What The History

This episode Suzie examines the Cadaver Synod and Trevor delves into a bit of Australian history with the Emu War

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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THE CADAVER SYNOD

Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007, ‘Formosus’ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Formosus#ref916569

Harper E 2014, ‘The Cadaver Synod: When a Pope’s Corpse Was Put on Trial’ http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/morbid-monday-cadaver-synod

Sullivan K 2016, ‘Cadaver Synod: The Exhumed Corpse of Pope Formosus That Was Put on Trial’ http://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/cadaver-synod-exhumed-corpse-pope-formosus-was-put-trial-007104?nopaging=1

Publications for Further Reading

There are a few publications which mention the Cadaver Synod, check them out!

‘The Bad Popes’ by E R Chamberlain (1969)

‘Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy’ Roger Collins (2004)

‘The Ring and the Book’ Robert Browning (n.d)

‘The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial in History’ Donald E Wilkes Jr (2001)

THE EMU WAR

SETTLEMENT OF RETURNED SOLDIERS AND SAILORS 1914-18 – Australian Bureau of Statistics

Emu – The Animal Facts

Looking back: Australia’s Emu Wars – Australian Geographic

How we lost the “Emu War” – Emu Gigs

The five funniest moments in Australian history – ABC News (Australia)

Emu War – Wikipedia

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

For our first podcast of 2017 Suzie discusses Disco Demolition Night and Trevor discovers the importance of badgers in historical findings.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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DISCO DEMOLITION NIGHT

The Night Disco Died – Chicago Magazine

Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park in Chicago 1979 – YouTube

Disco Demolition Night – Wikipedia

BADGERS

Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge discovered by badger – www.bbc.com

Badger Digs Up Medieval Treasure in Germany – Speigel Online

CENTURIES-OLD SKELETON OF GIRL FOUND ON ALBERTA FARM – New Historian

Badger Facts – Animal Facts Encyclopedia

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Suzie explores the Winchester Mystery House ™ and Trevor examines the Whiskey War.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

THE WINCHESTER MYSTERY HOUSE ™

Wagner R, 2016 ‘The Truth About Sarah Winchester’ http://thetruthaboutsarahwinchester.com/

Wagner R, 2016 ‘The Truth About The Winchester House’ http://thetruthaboutthewinchesterhouse.com/

Winchester Mystery House , 2016. http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/

Wikipedia, 2016 ‘Winchester Mystery House’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House

THE WHISKEY WAR

Hans Off! Canada And Denmark’s Arctic Dispute – www.worldatlas.com

Canada and Denmark keep relations warm in Arctic island dispute – www.thestar.com

Canada, Denmark Wage “Whisky War” Over This Tiny Uninhabited Island – www.elitereaders.com

University student anoints himself “prince” of Hans Island – Nunatsiaq News

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.

Suzie celebrates The Victims Ball and Trevor finds a strange tale of a missing woman in Iceland.

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Sources:

THE VICTIMS BALL

History.com n.d, ‘8 Things You May Not Know About The Guillotine’ http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-guillotine

Schechter R 1998, Gothic Thermidor: The Bals des victimes, the Fantastic, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Post-Terror France, No. 61, Special Issue: Practices of Enlightenment (Winter, 1998), University of California Press, p. 78 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2902948?seq=1#fndtn-page_scan_tab_contents

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Bals des Victimes’ and ‘Jean-Paul Marat’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bals_des_victimes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat

Versailles Gossip, n.d, ‘Womens Fashions Under the Influence of Guillotine’ https://versaillesgossip.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/womens-fashions-under-the-influence-of-guillotine/

WOMAN SEARCHES FOR HERSELF IN ICELAND

Report: Missing tourist in Iceland joins search for herself – NBC News

Lost Woman Looks for Herself in Iceland’s Highlands – Iceland Review On Line

Kon­an fund­in – tók þátt í

Suzie examines the strange case of the Tichborne Claimant and Trevor shares the story of an unsung hero, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier.

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Sources:

THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT

The State Library of New South Wales 2011, The Tichborne case: a Victorian melodrama. Viewed 27th October 2016 http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au/archive/discover_collections/history_nation/justice/felons/tichborne/index.html

Wikipedia 2016, Tichborne case. Viewed 28th October 2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichborne_case

PS check out the movie The Tichborne Claimant released in 1998 and directed by David Yates…if you can find this movie, let us know!!!!!

ANTIONE-AUGUSTIN PARMENTIER

Antoine Augustin Parmentier (Geni.com)

A pharmacist famous for his potatoes (The Pharmaceutical Journal)

The French and Their Acceptance of the Potato (The Historic Foodie’s Blog)

Spud Sunday: Vive La Spud (The Daily Spud)

Antoine-Augustin Parmentier (Wikipedia)

POTATOES PARMENTIER

800g of Potatoes

Salt for parboiling said potatoes

2 cloves of lightly crushed garlic

3 separate tablespoons of melted butter

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