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The Bones and Bobbins Podcast3 - Postage Play and Courting: Love Victorian StyleS05E03: The very Victorian art of dating and the hidden codes in Victorian love letters.
Sit down for a bit of old fashioned Victorian dating advice, flirting etiquette, and fan wielding tips, then cozy up by the fire to search for hidden meanings within the latest sweet missive penned by your most beloved. So many rules! So much mail!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2024/03/05/season-5-episode-03
2024-03-061h 48The Bones and Bobbins Podcast2 - The Bewitching and Beguiling Power of Love SpellsS05E02: A brief history of love spells and how they’re still being used today.
As long as there have been people, there have been love spells. They’re sometimes beautiful, frequently horny, and nearly always ethically questionable. They also might make you want to hide your fingernails, put off buying supplies for that candle-making project, and never buy stick pins again. Which is all to say that love spells are messy. Just like emotions, and just like all of us.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2024/02/05/season-5-episode-02
2024-02-061h 43The Bones and Bobbins Podcast1 - Putting the Cult in CutleryS05E01: The Oneida Cult.
Ever wonder if your silverware was once in a questionable cult? No? Just us?
The Oneida Cult had some truly ahead-of-its-time views on sex and sexuality. And, if their community hadn’t also included a dark shadow of appalling abuse towards its teenage members, this could have been a very different podcast episode. (Alas, no.) But, it may surprise you to know that, even today, this strange cult’s legacy continues to live on in a very unexpected place: our cutlery drawers.
Show notes: https://www.bonesa...
2024-01-231h 00The Bones and Bobbins Podcast8 - Where Did You Find That Key? Secret Drawers, Hidden Compartments, and Locked CabinetsS04E08: The secret drawers, hidden compartments, and locked cabinets nestled into pieces of antique furniture.
Because, who doesn’t want an excuse to look for indoor treasures on a crisp, cloudy fall day?
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/10/13/season-4-episode-08
2023-10-131h 00The Bones and Bobbins Podcast7 - Wait. Where did YOU come from?S04E07: American islands that never lost their British accents (from the 16 and 1700s) and the unnatural origins of the Transatlantic Accent.
Learn some new (old) phrases from Hoi Toiders, Outer Banks Brogue speakers, and the folks who live on Tangier Island, Smith Island, and other isolated seafaring outposts in the Chesapeake Bay who never quite lost their British accents. Then, brace yourself, because the engineered linguistic weirdness that is the Transatlantic Accent is coming for you from a past that never was!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/07/28/season-4-episode-07
2023-07-291h 42The Bones and Bobbins Podcast6 - Dreadnought, Sink NotS04E06: The USS Recruit (1917), the dreadnought in Union Square, and the Unsinkable Molly Brown
Like real historical stories that are way, way better than their legendary counterparts? Join us on a trip back through time and experience the United States’ plan to increase wartime recruitment by commissioning a fully crewed warship that was stationed in the middle of Union Square in Manhattan, then meet the absolute powerhouse that was Titanic survivor, philanthropist, socialite, and political move-maker Margaret Brown, aka the Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/06/14/season-4-episode-06
2023-06-141h 09The Bones and Bobbins Podcast5 - Traysure!S04E05: Metal detecting, geocaching, and digging up stuff in your own backyard!
It’s digging in the dirt and tromping through the woods season! Come along with us while Haley contemplates metal detecting, breaking the law, and digging up her basement, and Natali goes on a fantastic geocaching and letterboxing adventure (and also partakes in some light botanical thievery).
Note: We had a slight Mercury-in-retrograde-related sound kerfuffle. Some of Haley's audio might sound a bit echoey.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/05/15/season-4-episode-05
2023-05-161h 29The Bones and Bobbins Podcast4 - The Deadly GardenS04E04: Poisonous Plants and Drury Lane Gardens.
Take a stroll around a garden so dangerous that just walking through it can cause you to faint, then scamper off to the world of London’s pocket parks for a wholesome reinvention of a place with a deadly past.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/04/13/season-4-episode-04
2023-04-131h 23The Bones and Bobbins Podcast3 - Paws, Claws, and Caws: The Lore of Black Cats, Crows, and RavensS04E03: The lore of black cats, crows, and ravens.
