An irreverent, geeky, and occasionally gory History podcast where we discuss the past and the stuff that made it. Mixing material culture, microhistory, and storytelling, we find new angles from which to examine world history through strange and interesting objects. We are two history professors from different cultures and a generation apart in age. Join us as we laugh and learn together.
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An irreverent, geeky, and occasionally gory History podcast where we discuss the past and the stuff that made it. Mixing material culture, microhistory, and storytelling, we find new angles from which to examine world history through strange and interesting objects. We are two history professors from different cultures and a generation apart in age. Join us as we laugh and learn together.
S1 Ep11: Episode 11: A Totem Pole Theft with a Hint of Vanilla
The Past and Stuff
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2 years ago
S1 Ep11: Episode 11: A Totem Pole Theft with a Hint of Vanilla
In this week’s Stuff in the News Tracey talks about a potential future apocalypse if we don’t work out how to label our nuclear waste for 100,000 years and Ashley talks about an apocalypse past, and a cataclysm 930,00 years ago that brought humanity down to just 1,300 people. Tracey’s Piece of Stuff is a ‘living person’ totem pole stolen from indigenous people British Columbia in 1929 and bought by the Scots, and Ashley’s is ancient evidence for Vanilla in a place where vanilla really should not be.
The Past and Stuff
An irreverent, geeky, and occasionally gory History podcast where we discuss the past and the stuff that made it. Mixing material culture, microhistory, and storytelling, we find new angles from which to examine world history through strange and interesting objects. We are two history professors from different cultures and a generation apart in age. Join us as we laugh and learn together.
