<description>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/</description>

Episode 23 of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnig…

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/

23: Fire and Pox

<description>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/</description>

A very festive bonus episode of School Britannia …

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/

Bonus: Scrooge and Christmas Trees

<description>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</description>

Episode 22 of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnig…

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

22: The Suffrage Movement and The Gunpowder Plot

<description>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!</description>

A very spooky bonus episode of School Britannia P…

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!

Bonus: Ghost Stories

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