In this episode Suzie checks out the Nottingham Cheese Riot and Trevor finds out what he can about Charlotte Badger.

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REFERENCES

NOTTINGHAM CHEESE RIOT

Breese C 2017, ‘Cheese riots and dragoons: The complete history of Nottingham Goose Fair’ https://nottstv.com/cheese-riots-and-dragoons-the-complete-history-of-nottingham-goose-fair-2016/

Patowary K 2020, ‘The Nottingham Cheese Riot of 1766’ https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/11/the-nottingham-cheese-riot-of-1766.html

Rossen J 2021, ‘Revenge of the Curds: Remembering the Great Nottingham Cheese Riot of 1766’ https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/649200/nottingham-cheese-riot-of-1766

Visit Nottinghamshire 2021, ‘The Fantastic History of Goose Fair’ https://www.visit-nottinghamshire.co.uk/blog/read/2019/09/the-fantastic-history-of-goose-fair-b5961

Yarnspinner V 2011, ‘Damn his Charity, we’ll have the Cheese for nought! Nottingham’s Great Cheese Riot & other 1766 Food Riots’ https://peopleshistreh.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/cheeseriotsebook.pdf

CHARLOTTE BADGER

Story: Badger, Charlotte - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand (1990)

Who is Charlotte Badger? - Quiet Mutiny

Charlotte Badger - Rejected Princesses

The first woman settler? - New Zealand History (8 Apr 2016)

Pirate Mystery: the story of Charlotte Badger - Radio National New Zealand (19 Mar 2018)

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 – Cheese - Tim Minchin

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