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School Britannia School Britannia
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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School Britannia is a fortnightly British history podcast, hosted by two upstart Aussies. We’re not historians, just know-it-alls with a keen interest in the Motherland.
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23: Fire and Pox
Episode 23 of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnightly show serving you British History gems from the perspective of two Aussie upstarts. Why did people use gunpowder to fight the Great Fire of London? Who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Where have we been all this time?? All this and more!
Editing by Eleanor with much assistance from Claire www.clairegawne.com
Music by Jamie Pettinger
Artwork by Lucy Maddox www.lucymaddox.com
SOURCES
Great Fire of London:
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Great-Fire-of-London/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fire_Brigade
https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/history-and-stories/early-fire-brigades/
https://londontopia.net/history/history-london-fire-brigade/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/not-our-mission-private-fire-crews-protect-the-insured-not-the-public
http://www.firefighterfoundation.org.uk/history/
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Smallpox:
BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2007_14_fri.shtml
BBC Radio 4 Science Stories: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lady-mary-montagus-smallpox-experiment/id1112598040?i=1000426901064
US National Library of Medicine: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html
Who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Eamonn Gearon for the National Trust: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-lady-mary-wortley-montagu
Boston University School of Public Health: http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP713_Causality/EP713_Causality2.html
World Health Organisation: https://www.who.int/biologicals/vaccines/smallpox/en/
The Wellcome Foundation http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2016/05/lady-montagu-and-the-introduction-of-inoculation/
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, Mary Lindemann, University of Miami - August 2010 http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/medicine-and-society-early-modern-europe-2nd-edition?format=PB
This Podcast Will Kill You, Episode 3: Gnarlypox https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2018/02/10/episode-3/ -
Bonus: Scrooge and Christmas Trees
A very festive bonus episode of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnightly show serving you British History gems from the perspective of two Aussie upstarts. How did a stroll through an Edinburgh graveyard inspire one of the most iconic grinchy characters in history? And Christmas trees are as old are Jesus... aren't they? All this and more in this bonus Christmas episode!
Editing by Claire www.clairegawne.com
Artwork by Lucy Maddox www.lucymaddox.com
Sources:
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100337215
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/first-christmas-tree
http://projectbritain.com/Xmas/trees.html
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Christmas-Tree/ -
22: The Suffrage Movement and The Gunpowder Plot
Episode 22 of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnightly show serving you British History gems from the perspective of two Aussie upstarts. Why did researching women’s suffrage melt Claire’s brain? And why do we remember, remember, the 5th of November...? All this and more!
Editing by Claire www.clairegawne.com
Artwork by Lucy Maddox www.lucymaddox.com
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/9933592/Women-voted-75-years-before-they-were-legally-allowed-to-in-1918.html
https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/the-campaign-for-womens-suffrage-an-introduction
https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women/articles/women-quite-unknown-working-class-women-in-the-suffrage-movement
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11914757/Racism-and-the-suffragettes-the-uncomfortable-truth.html
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/oct/23/voteless-women-workers-seek-parliamentary-representation-archive-1903
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffragette#Hunger_strikes_and_force-feeding
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2015/10/what-did-suffragette-movement-britain-really-look
https://doi.org/10.1080/09612029500200088: Laura E. Nym Mayhall (1995) Creating the ‘suffragette spirit’: British feminism and the historical imagination1 , women'sHistory Review, 4:3, 319-344
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, Channel 4 2001 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StwIeUnz0FQ
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
History of York: http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/tudor-stuart/guy-fawkes
FBI, Hate Crimes: https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2017/topic-pages/victims -
Bonus: Ghost Stories
A very spooky bonus episode of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnightly show serving you British History gems from the perspective of two Aussie upstarts. Who are the mysterious beasties on the shore? And what's been happening at old Major Weir's house....? All this and frights galore!
Customer Reviews
So great!
This is such a great podcast!! So engaging!!!!!
Great Pod!
Great podcast- funny and informative. Sound editing a tad rough but still better than a ton of pods out there. I'm hooked.