Us, to literally every black cat or corvid we see: Who’re our good little witches’ familiars? Sweet baby omens of doom? The bestest spooky speakers of truth ever?
Corvids and black cats:
Us: YES YOU ARE!!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/03/18/season-4-episode-03
2023-03-181h 26The Bones and Bobbins Podcast2 - Beauty and the BikesS04E02: Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker and Boston bicycling trailblazer Kittie Knox.
Fan of a multi-step beauty routine? (Same.) So, as it happens, was Madam C. J. Walker, who built a national beauty empire while providing a path for other Black women to build businesses of their own. Meanwhile, over in Boston, Kittie Knox was riding and racing her bicycle, charming reporters, and challenging the idea that the sport was solely the domain of white men.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/02/12/season-4-episode-02
2023-02-121h 18The Bones and Bobbins Podcast1 - You Can Be the President, I’d Rather Be the PopeS04E01: Weird pope facts and the bizarro world that is Vatican City/the Vatican/the Holy See.
First: If you’re unfamiliar with the Prince song “Pope,” we highly recommend going down that weird rabbit hole. It’s where we got the title for this episode. We’ll wait…
Okay! Now that you have that cheery bit of mood music under your belt, let us take you on a somewhat questionable trip through the land of papal frippery, where we’ll discover the truth about the pope hammer, stop for a look at the ho...
2023-01-192h 12The Bones and Bobbins Podcast17 - Indigenous BadasseryS03E17: It’s National Native American Heritage Month, so we’re talking about stone cold badass Madame Marie Dorion, and the many ways in which Native and Indigenous Americans have contributed to medicine and public health, from baby bottles, to pain killers, to early syringes!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/11/30/season-3-episode-17
2022-12-011h 10The Bones and Bobbins Podcast16 - Feminism on WheelsS03E16: Victorian dress reform, the Rational Dress Society, and the history of bicycles.
For Victorian women, bicycles usher in both a newfound freedom and a new wave in practical, flexible fashion: Pants!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/10/23/season-3-episode-16
2022-10-241h 42The Bones and Bobbins Podcast15 - Waxing DramaticS03E15: Madame Tussaud and her famed museum of lifelike wax figures, and Grand Guignol, a pioneering theater at the forefront of shockingly realistic body horror.
Marie Tussaud’s exceptional talent brought a spark of (kind of creepy) life to the art and craft of creating wax portraiture, inviting the public to mingle with likenesses of the famous. The masterful craftspeople at Grand Guignol, by contrast, brought a truly dramatic spark of death–and an in-house doctor–to audiences looking for a different kind of thrill.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/10/11/season...
2022-10-121h 44The Bones and Bobbins Podcast14 - There’s No Place Like UtopiaS03E14: Celebration, Florida and Arcosanti, Arizona: Two very different approaches to building a (mostly failed) utopia.
Learning how to almost successfully thrive in the desert, and why we wouldn’t want Disney in charge of our HOAs.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/09/26/season-3-episode-14
2022-09-261h 47The Bones and Bobbins Podcast12 - Professionally SneakingS03E12: The spy gadgets of WWII and a married couple–Jonna and Antonio Mendez–who were very real masters of disguise.
Spy craft meets spy crafts with lipstick compasses, pencil daggers, and a truly ingenious use of foot powder.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/08/27/season-3-episode-12
2022-08-271h 25The Bones and Bobbins Podcast11 - Our Bodies, Our Clothes?S03E11: The history of women in pants and boobs in fashion.
Ah, yes. The perennial drama of possessing cleavage and/or legs.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/08/12/season-3-episode-11
2022-08-131h 54The Bones and Bobbins Podcast10 - The Tower in the Woods: The Brattleboro Retreat TowerS03E10: The Brattleboro Retreat Tower, a Victorian structure tucked away amongst the trees and boulders on a hiking trail in Vermont.
