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On the Shelf for May 2026 The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 341 with Heather Rose Jones Your monthly roundup of history, news, and the field of sapphic historical fiction. In this episode we talk about: Say hi at GCLS Recent and upcoming publications covered on the blog Traub, Valerie. 1996. “The Perversion of ‘Lesbian' Desire” in History Workshop Journal 41:19-49. Goode, Dawn M. 2008. “Dueling Discourses: The Erotics of Female Friendship in Mary Pix's ‘Queen Catharine.'” in Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 37–60. McClain, Molly. 2008. “Love, Friendship, and Power: Queen Mary II's Letters to Frances Apsley” in Journal of British Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3: 505-527 Hitchcock, Tim. 1996. “Redefining Sex in Eighteenth-Century England” in History Workshop Journal, No. 41: 72-90 Roulston, Christine. 1998. “Separating the Inseparables: Female Friendship and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century France.” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 215–31. Book Shopping Jane Austen's Bookshelf by Rebecca Romney Recent Lesbian/Sapphic Historical Fiction The Beheading Game by Rebecca Lehmann Consider This My Witness by Madeline Klein Beneath the Quiet Valley (Quiet Valley #1) by Eleanor Foster Beneath the Quiet Valley: Two Lives (Quiet Valley #2) by Eleanor Foster The Water That Remembers (The Woman at the Well #1) by Jade Remintgon The Weight of Staying (The Woman at the Well #2) by Jade Remintgon The Courage to Remain (The Woman at the Well #3) by Jade Remintgon The Mystery of the Bitten Peach by Cecilia Tan Bone of my Bone by Johanna van Veen Miss Woodhouse & Miss Fairfax by Maisie Jardelle The Wives of Herrick Hall by Julie Lew Her Runaway Lady by B.J. Sikes For the Love of the Quest by Alexandra Ammon Parthun The Summer I Met June by Mozie S What I've been consuming Word by Word by Kory Stamper True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color--from Azure to Zinc Pink by Kory Stamper Murder at Sissingham Hall by Clara Benson The Mystery at Underwood House by Clara Benson This month we interview Cecilia Tan and talk about: The fun of genre mash-ups Representing diaspora The relationship of historic stories and time-travel stories Founding SFF erotica publisher Circlet Press Future projects and the joy of pantsing A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.) Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Twitter: @LesbianMotif Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Cecilia Tan Online Website: https://www.ceciliatan.com Instagram: @ctan_writer Bluesky: @ceciliatan.com

The Alliance for Civics in the Academy hosted "How Can Universities Strengthen Civic Education in K–12 Schools?" with Jennifer McNabb, Joshua Dunn, and Jenna Storey on March 4, 2026, from 9:00-10:00 a.m. PT. Universities are increasingly reexamining their role as incubators of effective citizenship. An essential yet often overlooked part of this work is strengthening K–12 civic education. This webinar explores how efforts within higher education can support civic learning in K–12 schools, with particular emphasis on the academy's role in training the next generation of educators. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Meira Levinson is a political theorist/philosopher of education who is working to start a global field of educational ethics that is philosophically rigorous, disciplinarily and experientially inclusive, and both relevant to and informed by educational policy and practice. In doing so, she draws upon scholarship from multiple disciplines as well as her eight years of experience teaching middle school humanities, civics, history, and English in the Atlanta and Boston Public Schools.  Meira has written or co-edited nine books, including Civic Contestation in Global Education and Educational Equity in a Global Context (both 2024, with Ellis Reid, Tatiana Geron, and Sara O'Brien), Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education (2023, co-authored with Jeremy Murphy), Democratic Discord in Schools (2019, with Jacob Fay), winner of the 2020 AERA Moral Development and Education SIG Outstanding Book Award, and Dilemmas of Educational Ethics (2016, with Jacob Fay). Her book No Citizen Left Behind (2012) won awards in political science, philosophy, social studies, and education and has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. Meira shares educational ethics resources on JusticeinSchools.org, materials to support K-12 educators working in politically charged environments at Educational Values in Action, and resources for youth activists and teacher allies at YouthinFront.org. Each of these projects reflects Levinson's commitment to achieving productive cross-fertilization — without loss of rigor — among scholarship, policy, and practice. Meira earned a B.A. in philosophy from Yale and a D.Phil. in politics from Nuffield College, Oxford University. Her work has been supported by fellowships from Guggenheim, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the National Academy of Education. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Meira taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Jennifer McNabb is Professor and Head of the Department of History at the University of Northern Iowa, where she teaches courses on early modern European history and the history of England. She was Co-Chair of UNI's Civic Education Task Force, which created UNI's Center for Civic Education, and she was Co-PI for a National Endowment for the Humanities Connections Grant that developed UNI's first civic education curriculum: "Civic Literacy, Engagement and the Humanities." McNabb is also a Co-PI of a national grant that will establish the Iowa Civic Educators Institute, providing professional development opportunities for in-service and pre-service social studies and history teachers throughout the state. McNabb has received several awards for her teaching and has completed four courses for The Teaching Company's The Great Courses on the Renaissance, witchcraft, sex, and marriage. She currently serves as a Councilor in the Professional Division of the American Historical Association and as president of the Midwest Conference on British Studies. Joshua Dunn (PhD, University of Virginia) serves as Executive Director of the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His research and teaching focus on constitutional law and history, education policy, federalism, and freedom of speech and religion. His books include Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins (University of North Carolina Press), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary's Role in American Education (Brookings Institution Press) and Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University (Oxford University Press).  Moderator Jenna Silber Storey is the Ravenel Curry Chair in Civic Thought in the Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies Division of the American Enterprise Institute, and Co-Director of AEI's Center for the Future of the American University.  She is also an SNF Agora Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a Research Fellow at the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.  She previously taught political philosophy at Furman University, where she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and International Affairs, and Executive Director of Furman's Tocqueville Program.  Her writing has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, First Things, and The National Endowment for the Humanities flagship journal, Humanities.  Dr. Storey is the co-author, with her husband Ben, of Why We Are Restless:  On the Modern Quest for Contentment (Princeton University Press, 2021).  They are currently working on a book titled The Art of Choosing: How Liberal Education Should Prepare You for Life.

"Fumifugium" was a treatise on air pollution written in 1661. In addition to warning about the dangers of coal smoke, John Evelyn wrote this work to improve the reputation of King Charles II. Research: Chambers, Douglas D. C. "Evelyn, John (1620–1706), diarist and writer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. January 03, 2008. Oxford University Press. Date of access 13 Jan. 2026, https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-8996 "Evelyn, John (1620-1706)." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A148426050/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=ab356add. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026. Borunda, Alejandra. “The EPA is changing how it considers the costs and benefits of air pollution rules.” NPR. 1/13/2026. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/13/nx-s1-5675307/epa-air-regulations-health-benefits DeWispelare, Daniel. “’Heavy Fumes of Charcoal Creep into the Brain.’” The 18th-century Common. 5/14/2018. https://www.18thcenturycommon.org/evelyn/ Hovde, Sarah. “A solution for pollution?” Folger Shakespeare Library. 4/21/2017. https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/air-pollution-london-fumifugium/ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “Pamphlet Collection: Fumifugium, by John Evelyn.” Library, Archive & Open Research Services Blog. 7/11/2022. https://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/library/2022/11/07/pamphlet-collection-fumifugium-by-john-evelyn/ Jenner, Mark. (1995) The politics of London air : John Evelyn's 'Fumifugium' and the Restoration. The Historical Journal. pp. 535-551. ISSN: 1469-5103. https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/1550/1/jennerm1.pdf Heidorn, K.C. “A Chronology of Important Events in the History of Air Pollution Meteorology to 1970.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, December 1978, Vol. 59, No. 12 (December 1978). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26219252 Foster, John Bellamy. “Introduction to John Evelyn’s ‘Fumifugium.’” Organization & Environment, June 1999, Vol. 12, No. 2 (June 1999). https://www.jstor.org/stable/26161864 Brimblecombe, Peter. “Interest in Air Pollution among Early Fellows of the Royal Society.” Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Mar., 1978, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Mar., 1978). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/531723 Cavert, William M. “The Environmental Policy of Charles I: Coal Smoke and the English Monarchy, 1624–40.” Journal of British Studies, APRIL 2014, Vol. 53, No. 2 (APRIL 2014). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24701865 Darley, Gillian. “John Evelyn: Britain's First Environmentalist.” Gresham College. 11/12/2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOik751LhHk Surrey Heritage. “John Evelyn (1620 – 1706).” https://www.exploringsurreyspast.org.uk/themes/people/writers/john_evelyn/ Evelyn, John. “Fumifugium.” 1661. https://archive.org/details/fumifugium00eveluoft/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

My guest today on the Online for Authors podcast is Megan Mary, author of the book The Dream Dimensions. Metaphysical author Megan Mary, a dream analyst, intuitive, and mystic, intertwines her passion for personal transformation, magick, and cats with the ethereal realm of dreams.   In addition to a career spanning over twenty-five years creating, managing and marketing websites, she holds a BA and an MA in English Literature, certification in British Studies, is pursuing her PhD in Metaphysical Sciences and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams.   After being diagnosed with three chronic illnesses, she experienced a spiritual awakening. She now empowers women all over the world to live more authentic, aligned, and abundant lives through dream empowerment and mystical guidance. Her podcast, Women's Dream Enlightenment, has been voted as one of the Top 20 Spiritual Awakening Podcasts You Must Follow. When she's not dreaming or weaving digital webs, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two magickal cats.   Megan Mary is available for virtual radio/tv, magazine, podcast and book clubs guest appearances!   Here's the book blurb: During a magickal ritual, Hannah Skye receives a prophetic message. She then encounters a series of seven riddles that lead her to discover there is more to her ancestry than she ever imagined.   Meanwhile, someone has been following her, lurking in the shadows. As she works to deciper the prophecy before Halloween night, Hannah discovers and confronts the destructive force that has influenced the course of her life.   A tale of ancestral healing, this fall-themed final installation of the Witches of Maple Hollow Trilogy brings together mystery, astronomy, alchemy, and dreams to illuminate dimensions beyond time and space.   Subscribe to Online for Authors to learn about more great books! https://www.youtube.com/@onlineforauthors?sub_confirmation=1   Join the Novels N Latte Book Club community to discuss this and other books with like-minded readers: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3576519880426290   You can follow Author Megan Mary Website: www.meganmary.com Social media: IG: @meganmaryauthor X: @MeganMaryAuthor LinkedIn: @Megan Mary Iudice   Purchase The Dream Dimensions on Amazon: Ebook: https://amzn.to/42gKEgE   Teri M Brown, Author and Podcast Host: https://www.terimbrown.com FB: @TeriMBrownAuthor IG: @terimbrown_author X: @terimbrown1   Want to be a guest on Online for Authors? Send Teri M Brown a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/member/onlineforauthors   #terimbrownauthor #authorpodcast #onlineforauthors #characterdriven #researchjunkie #awardwinningauthor #podcasthost #podcast #readerpodcast #bookpodcast #writerpodcast #author #books #goodreads #bookclub #fiction #writer #bookreview *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

What were the top musical hits of Shakespeare's England? What lyrics were stuck in people's heads? What stories did they sing on repeat? The 100 Ballads project is a deep dive into the hits of early modern England—a kind of 17th-century Billboard Hot 100. Drawing from thousands of surviving printed ballads, researchers Angela McShane and Christopher Marsh have ranked the most popular songs of the period. These broadsides—cheaply printed sheets sold for a penny—offer surprising insight into the period's interests, humor, and even news headlines. McShane and Marsh discuss what these ballads tell us about moral norms, sensationalism, and everyday life. Some are instructive, some are bawdy, and some are unexpectedly feminist. This episode brings to life the soundscape of Shakespeare's world with clips from newly recorded versions of the most popular ballads and a look at how the team developed their ranking system. >> Explore the project and hear the songs yourself at www.100ballads.org Christopher Marsh is Professor of Cultural History at Queen's University, Belfast. He has published extensively on various aspects of society and culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. His most relevant book in relation to the 100 Ballads project is Music and society in early modern England (Cambridge, 2010). This is an overview of music-making in the 16th and 17th centuries, and it includes chapters on musicians, dancing, bell-ringing, psalm-singing and, of course, ballads. Angela McShane is an Honorary Reader in History at the University of Warwick. She is a social and cultural historian, researching the political world of the broadside ballad and the political and material histories of intoxicants and the everyday. She has published widely on political balladry, including numerous book chapters, and journal articles in Past and Present, Renaissance Studies, Journal of British Studies, Journal of Early Modern History, Popular Music Journal and Media History. She is also the author of a reference work, Political Broadside Ballads in Seventeenth Century England: A Critical Bibliography (2011). A monograph on the broadside ballad trade and its politics in seventeenth-century Britain is forthcoming with Boydell and Brewer. She is also a Co-Investigator for a related website and book project: “Our Subversive Voice: The history and politics of protest music 1600-2020.” From the Shakespeare Unlimited podcast. Published May 6, 2025. © Folger Shakespeare Library. All rights reserved. This episode was produced by Matt Frassica. Garland Scott is the executive producer. It was edited by Gail Kern Paster. We had help with web production from Paola García Acuña. Leonor Fernandez edits our transcripts. Final mixing services are provided by Clean Cuts at Three Seas, Inc.

