Speaker’s Book:

The Myths We Live By, by Mary Midgley.

Nemesis: the Death Star

Online:

• Perturbing the Oort Cloud – American Scientist
• A Star Passed Through the Solar System Just 70,000 Years Ago – Universe Today
• Richard Muller’s Nemesis – Richard Muller
• (Podcast) Nature’s Indestructible Creatures – BBC

Print:

• T-Rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez
• Nemesis: The Death Star, by Richard Muller
• Comet, by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan.

Dandies in the Valley of Death: Crimea 1854

Online:

•  Invasion of the Crimea; its origin, and an account of its progress down to the death of Lord Raglan, by  Alexander William Kinglake (on Archive.org)
• Letters written in the days after doomed mission of Charge of the Light Brigade reveal troops thought orders were ‘perfect madness’ but describe bravery of horsemen – Kieran Corcoran
• The Crimean War letters of Captain Blackett – Cambridge University Special Collections

Print:

• Hell Riders: The Truth about the Charge of the Light Brigade, by Terry Brighton
• The Reason Why, by Cecil Woodham-Smith
• The Charge: The Real Reason why the Light Brigade was Lost, by Mark Adkin
• The Homicidal Earl: The Life of Lord Cardigan, by Saul David
• Letters from the Light Brigade: The British Cavalry in the Crimean War, by Anthony Dawson
• Letters from Head-quarters: Or, The Realities of the War in the Crimea, by Somerset John Gough Calthorpe

Burton, Speke & the Battle for the Nile

Online:

• To the Mountains of the Moon: Mapping African Exploration 1541-1880  – Princeton University
• Bombay Africans: 1850-1910 – Royal Geographical Society
• The Death of John Hanning Speke – Those Who Dared

Print:

• The White Nile, by Alan Moorehead
• Explorers of the Nile, by Tim Jeal
• A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton, by Mary S. Lovell
• The Lake Regions of Central Africa, by Richard Burton 
• Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, by John Hanning Speke
• What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, by John Hanning Speke

Furor Teutonicus: Ancient Rome’s Problem with Germany

Online:

• The Ambush That Changed History: An amateur archaeologist discovers the field where wily Germanic warriors halted the spread of the Roman Empire – Smithsonian
• The Battle in the Teutoburg Forest – Livius.org
• (Video) The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9 C.E.) – Youtube

Print:

• The World’s Foremost Military Historians Imagine What Might Have Been, by Robert Crowley
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
• Rome’s Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest, by Adrian Murdoch
• Roman History, Marcus Paterculus

17th Century Poetry Slam: the Hubris of Ben Jonson

Online:

• “To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare and What He Hath Left Us” – Ben Jonson 
• The Man Who Knew Shakespeare – Robert Giroux
• (Video) Shakespeare: Ben Jonson, The Kennedy Center – Youtube

Print:

• Shakespeare and Jonson: Their Reputations in the Seventeenth Century Compared, by Gerald Eades Bentley
• Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, by Granville George Greenwood
• Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont And Fletcher, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Life, Lies, and Exhumations of Charles Augustus Howell

Online:

• The Worst Man in London – Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
• Who’s Been a Naughty Boy – Fanny Cornforth
• Pre-Raphernalia – Raine Szramski

Print:

• Helen Rossetti Angeli, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Friends and Enemies, by Helen Rossetti Angeli,
• Pre-Raphaelite Twilight, the Story of Charles Augustus Howell, by Helen Rossetti Angeli
• The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Daen de Leon, Barbara North, Annetta Black, Arthur Kay, Michelle Larson, and Cody Nichols. Thank you!