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.  

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*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. 

Web.archive.org. 2021. World Notes Britain - TIME. [online] Available at: [Accessed 21 September 2021].   

Join Matthew Duncan as he explores martial arts, sabotage and subterfuge all within the context of Suffragette history. 

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 

BBC News. 2021. 'Suffrajitsu': How the suffragettes fought back using martial arts. [online] Available at: [Accessed 8 September 2021]. 

Century, 2., 2021. Jujitsu suffragettes. [online] HistoryExtra. Available at: [Accessed 9 September 2021]. 

En.wikipedia.org. 2021. Suffrajitsu - Wikipedia. [online] Available at: [Accessed 8 September 2021]. 

Scottisharchivesforschools.org. 2021. Sufragettes - Emmeline Pankhurst, April 1914 - Statement by Mr Thomson. [online] Available at: [Accessed 8 September 2021]. 

Suffrajitsu.com. 2021. “Escapes and Adventures” | Suffrajitsu. [online] Available at: [Accessed 9 September 2021]. 

Wolf, T. and Vieira, J., 2015. Suffrajitsu: The Collected Edition (Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons). 1st ed. [ebook] Jet City. Available at: [Accessed 1 July 2021]. 

Women's History Network. 2021. Suffrajitsu – The Jiu Jitsu Teacher of the Woman’s War. [online] Available at: [Accessed 9 September 2021]. 

Join Matthew Duncan as he takes a brief look at an epidemic unlike any other. 

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 

Archive.org. 2021. Full text of "Religious Dances". [online] Available at: [Accessed 1 September 2021]. 

Backman, E., 1952. Religious Dances in the Christian Church and in Popular Medicine. Allen and Unwin. 

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Waller, J., 2009. A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518. Icon Books. 

Web.archive.org. 2021. 'Dancing Plague' and Other Odd Afflictions Explained : Discovery News. [online] Available at: [Accessed 1 September 2021]. 

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Join Matthew Duncan as he delves into stories from an Olympic Games unlike any other in modern history.

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

Join us as we take a brief look at the the lesser known weird and wonderful events that have happened throughout history. 

Released every other Monday, our podcast episodes are all between 10 and 20 minutes in length. Long enough to entertain but no so long that we overstay our welcome.

It‘s essentially the news, just Not Current News.

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