In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Garrison Davis about how the Church tried, and largely failed, to stop the wild revelry of the winter solstice.

In part two of this week's episode, Margaret continues her conversation with Garrison Davis about how the Church tried, and largely failed, to stop the wild revelry of the winter solstice.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a few about Dwight D. Eisenhower. Bad guys (and gals) are eternally fascinating. Behind the Bastards dives in past the Cliffs Notes of the worst humans in history and exposes the bizarre realities of their lives. Listeners will learn about the young adult novels that helped Hitler form his monstrous ideology, the founder of Blackwater’s insane quest to build his own Air Force, the bizarre lives of the sons and daughters of dictators and Saddam Hussein’s side career as a trashy romance novelist.

Everything you don't know about History's greatest monsters

Behind the Bastards

As long as there&rsquo;s been oppression, there&rsquo;ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be&mdash;and fight to be&mdash;free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

Part Two: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/23653a3b-7799-497c-b913-af70016a1c66/transcript

Margaret continues her talk with Chelsey Weber-Smith about the saint who built hidden compartments to hide priests during the persecution of Catholics in England.

Sources:

https://ewtn.co.uk/article-st-nicholas-owen-builder-of-secret-hiding-places-for-priests/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2005/11/02/hindlip_gunpowder_plot_feature.shtml

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/harvington-hall

https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/12/05/nicholas-owen-little-john-paid-highest-price-ingenious-camouflaged-places-hide/

https://fellowshipandfairydust.com/2022/02/18/st-nicholas-owen/

https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-8/mary-i-reading/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries

https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/why-was-anne-boleyn-executed/

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/9/1055

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26845784?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.advocate.com/history/king-james-bible-queer

https://www.worldhistory.org/Gunpowder_Plot/

https://www.catholicpamphlets.net/files/pamphlets/mary%20tudor%20and%20the%20protestants.pdf

https://catholic.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/saints_heroes/reformation/php/martyrs.php

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gunpowder_hutton_01.shtml

Margaret continues her talk with Chelsey Weber-Smith about the saint who built hidden compartments to hide priests during the persecution of Catholics in England.
Sources:
https://ewtn.co.uk/article-st-nicholas-owen-builder-of-secret-hiding-places-for-priests/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2005/11/02/hindlip_gunpowder_plot_feature.shtml
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/harvington-hall
https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/12/05/nicholas-owen-little-john-paid-highest-price-ingenious-camouflaged-places-hide/
https://fellowshipandfairydust.com/2022/02/18/st-nicholas-owen/
https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-8/mary-i-reading/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/why-was-anne-boleyn-executed/
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/9/1055
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26845784?read-now=1&amp;seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.advocate.com/history/king-james-bible-queer
https://www.worldhistory.org/Gunpowder_Plot/
https://www.catholicpamphlets.net/files/pamphlets/mary%20tudor%20and%20the%20protestants.pdf
https://catholic.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/saints_heroes/reformation/php/martyrs.php
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gunpowder_hutton_01.shtml

Part Two: Priest Holes: How to Hide People From the Authorities (in Medieval England)

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/2ebffa66-95d6-4962-a148-b3bc011c7a49/transcript

Margaret talks to Chelsey Weber-Smith about the saint who built hidden compartments to hide priests during the persecution of Catholics in England.

Sources:

https://ewtn.co.uk/article-st-nicholas-owen-builder-of-secret-hiding-places-for-priests/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2005/11/02/hindlip_gunpowder_plot_feature.shtml

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/harvington-hall

https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/12/05/nicholas-owen-little-john-paid-highest-price-ingenious-camouflaged-places-hide/

https://fellowshipandfairydust.com/2022/02/18/st-nicholas-owen/

https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-8/mary-i-reading/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries

https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/why-was-anne-boleyn-executed/

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html

https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/9/1055

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26845784?read-now=1&seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.advocate.com/history/king-james-bible-queer

https://www.worldhistory.org/Gunpowder_Plot/

https://www.catholicpamphlets.net/files/pamphlets/mary%20tudor%20and%20the%20protestants.pdf

https://catholic.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/saints_heroes/reformation/php/martyrs.php

