Things that are utterly bloody fascinating

Where in Hamilton is it? I used to live in Hamilton but can't for the life of me remember it lol.

Changedmymindtoday Watch Aftershock on Netflix! It’s about the earthquake that hit Kathmandu in 2014 and the documentary focuses on the Everest climbers during/after the event (among others but the climbers are the main story).
Have tissues on the ready!
It’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in a while.
Where did you watch the Spencer Matthews documentary? I’m trying to find it.

I watched Spencer Matthew’s Finding Michael documentary.

It has ignited a huge interest in knowing more about climbing Everest and the amazing Sherpas.

It’s total madness to climb it, which fascinates me.

The Dish Washing Machine was first invented in 1886 by a woman, Josephine Cochran, who got fed up with her bone china getting chipped.

"thinks there was an advanced civilisation, slams academics for not being open to this fact"
Apart from the problem that it isn't a 'fact', but gibberish made up by a hack journalist with a track record of lying and distorting information to sell crap books

@Ellie474747
There is a good Netflix documentary on this called ancient apocalypse, the presenter an archaeologist dismisses we originate from caveman based on these sites, thinks there was an advanced civilisation, slams academics for not being open to this fact.
I have same view. Oddly when I was a child I knew about Atlantis having never been taught anything about it. I am fascinated now.

Graham Hancock is not an Archaeologist, he is a lying, dishonest conman.

@MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake

What I find so mysterious is that in 2023 they still don't know how the shroud was made, how it has that facial imprint, Even people who are certain it's a forgery dating from the middle ages can't explain how it was made.

That is a logical fallacy called an argument from ignorance.I In fact, t's a three-to-one twill, striped in the herringbone pattern, nothing mysterious or odd about that!

The last US civil war widow, only died in 2020 and was still getting the civil war pension.

@ElizabethBest I haven't seen the film you mentioned about castrati, will track it down, thanks.

Nowadays it's easy to self publish stuff, I've published a couple of things through Lulu and was impressed with the quality. Then you can pay to get a thingy number and also sell them on Amazon if you like (I didn't do that but have a friend who did.) There's no initial outlay for Lulu.

If we're talking grizzly stuff, it haunts me about Captain Oates. I mean, his last line was haunting. And his fellow climbers must've known he wasn't coming back, I suppose. I decided on that. Before that I used to imagine what it'd been like for them to eventually decide to leave without him. 😧I could've just looked that up apparently, that they knew, but it was so gory I didn't want to know any more about it.

Of course, a lot of people are fascinated by anything WW2 , holocaust, nazis, hitler etc. It is fascinating as it's so relatively near us in time but so different and gruesome. My dad will read or watch anything about that.

@ElizabethBest Please do the book, maybe you could self publish? LJ Ross seems like an amazing lady, she might help and she has now sold 7 million + books by self publishing.

I love the books by Philippa Gregory, she has written several based on the Tudors. She really gets inside the head of her lead character and explains what she imagines they must have been thinking and why they did the things they did. I feel like I almost knew them.

Track 5, it starts at about 16:30.

Needmorelego · Today 08:22

have you seen the musical Six about the 6 wives? Really clever way of telling their stories.

There's a band called Blyth Power and they had an album called "Out From Under The King." There's a song called Katherine's Will, about Catherine Parr and how she won by outliving him.

Go to 8 minutes 25 and you can see the lyrics, not sure when the actual song starts!

Yes@ElizabethBest The Donner Party was a fascinating occurrence... We've driven by the actual site and there is a monument to them .. it shows how high the snow was....that area is getting an abundance of snow right now just like then😲

The Donner Party is a fascinating tale. I came across it a couple of years ago and read the wiki page again a little while ago to remind myself of what happened. The whole thing sounds utterly nightmarish.

I’ve been interested in the Six Wives of Henry VIII since I was a kid but not so much him @sashh

My favourites are Catherine of Aragon and the much misunderstood Anne of Cleves. I found Suzanna Lipscomb’s podcast “Not Just The Tudors” which has some great episodes on all the wives.

Also, a podcast called “Noble Blood” covers loads of historical figures and devotes a whole episode to each of the six wives individually. Definitely worth a listen.

Read Dale Spender Women of Ideas book which has many amazing women featured in it that I have never read about anywhere else.

Brilliant thread this so 'tis. One thing leads to another, Atlas obscura by a pp led me to reading about the 1949 Aquila Flying boat service from Southampton to Madeira. Very interesting,
Please do that book@ElizabethBest and thank you!

@Needmorelego Not yet, I have heard some of the songs though and I agree a fabulous idea.

@sashh have you seen the musical Six about the 6 wives? Really clever way of telling their stories.

Fabulous.

I tried to watch a David Starkey documentary about Henry VIII's wives, but it all centred around Henry VIII. I want to know how the wives lived and were brought up before meeting him, and their reasons for marriage.

@calimali

I'm working on a programme about historical female monarchs from around the world at the moment and the company I work for are making another history series with women at the forefront.

We're really trying to push the female agenda in factual and I'm so pleased to be a part of it. I'm learning loads too!

Thanks for this thread OP, it's going to keep me busy for weeks.