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The Plague in Australia, Roses are Black
History Detective - October 29, 2020 18:00 - 18 minutesClick to join my mailing list So, for the final episode of 2020 where we have been living through a pandemic, I wanted to look back at a different pandemic, the bubonic plague, but not the Black Death of the 1300s that you may be thinking of. I want to look into an outbreak that is a little les...
Case 8: The Plague in Australia, Roses are Black
History Detective - October 29, 2020 18:00 - 18 minutesSo, for the final episode of 2020 where we have been living through a pandemic, I wanted to look back at a different pandemic, the bubonic plague, but not the Black Death of the 1300s that you may be thinking of. I want to look into an outbreak that is a little less well known, the time...
Rosa Parks, I'm not tired
History Detective - October 15, 2020 18:00 - 20 minutesClick to join my mailing list Vote for History Detective in the 2021 Podcast Awards in the History and People's Choice categories! https://www.podcastawards.com/ If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee The actions of Rosa Parks in 1955 were a catalyst for the Mont...
Case 7: Rosa Parks, I'm not tired
History Detective - October 15, 2020 18:00 - 20 minutesThe actions of Rosa Parks in 1955 were a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and it would be easy to say she was a tired old lady who just needed to sit down whilst riding a bus and that sparked the chain of civil rights events. But there are a few things wrong with that narrative....
Women of the Viet Cong Shadow of a Shark
History Detective - October 01, 2020 18:00 - 19 minutesWe are so used to the narrative of the Vietnam War being told through a masculine lens; male politicians, sending male soldiers to Vietnam, movies about male soldiers and male historians writing all the textbooks. But there is a group whose perspective we don’t hear from very often, and that is ...
Hanoi Hannah and the Women of the Viet Cong
History Detective - October 01, 2020 18:00 - 19 minutesClick to join my mailing list We are so used to the narrative of the Vietnam War being told through a masculine lens; male politicians, sending male soldiers to Vietnam, movies about male soldiers and male historians writing all the textbooks. But there is a group whose perspective we don’t hea...
Case 6: Women of the Viet Cong Shadow of a Shark
History Detective - October 01, 2020 18:00 - 19 minutesWe are so used to the narrative of the Vietnam War being told through a masculine lens; male politicians, sending male soldiers to Vietnam, movies about male soldiers and male historians writing all the textbooks. But there is a group whose perspective we don’t hear from very often, and...
Case 6: Shadow of a Shark
History Detective - October 01, 2020 18:00 - 19 minutesWe are so used to the narrative of the Vietnam War being told through a masculine lens; male politicians, sending male soldiers to Vietnam, movies about male soldiers and male historians writing all the textbooks. But there is a group whose perspective we don’t hear from very often, and...
Case 5: Bicycle Face Poetry in Motion
History Detective - September 17, 2020 18:00 - 15 minutesThis episode is designed to align with the Senior Modern History unit on the Women's Rights or a Year 9 Unit on Making a Nation. Accompanying teaching resources can be purchased from my Amped Up Learning Store Season One Cover Lesson Bundle Reflection Questions What comparable fake ...
Bicycle Face Fake News 1890s Style
History Detective - September 17, 2020 18:00 - 15 minutesThis episode is designed to align with the Senior Modern History unit on the Women's Rights or a Year 9 Unit on Making a Nation. Accompanying teaching resources can be purchased from my Amped Up Learning Store Season One Cover Lesson Bundle Reflection Questions What comparable fake news do w...
Bicycle Face Fake News 1890s Style Case 5
History Detective - September 17, 2020 18:00 - 15 minutesThis episode explores one of the original fake new items of the late 19th Century, a made-up disease that affected women (and some men) called “Bicycle Face”. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Listen to the lyric video for Sticks ...
Case 5: Poetry in Motion
History Detective - September 17, 2020 18:00 - 15 minutesThis episode is designed to align with the Senior Modern History unit on the Women's Rights or a Year 9 Unit on Making a Nation. Accompanying teaching resources can be purchased from my Amped Up Learning Store Reflection Questions What comparable fake news do we still have in our soc...
