History Detective

A new season of History Detective uncovering some of the quirky stories of those people who feature on the Australian currency.

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Hear the story of this controversial woman in history Gunnhild, the Mother of Viking Kings, who has been described with the most unflattering of adjectives, such as; witch-like, power hungry, cruel, evil and fierce, but also as ambitious and beautiful.

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Find the transcript at the History Detective Podcast Website. 

Reflection Questions:

1. Discuss why traditionally textbooks have predominantly told the stories of men and not included stories of women.
2. Why it is important to represent the history of both men and women in history texts?
3. Vikings have very straightforward naming conventions. Can you think of some surnames that are common these days and work out where the name may have originated from? (Hint, someone with the surname Baker may have originate from a family who made bread.)
4. Explain why Gunnhild's origins may be contested.

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This is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration.

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In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now houses the Museum of Australian Democracy- and we will explore how these significant women contributed to Australian democracy.

Within 10 years of being elected as a Senator, she had become the leader of the Australian Democrat Party. This was the first time in Australian history that a woman had led a political party.

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

This is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration.

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In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now houses the Museum of Australian Democracy- and we will explore how these significant women contributed to Australian democracy.

Gay Davidson was the first female president of the National Press Club and the first woman to head a press bureau in Parliament House.

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

This is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration.

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Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website. 

In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now houses the Museum of Australian Democracy- and we will explore how these significant women contributed to Australian democracy.

Hazel Craig worked as a secretary in Old Parliament House for more than 40 years working as a private secretary for 5 different Prime Ministers. 

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

Meet Irene Longman, the first woman to be elected into Queensland Parliament in 1929.

Could you imagine living in a society where when they were designing the parliament house, they didn’t even bother to put a female toilet in? Well, in 1929 Irene Maud Longman broke the glass ceiling in Queensland that women could stand for and be elected into QLD Parliament. 

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Find the transcript at the History Detective Podcast Website. 

Reflection Questions:

1. Research the term Glass Ceiling. What does this term mean, and does it have other applications other than politics?
2. Explain why Irene thought it was important to have female police officers?
3. How do political candidates tell people about their policies today? How does this differ from methods from more than 90 years ago?
4. In her campaign leaflet Longman said, 'there can be no true democracy where only one sex is directly represented in parliament'. What is the implicit meaning of this statement?
5. When QLD parliament house was built, there were no female toilets. What does this implicitly tell us about the role of women at this time?

This episode is proudly sponsored by Amped Up Learning You can find classroom ready resources, games and decor for a huge range of subjects from Prep to Year 12. 

Accompanying teaching resources for this episode can be found on my Amped Up Learning Store

Contact: Twitter @HistoryDetect, Instagram @HistoryDetective9, email  [email protected]

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All original music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

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The History Detective Season 1 & 2 Album is  now available on Spotify and all of your music streaming services.

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

When you think child migrants of World War II, you are probably thinking of the children who were shipped out of the major cities during the Blitz or the Jewish children who were smuggled out of Germany, but today I want to tell you about a different group of children, children who were often lied to about their parents being dead and were shipped off to the other side of the world to endure a childhood of punishing labour and a life devoid of both education and love. 

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Find the transcript at the History Detective Podcast Website. 

Reflection Questions:

1. What motive might the post WWII Australia government have for allowing orphan children to immigrate to Australia without taking any financial responsibility for them?
2. Explain how the charity organisations might benefit from taking in these children?
3. What might be the purpose of dehumanising the orphan children?
4. Can you think of a motive that the orphanages might have for lying to the children about their parents dying?

This episode is proudly sponsored by Amped Up Learning You can find classroom ready resources, games and decor for a huge range of subjects from Prep to Year 12. 

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Contact: Twitter @HistoryDetect, Instagram @HistoryDetective9, email  [email protected]

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All original music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

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The History Detective Season 1 & 2 Album is  now available on Spotify and all of your music streaming services.

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

When you think of women participating in World War I, you probably have an image of a nurse or a woman on the home front baking cookies, knitting socks, and writing letters to the chaps on the front line. What doesn’t immediately come to mind is the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death led by the fearless Maria Bochkareva.

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Find the transcript at the History Detective Podcast Website. 

Reflection Questions:

1. Why might Russian women have found fighting a war an escape?
2. What factors might affect the reliability of ghost-written memoirs?
3. In this episode it tells the perspective of Maria Bochkareva and some Western newspapers. Whose perspective is missing? What other perspectives might we need to get a fuller picture of the events surrounding the women’s battalions?
4. The army believed that using women soldiers would bring shame to the male soldiers, do you believe this tactic would be very effective? Why or why not?

This episode is proudly sponsored by Amped Up Learning You can find classroom ready resources, games and decor for a huge range of subjects from Prep to Year 12. 

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

During World War II, Aboriginal Australians were generally not accepted into the armed forces, the Army, Navy nor Airforce. However, this all changed after Japan entered the war and the government began to fear the security of the Northern Territory. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Soldiers in the north of Australia were recruited. More than 800 signing up to join the uniformed Torres Straight Light Infantry. But there was another group that will be our focus for today. The group was made up of 50 non-uniformed men with incredible tracking skills, who became known as the Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit.

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Find the transcript at the History Detective Podcast Website. 

Reflection Questions

1. Why is important for a historian to find corroborating evidence when trying to prove a hypothesis?
2. Why do you think the army at the time had rules around the enlistment of Aboriginal people?
3. Censorship is where the government ban certain things from being printed in newspapers. Explain what you think the motive of the government was in censoring Aboriginal soldier’s participation in the war effort?
4. Why was it economically beneficial for the army to use Aboriginal men for their reconnaissance unit?

This episode is proudly sponsored by Amped Up Learning You can find classroom ready resources, games and decor for a huge range of subjects from Prep to Year 12. 

Accompanying teaching resources for this episode can be found on my Amped Up Learning Store

Contact: Twitter @HistoryDetect, Instagram @HistoryDetective9, email  [email protected]

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All original music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

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The History Detective Season 1 & 2 Album is  now available on Spotify and all of your music streaming services.

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun painted over 30 portraits of Marie Antionette.

Find out what life was like for a female artist  who rose up from poverty to prominence to become Marie Antionette's artist during the lead up to the French Revolution.

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Listen to the Lyric Video on YouTube for Portrait of a Queen

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Find the Transcript at the History Detective Podcast Website.

Reflection Questions:

1. How do you think that copying renowned artworks would help an artist improve their craft?
2. Explain why memoirs and diaries are not always reliable sources.
3. Evaluate the usefulness of a memoir as a source for research.
4. Often there are more sources from the Revolutionary perspective rather than the nobility or bourgeois, why do you think that there are less sources available from this perspective.
5. Elizabeth describes Marie Antionette as warm and kind-hearted, why do you think the dominant narrative of the queen is a frivolous money waster?
6. Think about the context of what is happening in Paris at the time, why do you think this murderous behaviour was acceptable during the French Revolution?
7. The portrait of Marie Antionette was considered propaganda. How can a portrait be considered propaganda?

This episode is proudly sponsored by Amped Up Learning You can find classroom ready resources, games and decor for a huge range of subjects from Prep to Year 12. 

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All original music written and performed by Kelly Chase.

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All  music written and performed by Kelly Chase.