**Note the my audio is a bit off but the episode is still fantastic*This episode features Megan Mary, author of "Witches of Maple Hollow," who shares her journey of transforming dreams into captivating stories. We discuss the creative process, overcoming self-doubt, and the significance of drawing inspiration from our unique experiences.  • Insight into the Witches of Maple Hollow series and its themes  • Exploration of the inspiration behind "The Dream Haunters"  • Importance of dreams in creative writing  • The writing process and overcoming self-doubt  • Advice for aspiring authors on creativity and consistency  About the author: Megan Mary is an award-winning metaphysical author and dreamworker that specializes in the analysis of women's dreams to promote transformative personal growth and enlightenment. Founder of Inner Realms Publishing, Women's Dream Analysis and the Women's Dream Enlightenment podcast, she is an intuitive, introvert and mystic. After being diagnosed with three chronic illnesses, she experienced a spiritual awakening. She now works with women all over the world offering dream interpretation, transformative journeys and enlightened guidance. She holds a BA and an MA in English Literature, certification in British Studies, is pursuing her PhD in Metaphysical Sciences and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She lives in Idaho with her husband and two cats.Book Blurb: Hannah Skye, a young woman in search of meaning, receives a cryptic letter from her missing and eccentric Aunt Jewelia. Her experience of a recurring powerful pumpkin patch dream unfolds into a spiritual journey to a mysterious island of eternal autumn, Maple Hollow, where she discovers the mystical Skye Manor and her magickal family legacy.Haunted by shapeshifters bent on trapping people in their nightmares, Hannah, with the help of wise villagers and feline companions (including a talking cat dream guide), must solve the riddle, unlock her powers, and dive into the dream dimension to save her aunt by Halloween night, when the veil between the worlds is thinnest.Escape into this metaphysical mystery of magick, where spells, music, and dreams converge in a vortex of secret societies and spiritual inheritance. Travel beyond time and space into a world of unexpected portals, ancient traditions, and dreamscapes.Links: Website https://www.meganmary.com/Social mediaDownload a Free DreamMirror Journal Template https://meganmary.com/signup/About Victoria:Hey there, I'm Victoria! As a writer and developmental editor, I specialize in helping busy writers bring their publishing dreams to life without the overwhelm. Editing doesn't have to feel like pulling teeth—it's the magic that transforms your story from “meh” to masterpiece!Here's how I can help:

Lesbians and the Law The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 305 with Heather Rose Jones In this episode we talk about: Evidence for how romantic and sexual relations between women were treated in legal systems in western culture References Benbow, R. Mark and Alasdair D. K. Hawkyard. 1994. “Legal Records of Cross-dressing” in Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages, ed. Michael Shapiro, Ann Arbor. pp.225-34. Benkov, Edith. “The Erased Lesbian: Sodomy and the Legal Tradition in Medieval Europe” in Same Sex Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages. ed. by Francesca Canadé Sautman & Pamela Sheingorn. Palgrave, New York, 2001. Boehringer, Sandra (trans. Anna Preger). 2021. Female Homosexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. Routledge, New York. ISBN 978-0-367-74476-2 Borris, Kenneth (ed). 2004. Same-Sex Desire in the English Renaissance: A Sourcebook of Texts, 1470-1650. Routledge, New York. 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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-44885-9 Van der Meer, Theo. 1991. “Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex Offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 1:3 424-445. Velasco, Sherry. 2000. The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire and Catalina de Erauso. University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-78746-4 Velasco, Sherry. 2011. Lesbians in Early Modern Spain. Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville. ISBN 978-0-8265-1750-0 Vermeil. 1765. Mémoire pour Anne Grandjean. Louis Cellot, Paris. Vicinus, Martha. 2004. Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-85564-3 A transcript of this podcast is available here. 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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the intense political activity at the turn of the 18th Century, when many politicians in London went to great lengths to find a Protestant successor to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland and others went to equal lengths to oppose them. Queen Anne had no surviving children and, following the old rules, there were at least 50 Catholic candidates ahead of any Protestant ones and among those by far the most obvious candidate was James, the only son of James II. Yet with the passing of the Act of Settlement in 1701 ahead of Anne's own succession, focus turned to Europe and to Princess Sophia, an Electress of the Holy Roman Empire in Hanover who, as a granddaughter of James I, thus became next in line to be crowned at Westminster Abbey. It was not clear that Hanover would want this role, given its own ambitions and the risks, in Europe, of siding with Protestants, and soon George I was minded to break the rules of succession so that he would be the last Hanoverian monarch as well as the first.WithAndreas Gestrich Professor Emeritus at Trier University and Former Director of the German Historical Institute in LondonElaine Chalus Professor of British History at the University of LiverpoolAnd Mark Knights Professor of History at the University of WarwickProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:J.M. Beattie, The English Court in the Reign of George I (Cambridge University Press, 1967)Jeremy Black, The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty (Hambledon Continuum, 2006)Justin Champion, Republican Learning: John Toland and the Crisis of Christian Culture 1696-1722 (Manchester University Press, 2003), especially his chapter ‘Anglia libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700–14'Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 – 1837 (Yale University Press, 2009)Andreas Gestrich and Michael Schaich (eds), The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture (‎Ashgate, 2015)Ragnhild Hatton, George I: Elector and King (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1979)Mark Knights, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2005) Mark Knights, Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell (Blackwell, 2012)Joanna Marschner, Queen Caroline: Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court (Yale University Press, 2014)Ashley Marshall, ‘Radical Steele: Popular Politics and the Limits of Authority' (Journal of British Studies 58, 2019)Paul Monod, Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 (Cambridge University Press, 1989)Hannah Smith, Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture 1714-1760 (Cambridge University Press, 2006)Daniel Szechi, 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion (Yale University Press, 2006)A.C. Thompson, George II : King and Elector (Yale University Press, 2011)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the intense political activity at the turn of the 18th Century, when many politicians in London went to great lengths to find a Protestant successor to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland and others went to equal lengths to oppose them. Queen Anne had no surviving children and, following the old rules, there were at least 50 Catholic candidates ahead of any Protestant ones and among those by far the most obvious candidate was James, the only son of James II. Yet with the passing of the Act of Settlement in 1701 ahead of Anne's own succession, focus turned to Europe and to Princess Sophia, an Electress of the Holy Roman Empire in Hanover who, as a granddaughter of James I, thus became next in line to be crowned at Westminster Abbey. It was not clear that Hanover would want this role, given its own ambitions and the risks, in Europe, of siding with Protestants, and soon George I was minded to break the rules of succession so that he would be the last Hanoverian monarch as well as the first.WithAndreas Gestrich Professor Emeritus at Trier University and Former Director of the German Historical Institute in LondonElaine Chalus Professor of British History at the University of LiverpoolAnd Mark Knights Professor of History at the University of WarwickProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:J.M. Beattie, The English Court in the Reign of George I (Cambridge University Press, 1967)Jeremy Black, The Hanoverians: The History of a Dynasty (Hambledon Continuum, 2006)Justin Champion, Republican Learning: John Toland and the Crisis of Christian Culture 1696-1722 (Manchester University Press, 2003), especially his chapter ‘Anglia libera: Protestant liberties and the Hanoverian succession, 1700–14'Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707 – 1837 (Yale University Press, 2009)Andreas Gestrich and Michael Schaich (eds), The Hanoverian Succession: Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture (‎Ashgate, 2015)Ragnhild Hatton, George I: Elector and King (Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1979)Mark Knights, Representation and Misrepresentation in Later Stuart Britain: Partisanship and Political Culture (Oxford University Press, 2005) Mark Knights, Faction Displayed: Reconsidering the Impeachment of Dr Henry Sacheverell (Blackwell, 2012)Joanna Marschner, Queen Caroline: Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court (Yale University Press, 2014)Ashley Marshall, ‘Radical Steele: Popular Politics and the Limits of Authority' (Journal of British Studies 58, 2019)Paul Monod, Jacobitism and the English People, 1688-1788 (Cambridge University Press, 1989)Hannah Smith, Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture 1714-1760 (Cambridge University Press, 2006)Daniel Szechi, 1715: The Great Jacobite Rebellion (Yale University Press, 2006)A.C. Thompson, George II : King and Elector (Yale University Press, 2011)In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

Megan Mary is a metaphysical mystery author and dream worker who specializes in the analysis of women's dreams. We explore the significance of dreams, the guidance they provide, and the various types of dreams, including visitation and lucid dreams. Megan shares her unique Dream Mirror Method for interpreting dreams, emphasizing the importance of personal insight and collaboration in the process. The discussion also touches on Megan's upcoming book series, the concept of the Great Awakening, and practical tips for listeners to engage with their dreams more meaningfully. Megan Mary is a metaphysical mystery author and dream worker that specializes in the analysis of women's dreams to promote transformative personal growth and enlightenment. Founder of Women's Dream Analysis and the Women's Dream Enlightenment podcast, she is an intuitive, introvert and mystic. After being diagnosed with three chronic illnesses, she experienced a spiritual awakening. She now works with women all over the world offering dream interpretation, transformative journeys and enlightened guidance. She holds a BA and an MA in English Literature, certification in British Studies, is pursuing her PhD in Metaphysical Sciences and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She lives in Idaho with her husband and two cats and her debut fiction novel, The Dream Haunters: A Metaphysical Mystery of Magick, Book 1 of Witches of Maple Hollow Series, was released in October 2024. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MeganMaryAuthor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganmaryauthor/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@meganmaryauthor Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/womensdreamanalysis/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@womensdreamanalysis Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@womensdreamanalysis Linktree: https://linktr.ee/womensdreamanalysis Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganmaryi/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/meganmary Book a Free Discovery Chat https://meganmary.com/free-30-minute-womens-chat Download a Free DreamMirror Journal Template https://meganmary.com/signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Megan Mary is a metaphysical mystery author and dream worker who specializes in the analysis of women's dreams. We explore the significance of dreams, the guidance they provide, and the various types of dreams, including visitation and lucid dreams. Megan shares her unique Dream Mirror Method for interpreting dreams, emphasizing the importance of personal insight and collaboration in the process. The discussion also touches on Megan's upcoming book series, the concept of the Great Awakening, and practical tips for listeners to engage with their dreams more meaningfully. Megan Mary is a metaphysical mystery author and dream worker that specializes in the analysis of women's dreams to promote transformative personal growth and enlightenment. Founder of Women's Dream Analysis and the Women's Dream Enlightenment podcast, she is an intuitive, introvert and mystic. After being diagnosed with three chronic illnesses, she experienced a spiritual awakening. She now works with women all over the world offering dream interpretation, transformative journeys and enlightened guidance. She holds a BA and an MA in English Literature, certification in British Studies, is pursuing her PhD in Metaphysical Sciences and is a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams. She lives in Idaho with her husband and two cats and her debut fiction novel, The Dream Haunters: A Metaphysical Mystery of Magick, Book 1 of Witches of Maple Hollow Series, was released in October 2024. Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/MeganMaryAuthor Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meganmaryauthor/ Threads: https://www.threads.net/@meganmaryauthor Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/womensdreamanalysis/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@womensdreamanalysis Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@womensdreamanalysis Linktree: https://linktr.ee/womensdreamanalysis Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganmaryi/ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/meganmary Book a Free Discovery Chat https://meganmary.com/free-30-minute-womens-chat Download a Free DreamMirror Journal Template https://meganmary.com/signup/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion of what touch was, and why it mattered. In this vividly written book, Simeon Koole excavates the history of these concerns and reveals how they continue to shape ideas about “touch” in the present. Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes us to the bustling railway stations, shady massage parlors, all-night coffee stalls, and other shared spaces where passengers, customers, vagrants, and others came into contact, leading to new understandings of touch. We travel in crammed subway cars, where strangers negotiated the boundaries of personal space. We visit tea shops where waitresses made difficult choices about autonomy and consent. We enter classrooms in which teachers wondered whether blind children could truly grasp the world and labs in which neurologists experimented on themselves and others to unlock the secrets of touch. We tiptoe through London's ink-black fogs, in which disoriented travelers became newly conscious of their bodies and feared being accosted by criminals. Across myriad forgotten encounters such as these, Koole shows, touch remade what it meant to be embodied—as well as the meanings of disability, personal boundaries, and scientific knowledge. With imagination and verve, Intimate Subjects offers a new way of theorizing the body and the senses, as well as a new way of thinking about embodiment and vulnerability today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Thomas J. Sojka, Lecturer in History at Southern New Hampshire University. He is currently writing a book about elite social life in interwar Britain. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as the Journal of British Studies, Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion of what touch was, and why it mattered. In this vividly written book, Simeon Koole excavates the history of these concerns and reveals how they continue to shape ideas about “touch” in the present. Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes us to the bustling railway stations, shady massage parlors, all-night coffee stalls, and other shared spaces where passengers, customers, vagrants, and others came into contact, leading to new understandings of touch. We travel in crammed subway cars, where strangers negotiated the boundaries of personal space. We visit tea shops where waitresses made difficult choices about autonomy and consent. We enter classrooms in which teachers wondered whether blind children could truly grasp the world and labs in which neurologists experimented on themselves and others to unlock the secrets of touch. We tiptoe through London's ink-black fogs, in which disoriented travelers became newly conscious of their bodies and feared being accosted by criminals. Across myriad forgotten encounters such as these, Koole shows, touch remade what it meant to be embodied—as well as the meanings of disability, personal boundaries, and scientific knowledge. With imagination and verve, Intimate Subjects offers a new way of theorizing the body and the senses, as well as a new way of thinking about embodiment and vulnerability today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Thomas J. Sojka, Lecturer in History at Southern New Hampshire University. He is currently writing a book about elite social life in interwar Britain. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as the Journal of British Studies, Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion of what touch was, and why it mattered. In this vividly written book, Simeon Koole excavates the history of these concerns and reveals how they continue to shape ideas about “touch” in the present. Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes us to the bustling railway stations, shady massage parlors, all-night coffee stalls, and other shared spaces where passengers, customers, vagrants, and others came into contact, leading to new understandings of touch. We travel in crammed subway cars, where strangers negotiated the boundaries of personal space. We visit tea shops where waitresses made difficult choices about autonomy and consent. We enter classrooms in which teachers wondered whether blind children could truly grasp the world and labs in which neurologists experimented on themselves and others to unlock the secrets of touch. We tiptoe through London's ink-black fogs, in which disoriented travelers became newly conscious of their bodies and feared being accosted by criminals. Across myriad forgotten encounters such as these, Koole shows, touch remade what it meant to be embodied—as well as the meanings of disability, personal boundaries, and scientific knowledge. With imagination and verve, Intimate Subjects offers a new way of theorizing the body and the senses, as well as a new way of thinking about embodiment and vulnerability today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Thomas J. Sojka, Lecturer in History at Southern New Hampshire University. He is currently writing a book about elite social life in interwar Britain. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as the Journal of British Studies, Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion of what touch was, and why it mattered. In this vividly written book, Simeon Koole excavates the history of these concerns and reveals how they continue to shape ideas about “touch” in the present. Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes us to the bustling railway stations, shady massage parlors, all-night coffee stalls, and other shared spaces where passengers, customers, vagrants, and others came into contact, leading to new understandings of touch. We travel in crammed subway cars, where strangers negotiated the boundaries of personal space. We visit tea shops where waitresses made difficult choices about autonomy and consent. We enter classrooms in which teachers wondered whether blind children could truly grasp the world and labs in which neurologists experimented on themselves and others to unlock the secrets of touch. We tiptoe through London's ink-black fogs, in which disoriented travelers became newly conscious of their bodies and feared being accosted by criminals. Across myriad forgotten encounters such as these, Koole shows, touch remade what it meant to be embodied—as well as the meanings of disability, personal boundaries, and scientific knowledge. With imagination and verve, Intimate Subjects offers a new way of theorizing the body and the senses, as well as a new way of thinking about embodiment and vulnerability today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Thomas J. Sojka, Lecturer in History at Southern New Hampshire University. He is currently writing a book about elite social life in interwar Britain. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as the Journal of British Studies, Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

