Tales of History and Imagination

Simone Whitlow

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A Dangerous Liaison

This week we travel to the Germanic Duchy of Hannover, the year 1694. Under cover of darkness, a dashing, aristocratic young soldier named Philip Christoph von Konigsmarck makes his way to an illicit meeting with his lover; the deeply unhappily married Princess Sophia Dorothea of Celle. Before the night is done one of the lovers will disappear mysteriously.             Sources Include:  Great Mysteries of The Past https://www.amazon.com.au/Mysteries-Experts-Unravel-Fallacy-Headlines/dp/0864382359 - Readers Digest. Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Queen-Virile-Passionate-Politics-ebook/dp/B000GCFBX8 by Eleanor Herman This National Geographic article https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/german-skeleton-murder-mystery-king-george by Becky Little Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.  Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

24m
Mar 28
The Triptych

Trigger Warning: Death by misadventure, and an execution by guillotine. I make no concessions for calling Aotearoa… Aotearoa. I mention this as in Aotearoa (New Zealand) news sites are having to shut down comment sections on Maori language, Maori achievement and Maori culture over racist morons getting upset by this news. If the use of Te Reo names over those of colonizers upsets you, this show really isn’t for you… This week is a bit of a departure from my regular plan. I’m still working on the episode planned for this spot, so put a triptych of shorter tales together.  First, we meet Harold Davidson - the Vicar of Stiffkey. A man well known in Britain’s newspapers in the 1930s, who, if he was remembered today would probably be known for something else entirely.  Then we briefly meet Polynesia’s great navigators.  And finally we discuss Father of modern Chemistry Antoine Lavoisier’s final experiment.             Sources Include:  Sorry all, I’m running late this week and will backfill this later. Harold Davidson’s tale came to me years ago via Mike Dash’s original blog site - and this is one of a number of pieces no longer up - but it is preserved on the Wayback Machine -so I’ll link to it. Michael King’s The Penguin History of New Zealand, and several articles on NZ History’s site and Te Ara, the Encyclopaedia of New Zealand were used in The Navigators.  The Lavoisier piece is an old blog piece jumbled together from a bunch of sources, I don’t recall all of them, but will take a shot at finding them on the weekend.     Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.  Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

24m
Mar 15
The Secret Path

Trigger Warning: Talk of executions, religious extremism and cannibalism. This week we return one last time to the city of Münster. With everything going to hell in Münster, Henry Gresbeck risks his life in a dash for freedom. The Prince Bishop has given orders to kill all men who show up at the wall - but Gresbeck has a secret that may just unravel the siege. How does this play out? Who will survive, and just what is a Wagenburg anyway?           Sources Include: There are very few book out there on this topic so I mostly worked from. The Tailor King https://www.amazon.com/Tailor-King-Rise-Anabaptist-Kingdom-Muenster-ebook/dp/B004WPGG6G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= by Anthony Arthur And Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events https://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Fanaticism-Other-Strange-Events-ebook/dp/B00EXQ7E3S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= by Sabine Baring-Gould Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.  Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTale |   

23m
Feb 28
The Tailor King

This week we return to the city of Münster, in the Holy Roman Empire. Now we’ve got all the context out of the way - let’s discuss the war between the Prince Bishop, and the city’s new rogue Prophet - the Tailor, Jan of Leiden. This is Part Two of a Three Parter.        Sources Include:  There are very few book out there on this topic so I mostly worked from. The Tailor King https://www.amazon.com/Tailor-King-Rise-Anabaptist-Kingdom-Muenster-ebook/dp/B004WPGG6G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= by Anthony Arthur And Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events https://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Fanaticism-Other-Strange-Events-ebook/dp/B00EXQ7E3S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= by Sabine Baring-Gould Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.  Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

