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🕑 Added 2021-09-27 23:27:52 +0000 UTCOur theme for September & October is Object History: The History of... Thing!
If you've seen our History of Coffee series, you know that the story of an item or commodity can actually be just as riveting and fascinating as that of a person. Coffee, what a great thing! But what about the other things?
What about commodities like rum, that shaped the Caribbean and naval culture, or chocolate, that went from a ritual substance of the Aztecs to high-end confections in faraway Switzerland? What about gunpowder, sugar, or even electricity—War of the Currents, anyone? Or a series on the history of board games, which were sometimes more about getting into heaven than having fun (you know why they have a spinner? because dice are for gambling!).
Some notes about suggestions:
- If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-off episode instead of a full series, we file it in a separate list to reference later when we are planning to schedule a one-off episode between series (this is true for every survey we do).
- Only one suggestion per person please! Multiple suggestions from the same person during any given survey period will be manually removed.
Comments
JdragonX Plays
It did history of maps
Dannette Tucker
Cloth, including the fiber used to make it. Spinning, weaving, nalbinding and other precursors to knitting, etc. Though I suppose the *whole* topic might be too broad for a single series.
The Rogue Chief
The toilet!... from latrines to outhouses to the modern flushers, and the surprising origin of the name “Crapper” (there’s a reason it’s capitalized...)
Stephen Gentry
Eating Utensils. Forks, Spoons, knives, chopsticks, etc
Clare McDermet
Feminine Hygiene Products.
Brian Rose
I submitted The History of Vodka.
Nimrod
I suggest the history of the Atlantic slave trade
Mercury Rising
My initial thought was radium, but there's probably only enough there for a 1 or 2 parter (discovery, tragedy of the radium girls, uses today). Suggested history of the newspaper instead.
David Chipman
History of the Computer
