
Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction. The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy, London, 2006.
Keith Lowe. 2011. Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves. Chapter 13 Slovenia: Monument to the Victims of All Wars, Ljubljana.
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Episode 92: The History of Yugoslavia Part One
Leslie Benson. 2001. Yogoslavia: A Concise History.
Marie-Janine Calic. 2019. A History of Yugoslavia (trans. Dona Geyer)
Footage of the Assassination of Alexander 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R3dVZdFxxo
Episode 91: Why Are All Famous Chefs men?
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Pete Wells on Leaving Restaurant Reviewing. 2024. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/dining/pete-wells-how-restaurants-have-changed.html
Episode 90: What’s the Deal with Luddites?
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Paul Dawson. 2023. The Battle Against the Luddites: Unrest in the Industrial Revolution during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Episode 89: What’s the History of Teddy Bears?
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Gary Cross. 2021. Kid’s Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood.
Alice George. 2023. The Teddy Bear Was Once Seen as a Dangerous Influence on Young Children. Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-teddy-bear-once-seen-dangerous-influence-young-children-180983234/
National Park Service. 2023. The Story of the Teddy Bear. https://www.nps.gov/thrb/learn/historyculture/storyofteddybear.htm#:~:text=Morris%20Michtom%2C%20a%20Brooklyn%20candy,called%20it%20'Teddy's%20Bear'.
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Images
From Brown, 2001.
Genuinely horrifying. From Brown, 2001.
Episode 88: What Really Happened in Catiline’s Conspiracy?
Sources
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Sallust - The War of Catiline
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Pseudo-Sallust - Invective Against Cicero https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/sallust/pseudo/in_ciceronem*.html
Appian - Civil Wars Book 2 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/appian/civil_wars/2*.html
Plutarch - Life of Cicero (from paragraph 10) https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Cicero*.html
Cassius Dio - Book 37: 24-42 https://penelope.uchicago.edu/thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/37*.html
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Emperors of Rome Podcast series on the Conspiracy of Catiline. For much more background. Episode 1 here https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/episode-ccxx-a-disordered-mind-the-catiline-conspiracy-i/id850148806?i=1000649275537
Tom Holland (2003) Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic.
Barbara Levick. (2015). Catiline.
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Episode 86: How Much of a Dick was Napoleon III?
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A Brief and Incomplete Timeline of the French Revolutionary History
1789
Storming of the Bastille
1793
Louis XVI executed by the National Convention. Start of the First Republic.
June 1793
The Reign of Terror begins led by Robespeirre
October 1793
Marie Antoinette executed
1794
Fall of Robespierre
1795
The Directory overthrow The Convention
1799
Napoleon overthrows Directory and replaces it with The French Consulate. Napoleon is First Consul
1804
Napoleon declared emperor and crowned in Paris. Start of First Empire.
1805-1814
Napoleonic Wars
1814
Napoleon forced to abdicate and exiled to Elba. End of First Empire.
Louis XVIII returned to the throne. Monarchy Returns.
1815
Napoleon escapes from Elba, takes power in France, defeated at Waterloo, exiled again.
Louis XVIII back on the throne by July.
1815-1824
King Louis XVIII
(Napoleon dies 1821)
1830
July Revolution. House of Bourbon overthrown, replaced with Louis-Philippe of the House of Orleans as king of France.The July monarchy;.
1848
February Revolution. L-P forced to abdicate. Second Republic installed with universal male suffrage.
December 1848
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte takes new role of President of the French Republic.
1851
Louis Napoleon crowns himself Napoleon III of France, ending the Second Republic and beginning the Second Empire
1871
Napoleon III exiled after French-Prussian war. End of Second Empire. Start of Third Republic. Paris Commune, then Presidency.
Episode 85: What Did the Ancient Romans Eat?
Pompeii Pizza Fresco https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza
European Edible Dormouse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_edible_dormouse
Apicius https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Apicius/home.html
Petronius Satyricon https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/PetroniusSatyriconPartII.php
Galen, On the Properties of Foods (extract) https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam033/2002031066.pdf
Murphy, C., Thompson, G., & Fuller, D. Q. (2012). Roman food refuse: urban archaeobotany in Pompeii, Regio VI, Insula 1. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 22(5), 409–419.
John Wilkins and Robin Nadeau (2015) A Companion to Food in the Ancient World.