29m
Feb 14
Jan Matthias Rides Out…

This week we travel to the city of Münster, in the Holy Roman Empire. The year, 1534. Tensions have ratcheted up between the City’s Prince Bishop, the City Council and a rogue preacher to the point where the people have gone rogue - having rebelled, locked the gates and set up the cannons for war. Over the following two episodes we’ll break down what happened during the siege of Münster.. This is part one of a two parter.        Sources Include:  There are very few books out there on this topic so I mostly worked from. The Tailor King https://www.amazon.com/Tailor-King-Rise-Anabaptist-Kingdom-Muenster-ebook/dp/B004WPGG6G/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= by Anthony Arthur And Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events https://www.amazon.com/Freaks-Fanaticism-Other-Strange-Events-ebook/dp/B00EXQ7E3S/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= by Sabine Baring-Gould   Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |    Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.  Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

30m
Jan 31
Charles Lightoller’s Worst Day Ever

Hi all, I’m technically still on holiday (Tales will be back for Season 5 on 1st February.) - but I was on the mic on Sunday, and had a little downtime … and a spare script or two. This week we meet Charles Lightoller, a remarkable sailor, on what I believe must have been his worst day ever?      Sources Include:  I wrote this to the blog in early 2020… so …. pass, sorry. But articles probably included.   This History Channel article https://www.history.co.uk/article/the-second-officer-who-survived-titanic-and-saved-130-lives-at-dunkirk - Author not listed.  This Encyclopaedia Titanica article https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-survivor/charles-herbert-lightoller.html looks very familiar… Author not listed … And this Dunkirk 1940 dot org article http://dunkirk1940.org/index.php?&p=1_259… Another anonymous piece.  AND I’m 100% certain I used an article from the Liverpool Museum website… But it appears they have taken that article down some time ago??  Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing normally yours truly. I probably unintentionally interpolated from Tom Lewis’ ‘The Last Shanty’ in the background music this week - so credit where credit is due.      Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

8m
Jan 15
The Stone of Destiny

Happy Holidays all! This week we travel to Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1950. It’s four in the morning when a policeman comes across a young couple huddled together in their car. Like another young couple a few millennia before, they tell him they have come to town, only to find no room left at the inn. Little does the officer know, but he’d stumbled across a theft hundreds of years in the making.    Sources Include:  As I couldn’t find any books for this one, there were quite a few online articles - including.  A copy of a news report https://www.theguardian.com/news/1950/dec/27/mainsection.fromthearchive two days after the theft.  This ‘The National’ article on the Battle of Culloden https://www.thenational.scot/news/19240621.stinking-billy-undisguised-genocide-followed-culloden/, and the genocide that followed, by Hamish McPherson This Smithsonian overview of the Scottish Independence movement https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-scottish-independence-180973928/ by Meilan Solly A Britannica entry https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stone-of-Scone on the Stone of Scone A BBC Article (no author listed) on Alexander III of Scotland https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/history/articles/alexander_iii/. The Stone of Destiny (History UK) https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Stone-of-Destiny/ by Ben Johnson A My Heritage page https://www.myheritage.com/names/tea_tephi listing Tea Tephi This ‘Tomorrow’s World’ article on the Prophet Jeremiah https://www.tomorrowsworld.org/magazines/2000/january-february/behind-the-mists-of-ireland and his alleged arrival in Ireland.   This University of Glasgow article on Ian Hamilton https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/ourpast/thedaringcaptureofthestoneofdestiny/ and the Removal of the Stone of Scone Another religious article (author not mentioned) about Jacob’s Ladder https://www.cbcg.org/booklets/america-britain/appendix-5-jacob-s-pillow-stone-the-prophetic-stone-of-destiny.html, his pillow, and his stupid claim God promised him Gaza. This BBC article by Steven Brocklehurst about the Removal of the Stone of Scone https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-63130942 This Royal UK piece on James II https://www.royal.uk/james-ii Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |    Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.     Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales | 

