Podcast appearances and mentions of Edward VII

Unlocked after 1 year for patrons only: We review the diplomatic landscape of Europe on the eve of war in the summer of 1914—and then trace the dizzying cascade of events that followed after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. We get a handle on the ensuing crisis that ricocheted through embassies, banquet halls, and barracks all across Europe, and plunged all the great powers of the continent into a war that soon spread around the world. Suggested further reading: Christopher Clark, “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914”; Margaret MacMillan, “The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914”; Barbara Tuchman, “The Guns of August.” Image: Photograph of nine kings (George V of Britain seated, center; Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany standing, in red), at Windsor, for funeral of Edward VII of Britain, May, 1910. Please sign up to hear all patron-only lectures, including recent series on the Dead Sea Scrolls & the Epic of Gilgamesh: https://www.patreon.com/c/user?u=5530632

Robert and Kate are back with a dastardly Bonus Episode in which they are asking one of history's most pressing questions: did Queen Victoria's son have TWO thrones? Edward VII was famed for his lurid love life, but did our raunchiest 20th Century monarch really have his own ‘sex chair' in a Paris brothel? And if so, how on earth did it work? Hosted by Daily Mail columnist and royal biographer Robert Hardman and historian Professor Kate Williams, each episode of Queens, Kings, and Dastardly Things delves into the juiciest parts of royal history from eras past, and present... but mainly past.  Hosts: Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams Researcher: Tom Sankey Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini  Executive Producer: Bella Soames  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of the Anglotopia podcast, host Jonathan Thomas speaks with historian Adrian Tinniswood about his latest book, ‘The Power and the Glory,' which explores the golden age of British country houses from 1870 to 1914. They discuss the evolution of these estates, the impact of new money and technology, the changing roles of servants, and the societal scandals that characterized this fascinating period in British history. In this conversation, Jonathan Thomas and Adrian discuss the evolution of the British aristocracy, focusing on the influence of figures like the Rothschilds and Duleep Singh. They explore the allure of English country houses for American elites, the architectural innovations of the era, and the decline of grand estates due to changing social dynamics and taxation. The role of women in managing these estates is highlighted, along with the diversity of ownership that transformed country house society. Adrian also shares his interest in exploring Regency country houses in future research. Links The Power and The Glory on Amazon The Long Weekend Noble Ambitions Adrian Tinniswood's Website Adrian Tinniswood on Twitter Takeaways Adrian Tinniswood's trilogy completes a century of country house history. The period from 1870 to 1914 is marked by both opulence and decline. New money and ideas transformed the traditional aristocracy. Technological advancements changed the dynamics of country house life. The introduction of the motor car and railways made country houses more accessible. Electricity and modern conveniences began to reshape domestic life. The servant problem emerged as women sought other employment opportunities. Scandals in high society reflected broader societal changes. American millionaires and Jewish bankers influenced British aristocracy. The acceptance of new entrants into the country house world was complex and varied. The Rothschilds are viewed as new money due to their Jewish heritage. Alfred Rothschild's eccentricities included pet zebras and a private orchestra. Duleep Singh's acceptance in British society was complicated by racism. American elites sought legitimacy through ownership of country houses. Edward VII's friendships with outsiders relaxed social conventions. By 1914, new money was largely accepted in British society. Cardiff Castle exemplifies extravagant architectural innovation. Death duties significantly impacted the sustainability of estates. Women played crucial roles in managing country houses, often overlooked. Diversity in ownership brought fresh perspectives to country house society. Sound Bites “It's a fascinating period of the British country house.” “The idea of new blood being introduced is very distinctive.” “The servant problem starts to bite but it is slow to hit the country house.” “Rothschilds are still considered new money.” “Alfred Rothschild had pet zebras.” “Duleep Singh hated the English, with good reason.” Chapters 00:00 Introduction to British Country Houses 02:56 The Golden Age of Country Houses 05:50 Technological Advancements and Social Changes 08:51 The Servant Problem and Domestic Life 11:33 Scandals and Gossip in High Society 14:39 New Entrants to the Country House World 22:30 The Legacy of the Rothschilds 24:02 Duleep Singh: The Last Maharaja's Struggle for Acceptance 26:52 American Elites and the British Aristocracy 29:35 The Changing Dynamics of Wealth and Class 33:32 Architectural Innovations in Country Houses 38:30 The Decline of the Grand Estate 42:09 The Role of Women in Country House Management 45:03 Diversity in Country House Ownership 46:24 Exploring Regency Country Houses

In this episode of the Anglotopia podcast, host Jonathan Thomas speaks with historian Adrian Tinniswood about his latest book, ‘The Power and the Glory,' which explores the golden age of British country houses from 1870 to 1914. They discuss the evolution of these estates, the impact of new money and technology, the changing roles of servants, and the societal scandals that characterized this fascinating period in British history. In this conversation, Jonathan Thomas and Adrian discuss the evolution of the British aristocracy, focusing on the influence of figures like the Rothschilds and Duleep Singh. They explore the allure of English country houses for American elites, the architectural innovations of the era, and the decline of grand estates due to changing social dynamics and taxation. The role of women in managing these estates is highlighted, along with the diversity of ownership that transformed country house society. Adrian also shares his interest in exploring Regency country houses in future research. Links The Power and The Glory on Amazon The Long Weekend Noble Ambitions Adrian Tinniswood's Website Adrian Tinniswood on Twitter Takeaways Adrian Tinniswood's trilogy completes a century of country house history. The period from 1870 to 1914 is marked by both opulence and decline. New money and ideas transformed the traditional aristocracy. Technological advancements changed the dynamics of country house life. The introduction of the motor car and railways made country houses more accessible. Electricity and modern conveniences began to reshape domestic life. The servant problem emerged as women sought other employment opportunities. Scandals in high society reflected broader societal changes. American millionaires and Jewish bankers influenced British aristocracy. The acceptance of new entrants into the country house world was complex and varied. The Rothschilds are viewed as new money due to their Jewish heritage. Alfred Rothschild's eccentricities included pet zebras and a private orchestra. Duleep Singh's acceptance in British society was complicated by racism. American elites sought legitimacy through ownership of country houses. Edward VII's friendships with outsiders relaxed social conventions. By 1914, new money was largely accepted in British society. Cardiff Castle exemplifies extravagant architectural innovation. Death duties significantly impacted the sustainability of estates. Women played crucial roles in managing country houses, often overlooked. Diversity in ownership brought fresh perspectives to country house society. Sound Bites “It's a fascinating period of the British country house.” “The idea of new blood being introduced is very distinctive.” “The servant problem starts to bite but it is slow to hit the country house.” “Rothschilds are still considered new money.” “Alfred Rothschild had pet zebras.” “Duleep Singh hated the English, with good reason.” Chapters 00:00 Introduction to British Country Houses 02:56 The Golden Age of Country Houses 05:50 Technological Advancements and Social Changes 08:51 The Servant Problem and Domestic Life 11:33 Scandals and Gossip in High Society 14:39 New Entrants to the Country House World 22:30 The Legacy of the Rothschilds 24:02 Duleep Singh: The Last Maharaja's Struggle for Acceptance 26:52 American Elites and the British Aristocracy 29:35 The Changing Dynamics of Wealth and Class 33:32 Architectural Innovations in Country Houses 38:30 The Decline of the Grand Estate 42:09 The Role of Women in Country House Management 45:03 Diversity in Country House Ownership 46:24 Exploring Regency Country Houses