Haley goes solo this week with a tour of one of her new hometown's most notorious haunts, the Brattleboro Retreat tower. Note: The Brattleboro Retreat was formerly known as the Vermont Asylum for the Insane, and some historical references use that name.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/07/31/season-3-episode-10
2022-08-0115 minThe Bones and Bobbins Podcast9 - Fragrance, Flowers, and FatS03E09: Perfume making techniques, enfleurage, and musk.
It's all flowers and frippery...until it's not.
Show notes available Friday: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com
2022-07-161h 41The Bones and Bobbins Podcast8 - Titties & Teeth: Both ShinyS03E08: Boobs and bling: the history of sports bras and custom grills.
Two jock straps walk into a marathon with some pretty mind-blowing mouth jewelry.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/05/21/season-3-episode-08
2022-05-221h 38The Bones and Bobbins Podcast7 - Urban Spelunking We Will Go!S03E07: Abandoned structures and Architectural Salvage.
We don’t want to tell you how to live your lives, but maybe avoid that underground toilet bunker, okay?
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/04/25/season-3-episode-07
2022-04-261h 10The Bones and Bobbins Podcast6 - When the Moon Hits Your Eye, Just Go With ItS03E06: The stories behind the names for full moons and how the moon does (or doesn’t) impact the human body.
Did you know that a blue moon is actually a thing, and that blood moons really do exist? Connect with your inner (North American) moon witch and prepare to be both baffled and delighted by the names we’ve decided to call each month’s full moon. Then, switch to your front-facing camera and examine the science and the spooky behind the effects that the moon might have on your–and everyone else’s–body....
2022-04-091h 30The Bones and Bobbins Podcast5 - You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Play Here: Abandoned PlacesS03E05: Abandoned Waterparks and Neverland Ranch.
The heyday of bad-idea waterparks, when the kids were probably drunk and their 1980s parents decided to just roll the dice on safety, and the dark and over-the-top remnants of Neverland Ranch. (Content warning: We primarily focus on the actual structures and items inside, but do acknowledge the abuse. If that’s something you’d prefer to avoid, skip ahead to Haley’s story.)
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/03/26/season-3-episode-05
2022-03-272h 27The Bones and Bobbins PodcastUpdate: Welp. It Finally Happened.Hello, creepy crafters!
There won't be a new episode this week, because Natali came down with the covid. We decided that excitedly telling each other stories until midnight was probably not the most reasonable road to recovery, so we'll be back as soon as she's feeling up to it! (Probably next week!)
Do I need to remind you not to run with scissors? And wear a mask, too.
-Haley
2022-03-1901 minThe Bones and Bobbins Podcast4 - Dipping a Skull into Private Clubs, Fraternal Orders, and Secret SocietiesS03E04: The Not Terribly Good Club of Great Britain and a fascinating look into the history of fraternities and sororities in the United States.
Private clubs can be fraught with countless problematic behaviors, but our favorite find turned out to be charming, weird, and so successful that it ceased to exist. Meanwhile, back in the US, we learned that the story of the rise of fraternities is as old as the country itself.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/03/04/season-3-episode-04
2022-03-051h 49The Bones and Bobbins Podcast3 - Stick a Pin in ItS03E03: Entomology (insect collecting) and the taxidermy of Walter Potter.
Some people like academic displays with carefully labeled insects, some like kitten weddings. Who are we to judge?
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/02/18/season-3-episode-03
2022-02-191h 25The Bones and Bobbins Podcast2 - Roses Are Red, Your Lips Are BlueS03E02: The history of the valentine and the hypnotic love spell murderer, Dr. Carl Coppolino.
From penning sweet nothings to vinegar valentines, Natali explains why the history of these cards is far more creative–and more grown up–than today’s grade school-geared counterparts. Then, like a rain cloud over your lovenest, Haley ruins everything with a story of hypnosis, heartbreak (in the literal and figurative sense), two states, two mistresses, and probably two murders.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/02/07/season-3-episode-02
2022-02-081h 35The Bones and Bobbins Podcast1 - The Princesses Are Not OkayS03E01: “Princess” Alice Roosevelt, the irrepressible eldest daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, who was pretty much always up to no good, and Princess Alexandra of Bavaria, who was pretty much never up to no good, because she was quite sure that she’d swallowed an entire glass piano.