27m
Dec 19, 2023
A Pope, a Hermit, a Cowboy and a Soldier

Hi all apologies for the delay. I’ve been unwell for a couple of weeks, and am only just bouncing back now. This week, on what was originally planned for Transgender Day of Remembrance (two weeks ago) we continue my annual Trans history episode. In 2022 I started this series replying to a foolish claim Trans people were a recent phenomenon. My take, there have always been people we’d now recognise as Trans.  My list of examples veered from groups, like the Galli, to individuals - like Eleanor Rykener.  Society once had places for Trans people - more often than not religious orders - but the church dismantled a lot of this at the Council of Nicaea.  Or at least they did so for Trans women. How did the church react to history’s Trans men? Today, with a little help from a couple of historical Trans cowboys and a few others, we take a look.  Sources Include:  The last six or seven minutes of this episode owes a huge debt to Nate Hale’s The Conspirators episode ‘The Secret Life of Pope Joan.’ https://open.spotify.com/episode/6nu55dMA9wKcxJGynWuWtk?si=LPmhgrjKTpCjr5fEuqldYQ Nate does this way better than I do, and in much greater detail. Go check his episode out.  Susan Stryker’s ‘Transgender History https://www.amazon.com/Transgender-History-second-Todays-Revolution/dp/158005689X’ was invaluable. I used this English Heritage. Org article https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/lgbtq-history/the-galli/ to fact check the Galli. This American Battlefields article https://www.battlefields.org/learn/biographies/albert-cashier on Albert Cashier  This NY Times article https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/obituaries/charley-parkhurst-overlooked.html on Charley Parkhurst And this National Women’s History Museum article on Deborah Sampson https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/deborah-sampson, written by Debra Michals. I’ll add a handful of other articles later. Much of this episode was put together from leftover notes from the TDOR 2022 episode.  Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.     Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

27m
Dec 03, 2023
When Prophesies Fail

This week we meet two prophets, separated by half a world, and three centuries. One is the self appointed son of God, the other talks with Aliens. What happens to prophets, and more importantly - their followers, when prophesies fail? (This episode is a re-do of 2021’s Dorothy Martin’s Flying Saucer.) Trigger Warning: I hadn’t scheduled this with the current situation in Palestine/Israel in mind, but the episode discusses a claimant for the role of Jewish Messiah. I don’t know if this needs a trigger warning, but better safe than sorry?  Sources Include:  I wrote this a long time ago, and can only say on polishing the old script, I reopened When Prophesy Fails  by Leon Festinger https://www.amazon.com/When-Prophecy-Fails-Psychological-Destruction/dp/0061311324. and Madame Blavatsky by Marion Meade https://www.amazon.com/Madame-Blavatsky-Woman-Behind-Myth-ebook/dp/B00J2IK7YK. Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing mostly yours truly.   Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

28m
Nov 07, 2023
The Monstrous Life of Zana of Abkhazia

This week we travel to the Kingdom of Abkhazia, a Black Sea land nestled amongst the Caucasus. At a date lost to history, but believed to be around 1860 - hunters trap what they believe is a monster in their bear pit. The creature is shackled and brought to a nobleman named Edgi Genaba. This week is all about monsters - but the monster may not be who you are thinking of.  Trigger Warning: This Tale contains discussion of rape and dehumanisation.  Sources Include:  In The Footsteps of The Russian Snowman https://www.amazon.com/Footsteps-Russian-Snowman-Dmitri-Bayanov/dp/1909488305 by Dmitri Bayanov. This DNA Explained article https://dna-explained.com/2021/07/30/the-origins-of-zana-of-abkhazia/ on Zana (author not listed.) This travelogue on Abkhazia https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/12-things-to-know-about-abkhazia-the-renegade-republic-of-the-caucasus. This Weird NJ article on Oliver the Humanzee https://www.app.com/story/news/weird/weird-nj/2017/04/02/weird-nj-humanzee-njs-missing-link/99853026/ by Mark Sceurman. I referred to Britannica to confirm several details that were already in my head And came around a dozen news articles from 2015 with much the same text one to the next…   Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.     Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

20m
Oct 23, 2023
Minisode: The Bagradas Dragon

This week we travel to the Bagradas River, Tunisia in 256 BC. Rome are in the midst of the Punic wars against Carthage, and are in the process of launching an all out invasion on the Carthaginians. As 14,000 Legionnaires, led by Marcus Attilus Regulus make their way towards the capital, they encounter a foe they were not expecting. Just what was the Bagradas Dragon? Apologies all, this week came out around ten minutes shorter than I planned in editing. I had no plans of dropping a minisode this week, but it needed the cuts to make it flow. Also my voice was the worse for wear when recording and does sound a little strained...  Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |    Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.     Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