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gunpowder_hutton_01.shtml

Margaret talks to Chelsey Weber-Smith about the saint who built hidden compartments to hide priests during the persecution of Catholics in England.
Sources:
https://ewtn.co.uk/article-st-nicholas-owen-builder-of-secret-hiding-places-for-priests/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2005/11/02/hindlip_gunpowder_plot_feature.shtml
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/harvington-hall
https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/12/05/nicholas-owen-little-john-paid-highest-price-ingenious-camouflaged-places-hide/
https://fellowshipandfairydust.com/2022/02/18/st-nicholas-owen/
https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-8/mary-i-reading/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_monasteries
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/why-was-anne-boleyn-executed/
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html
https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/9/1055
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26845784?read-now=1&amp;seq=4#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.advocate.com/history/king-james-bible-queer
https://www.worldhistory.org/Gunpowder_Plot/
https://www.catholicpamphlets.net/files/pamphlets/mary%20tudor%20and%20the%20protestants.pdf
https://catholic.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/saints_heroes/reformation/php/martyrs.php
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/civil_war_revolution/gunpowder_hutton_01.shtml

Part One: Priest Holes: How to Hide People From the Authorities (in Medieval England)

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/5a4c8a42-8da7-440d-b5d3-b3bb001857e1/transcript

Margaret continues her talk with Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.

Sources:

Radical Antiquity, Christopher B. Zeichmann

https://www.worldhistory.org/Ostracism/

https://web.archive.org/web/20170719062739/http://www.livius.org/li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae091.html#95

https://web.archive.org/web/20160326113007/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220855/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus2.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20110805121329/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0581.html

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#116

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html#9

http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch18.htm

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-republic-guide-how-senate-plebeians-citizenship-women-democratic-fall-end/

https://www.thecollector.com/first-servile-war-revolt-shook-rome/

https://www.thecollector.com/second-servile-war-slave-rebellion/

https://www.rfmwilliams.com/the-sicilian-slave-revolts-of-ancient-rome/

https://warflute.org/armies/sicilian_slave_revolts_135-132_104-103_bc_polemicus_army_t3.html

http://societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/human_sacrifice.php

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/gladiatorial-games-in-ancient-rome

https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/why-are-we-so-uncomfortable-the-confusing-taboo-of-menstruation-in-ancient-rome-and-modern-america/

Margaret continues her talk with Katy Stoll about the leaderless society that almost overthrew Rome.
Sources:
Radical Antiquity, Christopher B. Zeichmann
https://www.worldhistory.org/Ostracism/
https://web.archive.org/web/20170719062739/http://www.livius.org/li-ln/livy/periochae/periochae091.html#95
https://web.archive.org/web/20160326113007/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304220855/http://www.livius.org/so-st/spartacus/spartacus2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20110805121329/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-dgra/0581.html
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#116
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Crassus*.html#9
http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch18.htm
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-republic-guide-how-senate-plebeians-citizenship-women-democratic-fall-end/
https://www.thecollector.com/first-servile-war-revolt-shook-rome/
https://www.thecollector.com/second-servile-war-slave-rebellion/
https://www.rfmwilliams.com/the-sicilian-slave-revolts-of-ancient-rome/
https://warflute.org/armies/sicilian_slave_revolts_135-132_104-103_bc_polemicus_army_t3.html
http://societasviaromana.net/Collegium_Religionis/human_sacrifice.php
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/gladiatorial-games-in-ancient-rome
https://pressbooks.claremont.edu/clas112pomonavalentine/chapter/why-are-we-so-uncomfortable-the-confusing-taboo-of-menstruation-in-ancient-rome-and-modern-america/

Part Two: Spartacus and the Thurii Commune: How a Slave Rebellion in Ancient Rome Reimagined Society

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/318f484b-8bb5-4c22-82c5-b3b60028eea5/transcript

Part Two: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

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