Spooky season is here, which means Jen finally gets to reveal her ghoulish side to her fellow KILL-ettantes! Enter The Murderkamer and thrill to chilling tales of the darker side of the “City of Lights”.

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The labour history of wrestling concludes with the rise and fall of Vince McMahon, and the reason wrestlers never unionized... in the USA at least.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox joins the Wonderkamer as our first guest as we explore the history of women’s wrestling and the labour conditions of female wrestlers up until the 1990s.

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The golden years of the National Wrestling Alliance are considered some of the best-ever for professional wrestling fans, featuring legendary wrestlers competing in historic matches over a title that truly mattered. At the same time, the NWA functioned as an illegal monopoly, stifling the labour rights of wrestlers and potential competitors. Union executive and wrestling fan Dave explores the many attempts of one wrestler to unionize within the NWA, and why he was doomed from the start.

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Dave begins his epic journey into the history of professional wrestling to learn where professional wrestling comes from, and why they never came even close to forming a union. Part one covers the first hundred years of wrestling in America.

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Part three of our series brings us to the end of the story of the Brontë family. Branwell spirals out of control, while Charlotte, Emily, and Anne secretly work on their poems and novels. Will our three heroines finally publish their works, become famous and rich, and live happily ever after?

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Part two of our three-part series on the Brontës picks up with the 4 remaining Brontë children growing up and trying to decide just what to do with their lives. Brother Branwell tries his hand at various professions -- with disastrous results -- while Charlotte, Anne, and Emily struggle with their more career limited options.

Jen takes the dilettantes back to the early 19th century to explore the peculiar and tragic lives of the Brontë family.

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