When, where, and who gets to touch and be touched, and who decides? What do we learn through touch? How does touch bring us closer together or push us apart? These are urgent contemporary questions, but they have their origins in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain, when new urban encounters compelled intense discussion of what touch was, and why it mattered. In this vividly written book, Simeon Koole excavates the history of these concerns and reveals how they continue to shape ideas about “touch” in the present. Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age (U Chicago Press, 2024) takes us to the bustling railway stations, shady massage parlors, all-night coffee stalls, and other shared spaces where passengers, customers, vagrants, and others came into contact, leading to new understandings of touch. We travel in crammed subway cars, where strangers negotiated the boundaries of personal space. We visit tea shops where waitresses made difficult choices about autonomy and consent. We enter classrooms in which teachers wondered whether blind children could truly grasp the world and labs in which neurologists experimented on themselves and others to unlock the secrets of touch. We tiptoe through London's ink-black fogs, in which disoriented travelers became newly conscious of their bodies and feared being accosted by criminals. Across myriad forgotten encounters such as these, Koole shows, touch remade what it meant to be embodied—as well as the meanings of disability, personal boundaries, and scientific knowledge. With imagination and verve, Intimate Subjects offers a new way of theorizing the body and the senses, as well as a new way of thinking about embodiment and vulnerability today. This interview was conducted by Dr. Thomas J. Sojka, Lecturer in History at Southern New Hampshire University. He is currently writing a book about elite social life in interwar Britain. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications such as the Journal of British Studies, Times Literary Supplement, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the major figures in Victorian British politics. Disraeli (1804 -1881) served both as Prime Minister twice and, for long periods, as leader of the opposition. Born a Jew, he was only permitted to enter Parliament as his father had him baptised into the Church of England when he was twelve. Disraeli was a gifted orator and, outside Parliament, he shared his views widely through several popular novels including Sybil or The Two Nations, which was to inspire the idea of One Nation Conservatism. He became close to Queen Victoria and she mourned his death with a primrose wreath, an event marked for years after by annual processions celebrating his life in politics.WithLawrence Goldman Emeritus Fellow in History at St Peter's College, University of OxfordEmily Jones Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of ManchesterAnd Daisy Hay Professor of English Literature and Life Writing at the University of ExeterProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Robert Blake, Disraeli (first published 1966; Faber & Faber, 2010)M. Dent, ‘Disraeli and the Bible' (Journal of Victorian Culture 29, 2024)Benjamin Disraeli (ed. N. Shrimpton), Sybil; or, The Two Nations (Oxford University Press, 2017)Daisy Hay, Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance (Chatto & Windus, 2015)Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, Disraeli: or, The Two Lives (W&N, 2014)Emily Jones, ‘Impressions of Disraeli: Mythmaking and the History of One Nation Conservatism, 1881-1940' (French Journal of British Studies 28, 2023)William Kuhn, The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (Simon & Schuster, 2007)Robert O'Kell, Disraeli: The Romance of Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2013)J.P. Parry, ‘Disraeli and England' (Historical Journal 43, 2000)J.P. Parry, ‘Disraeli, the East and Religion: Tancred in Context' (English Historical Review 132, 2017)Cecil Roth, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (New York Philosophical library, 1952)Paul Smith, Disraelian Conservatism and Social Reform (Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1967)John Vincent, Disraeli (Oxford University Press, 1990)P.J. Waller (ed.), Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain (Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1987), especially the chapter ‘Style and Substance in Disraelian Social Reform' by P. GhoshIn Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the major figures in Victorian British politics. Disraeli (1804 -1881) served both as Prime Minister twice and, for long periods, as leader of the opposition. Born a Jew, he was only permitted to enter Parliament as his father had him baptised into the Church of England when he was twelve. Disraeli was a gifted orator and, outside Parliament, he shared his views widely through several popular novels including Sybil or The Two Nations, which was to inspire the idea of One Nation Conservatism. He became close to Queen Victoria and she mourned his death with a primrose wreath, an event marked for years after by annual processions celebrating his life in politics.WithLawrence Goldman Emeritus Fellow in History at St Peter's College, University of OxfordEmily Jones Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of ManchesterAnd Daisy Hay Professor of English Literature and Life Writing at the University of ExeterProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Robert Blake, Disraeli (first published 1966; Faber & Faber, 2010)M. Dent, ‘Disraeli and the Bible' (Journal of Victorian Culture 29, 2024)Benjamin Disraeli (ed. N. Shrimpton), Sybil; or, The Two Nations (Oxford University Press, 2017)Daisy Hay, Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance (Chatto & Windus, 2015)Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, Disraeli: or, The Two Lives (W&N, 2014)Emily Jones, ‘Impressions of Disraeli: Mythmaking and the History of One Nation Conservatism, 1881-1940' (French Journal of British Studies 28, 2023)William Kuhn, The Politics of Pleasure: A Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli (Simon & Schuster, 2007)Robert O'Kell, Disraeli: The Romance of Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2013)J.P. Parry, ‘Disraeli and England' (Historical Journal 43, 2000)J.P. Parry, ‘Disraeli, the East and Religion: Tancred in Context' (English Historical Review 132, 2017)Cecil Roth, Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (New York Philosophical library, 1952)Paul Smith, Disraelian Conservatism and Social Reform (Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC, 1967)John Vincent, Disraeli (Oxford University Press, 1990)P.J. Waller (ed.), Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain (Prentice Hall / Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1987), especially the chapter ‘Style and Substance in Disraelian Social Reform' by P. GhoshIn Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

In today's episode, we are investigating Shakespeare's comic constable in Much Ado About Nothing, Dogberry, and why this character is portrayed as a clown. We'll look at a survey of historical records from Shakespeare's time to determine if early modern constables were truly as ineffective as Dogberry appears to be and if there is a contextual reason that Shakespeare's audience would want to see them depicted as foolish on stage.  We will also discuss what the job of the early modern constable entailed, how it developed, and who the "real-life Dogberry" would have been in their communites. Finally, we will discuss how this context can shift our understanding of the character Shakespeare wrote.  Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Kourtney Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com You can support the podcast by becoming a patron at patreon.com/shakespeareanyone, sending us a virtual tip via our tipjar, or by shopping our bookshelves at bookshop.org/shop/shakespeareanyonepod. Works referenced: Kent, Joan. “The English Village Constable, 1580-1642: The Nature and Dilemmas of the Office.” Journal of British Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1981, pp. 26–49. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/175635. Accessed 4 Aug. 2024. Spinrad, Phoebe S. “Dogberry Hero: Shakespeare's Comic Constables in Their Communal Context.” Studies in Philology, vol. 89, no. 2, 1992, pp. 161–78. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4174417. Accessed 4 Aug. 2024.

In the last twenty-five years, ghost hunting has entered something of a golden age, with all sorts of technology playing its part and filling up an investigators kit bag. Cameras, EMF metres, InfraRed thermometers and spirit boxes all help to carve a science out of a difficult premise, with differing levels of credibility. In the early 1800s, things were a little bit different. It was a simpler time. All you needed back then was a stiff drink, or maybe two, and a loaded revolver, because as we all know, if you want to catch a ghost, you need to shoot it first. All well and good, provided the ghost you shoot isn't just a man in his work overalls. SOURCES Old Bailey Proceedings Online (1804) Trial of FRANCIS SMITH (t18040111-79). Available at: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/record/t18040111-79. Kirby, R.S. (1804) Kirby's Wonderful & Scientific Museum. Barnard & Sultzer, London, UK. Taylor, Joseph (1815) Apparitions; Or, The Meaning of Ghosts, Hobgoblins & Haunted Houses, Developed. Macdonald & Son, London, UK. Waters, Thomas. (2015) Magic and the British Middle Classes, 1750–1900. Journal of British Studies, vol. 54, no. 3, 2015, pp. 632–53.  Mitchell, Valentine (1926) The Newgate Calendar. Garden City Publishing CO. NY, USA. The Star (1804) Coroner's Inquests. The Star, Fri 06 Jan 1804, p4. London, UK. The Star (1804) The Hammersmith Ghost. The Star, Mon 09 Jan 1804, p2. London, UK. Morning Post (1804) The Ghost of Hammersmith. Morning Post, Fri 06 Jan 1804, p3. London, UK. Kentish Gazette (1804) The Real Hammersmith Ghost. Kentish Gazette, Fri 13 Jan 1804, p3. London, UK. Johnson's Sunday Monitor (1804) Hammersmith Ghost. Johnson's Sunday Monitor, Sun 15 Jan 1804, p3. London, UK. Illustrated Police News (1937) Ghost Shot Dead In Village Cemetery. Illustrated Police News, Thurs 04 March 1937, p1. London, UK. For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at contact@darkhistories.com or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.  

