What The History Podcast

The Balls of Victims and Icelandic Self Discovery

Suzie celebrates The Victims Ball and Trevor finds a strange tale of a missing woman in Iceland.

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THE VICTIMS BALL

History.com n.d, ‘8 Things You May Not Know About The Guillotine’ http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/8-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-guillotine

Schechter R 1998, Gothic Thermidor: The Bals des victimes, the Fantastic, and the Production of Historical Knowledge in Post-Terror France, No. 61, Special Issue: Practices of Enlightenment (Winter, 1998), University of California Press, p. 78 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2902948?seq=1#fndtn-page_scan_tab_contents

Wikipedia 2016, ‘Bals des Victimes’ and ‘Jean-Paul Marat’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bals_des_victimes and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat

Versailles Gossip, n.d, ‘Womens Fashions Under the Influence of Guillotine’ https://versaillesgossip.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/womens-fashions-under-the-influence-of-guillotine/

WOMAN SEARCHES FOR HERSELF IN ICELAND

Report: Missing tourist in Iceland joins search for herself – NBC News

Lost Woman Looks for Herself in Iceland’s Highlands – Iceland Review On Line

Kon­an fund­in – tók þátt í leit­inni að sjálfri sér – www.mbl.is (via Google Translate)