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Not Current News

By: Matthew Duncan
  • Summary

  • Join us as we take a brief look at the the lesser known weird and wonderful events that have happened throughout history. It‘s essentially the news, just Not Current News. Each episode is between 10 and 20 minutes long. Just enough time to learn but not enough to overstay our welcome. New episodes are released on the last Monday of each month (sometimes more often). 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
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Episodes
  • Season 2 Trailer
    May 8 2022

    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. 

     

    You can get in touch with us via Facebook @NotCurrentNews, on Twitter @NotCurrentNewsPod or on Instagram @NotCurrentNewsPodcast

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    1 min
  • How Onions Influenced Hollywood
    Nov 29 2021

    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]. 

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    17 mins
  • The 335 Year War
    Oct 25 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.    

     

    References 

    2021. [online] Available at: [Accessed 22 September 2021]. Atlas Obscura. 2021. The Longest War in the World Had No Casualties. [online] Available at: [Accessed 21 September 2021]. 

    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].   

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    15 mins

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