In this episode we explore the rich cultural and social landscape of the Edwardian era with historian Alwyn Turner, author of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era. From the legacy of Edward VII to the early days of tabloids and the impact of emerging technologies, Alwyn shares insights into how the period shaped modern Britain.Key Topics:The Edwardian Age Defined: What years the era covered and how Edward VII's reign reflected societal change.Public Perceptions of Edward VII: How he was viewed compared to Queen Victoria.The Rise of the Labour Party and Political Shifts: How early welfare reforms laid the groundwork for the modern state.The Influence of Early Tabloids: How The Daily Mail revolutionised news consumption and democracy.Entertainment & Pop Culture: Freak shows, music halls, and the Fat Boy of Peckham's fame.Technological Innovations: The impact of cars, telephones, and aviation on everyday life.Shifting Social Values: The loosening of Victorian morals and recurring cultural cycles.Memorable Moments:Oscar Wilde's Lasting Influence: How Wilde's trial changed male social behaviour.Horatio Bottomley's Rise and Fall: The charismatic fraudster who inspired Toad of Toad Hall.Marie Lloyd's Legacy: Celebrating Britain's greatest female entertainer.About Our Guest:Alwyn Turner is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Chichester. His research delves into the interplay between culture, politics, and society in 20th-century Britain. His book, Little Englanders, offers a colorful exploration of the Edwardian era.Where to Find Alwyn's Work:Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Erahttp://www.alwynwturner.com/Enjoyed the Episode?Please subscribe, share with friends, and leave us a review! For more updates, follow us on social media.Connect with Undercurrent Stories:  - Website: https://www.undercurrentstories.com/- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/undercurrentstories/- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/undercurrentstoriesIntro and outro music, 'Time for a Coffee'  Bob Wells © 2020Question or comment? Send us a text message.www.undercurrentstories.com

Watts dates back to the late 19th century, when three architects banded together to start a company that made fabrics and decor for both the church and residential use. Over the course of the next 150 years, Watts' history would be intertwined with Britain's—it produced garments worn during the coronations of Edward VII, Elizabeth II and Charles III. Today, it's also a modern fabric and wallcoverings brand, sold to designers all over the world.On this episode of the podcast, host Dennis Scully speaks to Watts' creative director Fiona Flint and its managing director Marie Severine de Caraman Chimay (better known as “MS”) about how the company has survived a century and a half by staying nimble, the ups and downs of doing business in America, and how they walk the line between celebrating their history and looking to the future.This episode is sponsored by Four Hands and SuryaLINKSWatts 1874Dennis ScullyBusiness of Home

Eigentlich wollte sich Hape Kerkeling nur ein wenig der Familiengeschichte widmen. Daraus wurden mehr als drei Jahre Ahnenforschung. Der Clou: Kerkeling fand heraus, dass er sich mit König Charles den Ururgroßvater teilt: Edward VII. von England. Kerkeling, Hape www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, Studio 9

The Edwardian era is sometimes regarded as an uneventful stopgap between the cultural and technological innovations of the Victorian period and the seismic shifts brought about by the First World War. But is this a fair assessment? Alwyn Turner talks to Jon Bauckham about what life was really like during the reign of Edward VII, and how anxieties about Britain's place in the world were beginning to take centre stage. (Ad) Alwyn Turner is the author of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era (Profile, 2024). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Englanders-Britain-Edwardian-Era/dp/1800815301/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-HistoryiPad The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Iain Dale talks to the Telegraph's Assistant Editor Camilla Tominey about the life and relatively brief reign of Queen Victoria's son, Bertie, who reigned for 9 years as King Edward VII.

We review the diplomatic landscape of Europe on the eve of war in the summer of 1914—and then follow the dizzying cascade of events that followed after the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. We trace on the ensuing crisis that ricocheted through embassies, banquet halls, and barracks all across Europe, and plunged all the great powers of the continent into a war that soon spread around the world. Suggested further reading: Christopher Clark, “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914”; Margaret MacMillan, “The War That Ended Peace: The Road to 1914”; Barbara Tuchman, “The Guns of August.” Image: Photograph of nine kings (George V of Britain seated, center; Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany standing, in red), at Windsor, for funeral of Edward VII of Britain, May, 1910. Sign up here to listen to the entire lecture, as well as lectures on Germany, Japan, and Bosnia & the Assassination: https://www.patreon.com/posts/105028218

Willy Willy Harry Stee, Harry Dick John Harry Three, One Two Three Neds, Richard Two, Henry's Four Five Six.........then who? Edward Four Five...Dick The Bad, Harry's Twain and Ned The Lad, Mary, Bessie, James The Vain, Charlie Charlie, James again. William & Mary, Anna Gloria, Four Georges, William and Victoria, Then Comes Edward.....King Edward VII to be precise, though you may call him Bertie. A man who, as Prince Edward, loved the good things in life but, as we'll hear, matured into a decent King, though, like our current monarch, had to wait a while before taking the throne. Helping Charlie Higson to dig a little deeper into this fascinating man is Professor Jane Ridley, author of Bertie, A Life Of Edward VII Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Big hands for a Fountain Pen, Edward VII's naughty chair, Swinging for tums, Garlic bread galore!

This episode was recorded at The Hill St Theatre at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on 9th August 2023. The panellists were Angus Coutts, Micky Gibbons and Bryan Ghosh. The host was Richard Pulsford. On This Day topics covered included: - The Leaning Tower of Pisa founded (09/08/1173) - The first electric washing machine patent (09/08/1910) - The Coronation of Edward VII (09/08/1910) - Cliff Richard signs with EMI Records (09/08/1958) - The bombing of Nagasaki, and Nintendo (09/08/1945) - Writer David Nobbs, died (09/08/2015)

