#10 Causes of death in 1632, steam trains & cultural birthday gifts

Although the title of the episode could perhaps suggest that steam trains and cultural birthday gifts were causes of death in 1632, neither of those two things appeared on the list we found on Twitter today. Instead we were faced with flux, wolf, surfet and the king's evil - and had to look them all up on a suitable historical website.Heather's not admitting to being a regular train spotter but she knows a thing or two about steam engines and even saw "Gordon without a face" this weekend (and has video evidence to prove it). Sadly she doesn't still own the vinyl album of steam train sounds but the memory of hearing an engine pan from right to left across her living room it is still strong.Finally, we learned that birthday gifts from German, French, Italian and Spanish governments are way better than UK! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.