Episode 17/3 of ⁠A is for Architecture⁠, is a conversation with ⁠Rob Fiehn⁠, writer, communications consultant, Director of the ⁠London Society⁠ and Chair of the ⁠Museum of Architecture⁠, about the London Society's 2023 London of the Future book, a collection of essays by experts from various disciplines – ‘engineering, urbanism, architecture, manufacturing, futurology, journalism and more' – speculating on ‘how the metropolis might be governed, organized and designed in the years to come.'  London of the Future is a plush publication, as you would expect, full of smart ideas and lovely images. It follows 102 years on from the London Society's original publication of the same name when, ‘under the editorship of the architect Sir Aston Webb [it] published a collection of essays […] some rather more futuristic than others.' (Gilbert, D. (2004). London of the Future: The Metropolis Reimagined after the Great War. ⁠Journal of British Studies⁠). 2023's edition is futuristic indeed, but not sci-fi. There are ideas that, without too much effort - or perhaps not any effort at all - may well come to pass. You can find the book on Merrell's website here, and on the London Society website here. Rob professional alter ego is here, and he is on X here, LinkedIn here and Instagram too. Available on Spotify, iTunes, Google Podcasts and Amazon Music.   Thanks for listening. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Music credits: Bruno Gillick + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + aisforarchitecture.org Apple: podcasts.apple.com Spotify: open.spotify.com Google: podcasts.google.com Amazon: music.amazon.co.uk YouTube: youtube/channel

Our guest today is First World War gas mask aficionado Susan R. Grayzel. Sue is Professor of History at Utah State University. Before joining the faculty at USU, Sue was Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, where she also served as the Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies. Sue received her BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and earned an MA and PhD in History at the University of California at Berkeley. She has spent time Across the Pond as the UK Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the University of Leeds, the Ireland Fulbright Inter-Country Lecturer at Maynooth University, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford. Sue's first book, Women's Identities At War: Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (Unversity of North Carolina Press), won the British Council Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. Sue is also the author of Women and the First World War (Longman), The First World War: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford St. Martin's), and At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge). She has co-edited two volumes: Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain, with Philippa Levine (Palgrave), and Gender and the Great War, with Tammy Proctor (Oxford). Sue's most recent monograph is The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War (Cambridge). In addition to her monographs and edited volumes, Sue's articles have appeared in the Journal of British Studies, the Journal of Modern History, and the Journal of Women's History, to name a few, and she has written or co-written more than 20 book chapters. Sue's research has been funded by the American Historical Association, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the American Council of Learned Societies, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is equally active in service, serving as General Editor for Women, War, and Society: The Women's Work Collection of the Imperial War Museum and as an Advisory Editor for The Encyclopedia of War. She is a former member of the Editorial Board for the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Amsterdam University Press's NIOD Series. Sue is truly a force in our profession and is one of the most generous and approachable scholars you'll ever meet. Join us for a fascinating chat about attending Harvard at age 17, Joni Mitchell's Blue album, gas masks, a prize-winning first book, "Hotty Totty," and other seemingly random subjects! Check it out! Rec.: 08/08/2023

Please join us for the most popular of our re-runs thus far. It's the return of Episode 55 with Professor Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics! In this episode, I am joined by ⁠⁠Christopher Snyder⁠⁠, professor of history and director of British Studies at Mississippi State University, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction and virtue ethics.  We discuss Tolkien's background , training, ⁠⁠academic work⁠⁠ and influences, how to think about his fiction and its enduring value, and what role virtue plays in ⁠⁠The Hobbit ⁠⁠and ⁠⁠The Lord of the Rings⁠⁠.  Drawing on arguments from his latest book, ⁠⁠Hobbit Virtues⁠⁠, Chris and I discuss the role of imagination in the moral life and why Tolkien isn't just or even primarily for children. As always, I hope you enjoy our conversation. Christopher Snyder became the first dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University in 2011. He is Professor of History and Director of British Studies at MSU, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English, and was a History Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2014 to 2019. His MA and PhD in Medieval History are from Emory University, and in addition to Emory he has taught at the College of William and Mary and at Marymount University, where he served for nine years as Chair of the Department of History and Politics and five years as Director of the Honors Program. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, where he majored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Dr. Snyder has authored ten books and numerous articles in the fields of archaeology, history, literary criticism, ethics, and medieval studies. His most recent book is Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (New York and London: Pegasus/ Simon & Schuster, 2020) . Dr. Snyder has also lectured frequently at the Smithsonian Institution and has appeared on the History Channel, The Learning Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and BBC television and radio. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals and internet projects in medieval and Arthurian studies. Jennifer Frey is the incoming inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. Through Spring of 2023, she served as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and as a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. She also previously served as a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. Frey holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has published widely on action, virtue, practical reason, and meta-ethics, and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology (Routledge, 2018). Her writing has also been featured in First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, Plough, The Point, and USA Today. You can follow her on Twitter ⁠@ jennfrey⁠. Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.

Please join us for the most popular of our re-runs thus far. It's the return of Episode 55 with Professor Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics! In this episode, I am joined by ⁠Christopher Snyder⁠, professor of history and director of British Studies at Mississippi State University, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction and virtue ethics.  We discuss Tolkien's background , training, ⁠academic work⁠ and influences, how to think about his fiction and its enduring value, and what role virtue plays in ⁠The Hobbit ⁠and ⁠The Lord of the Rings⁠.  Drawing on arguments from his latest book, ⁠Hobbit Virtues⁠, Chris and I discuss the role of imagination in the moral life and why Tolkien isn't just or even primarily for children. As always, I hope you enjoy our conversation. Christopher Snyder became the first dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University in 2011. He is Professor of History and Director of British Studies at MSU, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English, and was a History Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2014 to 2019. His MA and PhD in Medieval History are from Emory University, and in addition to Emory he has taught at the College of William and Mary and at Marymount University, where he served for nine years as Chair of the Department of History and Politics and five years as Director of the Honors Program. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, where he majored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Dr. Snyder has authored ten books and numerous articles in the fields of archaeology, history, literary criticism, ethics, and medieval studies. His most recent book is Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (New York and London: Pegasus/ Simon & Schuster, 2020) . Dr. Snyder has also lectured frequently at the Smithsonian Institution and has appeared on the History Channel, The Learning Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and BBC television and radio. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals and internet projects in medieval and Arthurian studies. Jennifer Frey is the incoming inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. Through Spring of 2023, she served as Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina and as a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. She also previously served as a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. Frey holds a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. from Indiana University-Bloomington. She has published widely on action, virtue, practical reason, and meta-ethics, and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology (Routledge, 2018). You can follow her on Twitter ⁠@jennfrey⁠.  Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.

By popular demand! This month Chris, Angus and Jessica discuss productions of R.C. Sherriff'sJourney's End, including the original play and the 1930 and 2017 film versions. Along the way, we consider the importance of James Whale, whether the French changed their clocks during the war and the definition of an anti-war play, while Chris makes a bid for the over-arching significance of moustaches to the history of the war. References RC Sherriff, Journey's End (1928) Emily Curtis Walters, Between Entertainment and Elegy: The unexpected success of RC Sherriff's “Journey's End”', Journal of British Studies 55.2 James Whale, Journey's End (1930) James Whale, Frankenstein (1931) James Whale, The Road Back (1937) James Curtis, James Whale: A new world of Gods and Monsters (2003) Lewis Millstone, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 N Enstaff, Journey's End: York Notes for GCSE (2006) Rosa Maria Bracco, Merchants of Hope: British Middlebrow Writers and the First World War, 1919-1939 (Berg, 1993) Saul Dibb, Journey's End (2017) Scott Poole, Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror (2018)  

This episode looks at the collapse of trust between Charles I and anti-Puritan royalists and clerics, on the one hand, and Parliament, Puritans, anti-Catholic Anglicans, and lawyers and others concerned with resisting the expansion of royal power on the other, in the second half of the 1620s. The collision would end in a final and very dramatic session of the House of Commons, and would ultimately persuade tens of thousands of Puritans that they had no choice but to leave England. It would be the catalyst for the Puritan Great Migration to New England. Before we get to any of that, however, we briefly address the Twitter kerfuffle I unwittingly set off with a tweet about a BBC story on Sir Francis Drake, and the circumstances under which I do, and do not, support the renaming of things named after people who have fallen out of favor. The Twitter thread regarding Sir Francis Drake's famous change of heart Twitter: @TheHistoryOfTh2 Facebook: The History of the Americans Podcast Selected references for this episode John M. Barry, Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham Michael B. Young, "Charles I and the Erosion of Trust, 1625-1628," Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, Summer 1990.

In this episode, I am joined by Christopher Snyder, professor of history and director of British Studies at Mississippi State University, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction and virtue ethics. We discuss Tolkien's background , training, academic work and influences, how to think about his fiction and its enduring value, and what role virtue plays in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Drawing on arguments from his latest book, Hobbit Virtues, Chris and I discuss the role of imagination in the moral life and why Tolkien isn't just or even primarily for children. As always, I hope you enjoy our conversation. Christopher Snyder became the first dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University in 2011. He is Professor of History and Director of British Studies at MSU, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English, and was a History Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2014 to 2019. His MA and PhD in Medieval History are from Emory University, and in addition to Emory he has taught at the College of William and Mary and at Marymount University, where he served for nine years as Chair of the Department of History and Politics and five years as Director of the Honors Program. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, where he majored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Dr. Snyder has authored ten books and numerous articles in the fields of archaeology, history, literary criticism, ethics, and medieval studies. His most recent book is Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (New York and London: Pegasus/ Simon & Schuster, 2020). Dr. Snyder has also lectured frequently at the Smithsonian Institution and has appeared on the History Channel, The Learning Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and BBC television and radio. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals and internet projects in medieval and Arthurian studies. Jennifer Frey is an associate professor of philosophy and Peter and Bonnie McCausland Faculty Fellow at the University of South Carolina. She is also a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and the Word on Fire Institute. Prior to joining the philosophy faculty at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and her B.A. in Philosophy and Medieval Studies (with a Classics minor) at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. She has published widely on action, virtue, practical reason, and meta-ethics, and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology. Her writing has also been featured in Breaking Ground, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, and USA Today. She lives in Columbia, SC, with her husband, six children, and chickens. You can follow her on Twitter @ jennfrey. Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.

In this episode, I am joined by Christopher Snyder, professor of history and director of British Studies at Mississippi State University, to discuss J.R.R. Tolkien's fiction and virtue ethics. We discuss Tolkien's background , training, academic work and influences, how to think about his fiction and its enduring value, and what role virtue plays in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Drawing on arguments from his latest book, Hobbit Virtues, Chris and I discuss the role of imagination in the moral life and why Tolkien isn't just or even primarily for children. As always, I hope you enjoy our conversation. Christopher Snyder became the first dean of the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University in 2011. He is Professor of History and Director of British Studies at MSU, an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English, and was a History Research Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2014 to 2019. His MA and PhD in Medieval History are from Emory University, and in addition to Emory he has taught at the College of William and Mary and at Marymount University, where he served for nine years as Chair of the Department of History and Politics and five years as Director of the Honors Program. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a Distinguished Alumnus of the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, where he majored in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Dr. Snyder has authored ten books and numerous articles in the fields of archaeology, history, literary criticism, ethics, and medieval studies. His most recent book is Hobbit Virtues: Rediscovering Virtue Ethics through J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings (New York and London: Pegasus/ Simon & Schuster, 2020) . Dr. Snyder has also lectured frequently at the Smithsonian Institution and has appeared on the History Channel, The Learning Channel, the National Geographic Channel, and BBC television and radio. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals and internet projects in medieval and Arthurian studies. Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.