On 23 April 1924, a landmark broadcast took place - the biggest so far. And on day of podcast release, it's the centenary! 100 years ago at time of writing, King George V opened the Empire Exhibition at Wembley, becoming the first monarch to broadcast. It also stands as the oldest surviving recording of a BBC broadcast - and the only excerpt of the BBC from the 1920s.  The BBC couldn't record anything until 1932, when the Blattnerphone came along. So how did this 1924 broadcast manage to be retained? For decades, it wasn't. A 1964 episode of Desert Island Discs tells the tale, of how their 1936/1955 Scrapbook for 1924 programme aired without the recording, but with a sad admission that there was none... till a listener got in touch. Dorothy Jones' husband had recorded the king off-air via a home-made device. Thanks to him, and her, and Scrapbook producer Leslie Baily, we have this sole recording of the 20s' Beeb. It's quite a tale. The broadcast alone was revolutionary - with 10 million people listening via loudspeakers on street corners, brand new radio sets for their homes... even Downton Abbey hired in its first wireless set (but will Lord Grantham keep it? Oh go on then...) Hear all about the momentous exhibition, the broadcast, the recording, and a rundown of royals who ruled the airwaves - and it goes back further than you might think. Hear too of brand new research into an unheralded royal radio encounter from 1906 - before even 'the world's first broadcast' took place, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (Palace) were enjoying a 'radio' whistling solo and a personalised greeting. Thanks for listening. Do share, rate, review, rant, rave, tell people about the podcast. It's a solo operation - not made by the BBC, just by comedian & writer Paul Kerensa. So thanks!   SHOWNOTES: If you enjoyed this, make sure you've listened to our episode on The History of Coronation Broadcasts and A Brief History of the BBC Archives. Listen to the 1924 recording of the Prince of Wales and King George V. Listen to the 1923 gramophone record of King George V and Queen Mary. Listen to the 1923 recording of President Woodrow Wilson - the world's earliest recording of broadcast radio. See the picture of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra encounter 'the talking arc' via our Facebook group or on Twitter. (search for 'talking arc') We try to only use clips long beyond copyright - but any BBC copyright content reproduced courtesy of the British Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved. Original music is by Will Farmer. Support us on Patreon (£5/mth), and gain bonus videos and writings in return - we're reading the first book on radio, Cecil Lewis' Broadcasting from Within, for example. Hear all instalments read to you: patreon.com/posts/patron-vid-savoy-75950901 ...Interested in joining a live actual walking tour around those first BBC landmarks? I'm thinking of running one, summer 2024. Email paul at paulkerensa dot com for details of when. Paul's on tour: An Evening of (Very) Old Radio could be playing in your town. If not (likely), book it! Details: www.paulkerensa.com/tour More info on this radio history project at:  paulkerensa.com/oldradio

A Coin Of Edward VII by Fergus Hume audiobook. A family celebrates Christmas and its flaws are gently exposed by the house guest Mrs. Parry. Giles is engaged to the wealthy Daisy, yet is clearly in love with the governess Anne Denham. Things come to a head when Daisy is murdered. Who would murder her? Perhaps the governess who told her she would kill her and made it clear she wanted to exchange places with her? After all the governess ran away with a mysterious man right after the murder and was not seen again. Or did someone frame the governess? Perhaps it is Mr. Morley, Daisy's guardian, who wanted her money? Or perhaps someone else? After all, Daisy was not popular in the village. Giles, bent on saving the woman he loves, and the detective Mr. Steel go to investigate. This is a detective story in the traditional sense, but it is a host of other things. It is a very strong love story, a story about class and how it influences people's choices, a story about greed, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

fWotD Episode 2493: Edward VII Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Saturday, 2 March 2024 is Edward VII.Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related to royalty throughout Europe. He was Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the British throne for almost 60 years. During his mother's reign, he was largely excluded from political influence and came to personify the fashionable, leisured elite. He married Princess Alexandra of Denmark in 1863, and the couple had six children. As Prince of Wales, Edward travelled throughout Britain performing ceremonial public duties and represented Britain on visits abroad. His tours of North America in 1860 and of the Indian subcontinent in 1875 proved popular successes, but despite public approval, his reputation as a playboy prince soured his relationship with his mother.Edward inherited the throne upon his mother's death in 1901. The King played a role in the modernisation of the British Home Fleet and the reorganisation of the British Army after the Second Boer War of 1899–1902. He re-instituted traditional ceremonies as public displays and broadened the range of people with whom royalty socialised. He fostered good relations between Britain and other European countries, especially France, for which he was popularly called "Peacemaker", but his relationship with his nephew, German Emperor Wilhelm II, was poor. The Edwardian era, which covered Edward's reign and was named after him, coincided with the start of a new century and heralded significant changes in technology and society, including steam turbine propulsion and the rise of socialism. He died in 1910 in the midst of a constitutional crisis that was resolved the following year by the Parliament Act 1911, which restricted the power of the unelected House of Lords. Edward was succeeded by his only surviving son, George V.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:16 UTC on Saturday, 2 March 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Edward VII on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Nicole Standard.

According to Princess Diana, Prince Charles once asked her in a towering bad temper: ‘Am I to be the only Prince of Wales not to be allowed a mistress?' Taking their cue from the landed aristocracy, British royals have for centuries ‘married for the dynasty' then engaged in semi-official affairs - or even long term parallel relationships - with others in their circle. Those marrying into the family were expected to ‘understand' and not make a public fuss, and many did (unlike Diana!).Our guest this week, Tom Sykes, has a very good reason to care about this story. He's a writer and the royal correspondent for The Daily Beast - and he thinks that his own grandmother, Camilla Sykes (nee Russell) may have had a long term love affair with the King. In fact members of Tom's family going back several generations have been closely involved with the British royals at their wildest and naughtiest - including Edward VII when he was a most scandalous Prince of Wales. Hearing their stories provides a unique window into the social history of Upper Class Britain. You can buy books from the authors we feature here in our own Scandal Mongers bookshophttps://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scandalm...Looking for the perfect gift for a special scandalous someone - or someone you'd like to get scandalous with? We're here to help.https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ScandalM...Andrew Lownie / andrewlownie Phil Craig / philmcraig Scandal Mongers / mongerspodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Cette année, l'Olympia fête des 130 ans. La mythique salle du Boulevard des Capucines à Paris en aura connu des aventures. Hauts et bas, risque de disparition, ou de transformation en parking, la salle à taille humaine aura accueilli des vedettes du monde entier. De Piaf à Bécaud, des Stones à Lan Del Rey en passant par David Bowie, Raymond Devos, Justin Timberlake ou un fameux groupe de quatre garçons dans le vent. C'est un peu de toute cette folle historie que l'actuel directeur de l'Olympia Laurent De Cerner revisite au micro de Jean Marc Panis. Épisode 5: Secrète, avec dans sa cave un peu d‘Angleterre cachée Peu le savent, et encore moins l'ont vu, mais il se cache dans les entrailles de l'Olympia une salle secrète, dite des billards. On la doit au roi Edward VII et à son amour du billard, de la capitale française et de ses habitant.es. Merci pour votre écoute Un Jour dans l'Histoire, c'est également en direct tous les jours de la semaine de 13h15 à 15h sur www.rtbf.be/lapremiere Retrouvez tous les épisodes d'Un Jour dans l'Histoire sur notre plateforme Auvio.be : https://auvio.rtbf.be/emission/5936 Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Before he was King Edward VII, Queen Victoria's son "Dirty Bertie" lived a few different lives. There was his endless womanizing and brothel-patronizing, which prompted that nickname, as well as "Edward the Caresser." But after a particular romantic scandal that Queen Victoria blamed for his father's death, Bertie married and fulfilled his duties to the empire to produce heirs (if not to produce a monogamous marriage). Prince Albert Victor was the eldest son of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (the future Edward VII) and Alexandra of Denmark. As such, he was second in line to the English throne. A poor student, even his own siblings developed disdain for him, but for a time he seemed to come into his own in the Navy. This was cut short by his obligation to attend Cambridge, where his lackluster intellect again asserted itself. All of this was awkward enough for Queen Victoria and The Prince of Wales, but things would only get more awkward for Prince Albert Victor. In 1889, after Metropolitan Police raided a male brothel, rumors swirled that the young man was a patron. While no charges were ever brought and no concrete evidence was provided, the blow to his reputation made finding a suitable bride difficult for his match-making grandmother. Even worse, as the reign of terror known as the Jack the Ripper Murders gripped London in 1888, Prince Albert Victor was floated as a suspect. Whatever the truth, his story would come to an end in an influenza pandemic when he was just 28 years old, changing the course of the British Monarchy, and leaving his brother to ascend as George V. Listen ad-free at patreon.com/trashyroyalspodcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