Mark Robinson and Erica Rowan (2015) Roman Food Remains in Archaeology and the Contents of a Roman Sewer at Herculaneum in John Wilkins and Robin Nadeau (eds) A Companion to Food in the Ancient World, 105-116
Javier Bermejo Meléndez, Juan M. Campos Carrasco (2023) Vivaria In Doliis. Ceramic Jars For Dormouse Fattening Found In Arucci. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 42 (3), 244-255
Sally Grainger (2006) Cooking Apicius: Roman Recipes for Today.
Patrick Faas. 2003. Around the Roman Table, including 150 Roman Recipes.
Acts of Paul and Thecla https://www.tonyburke.ca/wp-content/uploads/Acts-Paul-Thecla.pdf
Life of St Anthony the Great https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2811.htm
Perpetua and Felicitas https://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/perpetua.html
Herbert Musurillo 1972. The Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Introduction, Text and Translations.
Episode 83: What’s the Deal with the Borgias?
Listener Survey: https://forms.gle/78wMyX42uQvpHf1Y8
Sources
Paul Strathern 2019. The Borgias: Power and Fortune.
G.J. Meyer. 2013. The Borgias: A Hidden History.
Christopher Hibbert. 2003. The Borgias and Their Enemies, 1431-1519
Eulàlia Duran. 2008. The Borja Family: Historiography, Legend and Literature. Catalan Historical Review 1. 63-79
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince https://apeiron.iulm.it/retrieve/handle/10808/4129/46589/Machiavelli%2C%20The%20Prince.pdf
The Borgias Family Horrible Histories Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ADwv2A1wg
Episode 82: What Makes the Dark Ages ‘Dark’?
Listener survey link: https://forms.gle/78wMyX42uQvpHf1Y8
Sources
Eleanor Janega Going Medieval Blog
James Hammam. 2010. God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
Voltaire. In Praise of Reason. Trans. Adi. S. Bharat. https://www.bu.edu/pusteblume/8/issue-1-bharat-translating-voltaire.htm
Theodor Mommsen. 1942. Petrarch’s Conception of the ‘Dark Ages’. Speculum 17 (2), 226-42
Janet L. Nelson. 2007. The Dark Ages. History Workshop Journal 63, 191-203.
Arnaldo Marcone. 2008. A Long Late Antiquity? Considerations on a Controversial Periodization. Journal of Late Antiquity. 1 (1), 4-19
Peter Toohey. 2003. The Cultural Logic of Historical Periodisation. In The Handbook of Historical Sociology, edited by Gerard Delanty and Engin F. Isin, 209-220.
John Frederick Logan. 1972. The French Philosophes and Their Enlightening Medieval Past. Rice Institute Pamphlet - Rice University Studies 58 (4) https://repository.rice.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f1c847f6-70ff-4b75-8eae-93d9aac86e57/content
Episode 81: History is Rexy! How much of a Qween was Anne Boleyn?
https://archive.org/details/henryviiitoanneb00henriala/page/n1/mode/2up Letters of Henry to Anne
Six Wives in the Archives- https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/six-wives-archives-trial-anne-boleyn/
Descriptions of Anne Boleyn https://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/anne-boleyn/anne-boleyns-appearance-demeanour/
RexFactor Podcast https://www.rexfactorpodcast.com/
Rex Factor Episodes:
Anne Boleyn Biography https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Kz9eTKKLTLXyyb4mtcy4c?si=lxWxNfZ1RIO1JtfiohSOow
Anne Bolyen Review https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Znrs0qbHVtcXVNRRJsbUL?si=BEDfMzeKReKJJO9sMuxbww
The Fall of Anne Boleyn https://open.spotify.com/episode/5FlWM3YteKtX4m0mKi33RG?si=6Vi8lc93TeiypUFvW0_Slw
Henry VIII https://open.spotify.com/episode/1TxP6L70cmd1TpKVVAz0CR?si=_30BZi79RKen_d1Lo9vxsQ
What Happened to Henry VIII https://open.spotify.com/episode/4IIr4bFW16lgT9RdGmh9iq?si=2DwJQ1slSmSV8ZSYUAdhLQ
John Guy and Julia Fox. 2023. Hunting the Falcon: the Marriage That Shook the World.
George W. Bernard.. 2010. Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions.
Eric Ives. 2004. The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn. Originally published as Anne Boleyn (1986).