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Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England Jul 20, 2026

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Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was

Sources:

https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html
https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889
https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html
https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/
https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/
https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode
https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero
https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four) Jul 19, 2026

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Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House

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Part Two: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All Jul 15, 2026

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Margaret finished telling you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt

Sources:

https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm

https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html

https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/

https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/

https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621

https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm

https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris

https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/

https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/

https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/

https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/

https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover

https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/

https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone

Oral correspondence

https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania

https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism

https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/

https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

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Part One: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All Jul 13, 2026

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Margaret talks to you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt.

Sources:

https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm

https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm

https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html

https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/

https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/

https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621

https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm

https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris

https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/

https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/

https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/

https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/

https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover

https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/

https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone

Oral correspondence

https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania

https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism

https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/

https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Two of Four) Jul 12, 2026

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Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego

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Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process Jul 08, 2026

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Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art.

Sources:

https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A

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Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process Jul 06, 2026

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Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part One of Four) Jul 05, 2026

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For our longer summer read, Margaret reads you a novella about punk houses and identity and growing up written by a master of the medium

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Part Two: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down Jul 01, 2026

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Margaret continues her talk with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison

Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bring-judgment-day/63271E8000571D588BF52B0F7CA2121E (BJD26 for 20% off)

Sources:

Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/

https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys

https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys

https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly

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Part One: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down Jun 29, 2026

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Margaret talks with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison.

Sources:

Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html