Choose your anxiety adventure: Attend an unchaperoned ball with Emily Spinach (the snake who is either a boa constrictor or a garter snake; unclear), or believe, with absolute certainty, that something inside you–or maybe even your whole body–is made of glass, and that it could shatt...
2022-01-251h 32The Bones and Bobbins Podcast24 - All is Artificial, All is BriteS02E24: The mind-blowing plot twists of WWII bomber pilot Si Spiegel (and his artificial Christmas trees), and the glittering nostalgia that is a box of Shiny Brite Ornaments
In short, Mr. Spiegel basically WAS his own action movie. And I’m pretty sure Shiny Brite ornaments don’t need an introduction. Just picture a Christmas tree–they’re what’s on it.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/12/24/season-2-episode-24
2021-12-241h 21The Bones and Bobbins Podcast23 - From Mary Sachs to Coco SucksS02E23: Mary Sachs, the Merchant Princess of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Coco Chanel, who was very good at both designing clothes and being a horrifyingly terrible person.
Meet Mary Sachs, a single, immigrant woman who bought herself flowers and then built a department store empire that survived two world wars, and Coco Chanel (yes, that one), who is about two thousand percent more problematic and disappointing than we had imagined. Like, seriously, yikes.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/12/10/season-2-episode-23
2021-12-101h 54The Bones and Bobbins Podcast22 - Certain Death & The Final MakeoverS02E22: Historical ways to confirm death and the art and science of modern embalming practices.
It was really hard for people throughout history to tell exactly how dead the bodies of other people were, so some questionable decisions were made in the pursuit of confirmation. (Including one involving invisible ink and a very dramatic reveal!) But, now that we’re a bit better at making sure we’re not burying folks alive, that scientific enthusiasm and creative ingenuity is being applied to methods to make bodies look LESS dead. So we’ve come full circle...
2021-11-121h 47The Bones and Bobbins Podcast21.5 - Halloween Bonus: Trick or Treat, You DecideA Halloween bonus episode featuring Natali and the girls. ("The girls" being Natali's delightful and witchy teen daughters, who came to Haley's rescue!)
Once upon a Halloween week weary, a book deadline and a black cat shook things up dearly. So a witch grabbed her kids, all two, and lo chaos did ensue. Consider it a trick though meant as a treat, this episode comes with love and a bit un-neat.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/10/29/halloween-bonus-season-2-episode-21-5
2021-10-291h 07The Bones and Bobbins Podcast21 - The First Femmes of ForensicsS02E21: Kate Warne, the heroic first woman Pinkerton detective, and Pearl Tytell, handwriting detective and trailblazing forensic document examiner.
When you need a tricky job done, you have to hire the best! As the first lady detective, Kate Warne’s work with the Pinkertons opened new investigative doors for the agency, helped foil a presidential assasination plot, and paved the way for the creation of the CIA. (We’re also told that she did a fabulous southern belle cosplay.) Pearl Tytell’s groundbreaking document investigation techniques exposed fraud in the highest levels of the governm...
2021-10-151h 37The Bones and Bobbins Podcast20 - Living NightmaresS02E20: Slender Man and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Whether written at the dawn of a nation or crowd-sourced on the internet, all urban legends hold within them at least a tiny kernel of truth. Here’s what happens when those distorted stories stop being fiction and become real living nightmares.
(Heads up: The first story involves violence against children. Listen at your own discretion.)
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/10/01/season-2-episode-20
2021-10-012h 00The Bones and Bobbins Podcast19 - She Walks in Beauty Like a Fright?S02E19: Mrs. Margaret Smith-Wilkinson, nicknamed the Countess of Monte Cristo, and Lady Jane Lewson, the possible real life inspiration for Miss Havisham.
