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.
In this episode Tracey will terrify you all with her Stuff in News, that new footprint evidence that shows that those 10ft tall, 30 mph, huge beaked ‘terror birds’ had another deadly weapon in their arsenal - deadly sharp killer claws. Meanwhile, by our usual neat unplanned synchronicity, Ashley’s Stuff in the News reveals that experts have found that to animals in South Africa the sound of our voices are more terrifying than a lion’s roar. In our pieces of stuff this week we both explore the spooky early nineteenth century, Tracey discusses the mysterious coffin dolls found on Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh and adds her own unique take to the seven other explanations for them, which include a serial killer’s mementoes. Ashley spins off from a discussion of an 1685 Dutch Reformed church bell, in colonial Sleepy Hollow to discuss Washington Irving, author, ambassador, Christmas traditions influencer, and biographer of Washington, Columbus and the Prophet Muhammad.
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.
