Mary Mary Quite Contagious and The Umbrella Rebel

What The History
What The History
Mary Mary Quite Contagious and The Umbrella Rebel
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In this episode Suzie follows the contagious career of Mary Mallon and Trevor discusses Jonas Hanway’s umbrella controversy!

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

TYPHOID MARY

Greenwood V 2015, The Frightening Legacy of Typhoid Mary, The Smithsonian Magazine http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-frightening-legacy-of-typhoid-mary-180954324/
Klein C 2015, 10 Things You May Not Know About “Typhoid Mary”, History in the Headlines, History.com http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-typhoid-mary
Latson J 2014, ‘Refusing Quarantine: Why Typhoid Mary Did It’, TIME History http://time.com/3563182/typhoid-mary/
Marineli F, Tsoucalas G, Karamanou M et al 2013, ‘Mary Mallon (1869-1938) and the history of typhoid fever’, Annals of Gastroenterology, pp. 132-134, v.26(2); 2013, PMC3959940 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3959940/

JONAS HANWAY

HANWAY, JONAS – Encyclopedia Iranica

Jonas Hanway: Pioneer Philanthropist – The Therapeutic Care Journal

The Public Shaming of England’s First Umbrella User – Atlas Obscura

MEET THE FIRST MAN WHO DARED TO USE AN UMBRELLA – Faena Aleph

Jonas Hanway – Westminster Abbey

THE HISTORY OF THE UMBRELLA – Schirm Oertel Bremen

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

Umbrella – Rihanna (2007)

All music used under fair use provisions.

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