13m
Oct 09, 2023
Hereward the Wake: Two - The Conqueror

This week we return to medieval England for part two of our two parter. We finally get to Hereward, but first let’s talk a little about William the Conqueror and the final years of Edward the Confessor’s reign.  Welcome to Hereward the Wake: Part Two - The Confessor.  Sources this week include:  I promise I’ll get this done in the coming days… A lot of info from these two episodes come from older blog posts I’ve taken down some time back, which I need to work back from… but the main newer sources were The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris https://www.amazon.com.au/Norman-Conquest-Marc-Morris/dp/0099537443   Femina, A New History of the Middle Ages… by Janina Ramirez https://www.amazon.com/Femina-History-Middle-Through-Written-ebook/dp/B09YNX3M41 The English and Their History by Robert Tombs https://www.amazon.com/English-Their-History-Robert-Tombs/dp/1101873361   Cameos from English History from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte M Yonge https://www.amazon.com/Cameos-English-History-Rollo-Edward/dp/1499563191   And the following two are a bit odd…  A Book of Giants by Henry Lanier https://www.amazon.com/Book-Giants-Henry-Wysham-Lanier/dp/1514719096 (mostly folk tales of mythical giants, but has a chapter on real world giants.)   And Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter Pyle https://www.amazon.com/Anomalies-Curiosities-Medicine-George-Gould/dp/B004I49DHK(There are a lot of near giant or legit giant men in this tale, so I fact checked their sizes as best I could through these two dusty old books.)     Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, AND an Ad-Free Feed… Try our 7 Day Free Trial today.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.     Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |     

33m
Sep 25, 2023
Hereward the Wake - One: The Confessor

This week we go back to medieval, Anglo Saxon England for a two parter. I’ve got a Tale to tell of an outlaw, a resourceful Wolf’s-head who leads a guerrilla war against a cruel, unjust King - a man some might say robbed from the rich to give to…. Well, we’ll get to that - but before we do we have a Confessor, a Bastard… and a slew of other characters to deal with first.  Welcome to Hereward the Wake - Part one: where today we’ll delve into the Wessexes.  Sources this week include:  I promise I’ll fill this in tomorrow morning… The episode is already a day late, and it is a bit of a list. Sorry.  Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.     Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales | 

24m
Sep 10, 2023
What Happened to Richard Cox?

This week Tales goes true crime - as we travel West Point Military Academy, January 1950. Cadet Richard Colvin Cox receives a mysterious visitor identified only as ‘George.’ A week later, Richard would disappear without a trace.   The investigation would uncover several intriguing scenarios, but ultimately are we any closer to knowing what happened to Richard Cox?   Sources this week include:  I started off with Harry J. Maihoffer’s ‘Oblivion, The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Cox https://www.amazon.com/Oblivion-Mystery-Point-Cadet-Richard/dp/1574880438’ And found two podcasts this week far more useful This episode of Robin Warder’s The Trail Went Cold https://open.spotify.com/episode/5l5zjOoAmzHRvvHWenJ4Md?si=zpxPfdnfTjK5eLAfAII_8g is excellent.  And this episode of Disappearances https://open.spotify.com/episode/3pkJhU9TRQibP1uYMEmZei?si=YC7OME4kRYqUzLgdvVMd5g was decent.  Much of my information on West Point came from an old, unpublished blog post I’ve had saved to drafts for three years - I’ll be releasing it as a minisode on The Eggnog Riots for my Patrons on Patreon in coming days. I referred to this LA Times article https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-08-25-mn-24882-story.html. And this article from Ohio Wesleyan University https://www.owu.edu/news-media/details/ohio-wesleyan-professor-interviewed-for-history-channels-americas-book-of-secrets/ Jim Underwood’s articles, 1 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116227497/cox/, 2 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116227561/prankster/, 3 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116227644/clue/, 4 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116227771/evidence/, 5 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116227882/letter/, 6 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116227955/dead-ends/, 7 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116228037/mystery-man/, 8 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116228094/prep-school/, 9 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116228160/reliable-informant/, 10 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116228217/coxs-lifestyle/, 11 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116228278/intelligence-work/, 12 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116228334/uncover-motive/, 13 https://www.newspapers.com/article/116228516/cox-file/. This West Point Alumni article https://s3.amazonaws.com/pageturnpro2.com/Publications/201607/1744/73419/PDF/131129961159370000_WPMSU16PageTurnPro.pdf And God knows whatever book I first picked this tale up from more than twenty years ago…                                       Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial. https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination  Please leave Tales of History and Imagination a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.   Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/| Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales | 