I read from eductor to e'er.     Yup, Edward VII (the 7th) reigned from 1901 to 1910. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII     The word of the episode is "edutainment". The word was first used by Disney in the 1950s, but then again in the 1970s by National Geographic which seems like that's when it started to catch on more.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_entertainment     Theme music from Jonah Kraut https://jonahkraut.bandcamp.com/     Merchandising! https://www.teepublic.com/user/spejampar     "The Dictionary - Letter A" on YouTube   "The Dictionary - Letter B" on YouTube   "The Dictionary - Letter C" on YouTube   "The Dictionary - Letter D" on YouTube     Featured in a Top 10 Dictionary Podcasts list! https://blog.feedspot.com/dictionary_podcasts/     Backwards Talking on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmIujMwEDbgZUexyR90jaTEEVmAYcCzuq     dictionarypod@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/thedictionarypod/ https://www.threads.net/@dictionarypod https://twitter.com/dictionarypod https://www.instagram.com/dictionarypod/ https://www.patreon.com/spejampar https://www.tiktok.com/@spejampar 917-727-5757

The world's most famous cabaret, the Moulin Rouge, opened its doors in Paris on 6th October, 1889. Founded by Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler, the club was originally called the Jardin de Paris and featured everything from art galleries to operettas, live tableau and an opium den. In the era of the Belle Epoque, however, the venue became most associated with the scandalous can-can dance, which actually originated in London but found its home in Montmartre. In this episode, Arion, Rebecca and Olly explain how a giant stucco elephant became part of the opening attractions; recall what happened when the Prince of Wales, future Edward VII, went to check out the entertainment on offer; and unpick the notorious novelty act ‘Le Pétomane' (Joseph Pujol), and his, um, unique control over airflow… Further Reading: • 'The original Moulin Rouge the year before it burned down and other historical images, 1890-1930' (Rare Historical Photos): https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/original-moulin-rouge-1914/ • ‘Fart history? Joseph Pujol trumps them all' (The Guardian, 2021): https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/aug/20/fart-history-joseph-pujol-trumps-them-all • ‘Moulin Rouge Paris' (Explore France, 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK7qVv-tNos We'll be back on Monday - unless you join

