History Is Sexy

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This time, Dr Emma and Janina examine a question close to the good doctor's heart, how did Christianity grow from such humble beginnings to become a dominant force in the world? How do religions spread? What did Christianity do differently?

Featuring:

Grumpy Jesus! 🙍‍♂️🕊️

Grumpy Paul! 👴

Constantine, The Chrissy Teigen of Rome! 👑 ♻️

NZ national anthem performed by Hayley Westenra.

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This week, Emma and Janina take a deep dive into the bizarre world of Nazi pseudoscience and occultism. Did they really go all Indiana Jones and look for powerful holy relics?

Featuring:

Golden people who reproduce like flowers! 👨🌸

Operation Barbarossa - What were they thinking?!❄️💀

Flying saucers! Death rays! Anti-gravity machines! 👽🔫

Join Emma and Janina as they examine the stories of some real life, honest to goodness heroes you may never have heard of.

Courage, bravery, grit, virtue, and general goodness, these fine people have got them in spades!

Featuring:

Daring diplomats! 👨‍⚖️

Superlative spies! 🕵️‍♀️

Fearless fashionistas! ✂️

Courageous cosmonauts! 👩‍🚀

This week, Emma and Janina tackle a particularly difficult question: Who is the most powerful person in history?

Featuring:

Enormous turbans! 👳‍♂️

Brutal conquest! ⚔️

A distinct lack of amusement! 👑

Chinese revolutionary history! 🇨🇳

This week, Emma and Janina are joined by our first ever guest, Dr Anna Scott, as they attempt to unravel the mysteries of the history of music!

Featuring: Bone flutes (or wolf bites?)🦴🐺

Why are harpsichords so rubbish? 🎹

What's the least cool instrument?🤓

Mystical chanting and visions 🧞‍♀️

and much more!

More from Anna: https://challengingperformance.com/interviews-recordings/anna-scott/

Synaulia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0

Musica Romana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4KqvAhqFA

"Le Jeu De Robin Et Marion" by Adam de le Halle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIx07t14jw

Hildegard of Bingen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk

https://catholicsaints.info/saint-hildegard-von-bingen/

Emma and Janina answer a whole bunch of questions - like how bad did aristocratic inbreeding really get? Who had the sexiest facial hair of the American Civil War? And what's the weirdest shit people have pulled to appear attractive?

Links!

Sexy beards https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-had-best-civil-war-facial-hair-180951965/

http://americancivilwarbeards.tumblr.com/

Roman bread: http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/pompeii_and_herculaneum/pompeii_live/live_event/bread_recipe.aspx

Early communion: The Didache https://www.crossroadsinitiative.com/media/articles/didacheontheeucharistteachingofthetwelveapostles/

Justin Martyr (paragraphs 65-66) http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0126.htm

Join Emma and Janina as they attempt to unravel one of history's tricky questions: "Are the stories you hear of women dressing up to be soldiers true, and if so how did they get away with it?"

Sources:

Catherine Baker: https://twitter.com/richmondbridge/status/983619848973553664?s=09

Mark Stoyle. 2018.‘Give mee a Souldier's Coat’: Female Cross‐Dressing during the English Civil War. History 103 (354) pp. 5-26.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-229X.12542

Catherine Baker. 2018. Montrous Regiment. History Today. https://www.historytoday.com/catherine-baker/monstrous-regiment

Cheryl Morgan. 2018. How Not To Erase Trans History. http://www.historymatters.group.shef.ac.uk/erase-trans-history/

Julie Wheelwright. 1990. Amazons and Military Maids: Women Who Dressed as Men in Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness

DeAnne Blanton, Lauren Cook Wike. 2002. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War

Fraser Easton. 2003, Gender's Two Bodies: Women Warriors, Female Husbands and Plebeian Life. Past and Present 108, pp. 131-174. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3600742

Jing Yin, 2011. Popular Culture and Public Imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese Stories of Mulan. Javnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture 18 (10), pp. 53-74.

Peter Boag. 2011.Re-Dressing America’s Frontier Past.

Lila Guadêncio, nd. The Pillars of Mimicry: Performativity and 'Realness' in Hua Mulan

http://www.academia.edu/24696528/The_Pillars_of_Mimicry_Performativity_and_Realness_in_Hua_Mulan

This week our question is: "When In Rome, What Did The Romans Do?"

Join Emma and Janina as they take a closer look into the daily lives of Roman citizens, both at work and play.

Featuring:

Sad lions! 🦁

Seneca complaining about everything! 👴

Would you want to be buried with your colleagues? ☠️

Roman comedy! 🎤

Checking out your friends equipment in the bath! 🛀

Murderesses! Bloodbaths! Wicked rulers! Cruel sadists!

In this week's episode, Emma and Janina examine the horrible stories of some the nastiest and most bloodthirsty women in history.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode features graphic descriptions of torture and murder that some listeners might find upsetting.

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Join Emma and Janina as they discuss their favourite/most maddening historical myths and misconceptions.

Featuring!

* Flat Earth!

* Caligula and his horse!

* New Zealand settlement myths!

* Napoleon!

* Armour!

* Vikings!