Evelyn Oatley dreams of becoming a stage star in London's glamorous theaterland. It's a world away from her grim provincial upbringing. The daughter of a German immigrant, her troubled home life was compounded by a wave of anti-German rioting that broke out during World War One.     Tiring of both her job at a textile mill and her relationship with a local farmer, Evelyn ran off to London and transformed herself into budding starlet "Lita Ward". But she found neither fame nor fortune there... only danger.   Sources: Andrews, Maggie and Lomas, Janis. The Home Front in Britain: Images, Myths and Forgotten Experiences since 1914 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Arthur, Sue. ‘Blackpool Goes All-Talkie: Cinema and Society at the Seaside in Thirties Britain', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol. 29, No. 1, March 2019. Denness, Zoe. ‘“A Question which Affects our Prestige as a Nation”: The History of British Civilian Internment', PhD Thesis, University of Birmingham, October 2012. Denness, Zoe. “Gender and Germanophobia: The Forgotten Experiences of German Women in Britain, 1914–1919' in: Panayi, Panikos (Ed.). Germans as Minorities during the First World War: A Global Comparative Perspective (Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014). Eyles, Allan. ‘Cinemas and Cinemagoing: The Rise of Cinemas', BFI Screenonline, 2014. Higginbotham, Peter. ‘Boarding Out (Fostering)', Children's Homes. Hill, Hector. ‘Russell Street Picturehouse', Cinema Treasures. Lassandro, Sebastian. Pride of Our Alley: The Life of Dame Gracie Fields Volume 1: 1898 - 1939 (Albany: BearManor Media, 2019). Mazierska, Ema (Ed.). Blackpool in Film and Popular Music (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Mort, Frank. ‘Striptease: The Erotic Female Body and Live Sexual Entertainment in Mid-Twentiety-Century London', Social History, Vol. 32, No. 1, February 2007. Panayi, Panikos. ‘Germans as Minorities during the First World War: Global Comparative Perspectives', in: Panayi, Panikos (Ed.). Germans as Minorities during the First World War: A Global Comparative Perspective (Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014). Panayi, Panikos. Immigration, Ethnicity, and Racism in Britain, 1815 - 1945 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994). Stone, Peter. ‘The German Community in London during the 19th Century', History London. Waddington, Keir. ‘“We Don't Want Any German Sausages Here!”: Food, Fear and the German Nation in Victorian and Edwardian Britain', Journal of British Studies, Vol. 52, No. 4, October 2013. Walkowitz, Judith R. Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012). Walton, John K. ‘The Seaside Resort: A British Cultural Export', History in Focus, Issue 9, Autumn 2005.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wo finden sich die Briten nach dem Brexit wieder? Im Rahmen des Herrenhäuser Forums wird darüber diskutiert. To brexit or not to brexit - diese Frage beschäftigte Europa vier Jahre lang. Dann trat Großbritannien zum 1. Februar 2020 aus der EU aus. Insel und Kontinent - das war seit der Gründung der jetzigen Europäischen Union ein schwieriges Verhältnis: Zwei gescheiterte Beitrittsversuche, nationale Referenden und zahlreiche Ausnahmeregelungen zeugen davon. Wieso taten sich beide Seiten so schwer? Die Diskussionen um den Brexit haben auch innenpolitisch Spuren hinterlassen: Das Land ist sozial und regional gespalten und von einem "Vereinigten Königreich" weit entfernt. Wo verlaufen diese Brüche? Wie steht es um das neue alte Verhältnis zum Kontinent? Trägt die Idee der "splendid isolation"? Wo finden sich die Briten nach dem Brexit wieder? Darüber diskutieren: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann, Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Dr. Imke Köhler, Korrespondentin der ARD in London Dr. Helene von Bismarck, Historikerin und Publizistin Es moderiert Ulrike Heckmann von NDR Info.

This week we're traveling back to the late nineteenth (?) or early twentieth (?) century with Blake Edwards' The Great Race! Join us as we get into bad fencing, parachutes, suffragists, car races, songs about domestic violence, and more! Sources: Parachutes: "First Parachute Jump is Made Over Paris," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-parachutist Jimmy Stamp, "An Early History of the Parachute," Smithsonian Magazine, available at https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/an-early-history-of-the-parachute-951312/ Suffragists: Krista Cowman, "Doing Something Silly: The Uses of Humour by the Women's Social and Political Union, 1903-1914," International Review of Social History 52, 15 (2007) CJ Bearman, "An Army Without Discipline? Suffragette Militancy and the Budget Crisis of 1909," Historical Journal 50, 4 (2007) Laura E Nym Mayhall, "Defining Militancy: Radical Protest, the Constitutional Idiom, and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1908-1909," Journal of British Studies 39, 3 (2000) The Exploress Podcast, "Silent No More: American Womens' Fight for Their Rights," Available at https://www.theexploresspodcast.com/episodes/2020/10/28/silent-no-more-womens-suffrage Car Racing: Karen Abbott, "Paris or Bust: The Great New York-to-Paris Auto Race of 1908," Smithsonian Magazine (March 7, 2012) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/paris-or-bust-the-great-new-york-to-paris-auto-race-of-1908-116784616/  Sherry J. Holladay and W. Timothy Coombs, "The great automobile race of 1908 as a public relations phenomenon: Lessons from the past," Public Relations Review 39, no.2 (June 2013): 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2012.12.002   "Omaha, a Stop on the Great Race of 1908," History Nebraska, https://history.nebraska.gov/blog/omaha-stop-great-race-1908  "1908 New York to Paris Great Race," Ames History Museum, https://ameshistory.org/tribunearchives/1908-new-york-paris-great-race  "Longest Auto Race That Ever Took Place: Long-Lost Pictures Show Victor's Woes," LIFE (23 May 1955), https://books.google.com/books?id=rVYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=%22Great+Race%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjajZaDzq_1AhUAkIkEHTvhDAAQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Great%20Race%22&f=false  "T. Walter Williams of The Times Dies," The New York Times 10 November 1942, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1942/11/10/87399371.html?pageNumber=27  Songs About Domestic Violence: Michael Lasser, City Songs and America Life, 1900-1950 (Boydell & Brewer, 2019), 120-150.  Henrietta Yurchenco, ""Blues Fallin' Down Like Hail" Recorded Blues, 1920s-1940s," American Music 13, no.4 (Winter 1995): 448-69. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052403  https://genius.com/Ma-rainey-see-see-rider-blues-lyrics  David Monod, Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, (University of North Caroline Press, 2020), 51-90.  Vaudeville Nation, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, http://web-static.nypl.org/exhibitions/vaudeville/roots.html  The American Vaudeville Museum Archive https://vaudeville.library.arizona.edu/collections/  From the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn02zySmtvc  Film Background: https://exhibits.library.gsu.edu/current/exhibits/show/johnnymercer/collaborations/henrymancini  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Race  David Zeitlin, "Greatest pie fight ever creates a horrendous SPLAAT!" LIFE (9 July 1965) https://books.google.com/books?id=R1MEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false  IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743232/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1  Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1008852-great_race 

Join Annie and Jenny as they get in the festive mood and journey back to the Yuletide crimes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The reformation resulted in the banning of many celebrations, including yuletide festivities. Those caught celebrating were brought before the Kirk Sessions, and this resulted in strangely detailed records of the celebratory practices of the time. Guising and cross-dressing, dancing, eating goose, and baking bread were all punishable by law, listen in to find out more about each tradition. This episode is sponsored by Scotland Shop. If you are tempted to check out some of Scotland Shop's beautiful tartan garments and fabrics, please follow this link to Scotland Shop. https://hubs.ly/H0-0fjl0 You can support Stories of Scotland on Patreon! www.patreon.com/storiesofscotland References: Barbara Hector, Is Hogmanay Dying Out? Not in Rural Scotland, Aberdeen Press and Journal, December 1932. Dictionaries of the Scots Language: https://dsl.ac.uk/ Digitised Kirk Session Minutes, National Records of Scotland: https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk Margo Todd, Profane Pastime and the Reformed Community: The Persistence of Popular Festivities in Early Modern Scotland, Journal of British Studies, 2000. Margo Todd, The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern Scotland, 2002. Robert Crammond, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Restoration to the Revolution, Vol 1, Blackie, Fullarton & Co., 1828. William Crammond, Steven Ree (ed), The records of Elgin, 1234-1800, The New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1903.

In 1891, a mysterious figure appeared on the streets of London, dispensing pills to poor young women who then died in agony. Suspicion came to center on a Scottish-Canadian doctor with a dark past in North America. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the career of the Lambeth Poisoner, whose victims remain uncounted. We'll also consider a Hungarian Jules Verne and puzzle over an ambiguous sentence. Intro: How can an investor responsibly divest herself of stock in a company that she feels has acted immorally? Lightning can vitrify sand into rootlike tubes. Sources for our feature on Thomas Neill Cream: Dean Jobb, The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, 2021. Lee Mellor, Cold North Killers: Canadian Serial Murder, 2012. Joshua A. Perper and Stephen J. Cina, When Doctors Kill: Who, Why, and How, 2010. John H. Trestrail III, Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys, 2007. Angus McLaren, A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream, 1995. Paula J. Reiter, "Doctors, Detectives, and the Professional Ideal: The Trial of Thomas Neill Cream and the Mastery of Sherlock Holmes," College Literature 35:3 (Summer 2008), 57-95. Ian A. Burney, "A Poisoning of No Substance: The Trials of Medico-Legal Proof in Mid-Victorian England," Journal of British Studies 38:1 (January 1999), 59-92. Penelope Johnston, "The Murderous Ways of Dr Thomas Neill Cream," Medical Post 33:38 (Nov. 11, 1997), 47. Carolyn A. Conley, "A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream by Angus McLaren," American Historical Review 99:3 (June 1994), 899-900. Philippa Levin, "Modern Britain -- A Prescription for Murder: The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream by Angus McLaren," Canadian Journal of History 28:3 (December 1993), 595-597. E.H. Bensley, "McGill University's Most Infamous Medical Graduate," Canadian Medical Association Journal 109:10 (1973), 1024. "A Crazy Poisoner," British Medical Journal 1:3302 (April 12, 1924), 670. Michael Dirda, "A True-Crime Columnist Turns His Attention to Victorian-Era Serial Killer Thomas Neill Cream," Washington Post, Aug. 11, 2021. Evan F. Moore, "New Book Details Canadian Serial Killer's Murderous Legacy in Chicago and Beyond," Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 10, 2021. Rick Kogan, "Story of Serial Killer Dr. Thomas Neill Cream Takes You on a Grand, Gruesome, Historical Journey, With His Time in Chicago," Chicago Tribune, July 22, 2021. W.M. Akers, "Getting Away With Murder, Literally," New York Times, July 13, 2021. "When Canada's 'Jack the Ripper' Serial Killer Struck in Ontario," Toronto Star, May 29, 2021. Marc Horne, "Doctor Who Had a Taste for Poison," Scotland on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. Jill Foran, "The Evil Deeds of Dr. Cream," The [Winnipeg] Beaver 86:4 (August/September 2006), 16-22. "Coincidences Point the Finger at Cream as the Ripper," [Regina, Saskatchewan] Leader-Post, May 5, 1979. "The Violent and Sadistic Dr. Cream," [Regina, Saskatchewan] Leader-Post, April 28, 1979. "Poisoner Trailed Over Three Countries," Knoxville [Tenn.] Journal, Feb. 2, 1947. Ruth Reynolds, "When Justice Triumphed," [New York] Daily News, Feb. 2, 1947. "His Last Letter," Waterloo [N.Y.] Advertiser, Dec. 9, 1892. "Cream's Joke," Arizona Republican, Nov. 30, 1892. "Execution of Neill," [Cardiff] Western Mail, Nov. 16, 1892. "Cream's Two Manias," Waterbury [Conn.] Evening Democrat, Nov. 16, 1892. "Execution of Neill, the Poisoner," Yorkshire Herald and the York Herald, Nov. 16, 1892. "A Demon Strangled," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Nov. 15, 1892. "Cream's Many Crimes," Boston Globe, Nov. 15, 1892. "Neill Cream Hanged," [Wilmington, Del.] Evening Journal, Nov. 15, 1892. "Neill Will Hang," [Brockway Centre, Mich.] Weekly Expositor, Oct. 28, 1892. "Neill Cream On Trial," [Wilmington, Del.] Evening Journal, Oct. 17, 1892. "On the Grave's Brink," [Wilmington, Del.] Evening Journal, Aug. 9, 1892. "The South London Poisoning Cases," Berrow's Worcester Journal, July 2, 1892. "The Mysterious Poisoning of Girls," Reynolds's Newspaper, June 26, 1892. "Lambeth Poisoning Cases," Daily News, June 25, 1892. "Poisoning Mysteries," Lloyd's Illustrated Newspaper, June 19, 1892. Edward Butts, "Thomas Neill Cream," Canadian Encyclopedia, 2019. Listener mail: "Visit Norfolk Area Nebraska" (accessed Nov. 6, 2021). "Norfolk, Nebraska, United States," Encyclopaedia Britannica (accessed Nov. 6, 2021). City of Norfolk, Nebraska (accessed Nov. 6, 2021). Aaron Calvin, "17 Words Only a True Iowan Knows How to Pronounce," Des Moines Register, Sept. 16, 2021. "How to Pronounce Vaillant," Forvo (accessed Nov. 4, 2021). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Peter Quinn. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Grab a martini, because this week we're traveling back to 1930s London with Bright Young Things! Join us to learn more about 30s cocktail culture, the so-called King of Anatolia, interwar newspaper magnates, American evangelists in the UK, Armistice day poppies, and more! Sources: Cocktails: Harry Craddock, Savoy Cocktail Book, 1930 Edition. Full Text Available at https://euvs-vintage-cocktail-books.cld.bz/1930-The-Savoy-Cocktail-Book International Bartenders' Association, Official Website: https://iba-world.com/iba-official-cocktail-list/ Lord Beaverbrook: Laura Beers, "Education or Manipulation?: Labour, Democracy, and the Popular Press in Interwar Britain," Journal of British Studies 48, 1 (2009) Laura Beers, "Punting on the Thames: Electoral Betting in Interwar Britain," Journal of Contemporary History 45, 2 (2010) Alan Travis, Bound and Gagged: A Secret History of Obscenity in Britain (Profile Books, 2000) Gary Love, "The Periodical Press and the Intellectual Culture of Conservatism in Interwar Britain," 57 (4) 2014 JM McEwen, "The Press and the Fall of Asquith," The Historical Journal 21, 4 (1978) The King of Anatolia: Patrick J. Kriger, "Six Reasons Why the Ottoman Empire Fell," History https://www.history.com/news/ottoman-empire-fall "Abdulmejid II" Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulmejid_II M. Sukru Hanoiglu, A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press, 2008), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7t314.13 Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History (Princeton University Press, 2016), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1xrgm.6 . https://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/mehmedvi.htm Evangelicals in the UK: "History" National Association of Evangelicals https://www.nae.org/about-nae/history/ British Pathe "Kentucky Singers (1930)" YouTube, https://youtu.be/M5lb-4oWc14 Roberta Freund Schwartz, "Preaching the Gospel of the Blues: Blues Evangelists in Britain," Cross the Water Blues: African American Music in Europe ed. Neil A. Wynn (University of Mississippi Press, 2007), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvbm7.12 Guido Van Rijn, "Lowland Blues: The Reception of African American Blues and Gospel Music in the Netherlands," Cross the Water Blues, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2tvbm7.16 Hans Krabbendam, Saving the Overlooked Continent: American Protestant Missions in Western Europe, 1940-1975 (Leuven University Press, 2020), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv1595mtj.5 Kira Thurman, "Singing the Civilizing Mission in the Land of Bach; Beethoven; and Brahms: The Fisk Jubilee Singers in Nineteenth-Century Germany," Journal of World History 27:3 (September 2016): 443-471. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44631474 Brian Ward, "Music, Musical Theater, and the Imagined South in Interwar Britain," The Journal of Southern History 80:1 (February 2014): 39-72. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23796843 Poppies: James Fox, "Poppy Politics: Remembrance of Things Present," in Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice ed. Constantine Sandis (Open Book Publishers, 2014), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1287k16.8 . Jon Dean, "Poppy Fascism," The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good (Bristol University Press, 2020), https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv123x5b8.11 Sarah Freeland, "The Poppy Lady: Moina Michael started a movement for veterans," UGA Today (5 November 2017). https://news.uga.edu/poppy-lady-moina-michael/ John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields," Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47380/in-flanders-fields Film Background: BBC Interview with Stephen Fry: https://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2003/09/30/stephen_fry_bright_young_things_interview.shtml Roger Ebert review of Bright Young Things: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bright-young-things-2004 Bright Young Things Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Young_Things_(film) https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/the-bright-young-things-behind-the-party-mask  

