Join Tom, David and their guest, historic reenactor Chase Day, as they uncover the story of Jac Jorgenson, and discuss the rich tradition of women in the military. See below for our gallery of remarkable female fighters, courtesy of Chase’s Facebook group Bob the Reenactor.
John ‘Jac’ Jorgenson (or Jorgensen) moved to country Victoria in the 1800s, worked as a farmhand and joined the local mounted rifles. But not everything in their life was as it seemed and upon their death their carefully constructed life story came unraveled.
Cast
- Collin van Uden
Journalist - Emil Freund
Newspaper Editor, Farmer Bailey, Major Hoad, Dr Haarse - Wes Scott:
Farmhand, Mr McColl - Ben Marshall:
Jac’s Friend, Colonel Price, Dr McGillivray, Constable Bennett - Rebecca O’Callaghan:
Theresa Newman (Jac’s sister)
Frances Clayton aka Jack Williams fought alongside her husband in the US Civil War 
Pirates Ann Bonny and Mary Read depicted in 1724 
Maud Butler who twice attempted to enlist during WWI 
Pirate Mary Read wins a duel 
Julie d’Aubigny – French Renaissance Bisexual Duelest and Opera Singer 
The great female samurai, Tomoe Gozen from The Tale of the Heike 
Albert Cashier adopted the identity of a man before enlisting in the US Civil War, and maintained it for the remainder of her life. 
Highly accomplished 19th century US Duelest Ella Hattan, “Jaguarina”. 
Another image of Ella Hattan, the Jaguarina
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Are you guys doing more of these? They’re awesome!
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Thanks Scott, I cannot express enough how much we appreciate the feedback 🙂
We sure are, only we’ve had a huge delay getting starting this year for 101 reasons. But, the good news! We have an episode fully recorded about the disturbing history of Ararat Asylum and in the editing phase right now which we hope to release within a fortnight. Sorry for the wait. In the meantime, you may not have noticed the Woady Yalloack Historical Society kindly let us host their very amusing recreation of a most unusual court case. Check that out to tide you over: https://talesfromratcity.com/woady-yaloak/
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Great podcast. I think you may find Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett interesting …
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Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett may interest you…
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