Gremlins, the deceptively modern fairytale creatures have their fascinating origins in the Second World War. Join Hunter and Shy as they learn about everything from Disney films, Roald Dahl to the Battle of Britain as they uncover the bizarre history of these strange mischevious critters from obscurity to hollywood blockbusters.

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Source List:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gremlin

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2262351?mag=ghosts-in-the-machine&seq=1

https://www.jstor.org/stable/453638?mag=ghosts-in-the-machine&seq=1

https://royalaviationmuseum.com/gremlims/

https://www.nytimes.com/1943/04/11/archives/the-gremlins-reform-an-raf-fable.html?sq=gremlin&scp=54&st=p

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/explore-by-time-period/second-world-war/second-world-war-propaganda-posters/

https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/anniversaries/battle-of-britain/

https://www.rafbf.org/battle-of-britain/about-battle-britain/battle-timeline

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-disney-propaganda-shaped-life-on-the-home-front-during-wwii-180979057/

Conant, Jennet. The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington

https://www.nytimes.com/1943/04/11/archives/the-gremlins-reform-an-raf-fable.html

Largely forgetten by history, but not us, The Princess Alice Disaster was the deadliest boat crash inland of the British Isles. Explore the dangerous lack of regulations in Victorian London that led to the death of over 600 people on the River Thames with Hunter and Shyanne.

Source List:

https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/what-were-londons-pleasure-gardens/

https://www.royalmintmuseum.org.uk/journal/history/pounds-shillings-and-pence/

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/maritime-history/library-archive/drowning-sewage-sinking-princess-alice

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-44800309

The Five, The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold

The erruption of Mount Tambora in 1815 was the largest in recorded history and had massive effects on the global climate causing a summer of no sunshine. Learn from Hunter and Shy about the pandemics, famine and the dramatic effects on weather which inspired the classic horror novels of Frankenstein and Dracula and may have led to the invention of the bicycle.