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EPISODE · Jul 12, 2023 · 25 MIN

Animals

from Tales of History and Imagination · host Simone Whitlow

This week on Tales of History and Imagination, we travel from The White House to Coney Island’s Luna Park, from the jungles of Cameroon, to the Bosphorus Strait in the age of Justinian… to the battlefields of World War One - to tell five short tales of animals who also inhabit this world.  Sources this week include:  The Periplus of Hanno the Navigator Fortean Times World’s Weirdest News Stories. Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Book 7 of Procopius’ The History of the Wars This excellent blog post on Porphyrius. Stories to Wash Hands by, from Nate Di Meo’s The Memory Palace Topsy the Elephant was a Victim of her Captors by Kat Eschner And This Smithsonian write up on Cher Ami Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  | Patreon |    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok | Instagram | YouTube |      Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.    Visit Simone’s  | About Me | Twitter |   

This week on Tales of History and Imagination, we travel from The White House to Coney Island’s Luna Park, from the jungles of Cameroon, to the Bosphorus Strait in the age of Justinian… to the battlefields of World War One - to tell five short tales of animals who also inhabit this world.  Sources this week include:  The Periplus of Hanno the NavigatorFortean Times World’s Weirdest News Stories.Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.Book 7 of Procopius’ The History of the WarsThis excellent blog post on Porphyrius.Stories to Wash Hands by, from Nate Di Meo’s The Memory PalaceTopsy the Elephant was a Victim of her Captors by Kat Eschner And This Smithsonian write up on Cher Ami Support the show on Patreon for $2 US a month and get access to exclusive content, or Try our 7 Day Free Trial.  | Patreon |    Please leave Tales a like and a review wherever you listen. The best way you can support us is to share an episode with a friend - Creative works grow best by word of mouth. I post episodes fortnightly, Wednesdays. Tales of History and Imagination is on  | Facebook | Twitter | TikTok | Instagram | YouTube |      Music, writing, narration, mixing yours truly.    Visit Simone’s  | About Me | Twitter |

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