This week's Nose got a couple other cans, ya know, and came back and switched the labels and the cans around. The Long Goodbye is a satirical neo-noir mystery feature film adaptation of Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel. It is the eighth feature directed by Robert Altman and the second-to-last screenplay by the science fiction writer Leigh Brackett (who also wrote The Empire Strikes Back and the 1946 version of The Big Sleep, among others). It stars Elliott Gould as Philip Marlowe in 1970s Los Angeles. This year is The Long Goodbye's 50th anniversary. Plus: A look at the value and the art of rewatching and rewatchability. Raquel Benedict's endorsements: Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum Nocebo on Shudder Helder Mira's endorsements: Hawkeye: L.A. Woman by Matt Fraction, Annie Wu, and Javier Pulido Jury Duty on Freevee Documentary Now! Season 4 on Netflix Gene Seymour's endorsements: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse by Ahmad Jamal Ain't But a Few of Us: Black Music Writers Tell Their Story edited by Willard Jenkins Colin's endorsement: The Battered Bastards of Baseball on Netflix Some other stuff that happened this week, give or take: Michael Gambon, Dumbledore in the ‘Harry Potter' Films, Dies at 82 After he made his mark in London in the 1970s, he went on to play a wide range of roles, including Edward VII, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill. Golden Globes Adds Two New Categories: Blockbuster Movies and Stand-Up Comics Enter the Race The Definitive Guide to All Things Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Whether you're a football fan, a Swiftie, or both, this helpful glossary will tell you everything you need to know about the budding relationship between the Kansas City Chiefs tight end and the world's biggest pop star Kelce-Swift Is a Dream Pairing for the N.F.L. The romance between the Chiefs tight end and the world's biggest pop star represents an alliance with the only cultural force in America bigger than the league itself. MAGA Goes to War Against the Swifties! Now they've picked a fight with the wrong people. Lying in Comedy Isn't Always Wrong, but Hasan Minhaj Crossed a Line The stand-up's penchant for making up stories goes beyond embellishment. When real people and real stakes are involved, a different standard applies. Comedy Central Widens Search for ‘Daily Show' Host Beyond Hasan Minhaj The Death of Netflix DVD Marks the Loss of Something Even Bigger It's the end of an era—and not just for plastic discs. ‘Stop Making Sense' Talks Up $800k Weekend, $1.4M Cume As 1984 Concert Film Draws Young Crowd The Office Reboot In The Works, Original US Showrunner Returning After years of speculation, a reboot of The Office is reportedly finally going to happen and the original US showrunner is attached to return. Inside Apple's Plan to Change the Way We Watch Sports Longtime Apple executive Eddy Cue happens to be an enormous sports fan. And with Apple entering the wild west of broadcasting live sports, he's ready to shake up the way we watch games on TV—with a little help from none other than Leo M GUESTS: Raquel Benedict: The most dangerous woman in speculative fiction and the host of the Rite Gud podcast Helder Mira: Multimedia producer at Trinity College and co-host of the So Pretentious podcast Gene Seymour: A “writer, professional spectator, pop-culture maven, and jazz geek” The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, TuneIn, Listen Notes, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Subscribe to The Noseletter, an email compendium of merriment, secrets, and ancient wisdom brought to you by The Colin McEnroe Show. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe, Cat Pastor, and Dylan Reyes contributed to this show, which originally aired May 19, 2023.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The British royal family and UK intelligence operations have been linked since Queen Victoria's time, involving everything from personal protection to matters of international intrigue to concerns about blackmail. Professor and author Rory Cormac, who has conducted extensive research on the British intelligence services, has recently added to his corpus of writings in the field with a book about the modern royal-intelligence intersection: Crown, Cloak, and Dagger, co-authored with Richard Aldrich.David Priess and Rory discussed the difference in US and UK education about the royal family; intelligence foundations during the reign of the first Elizabeth; why it fell apart under her successor; the seeds of modern intelligence under Victoria; the involvement of UK intelligence officers in the death of Grigori Rasputin; the challenges and advances involving intelligence and Edward VII, George V, and Edward VIII; the contributions of George VI to the Allies' massive D-Day deception operations; Elizabeth II's reading of intelligence reports; Soviet spy Anthony Blunt's close relationship with the royal family; Elizabeth's role as a diplomatic "helper;" the exposures of Charles III and Prince Willliam to intelligence; why Clement Attlee was an underappreciated prime minister; and more.Among the works mentioned in this episode:The book Crown, Cloak, and Dagger by Richard J. Aldrich and Rory CormacThe book How To Stage a Coup by Rory CormacChatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The British royal family and UK intelligence operations have been linked since Queen Victoria's time, involving everything from personal protection to matters of international intrigue to concerns about blackmail. Professor and author Rory Cormac, who has conducted extensive research on the British intelligence services, has recently added to his corpus of writings in the field with a book about the modern royal-intelligence intersection: Crown, Cloak, and Dagger, co-authored with Richard Aldrich.David Priess and Rory discussed the difference in US and UK education about the royal family; intelligence foundations during the reign of the first Elizabeth; why it fell apart under her successor; the seeds of modern intelligence under Victoria; the involvement of UK intelligence officers in the death of Grigori Rasputin; the challenges and advances involving intelligence and Edward VII, George V, and Edward VIII; the contributions of George VI to the Allies' massive D-Day deception operations; Elizabeth II's reading of intelligence reports; Soviet spy Anthony Blunt's close relationship with the royal family; Elizabeth's role as a diplomatic "helper;" the exposures of Charles III and Prince Willliam to intelligence; why Clement Attlee was an underappreciated prime minister; and more.Among the works mentioned in this episode:The book Crown, Cloak, and Dagger by Richard J. Aldrich and Rory CormacThe book How To Stage a Coup by Rory CormacChatter is a production of Lawfare and Goat Rodeo. This episode was produced and edited by Cara Shillenn of Goat Rodeo. Podcast theme by David Priess, featuring music created using Groovepad. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The death of King Edward VII in 1910 pitched Britain into a frenzy of mourning, as the nation marked the passing of a symbol of continuity and stability in an ever more unpredictable world. Speaking to Spencer Mizen, Martin Williams reveals how the ageing, conservative king emerged from the shadow of Queen Victoria's reign to charm a nation experiencing dizzying change. (Ad) Martin Williams is the author of The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Majesty, Mourning and Modernity in Edwardian Britain (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fthe-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king%2Fmartin-williams%2F9781529383317 The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the words of the Edward VII (1901-1910) ‘I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother. He had to wait 59 years to become king. Though only 9 years, the king also lent his name to an era. The Edwardian era was distinct in its social and cultural change with a rejection of certain Victorian values. The era saw significant social mobility, reform yet also hedonism. In the words of W. B. Yeats ‘everybody got down off their stilts.' He was perhaps the final monarch to hold true political power. The power and influence was held over the great monarchs of Europe, his relatives, who would soon succumb to republicanism, to socialism and to war. Politips for A-Level and Beyond https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/poli-tips Characters Edward VII ‘Bertie' – King of the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Emperor of India (1901-10)Alexandra of Denmark – Queen consort of the United Kingdom and British Dominions, Empress consort of India (1901-10)Victoria – Queen of the United Kingdom and British Dominions (1837-1901, Emperor of India (1876-1901), mother of EdwardPrince Albert – Consort of the British monarch (1840-61), father of EdwardVictoria, Princess Royal – German Empress consort, sister of Edward Prince Albert ‘Eddie' – eldest son of Edward and AlexandraPrince George – second eldest son of Edward and Alexandra and heir apparent.Mary of Teck – former fiancé of Eddie and wife of Prince George. Canon Birch – tutor of EdwardFrederick Gibbs – tutor of Edward Frederick Johnstone – close university friend ofEdwardHenry Chaplin ‘Magnifico' – close university friend of Edward Mistresses and alleged mistresses Nellie ClifdenHarriet Mordaunt Daisy GrevilleLady AylesfordAlice Keppel Lady Randolph Churchill – mother of Winston Churchill Charles Mordaunt – husband of HarrietRandolph Churchill – father of Winston ChurchillLord BlandfordLord Aylesford William Gordon-Cumming – army officer accused of cheating at baccarat. Prime Ministers Benjamin Disraeli – 1868, 1874-80William Gladstone – 1868-74, 80-85, 86, 92-94Lord Salisbury – 1895-1902Arthur Balfour – 1902-05Henry Campbell-Bannerman – 1905-08Herbert Asquith – 1908-16 Joseph Chamberlain – Conservative MP, Colonial secretary under BalfourDavid Lloyd-George – Liberal MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Asquith Winston Churchill – Liberal MP, Trade Secretary and Home Secretary under AsquithKeir Hardie – Founder of the Labour party Lord Kitchener – British commander during the Boer War Joseph Lister – British surgeon and medical scientist Social reformers Charles Booth Seebohm Rowntree Maud Pember Reeves Credits Land of Hope and Glory – Edward ElgarEgyptian Fantasy – Sucre d'Orge BurlesqueGilbert & Sullivan – Cow and Boxbbc_hammering-_07007064bbc_guns--gunf_07027153bbc_horse-raci_07016266bbc_cars--benz_07023013363836__mtheodp__caida-estatuabbc_the-age-of_07045057675980__craigsmith__s09-12-gavel-tapping-hitting539274__paulmerlo__playing-cards-being-dealtbbc_ships---tu_07018097

Vorab: Sorry, ein paar Tonfehler sind leider aus technischen Gründen aufgetreten… kommt hoffentlich nicht mehr vor. Die 42. Folge, aus terminlichen Gründen wird diese Juni Folge erst am 2 Juli veröffentlicht. Aber es wird einfach nicht leichter Aufnahmetermine zu finden. Aber jetzt erstmal zu unserer neusten Folge, bei dem das Rätsel nach gefühlten 5 Sekunden bereits gelöst wurde, der grosse Wettbewerb der Super -Amateurkriminologen: Professor Dr Dr Dr Augustus vanDusen gegen Shemlock Homes. Wer gewinnt die Krone der Detektive und muss sie – laut König Edward VII bald gegen Popo oder so verteidigen? Neben dem Hörspiel geht es außerdem um…: · Erik adoptiert einen Fisch. · Keiner will Holgers Stuhl Witze hören. · Annikas Kinder verkaufen Sachen und sie weiss nicht was das ist. · Je feuchter desto stärker. · Eriks physikalische Kenntnisse widerlegen den Professor! · Wer ins Königsschloss kommt und in den Thronsaal geführt wird erwartet…wen? · Ist es nun ein Fall oder nicht? · Holger feiert den Haialarmpodcast

This is the third installment in Eric's epic summer series covering the contentious and war-torn season of American history from 1914 to 1974. In this episode he shows how one shocking event of kindness in 1903 altered the course of the twentieth century. Edward VII, the King of England, was trained from birth to hate the French, just as the French from birth were trained to hate him, a Brit. But, Edward altered the storyline of the age-old French-English feud by humbling himself and visiting Paris with the sole intention of restoring a lost fellowship, a lost trust, and a lost grace. It may be time for us to break similar age-old patterns of disgust in our own lives. But, if you are going to visit "the Beautiful City" and witness the same miracle Edward witnessed, you will need to pack something along with you. The key for entry.