23m
Aug 26, 2023
The Poe Toaster

This week, we travel to Baltimore’s Gunner’s Hall - the date October 3rd 1849. A disheveled man is found outside the bar “…in great distress and… in need of immediate assistance.” It turns out the man is none other than the horror and detective fiction pioneer Edgar Allan Poe.  Today we discuss Mr Poe’s passing, and the case of the mysterious ‘Poe Toaster.’   Sources this week include:  I wrote this as a blog post to commemorate 50 posts on the blog, way back in 2020 - apologies, I never took down my sources at the time. Though in re-writing I ALSO referred to Josh Hrala’s ‘The Man Who Defamed Edgar Allan Poe.’ https://thearcanist.io/the-man-who-defamed-edgar-allan-poe-d536a603ff95#:~:text=In%20a%20letter%20to%20poet,,%20nor%20was%20he%20mine.%E2%80%9D Several articles on The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore https://www.eapoe.org/index.htm’s website. This National Parks Service piece https://www.nps.gov/articles/poe-death.htm. Natasha Geiling’s ‘The Still Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe’ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/ Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.    | Patreon https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination |   Please leave Tales of History and Imagination a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.     Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

17m
Aug 11, 2023
The Mysterious Mister ZedZed

This week on Tales we return to Infernal Machines and a shadowy merchant of death who sold them - a man who built a great fortune on the death and suffering of millions. What can we actually say on the life of the mysterious Sir Basil Zaharoff?   Sources this week include:  Man of Arms; The Life and Legend of Sir Basil Zaharoff https://www.amazon.com/Man-Arms-Legend-Basil-Zaharoff/dp/0297795325 by Anthony Allfrey This Time Magazine Article https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,731226,00.html This Library of Congress article on J.P. Holland https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-11/#:~:text=The%20first%20submarine%20actually%20constructed,to%20work%20out%20design%20problems. This Cecil Bloom article in Liberal History https://liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/86-Bloom-Conspiracy-of-silence.pdf And Mike Dash’s The Mysterious Mr ZedZed; the Wickedest Man in the World. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-mysterious-mr-zedzed-the-wickedest-man-in-the-world-97435790/ I’ve got another dozen or so articles to share on Ottoman ‘firefighters’ and submarines that I’ll get up tomorrow.  Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Threads https://www.threads.net/@tales_of_history_imagination | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.  Though I made a quick arrangement of ‘My Grandfather’s Clock’ (Henry Clay Work) this episode.    Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

32m
Jul 28, 2023
Animals

This week on Tales of History and Imagination, we travel from The White House to Coney Island’s Luna Park, from the jungles of Cameroon, to the Bosphorus Strait in the age of Justinian… to the battlefields of World War One - to tell five short tales of animals who also inhabit this world.  Sources this week include:  The Periplus of Hanno the Navigator https://archive.org/details/cu31924031441847/page/n7/mode/2up Fortean Times World’s Weirdest News Stories. https://www.amazon.com/Fortean-Times-Worlds-Weirdest-Stories-ebook/dp/B004QWZC38 Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire https://www.amazon.com.au/Decline-Fall-Roman-Empire-ebook/dp/B09HHB9H5M. Book 7 of Procopius’ The History of the Wars This excellent blog post on Porphyrius. https://esoterx.com/2013/02/24/monster-whale-tales-porphyrius-mocha-dick-and-other-terminally-pissed-off-cetaceans/ Stories to Wash Hands by https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/the-memory-palace/id299436963?i=1000519255818, from Nate Di Meo’s The Memory Palace Topsy the Elephant was a Victim of her Captors https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/topsy-elephant-was-victim-her-captors-not-really-thomas-edison-180961611/ by Kat Eschner And This Smithsonian write up on Cher Ami https://www.si.edu/object/cher-ami:nmah_425415 Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  | Patreon https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination |    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@tales_of_history_?_t=8dm283QLID2&_r=1 | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |      Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.    Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |   

