This 2019 episode covers Sylvia of Hollywood, famous in the 1920s and 1930s for shaping up starlets, cementing the idea that Hollywood's beauties were aspirational figures for the average woman.
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The Inventive Mind of Margaret E. Knight
SYMHC Classics: James G. Fair
Behind the Scenes Minis: Divorce, Marriage, and Manners
Six Impossible Episodes: Etiquette Manuals
Divorce Ranches
SYMHC Classics: Ambroise Paré
Behind the Scenes Minis: Arsenic and Arm Prosthetics
Götz of the Iron Hand
Charles Francis Hall and His Mysterious Arctic Death
SYMHC Classics: Stephens Island Wren
Behind the Scenes Minis: Fish Sandwich
Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer and the Coelacanth
Eponymous Foods – Sandwiches Edition
SYMHC Classics: The End of Rinderpest
Behind the Scenes Minis: Source Chasing and Measles Shots
Measles: Historical Highlights
'Doctress' Rebecca Crumpler
SYMHC Classics: Three Astonishing Belles
Behind the Scenes Minis: George and Mad Jack
John ‘Mad Jack’ Mytton
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