Contributor: Professor Bill Kissane Talk Title: The Partition of Ireland in a Global Context Talk Synopsis: This talk explores partition in an international context and also the similarities and differences between what happened in Ireland and elsewhere, including Cyprus, India and Palestine. It suggests that most partitions are ‘provisional' because they ‘fail to resolve conflicts' and looks at ‘the identity shifts that occur when borders change' and what these meant (and mean) in an Irish context. It looks at how majority rule ‘polarised rather than reconciled' communities in Northern Ireland and the way in which Partition led to ‘consolidation and identity formation based on religion' in the decades that followed. And it concludes by considering what the experience and effect of partition might mean for future attempts to resolve deep-seated territorial  conflicts. Short biography: Bill Kissane is a Reader in Politics at the London School of Economics. Further Reading: Literature, Partition and the Nation State – Joe Cleary 'Ethnic Conflict and the Two State Solution: the Irish Experience of Partition'. Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways, Ancilliary Paper, No.3, 2004. Institute of British Studies. Queens University Belfast – John Coakley 'Shackles Across the Heart: Comparing Ireland's Partition', A Treatise on Northern Ireland Vol 1, pp.370-397 – Brendan O'Leary Partitions and the Sisyphean Making of Peoples – Dirk Moses. Partition in Ireland, India, and Palestine: Theory and Practice – T. G. Fraser

In today's episode, we'll be covering cross-dressing in early modern England. Shakespeare depicts cross-dressing in multiple plays, but what was the contemporary cultural context? We'll dive into early modern reactions to cross-dressing both onstage and off and how Shakespeare uses cross-dressing as a plot device across his plays.    Shakespeare Anyone? is created and produced by Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp. Music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Follow us on Instagram at @shakespeareanyonepod for updates or visit our website at shakespeareanyone.com Works referenced: Cressy, David. “Gender Trouble and Cross-Dressing in Early Modern England.” Journal of British Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, 1996, pp. 438–452. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/176000. Accessed 28 May 2021. Howard, Jean E. “Crossdressing, The Theatre, and Gender Struggle in Early Modern England.” Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 4, 1988, pp. 418–440. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2870706. Accessed 19 May 2021. Saccardi, Nadia. “Women Cross-Dressing and the Early Modern.” The Costume Society, The Costume Society, 2014, accessed 18 May 2021 from costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/women-cross-dressing-and-the-early-modern. 

We discuss Chusheng Cai's fascinating 1932 film ‘Pink Dream' - which shows us the opulent world of Shanghai dance halls …. See links below. ‘Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers', Garden Museum (17 May – 26 September 2021): https://gardenmuseum.org.uk/exhibitions/constancespry/ ‘Noël Coward: Art & Style', Guildhall Art Gallery (14 June – 23 December 2021): https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/attractions-museums-entertainment/guildhall-galleries/guildhall-art-gallery/noel-coward St Olave Hart Street, London, Atlas Obscura: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/st-olave-hart-street Chusheng Cai (director), Pink Dream [aka Dream in Pink] (1932): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1128062/ Available here: https://archive.org/details/1932pinkdream and https://youtu.be/BuY7pW1dblw Chusheng Cai (director), New Women (1935): https://youtu.be/9Q4zhLxCBro Ernst Lubitsch (director), The Love Parade (1929): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020112/ (with Jeannette MacDonald) ‘A Good Summary Account of Shanghai's Dance Hall Industry in 1937', Shanghai Sojourns: The Website of Andrew David Field (2018): http://shanghaisojourns.net/shanghais-dancing-world/2018/8/2/a-good-summary-account-of-shanghais-dance-hall-industry-in-1937 Lisa Z. Sigel, ‘Fashioning Fetishism from the Pages of “London Life”', Journal of British Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3 (July 2012): https://www.jstor.org/stable/23265599 Ling Long, Shanghai women's magazine (1931-1937): https://archive.org/details/cullinglong Wim Wenders (director), Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096852/

Ever wonder where Shakespeare got his inspiration or ideas for plays? In this episode, we explore the history behind one of Shakespeare's major sources for many of his plays: Holinshed's Chronicles.  Shakespeare Anyone? is created, written, produced, and hosted by Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp. Our theme music is "Neverending Minute" by Sounds Like Sander. Works Referenced: Clegg, Cyndia Susan. “Which Holinshed? Holinshed's ‘Chronicles’ at the Huntington Library.” Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 55, no. 4, 1992, pp. 559–577. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3817633. Accessed 20 Feb. 2021. “Holinshed's Chronicles, 1577.” The British Library, The British Library, 23 Nov. 2015, www.bl.uk/collection-items/holinsheds-chronicles-1577#.   Kewes, Paulina, et al. The Holinshed Project, Oxford University, 2013, www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/. Marchant, Katrina. Dr Kat and Holinshed's Chronicles. Reading the Past with Dr. Kat: Dr. Kat and Holinshed's Chronicles, YouTube, 13 Sept. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzK4Y2EEYUM. PASUPATHI, VIMALA C, et al. “Shakespeare & Holinshed's Chronicles.” DHSHX, University of Southern California, 14 Jan. 2017, scalar.usc.edu/works/dhshx/holinsheds-chronicles. Zaller, Robert. “King, Commons, and Commonweal in Holinshed's Chronicles.” Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, vol. 34, no. 3, 2002, pp. 371–390. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4054738. Accessed 20 Feb. 2021.

This week we travel back to Victorian England with the Importance of Being Earnest! Join us for a discussion of female archers, foundlings, boutonnieres, the film's many great zingers, tattoos, and more! Sources: Archery: John Stanley, "Archery History: The Sport that Pioneered Equality for Women's Participation," World Archery, available at https://worldarchery.sport/news/178437/archery-history-sport-pioneered-equality-womens-participation Archery Dresses, Autumn 1831, Claremont Colleges Fashion Plate Collection. Available at https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fpc/id/174/ William Powell Frith, "The Fair Toxophilites." Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_Victorian_era#/media/File:RAMM_Frith_-_The_Fair_Toxophilites.jpg Film Background: The Importance of Being Earnest, 2002, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest_(2002_film) Roger Ebert Review of The Importance of Being Earnest, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-importance-of-being-earnest-2002 "The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)" IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278500/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Lady Bracknell quotes: https://www.importanceofbeingearnest.co.uk/lady-bracknell-quotes/ Foundlings: Lydia Murdoch, Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London (Rutgers University Press, 2006). Ellen Boucher, Empire's children: child emigration, welfare, and the decline of the British world, 1869-1967 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, Victorian Women, Unwed Mothers and the London Foundling Hospital (Bloomsbury, 2012). Lynda Nead, "Fallen Women and Foundlings: Rethinking Victorian Sexuality," History Workshop Journal 82 (August 2016). Jane Humphries (reviewer) "Orphans of Empire: The Fate of London's Foundlings. By Helen Berry (New York, Oxford University Press, 2019) 384 pp. $27.95," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 51:1 (Summer 2020). Elizabeth Foyster, "The "New World of Children" Reconsidered: Child Abduction in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England," Journal of British Studies, 52:3 (July 2013): 669-92. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41999356 Shurlee Swain, "Beyond chlid migration, inquiries, apologies and the implications for the writing of a transnational child welfare history," History Australia 13:1 (May 2016): 139-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2016.1156212 "The Lost Child Found." The Cardiff and Methyr Guardian Glamorgan Monmouth and Brecon Gazette (16 April 1870). https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3096837/3096841/23/abandoned%20lost%20child%20London "Law and Police." The Illustrated London News (3 April 1869). https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/HN3100078408/ILN?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=ILN&xid=a37b77d5 "Story of a Lost Child." Monmouthshire Merlin (1 August 1868). https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3442593/3442595/14/abandoned%20lost%20child%20London "Home Children, 1869-1932," Library and Archives Canada https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/immigration/immigration-records/home-children-1869-1930/Pages/home-children.aspx Bernd Weisbrod, "How to Become a Good Foundling in Early Victorian London," Social History 10:2 (May 1985): 193-209. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4285430 "Our History" Barnardo's https://www.barnardos.org.uk/who-we-are/our-history Boutonnieres: "History of Fashion 1840-1900" Victoria & Albert Museum http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/h/history-of-fashion-1840-1900/ https://www.vanderbilt.edu/olli/class-materials/History_of_Fashion_Oct30.pdf Harper Franklin, "1890-1899" Fashion History Timeline https://fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu/1890-1899/ https://bellatory.com/fashion-industry/Mens-Clothing-of-the-Late-Victorian-Era https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/09/25/19th-century-fashion-plate-magazines Tattoos: Database of Convict Tattoos, Digital Panopticon, available at https://www.digitalpanopticon.org/search?targ=hitlist&e0.type.t.t=root&e1.date.d.hy=1839&e1.date.d.ly=1830&e0.gender.tg.x=&e1.date.d.hm=&e0.tattoo_subjects.mts.mts=&e1.date.d.lm=&e1.date.d.hd=&e1.type.t.t=tattoo&e1.date.d.ld= Robert Shoemaker and Zoe Alker, "How Tattoos Became Fashionable in Victorian England," The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/how-tattoos-became-fashionable-in-victorian-england-122487 "Tattoo Machines," Tattooarchive.com, available at https://www.tattooarchive.com/history/tattoo_machine.php

