23: Fire and Pox

Episode 23 of School Britannia Podcast, a fortnightly show serving you British History gems from the perspective of two Aussie upstarts. Why did people use gunpowder to fight the Great Fire of London? Who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Where have we been all this time?? All this and more! Editing by Eleanor with much assistance from Claire www.clairegawne.com Music by Jamie Pettinger Artwork by Lucy Maddox www.lucymaddox.com SOURCES Great Fire of London: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/The-Great-Fire-of-London/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_London https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Fire_Brigade https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/history-and-stories/early-fire-brigades/ https://londontopia.net/history/history-london-fire-brigade/ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/03/not-our-mission-private-fire-crews-protect-the-insured-not-the-public http://www.firefighterfoundation.org.uk/history/ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Smallpox: BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2007_14_fri.shtml BBC Radio 4 Science Stories: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lady-mary-montagus-smallpox-experiment/id1112598040?i=1000426901064 US National Library of Medicine: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html Who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Eamonn Gearon for the National Trust: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/who-was-lady-mary-wortley-montagu Boston University School of Public Health: http://sphweb.bumc.bu.edu/otlt/MPH-Modules/EP/EP713_Causality/EP713_Causality2.html World Health Organisation: https://www.who.int/biologicals/vaccines/smallpox/en/ The Wellcome Foundation http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2016/05/lady-montagu-and-the-introduction-of-inoculation/ Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, Mary Lindemann, University of Miami - August 2010 http://services.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/european-history-after-1450/medicine-and-society-early-modern-europe-2nd-edition?format=PB This Podcast Will Kill You, Episode 3: Gnarlypox https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/2018/02/10/episode-3/