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.

For sources and further reading, please visit www.thewonderkamer.ca

20 - Wrestling is Women's Work, part 3 - with Sarah Elizabeth Cox

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.

For sources and further reading, please visit www.thewonderkamer.ca 

19 - Wrestling is Work, part 2 - The National Wrestling Alliance vs Labour Rights

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.

For sources and further reading, please visit www.thewonderkamer.ca 

18 - Wrestling is Work, part 1 - The early history of pro wrestling

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?

For sources and further reading, please visit www.thewonderkamer.ca

17 - This Is the Story of Three Girls - the Brontes, part 3

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.

16 - This Is the Story of Three Girls - the Brontes, part 2

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

For sources and further reading, please visit www.thewonderkamer.ca

Episode 15 - This is the Story of Three Girls - the Brontës, part 1

Tracy takes Jen and Dave into her own sports fandom and the byzantine world of Formula 1. In 2007, a disgruntled Ferrari employee is alleged to have circulated a dossier of top secret technical information to rival McLaren. It then gets strange.

For sources and further reading, please visit www.thewonderkamer.ca

Episode 14 - Spygate

Dave takes The Wonderkamer in a new direction and tackles stories of paleontology. Two hundred fifty-one million years ago, the world was an extremely different place as strange creatures walked out of the swamps onto dry land for the first time. These critters were our ancestors and they ruled the Earth far before the dinosaurs. This is the story of their time on Earth - and their great doom.

For sources and further reading, please visit www.thewonderkamer.ca

Episode 13 - That Time Everything on the Earth Died

Seventeenth-century author Sir Thomas Browne was a true Renaissance man:  a doctor, a scholar, a scientist, and… a mythbuster! In this episode,  Jen will delve into Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Browne’s 1646 compendium debunking hundreds of ancient legends, myths, and old wives’ tales.

12 - Thomas Browne - Renaissance Mythbuster

The complete success of La Croisière Noire leads André Citroën to  attempt the genuinely insane, a full expedition from Beirut to Peking.

For the list of sources, please go to www.thewonderkamer.ca

11 - The Citroën Expeditions, part 2

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Tracy Powell (@anderwell)

Jen, Dave, and Tracy are three dilettantes who are interested in everything! Join us bi-weekly for a new story.