Come meet a hotel mogul turned high society con artist (who probably wasn’t a black widow), and the enigmatic walking fire hazard that might have inspired Dickens’ fictional jilted bride; two women whose actual lives are truly the stuff of fiction.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/09/17/season-2-episode-19
2021-09-171h 48The Bones and Bobbins Podcast18 - Wicked StitchesS02E18: Woven spells, sewing magic, and the history of spinsters.
Is there someone in your life who knits with glass needles, spins their own yarn, sews their own patterns, or dyes their own thread? Yes? Well, we strongly discourage getting on their bad side. You know, just in case they decide to throw that project into the fire.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/09/03/season-2-episode-18
2021-09-031h 37The Bones and Bobbins Podcast17 - Whoa, Mama!S02E17: Personal Ghost Stories and Haley’s Haunted Mom.
I mean, who doesn’t want to hear stories about a spooky local legend, a whispering apparition, a 1970s UFO, and Haley’s mom talking about the little girl ghost in her hall who looks just a bit too familiar?
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/08/20/season-2-episode-17
2021-08-201h 45The Bones and Bobbins Podcast16 - Fashion and FunctionS02E16: Sewing spacesuits and the science lab at the Eiffel Tower.
Did you know that the Eiffel Tower doubles as art and science? It’s true! Also true: sewing a space suit is hard, and then your work gets shredded.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/08/06/season-2-episode-16
2021-08-061h 36The Bones and Bobbins Podcast15 - Make All the Bones About ItS02E15: Catacomb saints and the Sedlec Ossuary.
Here for all of your bejeweled skeleton and fancy skull garland needs!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/07/23/season-2-episode-15
2021-07-231h 39The Bones and Bobbins Podcast14 - Fizzle and BangS02E14: The doctor-prescribed history of condoms and vibrators.
From “American tips” to hysteria treatments (and, somehow, maybe also bees), the history of getting off is exactly as awkward as you think it is.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/07/09/season-2-episode-14
2021-07-091h 46The Bones and Bobbins Podcast13 - Come on Baby Light My Fire!S02E13: The history of Summer Solstice celebrations, rituals, and crafts.
You like fire, right? Because, honestly, you’re going to need to like fire for this one.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/06/25/season-2-episode-13
2021-06-251h 19The Bones and Bobbins Podcast12 - Pride & PrejudiceS02E12: Historical queer love letters and lavender languages past and present.
It’s Pride month! Come along with your queer cohosts and meet Rose Cleveland, a gay First Lady, and Evangeline, the love of her life. Then take a moment to soak in the many languages that helped--and still help--queer people connect with and protect each other.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/06/11/season-2-episode-12
2021-06-111h 31The Bones and Bobbins Podcast11 - Not So Mellow YellowS02E11: Dr. Cyr, the father of School Bus Yellow, and the concerningly yellow canary girls of WWI.
Step right up and learn why school buses are bright yellow, and one of the many reasons that babies probably shouldn’t be.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/05/28/season-2-episode-11
2021-05-281h 26The Bones and Bobbins Podcast10 - Pearly Whites and Pearly FrightsS02E10: Dentures and false teeth throughout history and street dentist Painless Parker. Chipped porcelain, cocaine, and an actual dental circus with a side of rehab? Obviously, we’re in.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/05/14/season-2-episode-10
2021-05-141h 43The Bones and Bobbins Podcast09 - Keep Your Filthy Paws Off Our Silky...Parachutes?S02E09: Recycled silk parachutes and garments made from escape and evade maps. Honestly, what’s hotter than lingerie made from the very map that helped your hot RAF pilot boyfriend escape the Nazis? Nothing! The romance novel practically writes itself.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/04/30/season-2-episode-09
2021-04-301h 04The Bones and Bobbins Podcast08 - If These Graves Could TalkS02E08: Interesting epitaphs and headstone symbology. Thanks to chisels, stone, and, for some reason, zebras, the dead don’t need to be ghosts to communicate with the living!
(If you can explain the zebras, please get in touch. We’re so confused.)