25m
Jul 12, 2023
Minisode: The Namamugi Incident

In June Tales of History and Imagination is on holiday… Well, technically I’m writing new scripts for the second half of the year. In the meantime I’ve recorded a couple of minisodes, the second on Charles Lennox Richardson and The Namamugi Incident. Sources? Honestly, I never noted them when I wrote this in 2019, sorry.   Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content. Not sure if you want to invest? Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |    Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.  Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales | 

11m
Jun 25, 2023
Minisode: Frau Troffea’s Dance With The Devil

In June Tales of History and Imagination is on holiday… Well, technically I’m writing new scripts for the second half of the year. In the meantime I’ve recorded a couple of minisodes, starting with the Tale of Frau Troffea and Medieval Dancing Plagues.    Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/historyandimaginationfor just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content. Not sure if you want to invest? Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly. This week I heavily borrowed from Toni Basil’s Mickey (M. Chapman, N. Chinn, (T. Basil should have a co-write for the cheerleading bit) )       Visit Simone’s  | About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/SimoneTales |     

7m
Jun 11, 2023
Shorts: What Ended Mabel Normand’s Career?

Hey everyone the following is a quick addendum to the episode on William Desmond Taylor. Just what happened to Norma Desmond to finally ruin her career? I glossed over it in the episode so… here it is.  Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content. Not sure if you want to invest? Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |    Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly. I’m burnt out but vaguely remember using Lullaby of the Leaves on this one? (Composers Bernice Petkere and Joe Young)  Simone’s About Me https://historyandimagination.com/about/. 

1m
May 29, 2023
The Murder of William Desmond Taylor

This week, Part Three of our Hollywood Trilogy -  we discuss the Feb 1st 1922 murder of pioneering film director William Desmond Taylor, and the Pandora’s Box flung open in his wake.    Sources this week include: (Sorry all, I’ll fill in later this week) The blog post of the episode is here. Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination. Not sure if you want to invest? Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  Please leave Tales a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly. This week I again used my arrangements of Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller) and Lullaby of the Leaves (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young.)   Simone’s About Me.  https://historyandimagination.com/about/

26m
May 29, 2023
The Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle Incident

This week, part two of our Hollywood Trilogy -  we discuss the Fatty Arbuckle/ Virginia Rappe case. How did a mysterious death during a boozy Labour Day party change the public’s perception of Hollywood forever? Hit play to find out…   Sources this week include: (Sorry all, I’ll fill in later this week) The blog post of the episode is here. Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content.      Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays.   Tales of History and Imagination is on | Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/ | Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1 | Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ | Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/ | YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig |  Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly. This week I used my arrangements of Moonlight Serenade (Glenn Miller) and Lullaby of the Leaves (Bernice Petkere, Joe Young.)   Simone’s About Me. https://historyandimagination.com/about/ 

24m
May 16, 2023
Olive Thomas: The Poisoned Chalice

For the next three episodes Tales of History and Imagination is going Hollywood, with three related - but separate Tales. In 1919, many of the folks who brought America Prohibition of alcohol turned their sights on a new ‘peril’ - the Movie industry. These joyless wowsers were convinced Hollywood was an evil, decadent place that needed shutting down.  Hollywood took these people seriously, and by 1934 had bound itself to a restrictive morality code. Why did they do so? For one, Tinseltown was rocked by a number of serious scandals in the 1920s. We’re looking at three of the bigger ones in the following weeks, the Fatty Arbuckle case, the murder of William Desmond Taylor - and first, the story of Olive Thomas - Hollywood’s first scandal.  Sources this week include: (Sorry all, I’ll fill in later this week) The blog post of the episode is here.   Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content.      Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig Channel, largely for Audiogram advertisements.  Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly.      Simone’s About Me.  https://historyandimagination.com/about/  

25m
May 02, 2023
Railway War!

