Episode 31 - Cocaine infused wine and laws that don’t exist

You probably can’t understand it today, but in the 1800s, cocaine infused wine was a thing. So popular in fact, the producers couldn’t produce enough of it to supply consumers needs. In this episode, Harrison learns all about how not one, but two popes loved the product so much that they even went as so far as to advertise it to the general public. Chris meanwhile finds out all about some bonkers English laws that either never were or that did exist but have since been repealed. For example, it might be illegal to kill one of the Queen’s swans, but it isn’t a traitorous act. However there was a time when you couldn’t wear outrageous and monstrous double ruff shirts at Queen Elizabeth I’s court. Because when you’re an autocratic monarch, what you say goes!