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/04/16/season-2-episode-08
2021-04-161h 45The Bones and Bobbins Podcast07 - Don’t Ever Laugh as a Hearse Goes ByS02E07: Green burials, body farms, and the inner workings of tombs, vaults, and mausoleums: We jump into the world of burial and interment, and somehow come out on Team Mausoleum. (We’ll also take Team Grad Student Road Trip, pending availability.)
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/04/02/season-2-episode-07
2021-04-021h 26The Bones and Bobbins Podcast06 - Witches Get Shit DoneS02E06: The Night Witches (the Nazi-bombing war heroes), and Lilith, the original Night Witch (possibly a demon, a goddess, or Adam’s first wife): These badass babes have at least one thing in common: if they’re around, you definitely won’t be getting any sleep.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/03/19/season-2-episode-06/
2021-03-191h 27The Bones and Bobbins Podcast05 - It's Cursed, Don't Touch ItS02E05: The Ring of Senicianus (The Real ‘One Ring to Rule Them All’ that inspired Tolkein?) and the Prague Orloj: Meet a cursed Roman artifact that just might lead to Hobbits and an astronomical clock with a rumored penchant for murder. (This is why we can’t have nice historic things.)
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/03/05/season-2-episode-05/
2021-03-051h 13The Bones and Bobbins Podcast04 - Black Crape and Black WidowsS02E04: Mourning attire and practices and black widow murderers: You know, when you think about it, it’s actually kind of unclear which one of these categories is more deadly.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/02/19/season-2-episode-04/
2021-02-192h 36The Bones and Bobbins Podcast03 - A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words, but Jewelry Keeps Talking ForeverS02E03: Post-mortem photography and mourning jewelry: It’s not all sunshine and hair locks, my friends.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/02/05/season-2-episode-03/
2021-02-051h 30The Bones and Bobbins Podcast02 - Mom, Why Does She Look Like She’s Sleeping? Anatomical Venuses and Medical CuriositiesS02E02: Anatomical Venuses, waxwork models, Gunther von Hagens’ innovations in full body plastination, and the marriage of art and science: Let’s take a moment, shall we, to drop in on a dissectable, completely inexplicably orgasmic wax woman or two? Or maybe you’d prefer a mid-kick soccer player who’s just casually stepped out of his skin? Good news! You can totally see both, because, turns out, science and art play together quite nicely!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/01/22/season-2-episode-02/
2021-01-221h 21The Bones and Bobbins Podcast01 - What Am I Supposed to Do With This Tooth? Creepy Gifts Both Old and NewS02E01: Magic candles, dueling flower encyclopedias, and the creepiest gifts of all time: No human skin lampshades or tooth-bejeweled underthings were waiting under the tree for these podcast hosts! We both received delightfully witchy, but still relatively normal gifts this holiday season. (But, there’s always next year!)
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2021/01/08/season-2-episode-01/
2021-01-081h 31The Bones and Bobbins Podcast18 - Wishing You a Tragically Victorian ChristmasS01E18: Victorian Christmas Candle Fires and Creepy Holiday Traditions: We don’t want to tell you how to live your lives, but maybe don’t mix candles with indoor evergreens. Or alcohol with...anything. Because, Victorian times, they were deeply flammable.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/12/18/season-1-episode-18/
2020-12-181h 38The Bones and Bobbins Podcast17 - Step into the Spirit Cabinet: Medium Frauds and Cottingley FairiesS01E17: Spiritualists, Fraudulent Mediums, and the Cottingley Fairies: You can question the trustworthiness of spirit mediums all you want, but we still wouldn’t recommend fucking with the Fae. Ever.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/12/04/season-1-episode-17/
2020-12-041h 42The Bones and Bobbins Podcast16 - Talking Tarot: Pick a Card, Any Card…S01E16: Tarot History, Tarot Cards, and Pamela Colman Smith:
Shuffle the deck and determine your fate! Unless, of course, you’re a woman called Pixie in the 1900s. If you are, then I’m very sorry. Your fate is probably to illustrate the most recognizable deck of tarot cards around, and then get exactly zero credit for it for the next century or so.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/11/20/season-1-episode-16/
2020-11-201h 30The Bones and Bobbins Podcast15 - Please Step Away from the Talking BoardS01E15: Talking boards, spirit boards, Ouija boards: so many names, and so many ways to contact the beyond and/or open up a demon portal to hell. (Or, so says pop culture.) Believe what you want and do what you will--even make one for yourself, if you feel so inclined--but never EVER forget to say goodbye before you turn out the lights.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/11/06/season-1-episode-15/
2020-11-061h 28The Bones and Bobbins Podcast14.5 - Halloween Bonus: The Oddities at the 1893 Chicago World’s FairS01E14.5: Down to its name, the 1893 World’s Fair: The Columbian Exhibition was as problematic as it was dazzling. So, once again, we’d like to set some ground rules: 1. Actual human beings should never, ever be used as amusing exhibits, 2. the world extends farther than the US and Europe, 3. you really shouldn’t assassinate the mayor, and 4. if you think that labeling an exhibit with a slur is a good idea, you’re an asshole. Wine fountains, however, are always welcome, as are desserts. Additionally, we can also confirm that modern-day Brooklyn folks would have fit in quite ni...
