History Detective

The album that includes all of the songs from Season 1 and 2 of the History Detective Podcast has just been released! Click to join my mailing list Click here to  listen on any of the streaming platforms. If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Accompanying teaching resources for season 1 and 2 episodes can be found on my Amped Up Learning Store Contact: Twitter @HistoryD...

If you are not from Australia and have not seen our pretty plastic money, I highly recommend having a look online.  The star of the $5 note is Queen Elizabeth II. Instead of giving you a general overview of the queen, today I am going to tell the story of her first official visit to Australia as the Queen.  Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Co...

A new season of History Detective uncovering some of the quirky stories of those people who feature on the Australian currency. If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee The History Detective Season 1 & 2 Album is  now available on Spotify and all of your music streaming services. Accompanying teaching resources for season 1 and 2 episodes can be found on my Amped Up Learni...

Hear the story of this controversial woman in history Gunnhild, the Mother of Viking Kings, who has been described with the most unflattering of adjectives, such as; witch-like, power hungry, cruel, evil and fierce, but also as ambitious and beautiful. If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Click to join my mailing list Listen to the lyric video  for Bringer of Kings on...

This is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Click to join my mailing list Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website . In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now houses the Museum of Australian Democracy- and we will explore how these s...

This is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Click to join my mailing list Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website . In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now houses the Museum of Australian Democracy- and we will explore how these s...

This is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration. Click to join my mailing list Download the FREE teaching resources for this episode at the MoAD website .  In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now houses the Museum of Australian Democracy- and we will explore how these...

Meet Irene Longman, the first woman to be elected into Queensland Parliament in 1929. Could you imagine living in a society where when they were designing the parliament house, they didn’t even bother to put a female toilet in? Well, in 1929 Irene Maud Longman broke the glass ceiling in Queensland that women could stand for and be elected into QLD Parliament.  Click to join my mailing list Vote fo...

When you think child migrants of World War II, you are probably thinking of the children who were shipped out of the major cities during the Blitz  or the Jewish children who were smuggled out of Germany, but today I want to tell you about a different group of children, children who were often lied to about their parents being dead and were shipped off to the other side of the world to endure a ch...

When you think of women participating in World War I, you probably have an image of a nurse or a woman on the home front baking cookies, knitting socks, and writing letters to the chaps on the front line. What doesn’t immediately come to mind is the Russian Women’s Battalion of Death led by the fearless Maria Bochkareva. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you a...

During World War II, Aboriginal Australians were generally not accepted into the armed forces, the Army, Navy nor Airforce. However, this all changed after Japan entered the war and the government began to fear the security of the Northern Territory. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Soldiers in the north of Australia were recruited. More than 800 signing up to join the uniformed Torres Straig...

Elizabeth Vigée Le Brun painted over 30 portraits of Marie Antionette. Find out what life was like for a female artist  who rose up from poverty to prominence to become Marie Antionette's artist during the lead up to the French Revolution. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Listen to the Lyric Video on YouTube for Portrait of a Queen The...

The Queensland Native Mounted Police were a violent organisation set up in the mid 1800s to systematically wipe out the Aboriginal population from Queensland.   Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Listen to the lyric video on YouTube. The History Detective Season 1 & 2 Album is  now available on Spotify and all of your music streaming ser...

Roza Shanina, Russian Sniper was the propaganda poster girl for the Red Army during WWII, but being a woman in the army  wasn't always as glossy as the magazines made out.  Click to join my mailing list Warning: This episode has references to sexual assault. If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee The Lyric Video for Eye Spy is available on YouTube The History Detective S...

If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Here is a sneak peak of what is in stall for season 2 of History Detective! Roza Shanina, WWII Russian Sniper Queensland Native Police Marie Antionette's Portrait Artist Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun The Northern Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit in WWII Maria Bochkareva or the WWI Russian Women's Death Battalion British Child Migrant...

Podcasts are a great source of historical information, but there are so many out there. In this episode of History Detective. I have curated a list of 10 episodes on various civil rights movements. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Transcript for this episode Link to the list of 40 episodes on Civil Rights If you want to know how to use...

Is it okay to have a cold Christmas Lunch in a scorching hot country? Journalists of 1867 didn't think so. But that taboo had turned around by 1892 where cold lunch recipes were published across the land. Join me as I uncover the controversies of a cold Chrissy lunch. Click to join my mailing list Link to 1904 Tongue and Jelly Recipes: Good Cheer for Christmas I totally have a website now! https:/...

Sometimes the idea of going to a real archive can be intimidating, or just impossible based on your location. Learning to navigate a digital archive can be incredibly useful when it comes to researching and a great starting point for any research assignment.  Many newspaper archives are a paid subscription but the Trove archive is completely free and an absolute gold mine for finding hidden histor...

Click to join my mailing list The skill of assessing reliability should not be sidelined to just the study of history, it can be used in every aspect of your life, especially when we get most of our information from the internet, which is quite frankly swirling cesspit of misinformation. Pre-Listening Vocabulary: attributed authoritative philosophical corroborate journal disciples lateral Two grea...

When you are researching for history or even geography for that matter, you will come across a mountain of information on the Internet or in books or archives, wherever you are looking, and one of the most important skills you need to develop is to be a little judgemental about the sources you come across. This episode is proudly sponsored by Amped Up Learning Season One Cover Lesson Bundle Destin...

Click to join my mailing list So, for the final episode of 2020 where we have been living through a pandemic, I wanted to look back at a different pandemic, the bubonic plague, but not the Black Death of the 1300s that you may be thinking of. I want to look into an outbreak that is a little less well known, the time that the bubonic plague came to Australian shores. This episode is designed to go...

Click to join my mailing list Vote for History Detective in the 2021 Podcast Awards  in the History and People's Choice categories! https://www.podcastawards.com/  If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee The actions of Rosa Parks in 1955 were a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and it would be easy to say she was a tired old lady who just needed to sit down whilst...

Click to join my mailing list We are so used to the narrative of the Vietnam War being told through a masculine lens; male politicians, sending male soldiers to Vietnam, movies about male soldiers and male historians writing all the textbooks. But there is a group whose perspective we don’t hear from very often, and that is the Vietnamese women who fought for the Viet Cong. Hanoi Hannah and the Pe...

This episode explores one of the original fake new items of the late 19th Century, a made-up disease that affected women (and some men) called “Bicycle Face”. Click to join my mailing list If you would like to support the podcast, you and Buy Me a Coffee Listen to the lyric video  for Sticks and Stones Lyric Video on YouTube The History Detective Season 1 & 2 Album is  now available on Spotify and...

In the early 1950s, the Prime Minister of Australia, Robert Menzies, received a request from the Prime Minister of England, Clement Attlee, requesting if Britain could conduct their nuclear weapons testing in Australia. Without so much as talking to the politicians in his cabinet or requesting any information or reports on the possible health or environmental risks, Menzies said yes, and even comm...