Elephants!

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021

In this latest episode, the Unexpected duo, James and Sam, rampage around the archives to trumpet the unexpected history of ELEPHANTS! Which is all about drunken US behemoths, eighteenth-century biological inquiry, pachyderms on stage, a newsworthy postmortems; it’s also all about early twentieth-century museums, and the Duke of Devonshire. Who knew!

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