2020-10-2851 minThe Bones and Bobbins Podcast14 - H. H. Holmes, Making a Murder CastleS01E14: The life of serial killer H. H. Holmes (Herman Webster Mudgett) and the creation of His Murder Castle. (Part 1 in a 4-part Halloween series, including 2 main episodes and 2 episodes for our supporters on Patreon!)
H. Holmes is a legendary serial killer with a bad habit of amassing extra wives, and a reputation for luring young women into his deadly hotel during the leadup to the 1893 World’s Fair: Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World’s Fair). Except, was the Murder Castle even a hotel at all? And was there actually a disse...
2020-10-232h 05The Bones and Bobbins Podcast13 - When Witches Were WaltzingS01E13: Samhain and Halloween history, witchcraft crafts (corn dollies/corn mothers, witch bells, and candles), and creating your own witchcraft altar.
As we descend into this year’s Spooky Season, we would just like to say that things maybe wouldn’t have been so messy with this Samhain/Halloween stuff if Constantine had properly hydrated. But, nobody asked us. So, instead, we’ll take you on a trip through some abridged pagan history, Haley will walk you through the sparkly treasures atop her witchcraft altar (and tell you how to set up your own), and Nat...
2020-10-091h 44The Bones and Bobbins Podcast12 - Flowers, but Not in the Attic?S01E12: The Victorian Language of Flowers (Floriography), Victorian Botanical Scrapbooks (Herbariums), and Seaweed Hunters.
This week, we learned that you can, in fact, send death threats to your enemies by way of harmless-looking flower bouquets. (Who knew?! Well, apparently the Victorians.) Then we meandered through the colorful world of botanical scrapbooking, which, for upper class Victorian women, turned out to be an unexpected pathway to independent adventures and a subtle way for them to be exposed to science at a time when they would otherwise be completely barred from that knowledge.
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2020-09-251h 48The Bones and Bobbins Podcast11 - Knit One, Spy TwoS01E11: Wartime Crafting: Girl Guide Spies and Knitting in Codes
You've probably heard of the Girl Guides (and Girl Scouts), but did you know that they were properly badass in WWI and WWII? And, if knitting patterns have ever looked kind of like a secret code to you? Well, there might be a good reason for that!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/09/11/season-1-episode-11/
2020-09-111h 13The Bones and Bobbins Podcast10 - You Want Me to Put What in That Bottle?!S01E10: Witch Bottles and Tomb Curses.
Can we please all just agree not to open the tomb, drink the mystery liquid, or make glass bottles filled with nails and pins to explode in fires?
2020 doesn't need any excuses to get weirder or more terrifying, okay?
Show notes here: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/08/28/season-1-episode-10/
2020-08-281h 39The Bones and Bobbins Podcast09 - Was That One or Two Eyes of Newt?S01E09: The History of Grimoires and How to Make One.
Join us today in the restricted area of the Curiosity Shop, where a squeaky old library cart holds grimoires aplenty!
