Elliott learns that racists are everywhere. Casey learns never to send back a glass of wine. Sources: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/48873611 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryl_Burton#Personal_life https://www.casquette.co.uk/people/queens-of-pain-beryl-burton https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jun/13/tour-de-france-beryl-burton http://www.oxfordhistory.org.uk/mayors/government/scholastica.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/10/day-1355-university-fracas-ends-93-dead-birth-600-year-long/ https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/9200746.rioting-wine-led-90-deaths/ 

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S2 // Episode 3: Cycles of Violence

Grannies out here making bank,  and all ya'll care about is the sharp end of an egg. Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/women-of-the-plague/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-strangest-weird-laws-enforced-christopher-sargeant-sturgeon-armour-a7232586.html https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/laws-uk-weird-door-knock-12755849 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17610820 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/calls-for-dead-laws-to-be-repealed-7618201.html

S2 // Episode 2: Flea the Crime Scene

A monarch with a penchant for fertile uteri, plus a pair of innkeepers with a nasty whisky habit, they'll all soon learn that murder is the solution to any problem.

S2 // Episode 1: This Fucking Guy

Need to shed a few pounds before mankini season? Try the hot new incarceration diet, and if that doesn't work, try chopping your balls off.

S1 // Episode 12: Fun Times in Prison, Funner Times in Hospital

Half the nation is fleeing workhouses by any means necessary, while the other half is wearing 6 coats and ripping up lawns. Classic.

S1 // Episode 11: Butt Tobacco & Milky Pudding

Harry wasn't the first royal to flee the throne, and your sister Peggy's bachelorette party wasn't the first penis straw.

S1 // Episode 10: Ol' Hard Face & the Pewter Tray

London is a murderous place to be, whether you're a 1950's single mother with killer legs, or a 19th century servant girl drowning in all the hard work.

S1 // Episode 9: Free Beer and Loose Women

Hen on a hog with a one-way ticket to Shitterton. It doesn't make sense now, but it will. Elspeth Beard mini-doc: https://vimeo.com/256934157

S1 // Episode 8: Two Wheel Thrills To Titty Hill

The troubles that women take for beauty will amaze you. The laughs that rich men feel entitled to will not.

S1 // Episode 7: Gummy Pranksgiving

White wine baths and petticoat dogs. Poopoo paths and tunnel hogs. This is England, ok.

S1 // Episode 6: Boss Baby Monarch & The Great Stink

Make a few bob splooshing a half litre of soapy water in a vagine, or hire a brass band to play off an autopsy. Baby's gotta hustle before it's too late.

S1 // Episode 5: Greasy Johnny's Backalley Blubber Bonanza

A story about the mother of modern nursing, and the Cotswaldian athletic prowess that puts the sober to shame. EPISODE GLOSSARY DRIVELLER - stick 2-3 ft long DWILE - wet wash rag ELLIOTT - total gimp FLONK/FLONKER - to play, player GAZUNDER - chamber pot full of ale, from "goes-under the bed" GIRTING - dancing in a circle, ring-around-the-rosie JOBANOWL - referee, a dull-witted person MORTHER - body hit RIPPER - leg hit SNURD - team SWADGE - missed play, penalty WANTON - head hit 

S1 // Episode 4: Cry-Me-A Driveller

Witchpickers, Pizza Hut, and Zoophagy. Oh my!

S1 // Episode 3: The Greatest and Most Destructive Buffet Of All Time

Many profound discoveries have been accomplished by the best minds of our time. Penicillin, the combustion engine, the hormonal contraception pill, and the clearance pages of Argos. Among them is MI6's disappearing ink, and an appreciation for why it was quickly retired.  For more reading on the Tuam Mother & Baby Home, visit: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/07/europe/ireland-mother-and-baby-homes-intl/index.html

S1 // Episode 2: Secretion Intelligence

Women doing the sportsing, that's preposterous! Then things get weird when a foreigner washes up on a beach with no trace of his past.

S1 // Episode 1: Hartlepool is Bananas

Weird UK history by idiots abroad. Or rather, an idiot and a broad.

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