Prince Harry has accused tabloid newspapers of hacking his voicemails when he was a teenager, saying it made him feel he "couldn't trust anybody". In a witness statement released in his case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), he said the press had also cast him as a "cheat" and a "thicko". Harry, who gave evidence in court, said he had played up to headlines when young, leading to a "downward spiral". He claims journalists unlawfully gathered information, which MGN denies. By appearing in the witness stand, Harry has become the first senior royal to give evidence in a court of law since Edward VII in 1891. Our correspondent Julia Chapman spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss from London.

Like King Charles III, his great great grandfather Edward VII spent decades as the Prince of Wales while his mother was on the throne. Queen Victoria had her doubts about her eldest son Bertie's potential as King, but he went on to a successful and popular reign. Martin Williams, author of The King is Dead, Long Live the King, joins Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper to reflect on the beginning and end of that Edwardian era and its echoes as we leave the Elizabethan age behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 67 is a special: A Brief History of Coronation Broadcasts (or Broadcast Coronations) How the BBC has brought two such ceremonies to the air, as they (and others) now tackle a third, for King Charles III. We'll tell you all about the two previous on-air crownings, of George VI and Elizabeth II, both on radio and TV - but first we'll go back to the four monarchs before them: Queen Victoria's (1938) used a certain technological advancement to bring more eyes than ever before to a coronation procession. Edward VII's (1902) had a film made of it, though a simulation using actors. (Had director Georges Méliès got his way, it would have included Queen Victoria's ghost!). Edward's wife Princess Alexandra had a few links to broadcasting too. Watch Georges Méliès' film The Coronation of Edward VII (1902): https://youtu.be/ME6z810Zre8 George V's (1911) was filmed for newsreel. That newsreel footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SoUPxIkZ8  Edward VIII's (1937) was planned then canned after his (broadcast) abdication. George VI's (1937) took the same coronation day, same plans, changed the name etched onto the crown (I think that's how they do it), and his state occasion made it to radio and TV: the first broadcast coronation. We'll meet the engineer who taught him to conquer his stammer for the microphone, but had to sleep in Westminster Abbey. And learn how many (or how few) cameras were available to use. You probably have more in your house right now... BBC radio's coronation broadcast - Stuart Hibberd, John Snagge etc: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWPE4GIp9kE - thanks to Random Radio Jottings blog BBC website inc making-of film: https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/100-voices/birth-of-tv/two-coronations/ George VI's coronation speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfD14kL2XAk Elizabeth II's (1953) was "the OB of all OBs", aka "C-Day". Hear from Richard Dimbleby, John Snagge... and learn why we should toast him at hymn 9 (don't worry - there aren't that many)  The complete ceremony, televised: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52NTjasbmgw Coronation Day Across the World, courtesy of Random Radio Jottings/Andy Walmsley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jg4uK2DGFA BBC website on Elizabeth II's coronation, inc behind-the-scenes film: https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/june/coronation-of-queen-elizabeth-ii/ Charles III's (2023): Well that's not history enough yet for our liking... Here's a nice guide to the televised coronation, past and present: https://news.sky.com/story/the-kings-coronation-will-be-televised-and-much-more-how-ways-to-watch-have-changed-since-the-queen-was-crowned-12848891 === Like this episode? Do share it. Or rate and review us. Or chip in on patreon.com/paulkerensa (or ko-fi.com/paulkerensa) to help fund like this. Thanks! === This podcast is nothing whatsoever to do with the BBC. We believe the clips used are no longer in copyright due to age. It is possible that some somehow retain BBC or Crown copyright, in which case the content belongs to them, and certainly not us. It's all here purely to inform, educate and entertain. For more on this deep dive project into broadcasting's back-story, see paulkerensa.com/oldradio, including details of the live show and novel. Subscribe to get each episode when it lands. NEXT TIME: Major Arthur Corbett-Smith - Reith's maverick rival of 1923. Please stand for the National Anthem. paulkerensa.com/oldradio

The coronation of King Charles III on 6 May 2023 has prompted this humorous historical look at the British coronations. Since 1902, when Edward VII and his queen were crowned, the religious ceremony itself has drawn upon rites going back to the crowning of Anglo-Saxon kings. But reviving these old rites just belongs to an Edwardian fascination with a mythical Merrie England. And once you step outside all the solemnity of the Abbey, we are in a world that was entirely invented between the 1870s and the first world war. It was then that British royals turned into a strange mix of an oddly middle-class family that was given to stagey, mock-historical popular pageants, with an increasing display of military uniforms to boost Britain's failing international image. Thespian imperialist Lord Esher, who headed the coronation planning committee in 1902, had very little time for the ordinary British people he called ‘millions of drudges'. He insisted that everyone in royal ceremonies – not just the military – had to wear a uniform. It was meant to distinguish them from the mere mortals who could watch from the sidelines. Ultimately these events were always about international politics. The coronation of Charles III occurs in the context of Brexit and deep economic crisis and carries as much international weight as anything that has gone before.

Take a fascinating journey back in time to visit a few British royal rulers with an intimate look at their reigns as well as at their majestic coronations.  British author and historian Tracy Borman joins The Gilded Gentleman for this unique look at history based on her book "Crown & Sceptre: A New History of the British Monarchy from William the Conqueror to King Charles III". In this second part of our coronation celebration, historian and author Tracy Borman, joint Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, takes us into the world of  the Tudors to discuss just what Henry VIII and his chief minister Thomas Cromwell were really like.  We move on to the glorious rule of Elizabeth I whom Tracy says "makes us fall in love with queens".  Entering the 19th century, we look at the world of Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales who became Edward VII.  Tracy gives us a look at each of these monarch's coronations and surprisingly how they compare to that of King Charles III. If you are a royal watcher or lover of British history, don't miss this show - we end the episode with a discussion of just how the current monarchy fits into the long line of history.  

As the UK prepares to celebrate King Charles III's coronation, we focus on the love affair between the British royal family and Paris, which has been both long and reciprocal. A series of landmarks are dedicated to British monarchs in the capital, such as Avenue Victoria – named after Queen Victoria, who in 1855 made the first state visit to Paris in over 400 years. In 1918, George V Avenue was renamed in honour of the British king for recognition of his role as monarch during World War I. In this edition, we take you on a royal tour of Paris with author Stephen Clarke. We see how a whole district of the Opéra Garnier area was a favorite for "playboy prince" Edward VII and why the Parisian flower market was renamed in honour of Queen Elizabeth II.>> Read more: >> Watch our 'Coronation Countdown' show