Today we're headed back to the 15th century with The King! Join us for a discussion of Robert Pattinson's performance, female innkeepers, the Battle of Agincourt, and whole bunch of different historical figures named Henry. Sources: Henry IV Family Tree of British Monarchs, available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_British_monarchs Mark Cartwright, Henry IV of England. World History Encyclopedia. Available at https://www.worldhistory.org/Henry_IV_of_England/?visitCount=5&lastVisitDate=2021-4-8&pageViewCount=5 Mark Cartwright, Henry V of England. World History Encyclopedia. Available at https://www.worldhistory.org/Henry_V_of_England/?visitCount=5&lastVisitDate=2021-4-8&pageViewCount=5 Innkeepers and Alewives: Judith M. Bennet, "Misogyny, Popular Culture, and Women's Work," History Workshop 31 (1991) Martha Carlin, "What Say You to a Piece of Beef and Mustard? The Evolution of Public Dining in Medieval and Tudor London," Huntington Library Quarterly 71, 1 (2008) Justin Colson, "A Portrait of a Late Medieval London Pub: The Star Inn, Bridge Street," in Medieval Londoners: Essays to Mark the Eightieth Birthday of Caroline Baron. Elizabeth New and Christian Steer, eds. University of London Press Marjorie K. McIntosh, "The Benefits and Drawbacks of Femme Sole Status, 1300-1630," Journal of British Studies 44, 3 (2005) Sir Henry "Hotspur" Percy Simon Walker, "Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur (1364-1403), soldier," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (3 January 2008). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/21931 A.L. Brown and Henry Summerson, "Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke] (1367-1413)," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (8 April 2021). https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/12951 "Battle of Shrewsbury 1403," Historic England (9 September 2015). https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000033 "Battle of Shrewsbury 21st July 1403," Battlefield Trust http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/medieval/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=39 . John Cannon, A Dictionary of British History (Oxford University Press, 2015) Alfred H. Burne, The Battlefields of England (Pen & Sword Books, 2005), 203-13. Timothy D. Arner, "The Disappearing Scar of Henry V: Triage, Trauma, and the Treatment of Henry's Wounding at the Battle of Shrewsbury," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 49:2 (2019): 347-76. Agincourt: Gordon Campbell, "Agincourt, battle of or (French) battle of Azincourt,"The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2005). Christopher Allmand, "Agincourt, battle of (1415)," The Oxford Companion to Military History (Oxford University Press, 2004). James Glanz, "Historians Reassess Battle of Agincourt," The New York Times (24 October 2009). https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/world/europe/25agincourt.html Robert McCrum, "Agincourt was a battle like no other...but how do the French remember it?" The Guardian (26 September 2015). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/26/agincourt-600th-anniversary-how-french-remember-it Tim Treanor, "High Court Rules for French at Agincourt," DC Theatre Scene (18 March 2010). https://dctheatrescene.com/2010/03/18/high-court-rules-for-french-at-agincourt/ Film Background: Owen Gleiberman, "Venice Film Review: Timothee Chalamet in 'The King'," Variety (2 September 2019). https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/the-king-review-timothee-chalamet-1203320801/ Simran Hans, "The King review--Timothee Chalamet is all at sea as Prince Hal," The Guardian (13 October 2019). https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/oct/13/the-king-henry-v-agincourt-timothee-chalamet-robert-pattinson-joel-edgerton Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_king_2019 "Timothee Chalamet & The King's Cast on Robert Pattinson's French Accent MTV Movies," MTV UK (8 October 2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHKJoXGsOxE https://www.themarysue.com/bowlcut-nation-the-king-timothee-chalamet/

Today we travel back to 1819 Manchester with Peterloo! Join us as we get really fired up and talk about casualties of the Peterloo Massacre, women in the reform movement, and more! Sources: Peterloo Casualties: "Lists of the killed and wounded from the Peterloo Massacre" https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/lists-of-the-killed-and-wounded-from-the-peterloo-massacre "Ian Hernon, Riot! Civil Insurrection from Peterloo to the Present Day (Pluto Press, 2006). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.6 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.7 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.8 and https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt18fs8hm.9 " Katrina Navickas, "Peterloo and the changing definition of seditious assembly," Protest and the politics of space and place, 1789-1848 (Manchester University Press, 2016), 82-105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1b3h98h.11 Robert Poole, "'By the Law or the Sword': Peterloo Revisited," History 91:2 (April 2006): 254-276. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24427836 "Historian tracks down living descendants from rare Peterloo veterans photograph," Manchester Metropolitan University (15 August 2019). https://www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/story/?id=10817 National Archives, HO 42/198 https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1905817 Protestors and Symbolism: Murray Pittock, "Henry Hunt's White Hat: The Long Tradition of Mute Sedition," Commemorating Peterloo: Violence, Resilience and Claim-making during the Romantic Era eds. Michael Demson and Regina Hewitt, 84-99 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019). https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctvnjbgpx.9 Katrina Navickas, ""That sash will hang you": Political Clothing and Adornment in England, 1780-1840," Journal of British Studies 49:3 (July 2010): 540-65. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23265378 Peter Linebaugh, "The Red Cap of Liberty," Red Round Globe Hot Burning: A Tale at the Crossroads of Commons and Closure, of Love and Terror, of Race and Class, and of Kate and Ned Despard (University of California Press, 2019), 384-95. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvd1c81c.39 Paul A. Pickering, "Class without Words: Symbolic Communication in the Chartist Movement," Past & Present 112 (August 1986): 144-62. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651001 J. David Harden, "Liberty Caps and Liberty Trees," Past & Present 146 (February 1995): 66-102. https://www.jstor.org/stable/651152 James Epstein, "Understanding the Cap of Liberty: Symbolic Practice and Social Conflict in Early Nineteenth-Century England," Past & Present 122 (February 1989): 75-118. https://www.jstor.org/stable/650952 Surviving banner: http://rochdaleonline.co.uk/news-features/2/news-headlines/127936/only-surviving-protest-banner-from-1819-peterloo-massacre-unveiled-at-touchstones Film Background: Indie Film Hustle, "Mike Leigh: Writing a Screenplay with Improvisation and Actors," available at https://indiefilmhustle.com/mike-leigh/ Daniel Schindel, "Mike Leigh on Why His New Film on an 1819 Massacre Feels Eerily Relevant Today," Observer, available at https://observer.com/2019/04/mike-leigh-on-why-his-new-film-about-an-1819-massacre-feels-eerily-relevant-today/ Glenn Kenny, Review on Rogerebert.com, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/peterloo-2019 Scout Tafoya, The Unloved, Part 69: Peterloo, available at https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/the-unloved-part-69-peterloo Mary Fildes: Reenactment of Mary Fildes' Petition, available at Remembering Peterloo, https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2019/07/18/remembering-peterloo-protest-satire-and-reform/ EP Thompson, Making of the English Working Class, 1963. EP Thompson, Customs in Common. The New Press, 1980. Ashley J. Cross, "What a World We Make the Oppressor and the Oppressed: George Cruikshank, Percy Shelley, and the Gendering of Revolution in 1819." ELH 71, 1 (2004) Iain McCalman, "Females, Feminism, and Free Love in an Early Nineteenth Century Radical Movement," Labour History 38 (1980) Christina Parolin, "The She-Champion of Impiety: Female Radicalism and Political Culture in Early-Nineteenth Century England," in Radical Spaces: Venues of Popular Politics in London 1790-1845. ANU Press. James Epstein, "Understanding the Cap of Liberty: Symbolic Practice and Social Conflict in Early-Nineteenth-Century England," Past and Present 122 (1989) John Tyas and Journalism: News UK Archives, Peterloo Massacre (Includes scanned copy of Tyas's article). Available at https://medium.com/@NewsUKArchives/peterloo-massacre-f7ad4d156130 News UK Archives, Times Editor Before a Cabinet Council (Scanned Letter to the Editor). Available at https://medium.com/@NewsUKArchives/times-editor-before-a-cabinet-council-4a43e4d8da02 Stephen Bates, "The Bloody Clash That Changed Britain," Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/04/peterloo-massacre-bloody-clash-that-changed-britain Margaret Holborn, "How Peterloo Led to the Founding of the Manchester Guardian," Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/gnmeducationcentre/2019/aug/15/how-peterloo-led-to-the-founding-of-the-manchester-guardian

In her Fireside Chat, Agnès Trouillet examined how the surveying of the city of Philadelphia and the province of Pennsylvania, notably under first Surveyor General Thomas Holme, laid out the map of governance imagined by William Penn. The use of property survey profoundly reshaped the space, ensuring land tenure but also granting proximity and access to the seats of political power. Dr. Agnès Trouillet is an Associate Professor of British Studies at University Paris Nanterre. Her research focuses on contemporary and colonial political history, more specifically on Pennsylvania with which she has a special relationship after having taught four years at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in the issue of division as generative of power, and her current project examines the role of William Penn’s settlement design in reshaping space and sovereignty in the Delaware Valley. She has a forthcoming article on the boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland in the volume from the American Philosophical Society Conference “The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders.” Dr. Trouillet is currently a fellow at the Library Company of Philadelphia. This chat originally aired at 7:00 p.m. Thursday, March 4, 2021.

This week we're doing a whole lot of hiking with The Lost City of Z! Join us for a discussion of Nina Fawcett, colonialism, the rubber trade, cannibalism, and more! Sources: Film Background: Featurette: https://youtu.be/l_hU-6psK04 Fox interview w/actors: https://youtu.be/J8_ZozoEo2Q Lauren Turner, "Sienna Miller on why her new role is not 'just a wife,' BBC 25 March 2017 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39371863 Katie Berrington, "Sienna's Latest Role: "She Wasn't Just A Wife," Vogue UK 27 March 2017, https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/sienna-miller-on-new-role-not-being-just-a-wife IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212428/ Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lost_city_of_z wiki https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_City_of_Z_(film) John Hemming, "Lost city of fantasy," The Spectator 1 April 2017, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/lost-city-of-fantasy . Nina Fawcett: Bio British Museum https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG123259 "United Kingdom: Long lost letter reveals new details of wifes search for missing explorer" Mena Report 9 Nov. 2016 https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A469783244/EAIM?u=mlin_w_willcoll&sid=EAIM&xid=3babb494 "Letter reveals how missing explorer's wife turned to clairvoyant for help," Belfast Telegraph 7 November 2016 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breakingnews/offbeat/letter-reveals-how-missing-explorers-wife-turned-to-clairvoyant-for-help-35194673.html George K. Behlmer, "Grave Doubts: Victorian Medicine, Moral Panic, and the Signs of Death," Journal of British Studies 42:2 (April 2003): 206-35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/345608 Bonnie G. Smith, The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). Lionel Gossman, "Michelet and Natural History: The Alibi of Nature," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 145:3 (September 2001): 283-333. David Grann, "The Lost City of Z," The New Yorker (19 September 2005), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/the-lost-city-of-z and The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Doubleday, 2009). Bruna Franchetto, "Autobiographies of a Memorable Man and Other Memorable Persons (Southern Amazonia, Brazil)" in Fluent Selves: Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America eds. Suzanne Oakdale and Magnus Course (University of Nebraska Press). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1d9nkk2.15 Rubber: John Tully, The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber (NYU Press, 2011) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qfjqp.8 Steven Topik, Carlos Marichal, and Zephyr Frank, From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000 (Duke University Press, 2006). Gary Van Valen, Indigenous Agency in the Amazon: The Mojos in Liberal and Rubber-Boom Bolivia, 1842-1932 (University of Arizona Press, 2013). City of Z/Kuhikugu: Douglas Preston, "An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rainforest," New Yorker. Available at https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/an-ancient-city-emerges-in-a-remote-rain-forest Michael J Heckenberger, "Lost Cities of the Amazon," Scientific American 301, 4 (2009) Michael J Heckenberger et al, "Village Size and Permanence in Amazonia: Two Archaeological Examples from Brazil," Latin American Antiquity 10, 4 (1999) Anna T. Browne-Ribeiro et al, "Results from Pilot Archaeological Fieldwork at the Carrezado Site, Lower Xingu, Amazonia," Latin American Antiquity 27, 3 (2016) Cannibalism: Beth Conklin, "Consuming Images: Representations of Cannibalism on the Amazonian Frontier," Anthropological Quarterly 70, 2 (1997) Beth Conklin, "'Thus Are Our Bodies, Thus Was Our Custom': Mortuary Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society," American Ethnologist 22, 1 (1995) Shirley Lindenbaum, "Thinking About Cannibalism," Annual Review of Anthropology 33 (2004)

Dr. Mrinalini Sinha is the Alice Freeman Palmer professor in the department of history, and professor in the departments of English language and literature, and of women's studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dr. Sinha has written on various aspects of the political history of colonial India with the focus on anti-colonialism, gender and trans national approaches. Her first book, Colonial Masculinity, the manly Englishman and the effeminate Bengali, sought to combine British and Indian history and brought gender analysis to bear on questions of high politics, to understand a critical moment and the relationship between colonialism and nationalism in India. Her subsequent book, Specters of Mother India, the global restructuring of an empire, explores the post first world war changes in the British empire, especially their implications in India. The book received the Albion Book Prize, awarded annually by the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize 2007, awarded annually by the American Historical Association. Dr. Sinha has also published widely in journals and in edited collections. She has been a recipient of several fellowships, including from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Institute of Indian Studies, and the American Philosophical Society. Dr. Sinha has also served as a president of the Association of Asian Studies, a scholarly, nonpolitical, nonprofit, professional association, representing all the regions and countries of Asia and all academic disciplines. In this episode Dr. Sinha discusses populist nationalism and its rise globally but especially in the US under Trump and now in India with recent legislature nicknamed 'Love Jihad'. Dr. Sinha reviews Gandhian visions for India and democracy and the fact that Gandhi asserted that Democracy is not just around a shared identity based on ascribed caste, religion, race, but also on a shared understanding of injustice.