Please note that the Curiosity Shop adheres to a strict no demon summoning policy to all browsers without proper credentials.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/08/14/season-1-episode-9/
2020-08-141h 16The Bones and Bobbins Podcast08 - If It Moves, Run!S01E08: Mannequins, Automatons, and a Trip into Hell’s Own Uncanny Valley.
Did that automaton just move? And how long has that mannequin been standing behind me? Hello? Is anybody here?
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/07/31/season-1-episode-8/
2020-07-311h 29The Bones and Bobbins Podcast07 - Corsets: It’s a Cinch!S01E07: Historical, Medical, and Modern Corsets.
In this episode, Haley and Natali discuss sexy potential death traps and boobs. So very many boobs.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/07/17/season-1-episode-7/
2020-07-171h 27The Bones and Bobbins Podcast06 - And That’s an UnwrapS01E06: Making Mummies, Mummy Unwrapping Parties, and Mummy Brown Paint.
In this episode, Haley and Natali cuss out Victorian colonizers while unwrapping the oddly endearing mysteries of mummification. As one does.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/07/03/season-1-episode-6/
2020-07-031h 28The Bones and Bobbins Podcast05 - Dolls, Creepy Lil BastardsS01E05: Frozen Charlotte Dolls and Victorian Mourning Dolls.
You know what situation both Haley and Natali will nope right on out of? Creepy dolls. Whether they’re ceramics inspired by a morbid cautionary tale or literal wax copies of Victorian children who passed too soon, there’s just something about these dolls--or any doll, really--that’s always just a tiny bit unsettling. So, come along with us in season 1, episode 5 of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast as we open one of our more securely locked cabinets in the Curiosity Shop and explore the sad origins and clever finish...
2020-06-191h 17The Bones and Bobbins Podcast04 - It Has Pockets!S01E04: Victorian Chatelaines and the History of Pockets in Women’s Clothing.
In season 1, episode 04 of the Bones & Bobbins podcast, Natali explores the somewhat sinister and extremely infuriating history of pockets in women's garments, then Haley swoops in with the Victorian chatelaine, which, honestly, might be even better than having actual pockets. Of course, our listeners will be relieved to know that enterprising women had no trouble finding ways to harbor weapons in both.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/06/05/season-1-episode-4/
2020-06-0535 minThe Bones and Bobbins Podcast03 - What Remains Can Be SeenS01E03: Death Masks, the Unknown Woman of the Seine, and the Paris Catacombs.
Throughout history, death has always been the topic of SO MUCH art. But, in this episode, that art actually IS death itself. Settle in while Haley and Natali discuss the art and craft of death masks (complete with a tangent on rockstar naughty bits), and the never-ending endeavor of turning centuries of bones into architecture in the Paris Catacombs.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/05/22/season-1-episode-3/
2020-05-221h 02The Bones and Bobbins Podcast02 - Deadly ColorsS01E02: Scheele’s Green (Arsenic Green), Cadmium Red, and the Radium Girls.
In this episode, Haley and Natali talk colors that can kill and explore the popularity and grim fate of the glamorous, literally luminous Radium Girls.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/05/22/season-1-episode-2/
2020-05-221h 09The Bones and Bobbins Podcast01 - These Dollhouses Aren’t for KidsS01E01: Mother of Forensic Science Frances Glessner Lee’s Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death and Miyu Kojima’s Miniature Replicas of Lonely Deaths.
In this very first official episode of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Haley and Natali discuss Miyu Kojima and Frances Glessner Lee--two women, worlds and decades apart, who combined craft and death in their own amazing way. One would process death and create an act of public service for the living, the other would birth Forensic Science as we know it today.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2020/05/22/season-1-episode-1/
2020-05-2253 minThe Bones and Bobbins PodcastThe Bones & Bobbins Podcast: Season 01 TrailerThe Bones & Bobbins Podcast launches on May 22, 2020!
The first 3 episodes will go live on launch day, so subscribe now for more crafts-meets-true crime-meets-morbid curiosity creepiness from Haley and Natali!
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