Pour ne pas être trop quiche sur le sujet du couronnement, il aura fallu que je trouve un expert sur la matière et l'auteur et journaliste, Stephen Clarke a répondu à mon appel.Ayant déjà publié nombres livres sur les relations franco-britannique et la famille royale dont Edward VII, Un Roi made in France et Elizabeth II ou l'humour souverain, Stephen nous partage ses connaissances sur le palais de Charles II et les plats qui vont trôner sur les tables britanniques tout au long du weekend du couronnement.Après le Coronation chicken, inventé il y a 70 ans pour la reine Elizabeth 2, quels sont les plats officiels annoncé pour le couronnement de Charles ? Militant défenseur de l'environnement et de l'alimentation bio et saine, ses goûts ne sont pas forcément ce que vous pouvez imaginer pour un roi, mais vous allez découvrir les plats royaux proposés par des plus grands chefs renommés du Grande Bretagne.Pinky Up and God Save the King!Blog : www.lacremeanglaise.euInstagram : lacremeanglaise.euFacebook : lacremeanglaise.euLaisser un avis sur : Apple PodcastLaisser un avis sur : Google PodcastVous avez une question ?Contactez-moi : contact@lacremeanglaise.eu

The coronation of King Charles III has prompted this humorous historical look at the British coronations. Since 1902, when Edward VII and his queen were crowned, the religious ceremony itself has drawn upon rites going back to the crowning of Anglo-Saxon kings. But reviving these old rites just belongs to an Edwardian fascination with a mythical Merrie England. And once you step outside all the solemnity of the Abbey, we are in a world that was entirely invented between the 1870s and the first world war. It was then that British royals turned into a strange mix of an oddly middle-class family that was given to stagey, mock-historical popular pageants, with an increasing display of military uniforms to boost Britain's failing international image. Thespian imperialist Lord Esher, who headed the coronation planning committee in 1902, had very little time for the ordinary British people he called ‘millions of drudges'. He insisted that everyone in royal ceremonies – not just the military – had to wear a uniform. It was meant to distinguish them from the mere mortals who could watch from the sidelines. Ultimately these events were always about international politics. The coronation of Charles III occurs in the context of Brexit and deep economic crisis and carries as much international weight as anything that has gone before.

22 stycznia 1506 – 150 szwajcarskich najemników zaczęło ochraniać papieża Juliusza II22 stycznia 1863 – Wybuchło powstanie styczniowe.22 stycznia 1879 – Dwie bitwy podczas wojny brytyjsko-zuluskiej.22 stycznia 1901 – Zmarła Wiktoria I, a królem Wielkiej Brytanii został jej syn Edward VII.22 stycznia 1919 – W Kijowie ogłoszono Akt Zjednoczenia Ukrainy.22 stycznia 1973 – Sąd Najwyższy USA wydał decyzję w sprawie Roe v. Wade.22 stycznia 2022 – Konwój wolności w Kanadzie.

Amid all this talk of Harry and Meghan, we explore Edward VII, aka "Dirty Bertie"  - the original Playboy Prince with some cracking King's Ginger liqueur. Then, having once again proven that #winewritingiswelleasy, we make ourselves a Bicicletta for birthday boy and Pirate peddler Marco Pantani.If you'd like to see Edward VII's 's3x chair' (and why wouldn't you?) then click here.Amazon is offering a great deal on King's Ginger, complete with swanky gift tin, for just £23 here. You're welcome.King's Mulled Cider50ml The King's Ginger150ml Cider150ml Apple juiceServe in a handled glass, hot or over ice.Garnish with lemon, cinnamon stick and fresh blackberries.Marco PantaniHere's the picture of Marco shaking an Italian policeman's hand after some rather ripe parking manouevres and here's a picture of his statue in Northern Italy. For Campari, the best price is at Morrisons, £15.50 - click here   The Bicicletta  50ml Campari  75ml White wine  Soda Water  Built over ice, use a wine glass or a highball glass  Other Royal Drinks:King Charles's Royal Lochnagar 12 year old, Whisky Exchange, £40.95  Megan Markle's Tignanello 2018 can be found at Fine Wine Direct for £180  Buy yourself or someone else annual membership (and a signed copy of our award-winning Thinking Drinkers Almanac Book) for just £120 here.  3 x 60ml pouches containing 3 x world class spirits delivered direct through your door every month. Exclusive access to the TD online magazine A signed copy of Thinking Drinkers Almanac (named Drinks Book of the Year 2021 by The Sunday Times) Monthly Online Tastings with The Thinking Drinkers & Guests Check out dates and tickets for our "Thinking Drinkers Pub Quiz" show, featuring lots of laughs and FIVE free drinks for evewry audience member, here:  Nottingham  London Leicester Square Harpenden Northallerton Alnwick Pendle Oldham Brighton Bedford Reading  Didcot Stroud Leicester Corby  

Florence Nightingale and her team were nursing four miles of patients. 

"a gang of roughs charged the royal procession"

This episode is all about the funeral procession of Edward VII in May 1910, as winessed by the Machell Cox siblings, through handwritten family letters, read by Frances.Vera again demonstrates how she is a great letter writer, and Bernard's annotations, after WW1, were unexpected.Does anyone know any more about the King's little dog Caesar? How much of the procession did he walk in? Frances would love to know.If you have enjoyed this podcast, would you write Frances a review or give her a rating? Many thanks. 0:00 Intro7:35 Kings and Queens 11:50 Vera's letter, 21st May 191026:02 Notes on Vera's letter37:10 Other sibling accountsYou can contact Frances by email - machellcoxletters@gmail.com or Twitter - @CoxLettersAll content is subject to copyright and belongs to Frances Thompson and the Bodleian Library.

