"Olympic" Show Notes and Credits

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Sources

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Sources used in this video:

Bill Mallon & Jeroen Heijmans, Historical Dictionary of the Olympic Movement, 4th ed. (Scarecrow, 2011)

David C. Young, A Brief History of the Olympic Games (Blackwell, 2004)

Martin Lloyd, The Passport: The History of Man’s Most Travelled Document (Queen Anne’s Fan, 2008)

Jane Doulman & David Lee, Every Assistance & Protection: A History of the Australian Passport (The Federation Press, 2008)

Richard W. Butler & Roslyn A. Russell, Giants of Tourism (CABI, 2010)

Carl Thompson, Travel Writing (Routledge, 2011)

Peter Hulme & Tim Youngs, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Travel Writing (CUP, 2002)

Rebecca Butler, “‘Can any one fancy travellers without Murray’s universal red books?’ Mariana Starke, John Murray and 1830s’ Guidebook Culture”, The Yearbook of English Studies 48, Writing in the Age of William IV (2018): 148-170.

Hugh G. Aitken, The Continuous Wave: Technology and American Radio, 1900-1932 (Princeton UP, 1985)

Christopher H. Sterling & John Michael Kittross, Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting, 3rd edition (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002)

N.G.L. Hammond & H.H. Scullard, eds, The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 2nd edition (OUP, 1970)

Simon Hornblower & Antony Spawforth, eds., The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (OPU, 1998)

Bernard Grun, The Timetables of History, 3rd edition (Touchstone, 1991)

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/

Pausanias' description of the Statue of Zeus

Pausanias text

http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/

Summary of Pausanias

"Spanish Flu like coronavirus had affected sports but what happened to 1920 Olympics?" The Bridge

"How the sporting world reacted to the Spanish Flu" RTE

"When World Events Disrupted the Olympics" History.com

"A brief history of the passport" The Guardian

"Mummy of Pharaoh Ramesses II Issued a Passport to Travel to France" Ancient Origins

Wilkinson, John Gardner. A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians. (Murray, 1871).

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Westinghouse_Radio_Station_KDKA,_1920

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History of Passports video

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