The Bones and Bobbins Podcast

S06E01: Local Cults, Formidable Foreheads, and a Haunted Forrest

Join Haley and Natali at their local haunts. Literally. We have utopian cults, 1920s dance parties, and the spirits they've left behin…

Secret cheese caves and dairy divination? Oh, yes. We're getting really cheesy with this one!

Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/episodes/

S05E03: The very Victorian art of dating and the hidden codes in Victorian love letters.

Sit down for a bit of old fashioned Victorian dating advice, flirting etiquette, and fan wielding tips, then…

S05E02: A brief history of love spells and how they’re still being used today.

As long as there have been people, there have been love spells. They’re sometimes beautiful, frequently horny, and nea…

Ever wonder if your silverware was once in a questionable cult? No? Just us?

The Oneida Cult had some truly ahead-of-its-time views on sex and sexuality. And, if their comm…

Because, who doesn’t want an excuse to look for indoor treasures on a crisp, cloudy fall…

S04E07: American islands that never lost their British accents (from the 16 and 1700s) and the unnatural origins of the Transatlantic Accent.

Learn some new (old) phrases from Hoi Toiders, Outer Ba…

S04E06: The USS Recruit (1917), the dreadnought in Union Square, and the Unsinkable Molly Brown

Like real historical stories that are way, way better than their legendary counterparts? Join us on a…

S04E05: Metal detecting, geocaching, and digging up stuff in your own backyard!

It’s digging in the dirt and tromping through the woods season! Come along with us while Haley contemplates metal det…

S04E04: Poisonous Plants and Drury Lane Gardens.

Take a stroll around a garden so dangerous that just walking through it can cause you to faint, then scamper off to the world of London’s pocket par…

S04E03: The lore of black cats, crows, and ravens.

Us, to literally every black cat or corvid we see: Who’re our good little witches’ familiars? Sweet baby omens of doom? The bestest spooky speaker…

S04E02: Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker and Boston bicycling trailblazer Kittie Knox.

Fan of a multi-step beauty routine? (Same.) So, as it happens, was Madam C. J. Walker…

S04E01: Weird pope facts and the bizarro world that is Vatican City/the Vatican/the Holy See.

First: If you’re unfamiliar with the Prince song “Pope,” we highly recommend going down that weird rabb…

S03E17: It’s National Native American Heritage Month, so we’re talking about stone cold badass Madame Marie Dorion, and the many ways in which Native and Indigenous Americans have contributed to medi…

S03E16: Victorian dress reform, the Rational Dress Society, and the history of bicycles.

For Victorian women, bicycles usher in both a newfound freedom and a new wave in practical, flexible fashion…

S03E15: Madame Tussaud and her famed museum of lifelike wax figures, and Grand Guignol, a pioneering theater at the forefront of shockingly realistic body horror.

Marie Tussaud’s exceptional talent…

S03E14: Celebration, Florida and Arcosanti, Arizona: Two very different approaches to building a (mostly failed) utopia.

Learning how to almost successfully thrive in the desert, and why we wouldn’…

S03E12: The spy gadgets of WWII and a married couple–Jonna and Antonio Mendez–who were very real masters of disguise.

Spy craft meets spy crafts with lipstick compasses, pencil daggers, and a truly…

S03E11: The history of women in pants and boobs in fashion.

Ah, yes. The perennial drama of possessing cleavage and/or legs.

Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/08/12/season-3-episode…

S03E10: The Brattleboro Retreat Tower, a Victorian structure tucked away amongst the trees and boulders on a hiking trail in Vermont.

Haley goes solo this week with a tour of one of her new hometow…