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Highland Haunts and Japery Jaunts

By wthpod February 28, 2018
What The History Podcast
What The History Podcast
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In this episode Suzie visits some battles that didn’t know when to quit and Trevor explores the exploits of a very cheeky man.

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Horace Cole & Virginia Woolf (Source: Public Domain via Creative Commons)

Sources:

HAUNTED BATTLEFIELDS

Castelow E n.d., ‘The Battle of Killiecrankie’, Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/The-Battle-of-Killiecrankie/
Harrington J 2013, ‘Haunted Battlefields: The Ghosts of Flodden’ https://wizzley.com/battlefields-flodden-hauntings/
Harrington J 2013, ‘Haunted Battlefields: The Ghosts of Killiecrankie’ https://wizzley.com/battlefield-killiecrankie-hauntings/
Johnson B n.d., ‘The Battle of Flodden’, Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Battle-of-Flodden/
Johnson B n.d., ‘Phantom Battle of Edgehill’, Historic UK http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Phantom-Battle-of-Edgehill/

HORACE DE VERE COLE

A Fool There Was – The New York Times

King of the pranksters – the uproarious story of the Prime Minister’s brother-in-law – The Daily Mail

Horace de Vere Cole—The Great Prankster of Britain – Historian Hut Biographies

Horace De Vere Cole – The Inquisition

The Pranks of Horace de Vere Cole – The Museum of Hoaxes

William Horace de Vere Cole – Sniggle.net

Downton Was Right About the Prankster in Neville Chamberlain’s Family – Time Magazine

Violet Crawley – Downton Abbey Wiki

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out music – Original Prankster – The Offspring (2000)

All music used under fair use provisions.

 

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