Case 4: Children of the Dust
History Detective - September 03, 2020 18:00 - 17 minutesIn the early 1950s, the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, received a request from the Prime Minister of England, Clement Attlee, requesting if Britain could conduct their nuclear weapons testing in Australia. Without so much as talking to the politicians in his cabinet or req...
Nuclear Testing in Maralinga Australia
History Detective - September 03, 2020 18:00 - 17 minutesIn the early 1950s, the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, received a request from the Prime Minister of England, Clement Attlee, requesting if Britain could conduct their nuclear weapons testing in Australia. Without so much as talking to the politicians in his cabinet or requesting a...
Case 4: Nuclear Testing in Australia Children of the Dust
History Detective - September 03, 2020 18:00 - 17 minutesIn the early 1950s, the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, received a request from the Prime Minister of England, Clement Attlee, requesting if Britain could conduct their nuclear weapons testing in Australia. Without so much as talking to the politicians in his cabinet or req...
Case 3: The Nun Shogun Behind Every Warrior
History Detective - August 20, 2020 18:00 - 14 minutesBefore there was the Warrior Nun on Netflix, there was Hōjō Masako, “Shogun Nun”, who was the wife of the very first shogun of Japan and a formidable political activist. After her hubby died, she shaved her head, and became a nun, but she continued to hold political sway until her death...
The Nun Shogun Hōjō Masako
History Detective - August 20, 2020 18:00 - 14 minutesBefore there was the Warrior Nun on Netflix, there was Hōjō Masako, “Shogun Nun”, who was the wife of the very first shogun of Japan and a formidable political activist. After her hubby died, she shaved her head, and became a nun, but she continued to hold political sway until her death at 69 ye...
Case 3: Behind Every Warrior
History Detective - August 20, 2020 18:00 - 14 minutesBefore there was the Warrior Nun on Netflix, there was Hōjō Masako, “Shogun Nun”, who was the wife of the very first shogun of Japan and a formidable political activist. After her hubby died, she shaved her head, and became a nun, but she continued to hold political sway until her death...
Ethics of Archaeology Mungo Man
History Detective - August 06, 2020 18:00 - 16 minutesFor a few hundred years, historians had a vague idea of how long Aboriginal people had lived in Australia. Estimations of a few thousand years were generally accepted, but then the discovery of one body, forever changed the way that we thought about Australian history. That body belonged to none...
Case 2: Ethics of Archaeology These Old Bones
History Detective - August 06, 2020 18:00 - 15 minutesFor a few hundred years, historians had a vague idea of how long Aboriginal people had lived in Australia. Estimations of a few thousand years were generally accepted, but then the discovery of one body, forever changed the way that we thought about Australian history. That body belonge...
Case 2: These Old Bones
History Detective - August 06, 2020 18:00 - 15 minutesFor a few hundred years, historians had a vague idea of how long Aboriginal people had lived in Australia. Estimations of a few thousand years were generally accepted, but then the discovery of one body, forever changed the way that we thought about Australian history. That body belonge...
Case 1: Bite the Bullet
History Detective - July 23, 2020 18:30 - 14 minutesIf you do a Google image search of Lakshmibai you will see a fierce Indian woman dressed in a man’s uniform, with her son strapped to her back, holding a sword and leading a charge against British soldiers. This was Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi. This episode could be used in a contextua...
Rani of Jhansi and the Sepoy Rebellion
History Detective - July 23, 2020 18:30 - 14 minutesIf you do a Google image search of Lakshmibai you will see a fierce Indian woman dressed in a man’s uniform, with her son strapped to her back, holding a sword and leading a charge against British soldiers. This was Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi. Click to join my mailing list The History Detecti...
Case 1: Rani of Jhansi Bite the Bullet
History Detective - July 23, 2020 18:30 - 14 minutesIf you do a Google image search of Lakshmibai you will see a fierce Indian woman dressed in a man’s uniform, with her son strapped to her back, holding a sword and leading a charge against British soldiers. This was Lakshmibai, Queen of Jhansi. This episode could be used in a contextua...
History Detective Trailer
History Detective - July 05, 2020 06:14 - 1 minuteA resource that shares stories about history that we may not hear in a conventional textbook, stories that give a voice to the marginalised people in history and stories that spark interest and excitement in learning about the past. Click to join my mailing list Teachers Pay Teachers Store Gr...
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