It's our second official NSFW Episode, and we're talking about The Little Hours! Join us for a discussion of penis trees, punishments for adultery, nuns and politics in the Middle Ages, and more! Sources: Penis Trees: Massa Marittima Mural, available at http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/massa_marittima-mural.png Jeanne de Montbaston, "Nun Harvesting Phalluses from Phallus Tree and a Monk and Nun Embracing." Available at https://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/DetailsPage.aspx?Feminae_ID=31987 "Medieval Woman Artist Unmasked by Her Teeth," National Geographic. Available at https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/2019/01/female-medieval-master-artist-revealed-dental-calculus/#close Johan Mattelaer, "The Phallus Tree: A Medieval and Renaissance Phenomenon," Journal of Sexual Medicine (2010) Moira Smith, "The Flying Phallus and the Laughing Inquisitor: Penis Theft in the "Malleus Mallificarum," Journal of Folklore Research 39, 1 (2002) THE TOAST https://the-toast.net/2015/10/06/two-monks/  Adrian S. Hoch, "Duocento Fertility Imagery for Females at Massa Marittima's Public Fountain," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte 69, 4 (2006) Guelphs and Ghibellines: "Guelf and Ghibelline," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/event/Guelf-and-Ghibelline "Return of Dante: The Guelphs and the Ghibellines," The Independent, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/return-of-dante-the-guelphs-and-the-ghibellines-850012.html Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness: Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (Harvard University Press, 2020) Marvin E. Wolfgang, "Political Crimes and Punishments in Renaissance Florence," Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Political Science, 44, 5 (1954)The Little Hours, IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/  Film Background: Sheila O'Malley, Review on Rogerebert.com. Available at https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-little-hours-2017 Michael Philips, Review in the Chicago Tribune. 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The Classics of Culture© 2020ISBN 978-976-96512-9-6 PODCASTAlthough the Classics of Culture may conjure or be construed as epic yet it is not encyclopaedic but a genre of the classical artistic and literary heritage of Greece and Rome whose is the underpinning of this ancient nostalgia conversation about the classical global citizens’ way of life which are archived in the annals of history . It should be noted that in this space these citizens had a keen interest in, admiration for, and emulation of the classical artistic and literary heritage of Greece and Rome between the period 1775 to 1825. William Anderson GittensAuthor, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor-in-Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, Student of Film, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015 "The Beazley Archive". Beazley.ox.ac.uk. https://jakubmarian.com/classic-vs-classical-in-english/ "Language definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary". www.collinsdictionary.com. Retrieved 10 December 2019. Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.8.15. Department of European Paintings (October 2002). "Architecture in Renaissance Italy". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-10-28. Gittens,William AndersonAuthor, Cinematographer,Dip., Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists’ Editor-in-Chief Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing ®2015 License Cultural Practitioner, Publisher, CEO Devgro Media Arts Services®2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_antiquity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_archaeology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics#CITEREFKirk1985 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classics#Literature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_(arts) https://historyofphilosophy.net/classical https://jakubmarian.com/classic-vs-classical-in-english/#:~:text=The%20word%20%E2%80%9Cclassic%E2%80%9D%20can%20be,an%20adjective%20or%20a%20noun.&text=Similarly%2C%20%E2%80%9Ca%20classic%20thing%E2%80%9D,present%20for%20a%20long%20time%E2%80%9D. https://wikidiff.com/ https://wikidiff.com/ https://wikidiff.com/classics/classic https://wikidiff.com/classics/classic https://www.bristol.ac.uk/classics/hub/what-is-classics/ https://www.britannica.com/editor/Brian-Duignan/6469 https://www.dailywritingtips.com/ https://www.differencebetween.com/ https://www.filmsite.org/classicsfilms.html https://www.quora.com/profile/Munmun-Sen-4 https://www.quora.com/What-is-classical-art https://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/what-makes-a-movie-a-classic https://www.thefreedictionary.com/classics https://www.tsc.nsw.edu.au/tscnews/the-importance-of-tradition-in-schools Johnson, James William (1969). "What Was Neo-Classicism?". Journal of British Studies. 9 (1): 49–70. doi:10.1086/385580. JSTOR 175167. Ziolkowski 2007, p. 17language noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes | Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com". www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com. Retrieved 10 December 2019."Language | Definition of Language by Lexico". Lexico Dictionaries | English. Retrieved 10 December 2019.Support the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

What can we know about the social world, and how much of it can we control? How high are the stakes in the battle between positivism and interpretive social science? In this episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington (King's College London) and Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) discuss wide-ranging questions about the influence of philosophy and social science on public policy. Subscribe on iTunes and Spotify Subscribe to the Governance Podcast on iTunes and Spotify today and get all our latest episodes directly in your pocket. Follow Us For more information about our upcoming podcasts and events, follow us on facebook, twitter or instagram (@csgskcl). The Guests Mark Bevir is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for British Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is also Professor of Governance, United Nations University (MERIT) and Distinguished Research Professor, Swansea University. Born and raised in London, Mark moved to Berkeley in January 2000, having worked previously at universities in India and the UK. He has held visiting fellowships in Australia, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Norway, South Korea, UK, and USA. Currently he is the general editor of The Oxford History of Political Thought, and he has been an editor of Journal of the Philosophy of History, associate editor of Journal of Moral Philosophy, President of the Society for the Philosophy of History, and Chair of the Interpretive Politics Group (PSA). Mark has done policy work for governmental organizations in Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as for the United Nations and its agencies. Mark's research interests in political theory include moral philosophy, political philosophy, and history of political thought. His methodological interests cover philosophy of social science, philosophy of history, and history of social science. His work on public policy focuses on organization theory, democratic theory, and governance. Skip Ahead 0:55: I wonder if you could start by what you've been working on most recently, perhaps the book on interpretive social science. 1:55: What is distinctive about the interpretive approach? We have the typical dichotomy between the interpretive or hermeneutic approach to social science and a more positivist view. And positivism is associated with some notion that you can read off almost in a mechanical way people's behaviour by understanding background conditions, whether they're economic incentives… or macro-structural influences. 5:29: It seems to me that if you adopt that approach--- I take the point that there's a difference between particular epistemological foundations for social science and attachment to particular methods—but it seems to me nonetheless that if you do adopt this kind of [interpretive] approach, the implication is, to really get an appreciation of the meanings people attach to their actions or the beliefs they have or the traditions they're situated in, you have to get up close with the actors. You have to try to be in their heads, and that does imply a more ethnographic approach. 8:48: One of the areas where you've applied this interpretive method to great effect is in trying to understand changes in governance relationships, especially within public sector organizations in the last 20-30 years. As I understand it, what your work points to is the influence of a particular set of social scientific beliefs about the problems that face hierarchical forms of state bureaucracy. And your argument is that initially this was questioned from a market-liberal perspective, public choice theory emphasising contracts and markets as an alternative to hierarchy, and then later we have the movement towards joined up governance approaches often associated with New Labour in the UK. And this is another set of social scientific ideas that markets produce excessive fragmentation and they need to be reintegrated in some sense. You make a very powerful claim that essentially it's social scientific ideas that drove this change to the new governance arrangements that we see. Why do you think the actual social science has been important in the shift toward the kind of network governance arrangements we see in the world today? 14:30: You were saying that you're interested in the way in which many of these policy reforms in the public sector have failed, and perhaps connect that to your interpretive method and approach. As I understand your argument, the problem with these various reform agendas, from whatever direction they come, whether it's for markets or network governance or joined up governance, they fail to recognize that the actors who are required to implement the policies are going to be interpreting these policies in different ways, ways that are unpredictable to the actual reformer. Therefore we get all kinds of unintended or emergent outcomes. 18:26: Presumably this would also apply to evidence based public policy… or if you look at the recent focus on randomised control trials, would the kind of critique you're applying transfer to these kind of ideas? 20:30: In your approach as I understand it, you do allow for the idea that there are patterns in the sense that particular traditions knit together in a certain way can create a certain regularity. But what you're saying is there is no inherent necessity for that regularity to be there, that at some point there can be some kind of rupture or change in people's beliefs, maybe some kind of exogenous event that breaks up what look like long-established patterns… It strikes me that would be what could happen to big data. 24:14: I wonder if we could say something about the tendency for social science (and I think arguably for some people this is the case for people who are using big data today) … people very much still believe that good social science should be able to predict in some sense. If we take the view that you're presenting, there seem to be severe limits to our capacity to predict because there are always going to be these unexpected contingencies or developments… The financial crisis was not predicted by most economists and the rise of populist movements was not predicted by most political scientists. Why do you think so many people still want to cling to the notion that good social science is science that predicts? 29:43: What you just said there could be construed as quite critical of an expert-centered view of the world, the idea that there is a body of expertise which understands how societies function and how they can be controlled. In essence what you're saying is that simply isn't the case- other than that people might believe this to be the case. In some of your writings you propose what you call a de-centered approach to public policy. I understand that to be de-centered in two senses. It's de-centered in the sense that you recognize the importance of local contingency, variety, unpredictability. But it's also decentered in the sense that you're wanting to, at least as I understand it, dethrone the power of experts and to empower citizens much more. 37:14: Aren't politicians… almost inevitably going to look for quite simplistic kind of interpretations of what social science might say, or is it reasonable to expect that we could have a more nuanced understanding from politicians who ultimately are still involved in political battles? They're trying to assert the value of their ideas versus what they see to be opposing sets of ideas. 41:24: It strikes me that there's a sort of irony in that one of the things that you point out about Foucault's work is… you emphasise that there needs to be a role for agency, some notion of creativity that people can resist dominant epistemes or forms of governmentality, that there has to be some scope for that in order to explain how change actually happens. 49:05: The centre here is within a department of political economy. So we've got people here from economics, political science and political theory backgrounds. Do you think some of the concepts that you use in the interpretive framework can say something to economists or the types of questions they're interested in? 54:58: Perhaps this is unfair, I'm not sure, but I take to be a pretty significant implication of a lot of what you're saying… is that people are looking for order in the world that really isn't there. But the nature of a lot of social science is to try and find order. Why do you think people are so uncomfortable with the notion that maybe we just can't fully understand what's going on?

This week on Theology on the Go, our host, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Dr. William VanDoodewaard. Dr. VanDoodewaard is Professor of Church History at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has held appointments as Visiting Research Fellow in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast and Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary for his ongoing work in the history of biblical interpretation. Prior to coming to PRTS, Dr. VanDoodewaard taught at Patrick Henry Col­lege, near Washington, D.C., and at Huntington University in Indiana. He has written for Books & Culture, The Journal of British Studies, Themelios, Puritan Reformed Journal, Westminster Theological Journal, and online at The Gospel Coalition and Reformation21. He is also a contributor to a number of books, and the author of two: The Quest for the Historical Adam and The Marrow Controversy and Seceder Tradition. Dr. VanDoodewaard is an ordained minister who has served as a church planter; he worships with his family at Harvest Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Today Dr. Master is going to talk with Dr. Vandoodewaard about the Marrow Controversy.  This controversy was not only important to Scottish Presbyterians in the 18th century but it has lasting relevance in the church to this day.  So, grab that cup of coffee and join us at the table! Just for listening, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals would like to give you a free resource. If you would like to win a copy of The Whole Christ: Legalism, Antinomianism, and Gospel Assurance—Why the Marrow Controversy Still Matters by Sinclair B. Ferguson go to ReformedResources.org!      

“G.K. Chesterton on Humor,” by Ian KerRecorded on:Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:00 PM“G.K. Chesterton on Humor”Ian Ker, University of OxfordIda Noyes, Third Floor Theatre1212 East 59th StreetCo-sponsored by The Nicholson Center for British Studies, The American Chesterton Society, and the Literature and Philosophy WorkshopChesterton regarded comedy as important an art form as tragedy. He thought humor was integral to Christianity as opposed to paganism, and it was an essential part of his philosophy of wonder.Ian Ker has taught both English literature and theology at universities in the United States and Britain, where he is currently a member of the Oxford theology faculty. He is the author and editor of more than twenty books on Newman, including the standard biography which Oxford University Press reissued prior to Newman's beatification. He is also the author of The Catholic Revival in English Literature 1845-1961, Mere Catholicism, and most recently, G. K. Chesterton: A Biography.