This week, we’re going to ride the rails, in Colorado, USA - the year 1878. In the midst of a Railway boom in the USA, two tycoons go to war over narrow, twenty mile mountain pass. This week we’re examining the Royal Gorge war. Sources this week include: From the River to the Sea, by John Sedgwick https://www.amazon.com/River-Sea-Untold-Story-Railroad-ebook/dp/B08LDW8ZWX. Postcapitalism, A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason https://www.amazon.com/Postcapitalism-Guide-Future-Paul-Mason/dp/0374536732 Life of Tom Horn, Government Scout and Interpreter by Tom Horn https://www.amazon.com/Life-Tom-Horn-Government-Interpreter/dp/1539703665 Tom Horn, The Controversial Life and Legacy of One of the Wild West’s Most Famous Gunslingers by Charles River Publishers. https://www.amazon.com/Tom-Horn-Controversial-Legacy-Gunslingers-ebook/dp/B0845X3WCS The blog post of the episode is here. Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content. https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination      Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube Channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig, largely for Audiogram advertisements.  Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly.    For more information on Simone click here.  https://historyandimagination.com/about/  

38m
Apr 23, 2023
The Diaspora

This week, three short tales of Medieval and Ancient people who - through circumstances way beyond their control - found themselves transported beyond the furthest extent of (to them at least) the known world. This episode we discuss Du Huan, Guillaume Boucher and Crassus’ lost Legion.          Sources this week (sorry all, will need to work back through this. 2/3 of this episode comes from OLD blog posts. However I’m definitely drawing from): The Golden Rhinoceros by Francois-Xavier Fauvelle https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Rhinoceros-Histories-African-Middle-ebook/dp/B07D53H5ZS The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan https://www.amazon.com/Silk-Roads-New-History-World-ebook/dp/B00XST7IX2 Genghis Khan and The Making of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford https://www.amazon.com/Genghis-Khan-Making-Modern-World-ebook/dp/B000FCK206 (And a bunch of articles on the Academia and Jstor databases I’ll link to later) The blog post of the episode is here. Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination.        Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig Channel, largely for Audiogram advertisements.  Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly.  For more information on Simone click here.  https://historyandimagination.com/about/

25m
Apr 07, 2023
Mussolini’s Hat - How the Mob Came to America

This week’s all about presidents, dictators, more mobsters, islands and how the theft of a hat was taken just  a little too seriously. Last fortnight we discussed the Black Hand, this episode we follow up and discuss why the Mob finally came to America.          Sources this week include: Five Families by Selwyn Raab https://www.amazon.com/Five-Families-Resurgence-Americas-Powerful/dp/1250101700  And The Black Hand by Stephan Talty https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hand-Brilliant-Detective-Deadliest-ebook/dp/B01I4FPN7W (As well as several articles I’ll link to later)   The blog post of the episode is here. https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content. I’m currently revamping, and will be dropping re-recorded bonus content weekly for the next two months.      Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig Channel, largely for Audiogram advertisements.        Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly.    For more information on Simone click here.  https://historyandimagination.com/about/  

25m
Mar 25, 2023
The Black Hand

Death threats, child kidnappings, fire-bombings… A naked man in a barrel? This week I discuss the shadowy practice that came to be known as The Black Hand, and detective Joseph Petrosino.              Sources this week include: Five Families by Selwyn Raab https://www.amazon.com/Five-Families-Resurgence-Americas-Powerful/dp/1250101700  And The Black Hand by Stephan Talty https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hand-Brilliant-Detective-Deadliest-ebook/dp/B01I4FPN7W (As well as several articles I’ll link to later)   The blog post of the episode is here. Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content. I’m currently revamping, and will be dropping re-recorded bonus content weekly for the next two months.      Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig Channel, largely for Audiogram advertisements.  Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly. This week I use, and re-use Enrico Caruso’s 1904 recording of Una Furtiva Lagrima (Gaetano Donizetti) and provide my own ‘drunken’ version of the track - the reason for doing so I hope comes across in the context, otherwise a lot of people will be asking WTF???  For more information on Simone click here https://historyandimagination.com/about/.   

