Join us for season 2 of Not Current News. The podcast that looks at the lesser known weird and wonderful events that have happened throughout history. 

In season 2 we'll be covering events such as the French aversion to potatoes, the goldfish swallowing craze that swept 1930's college campuses across America and the great London Beer Flood of 1814. 

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Join Matthew Duncan as he takes a brief look at how an opportunistic onion farmer in 1950’s Chicago influenced the box office return of modern-day Hollywood movies.  

You can get in touch with us via Facebook @NotCurrentNews, on Twitter @NotCurrentPod, on Instagram @NotCurrentNewsPodcast or you can email us at notcurrentnews@gmail.com. 

References 

Block, A., 2021. Wall Street reform bill bans box office trading. [online] U.S. Available at: [Accessed 1 October 2021]. 

En.wikipedia.org. 2021. Chicago Mercantile Exchange - Wikipedia. [online] Available at: [Accessed 1 October 2021]. 

En.wikipedia.org. 2021. Onion Futures Act - Wikipedia. [online] Available at: [Accessed 1 October 2021]. 

En.wikipedia.org. 2021. Vincent Kosuga - Wikipedia. [online] Available at: [Accessed 1 October 2021]. 

Greising, D. and Morse, L., 1991. Brokers, bagmen, and moles. New York: Wiley. 

Lambert, E., 2010. The Futures: The Rise of Speculator and Origins of the World's Biggest Markets. New York: Basic Books. 

Npr.org. 2021. Planet Money - Episode 657: The Tale Of The Onion King. [online] Available at: [Accessed 29 September 2021]. 

Nytimes.com. 2021. Opinion | Trading in Fantasy (Published 2010). [online] Available at: [Accessed 2 October 2021]. 

TIME.com. 2021. COMMODITIES: Odorous Onions. [online] Available at: [Accessed 1 October 2021]. 

Join Matthew Duncan as he takes a brief look at how a region of the UK with a population of about 2,000 was at war with a county of almost 20 million people for 335 years.  

You can get in touch with us via Facebook @NotCurrentNews, on Twitter @NotCurrentPod, on Instagram @NotCurrentNewsPodcast or you can email us at notcurrentnews@gmail.com

*Correction* The Isles of Scilly are located above the western tip of France not the eastern tip.    

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Donald, G., 2012. Loose Cannons. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd, p.269. 

En.wikipedia.org. 2021. Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War - Wikipedia. [online] Available at: [Accessed 20 September 2021]. 

Fukuyama, F., 2018. The Last English Civil War. Daedalus, 147(1), pp.15-24. 

Groenveld, S., 1987. The English Civil Wars as a Cause of the First Anglo-Dutch War, 1640–1652. The Historical Journal, 30(3), pp.541-566. 

Hemmings, J., 2021. The Three Hundred & Thirty-Five Years’ War – The Longest War In History. [online] WAR HISTORY ONLINE. Available at: [Accessed 21 September 2021]. 

Historic UK. 2021. The 335 Year War - The Isles of Scilly vs the Netherlands. [online] Available at: [Accessed 21 September 2021]. 

HISTORY. 2021. English Civil Wars. [online] Available at: [Accessed 21 September 2021]. 

Hochberg, L., 1984. The English Civil War in Geographical Perspective. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 14(4), p.729. 

Mortimer, M., 1991. The Longest War. The Contemporary Review, 259(1507), pp.91-92. 

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