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History Is Sexy - Episode #9 - Quick Questions

Episode #9 - Quick Questions

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05/24/18 • 90 min

History Is Sexy
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
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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

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Episode #8 - Did Women Really Dress as Men to Join the Army?

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

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undefined - Episode #10 - How Has Music Changed Over History? - Feat. Dr Anna Scott!

Episode #10 - How Has Music Changed Over History? - Feat. Dr Anna Scott!

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/

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