Tales of History and Imagination
Episodes
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Nellie Bly (Re-Upload)
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
In an age where female reporters were few and far between, and wrote on little more than fashion and gardening - Nellie Bly got locked up in a ‘madhouse’ to expose the horrors of such an institution. In this 10 minute episode Simone discusses her 10 days in a madhouse.
Check back in in a week’s time for a Patreon bonus episode - am playing catch up with those this week.
You can read the blog post of the episode here.
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Music, writing, narration, mixing usually all yours truly. This episode uses an arrangement of Steven Foster’s Beautiful Dreamer under the Asylum scene, played by me.
Main texts: Of course Nellie Bly’s Ten Days in a Madhouse. and articles on The Womans’ History Museum And Encyclopedia Britannica
About the Author: Simone Whitlow is an academic, competitive quizzer, songwriter and musician. She is currently on a multi-year mission infiltrating a giant corporation, probably no less insane than Blackwood Island Asylum.
Transgender, she uses she/her pronouns.
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Jack Parsons - Babalon‘s Rocketeer (Part Two)
Friday Jun 04, 2021
Friday Jun 04, 2021
I may as well leave the content warning up from last fortnight... I don’t know, if you’re prudish I mention sex magick several times in this Tale – though hardly go into detail.. When John Whiteside Parsons – Jack to his friends – died suddenly in an explosion, one may have expected platitudes to the man. As a pioneering rocket scientist, the world - and the future would owe much to his innovations. Instead, all anyone could talk about was the gossip about his lifestyle – and membership to a cult which worshipped a man known as ‘The Great Beast'.
This is part two of the two parter.
You can read the prelude here. Part one here. This episode here.
I also loaded Franklin D Roosevelt’s date which will live in infamy speech, and Aleister Crowley’s Hymn to Pan onto a blog post here.
Please leave a like. Follow the show. Share the channel – it helps Tales grow. I post a new episode every fortnight, Wednesday night New Zealand time.
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You can follow Tales of History and Imagination on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. I also write a weekly Wordpress Blog.
Music, writing, narration, mixing all yours truly.
Main texts Strange Angel by George Pendle, Sex and Rockets, the Occult World of Jack Parsons by John Carter and Robert Anton Wilson. I watched several YouTube videos on Crowley's Gnostic Mass (Liber XV) – which was so far from what I expected it to be... referred to a couple of LA Times articles (Paywalled) about Clifford Clinton, his Clifton's Cafes, Frank Lloyd, and the LA Mafia in the 1920s and 30s, over a year ago. The info on Pearl Harbour was sealed into my brain from high school.
About the Author: Simone Whitlow is an academic, competitive quizzer, songwriter and musician. Meh, I’ve got no personal anecdote for this one...
Transgender, she uses she/her pronouns.