Bubonic Brissie and Tragic Inspiration
In our 50th episode Suzie finds a famous disease in an unexpected place and Trevor looks at a terrible tragedy from the past that inspired something great. What the history?
Content warning: Murder (11:57 – 12:40) and suicide (12:59 – 13:11)
WHAT THE HISTORY?
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Sources:
THE PLAGUE IN QUEENSLAND
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018, ‘History of the Plague’ https://www.cdc.gov/plague/history/index.html
Crockford T 2018, ‘From disasters and plagues to celebrations: How Brisbane came to love its river’ https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/from-disasters-and-plagues-to-celebrations-how-brisbane-came-to-love-its-river-20181115-p50gc4.html
Dawson C 2011, ‘Brisbane’s Lost Plague Cemetery’ https://www.fosbc.com/2017/03/plague-cemetery.html
Encyclopaedia Britannica 2019, ‘Alexandre Yersin’ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexandre-Yersin
Fraser Coast Libraries 2011, ‘Black Death in Maryborough 1905’ http://fclibrarieslocalstudies.blogspot.com/2011/08/black-death-in-maryborough-1905.html
Gerard C n.d., ’Bubonic Plague in Woolloongabba in 1900’ http://kangaroopointhistory.com.au/first-brisbane-case-of-bubonic-plague-in-hawthorne-street-27-april-1900/
History.com 2019, ‘6 Devastating Plagues’ https://www.history.com/news/6-devastating-plagues
Queensland Government – Queensland Health 2019, ‘Plague’ https://www.health.qld.gov.au/cdcg/index/plague
Rockhampton Morning Bulletin 1922, ‘Plague Rat Caught in Brisbane’ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/54029850
The Brisbane Courier 1903, ‘The Closing of Colmslie Hospital’ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19220913
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CAROLYN WASILEWSKI
Death of Suspect Complicates Probe In Murder of Girl, 14 – The Dispatch Nov 12 1954 (Google News)
Baltimore Police Hunt Girl’s Slayer – Reading Eagle Nov 10 1954 (Google News)
Drape Grilled in Murder – The Baltimore Sun Nov 28 1954 (newspapers.com)
Backstory: Cry-Baby and John Waters’ Journey to Broadway – Broadway Buzz Apr 3 2008
Ten Off-Screen, Off-the-Wall Facts about John Waters – New Orleans Museum of Art Aug 1 2017
Other stuff:
The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…
History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)
History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)
Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)
You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)
Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)
Fade out – Fifty Years – Uncanny X-Men
All music used under fair use provisions.
