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/