35m
Mar 13, 2023
Roxelana

This week, we travel to the court of the tenth Ottoman Emperor - though this tale is only tangentially about Suleiman the Magnificent. It’s a bit of an old cliche to say behind every great man is a great woman - but it is fair to say Suleiman was married to a remarkable Ukrainian lady, who left a lasting impact on their empire. What do we know about Roxelana/Hurrem Sultan/Aleksandra?  Far too little, but here’s what little I can tell you…            Sources this week include:  Empress of the East by Leslie Pierce. https://www.amazon.com/Empress-East-European-Became-Ottoman-ebook/dp/B01MR1ZN3A  Ibrahim Pasha by Hester Jenkins https://www.amazon.com/Ibrahim-Pasha-Grand-Suleiman-Magnificent-ebook/dp/B07BW5JBKK And The Lion House: The Coming of a King by Christopher de Bellaigue https://www.amazon.com/Lion-House-Coming-King-ebook/dp/B09NTKRPLT The blog post of the episode is here.   Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination. I’m currently revamping, and will be dropping re-recorded bonus content weekly for the next two months.  The next episode, out on March 1st is Charles Delschau’s Memoirs.     Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig Channel, largely for Audiogram advertisements.          Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly (sorry, I’m a little croaky on this one.)  For more information on Simone click here https://historyandimagination.com/about/.   

22m
Feb 24, 2023
The Island

First discovered on New Year’s Day 1739, and situated 1,600 Kilometres from the nearest trade route, Bouvet Island is the most remote island on Earth. Uninhabitable, windswept and dangerous - it has, all the same, accrued two historical mysteries. This week Simone discusses the abandoned lifeboat, and The Vela Incident.               Sources this week include: (sorry all, I’ll fill it in later) The blog post of the episode is here. Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination and get access to exclusive content.   This month’s episode was on Yasuke https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-yasuke-71579186?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link. If we reach my second pledge level I’ll start matching main episodes one to one.       Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube Channel, https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig largely for Audiogram advertisements.      Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly.    For more information on Simone click here. https://historyandimagination.com/about/ 

26m
Feb 07, 2023
The Dog Days’ King

Jorgen Jorgensen, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a watchmaker, lived the kind of life most seen in picaresque novels like Voltaire’s Candide or Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon - but another way to sum him up would be he lived the life of that guy in Sinatra’s That’s Life - He was a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a King. There is another P word that, sadly, summed the adventurer’s life up - one that cast a shadow over much of his later life.  Sources this week include:  The Collected Works of Marcus Clarke https://www.amazon.com/Collected-Works-Marcus-Clarke-ebook/dp/B00FIO1D04 - by Marcus Clarke.  The Convict King https://www.amazon.com/Convict-King-J%C3%B8rgen-J%C3%B8rgensen-ebook/dp/B093XCCG1R - by Jorgen Jorgensen.  And Australia’s Most Unbelievable True Stories https://www.amazon.com/Australias-Most-Unbelievable-True-Stories/dp/1489403175 - by Jim Haynes.  The blog post of the episode is here https://historyandimagination.com/?p=6294. Support the show on Patreon for just $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content https://www.patreon.com/historyandimagination. I’m currently revamping, and will be dropping re-recorded bonus content weekly for the next two months.  February’s episode, out on 1 February is Yasuke.     Please leave a like and review wherever you listen. The best way you can help support the show is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Talesofhistoryandimagination/, Twitter https://twitter.com/TalesofHistory1, Pinterest https://www.pinterest.nz/simonewhitlow/tales-of-history-and-imagination/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tales_of_history_imagination/. The show has a YouTube Channel https://youtube.com/channel/UCWkJS9FVZWdOudMxRenabig, largely for Audiogram advertisements.          Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly. This week I borrowed the melody for Waltzing Matilda (words the poet Banjo Patterson - click here https://www.amazon.com/Man-Snowy-River-ANNOTATED-ebook/dp/B0B25P621W/ref=sr_1_4?qid=1674608599&refinements=p_27:Banjo+Paterson&s=digital-text&sr=1-4 to check out his most famous work The Man From Snowy River… music to his poem by Christina McPherson) For more information on Simone click here.  https://historyandimagination.com/about/

26m
Jan 25, 2023