Mike Yardley is in the UK and share his tips on a Royal residence open to the public to slumber in. The world's eyes have been fixed on Britain as we farewelled Queen Elizabeth II. The British Monarchy looks destined to remain an enormous catalyst for UK-bound tourism and Visit Britain is projecting a surge in royal-inspired travel. Dripping with royal trappings and a wealth of history, there's a surprising amount of regal accommodations experiences to be found in the United Kingdom. Best of all, they don't have to break the bank. Plenty of hotels pledge to treat you like royalty with their five-star frills. But the fact remains that not even the fanciest of facials or triple digit cotton thread count can match the prospect of bedding down in a real-deal royal residence, like the grand grounds of Balmoral, where Queen Elizabeth II saw out her final days. So not why just go stay there instead? Whether you're a royalist or a history hound, here's a handful of royal residences that any commoner can book a stay in. It's kind of like the royal version of Bookabach. High up in Sutherland, Scotland, the most northerly castle on the British mainland is the 16th-century Castle of Mey. This old pile's blood-stained history was given a new lease on life when the Queen Mother bought the castle after the death of her husband, King George VI. After a tip to toe restoration to the building and its expansive 12-hectare of grounds, which took her fifty years to complete, she spent several weeks here every August and October until her death. The castle became the first royal residence opened up to paying guests, who can now stay at the Captain's House cottage, which was the late Queen Mother's favourite spot for an indoor picnic. As you do. It can sleep six people and includes a 20-foot conservatory which overlooks an enclosed garden and offers sweeping sea views. In 2019, the then Prince Charles opened the Granary Lodge for guests, as well. www.castleofmey.org.uk Henry VIII may well have been the Hugh Hefner of the Tudor period, with Hampton Court Palace being the 16th century equivalent of the Playboy Mansion. A pleasure palace that set the stage for seriously debauched parties. Situated on the banks of the Thames just south-west of London, the infamous king's pad which also boasts pleasure gardens, a tennis court and even a bowling alley, is available for stays. Get your own taste of royal grandeur by renting the on-site 18th century Georgian House, which comes complete with private walled garden and is on the alley leading to Henry VIII's Real Tennis Court. The Georgian House sleeps up to eight and will cost you around NZ$500 a night. www.landmarktrust.org.uk Hampton Court Just off the mainland, the Isle of Wight makes for a magnificent island escape. It's also home to Osbourne House which was beloved by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as a family holiday home. The formal entrance to Osborne House, Sovereign's Gate, has welcomed an A to Z of European aristocracy, from Napoleon and Tsar Nicholas II. It was also where Victoria made her final departure in 1901, passing away in her favourite seaside retreat. You can tour the bedroom where she died. Nowadays, the grand entrance has been turned into one of two holiday cottages, housed within this landmark building. www.english-heritage.org.uk Osbourne House Synonymous with Christmas royal-style, Sandringham in Norfolk was purchased by Queen Victoria as a marital home for her son, Edward VII. Sandringham remains a firm favourite with the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II spent her first Christmas in the property as an eight-month-old, and since then the entire Windsor tribe converge on their Norfolk bolthole every December. But when the Monarch isn't in residence, cottages that house the travelling staff on the 8000-hectare estate, are available to let. So if that invitation to Christmas lunch never seems to arrive in the mail, this is the next best thing. What was formerly the head gardener's house is available to rent year-round. Called the Garden House, it overlooks the ornamental garden that adjoins the main building. www.norfolkhideaways.co.uk Sandringham Estate The grandest of them all? Balmoral Castle. The royal family's hideaway in the Scottish Highlands was one of the Queen's favourite residences. Flanked by more than 20,000 hectares of forests, lochs and glens; it is the summer holiday haven for the Royal Family. Like the cottages in Sandringham, they serve as staff quarters when the Monarch comes to stay. Just prior to her death, The Queen decided to allow all eight cottages to be made available to the public for holiday bookings, after being shut for so long during the pandemic. Colt Cottages are situated in close proximity to the Castle, near the Estates Office and Stables. Bookings run on a Saturday to Saturday basis and can sleep up to five people. It's available for let between January 7 and March 31, while Rhebreck Cottage is available year-round, aside from when the Royal Family is in residence. The weekly tariff starts from NZ$1000 a week. www.balmoralcastle.com Balmoral Castle Finally, when it comes to being "neighbours'' with The Firm, London's The Rubens at the Palace enjoys that unique distinction. Overlooking the rear of Buckingham Palace, the century-old hotel has long been the glorified accommodation wing for palace guests. From the windows you can watch the guardsmen in the Royal Mews, see the rollers being cleaned and the Monarch's horses in their stables. The aptly named Palace Lounge stages one of London's most beloved afternoon teas, brimming with royalty-associated fare. From coronation chicken sandwiches (purposefully conceived for the coronation lunch of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, to the Queen's beloved "jam pennies" and bite-sized portions of William and Harry's favourite chocolate sweet treat – every bite comes with a story. Mike Yardley is our Travel Correspondent on Jack Tame Saturday Morning. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week we discuss elite fail-son status, Edward VII, Duke of Windsor. We also discuss, again, Marlboro miles, the Pizza Hut Buffet, Nancy Regan for some reason and more. Enjoy!

This is the third installment in Eric Ludy's epic summer Daily Thunder series entitled Spiritual Lessons from WW1. This particular episode contrasts two key individuals in the early twentieth century demonstrating the importance of humility and the devastation of pride. Both of these men were kings and both desired the favor of France. Edward VII, the King of England, sought it through lowness, honor, and respect. Meanwhile, William II, the emperor of Germany, sought it through bullying, threats, and shows of self-importance. One of these men succeeded in winning the favor of the French, the other one started a world war as a result of his failed method.

Queen Victoria of the united Kingdom gave birth to 9 children in 17 years. Her eldest son was destined to inherit the throne of the British Empire at the height of it's power. The younger sons joined the military and adventured around the world. And the daughters married into royal houses around Europe. Here are the stories of Queen Victoria's 9 intriguing children: Victoria, Empress of Germany (1840-1901) Edward VII, King of the UK and Commonwealth (1841-1910) Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (1843-1878) Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1844-1900) Helena, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein (1846-1923) Louise, Duchess of Argyll (1848-1931) Aurthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942) Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853-1884) Beatrice, Princess of Battenberg (1857-1944) Join me every Thursday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating videos! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 - Classical Whimsical by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100303 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/historyteatime/support

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Pages 65 - 74 │Calypso, part I│Read by Eddie IzzardAs a dramatic actor, Eddie picked up a Tony nomination for best actor in 2003 for her performance in A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg on Broadway. She was seen recently acting alongside Dame Judi Dench, playing Edward VII to Judi's Queen Victoria, in Stephen Frears' Victoria & Abdul. Eddie is also one of the most challenging and respected comedians of her generation, having picked up two Emmys in 1999 and is now performing standup in four languages and has performed in forty five countries. Eddie has therefore been unusual in developing a stellar reputation as a dramatic actor and as a standup comedian.On March 20, 2016, Izzard completed running 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa as a tribute to Nelson Mandela and raised over £2.6 million ($3.3 million) for Sport Relief, a charity that helps improve the lives of people in impoverished countries. In 2009, Izzard ran 43 marathons in 51 days through England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland for charity and helped raise £1.8 million ($2.7 million) for Sport Relief. In January 2020 Eddie ran the first part of his 'Make Humanity Great Again' journey, an epic charity challenge running through 29 European capital cities over 29 days. And in January 2021 she ran 32 marathons in 31 days in COVID safe conditions on a treadmill at the Riverside Studios in London, again raising money for charity for the Make Humanity Great Again fund. https://www.eddieizzard.com/en*SUBSCRIBE NOW FOR EARLY EPISODES AND BONUS FEATURESAll episodes of our Ulysses podcast are free and available to everyone. However, if you want to be the first to hear the recordings, by subscribing, you can now get early access to recordings of complete sections.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/channel/shakespeare-and-company/id6442697026Subscribe on Spotify here: https://anchor.fm/sandcoSubscribe on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/sandcoIn addition a subscription gets you access to regular bonus episodes of our author interview podcast. All money raised goes to supporting “Friends of Shakespeare and Company” the bookshop's non-profit.*Discover more about Shakespeare and Company here: https://shakespeareandcompany.comBuy the Penguin Classics official partner edition of Ulysses here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/d/9780241552636/ulyssesFind out more about Hay Festival here: https://www.hayfestival.com/homeAdam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company. Find out more about him here: https://www.adambiles.netBuy a signed copy of his novel FEEDING TIME here: https://shakespeareandcompany.com/S/9781910296684/feeding-timeDr. Lex Paulson is Executive Director of the School of Collective Intelligence at Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique in Morocco.Original music & sound design by Alex Freiman.Hear more from Alex Freiman here: https://open.spotify.com/album/4gfkDcG32HYlXnBqI0xgQX?si=mf0Vw-kuRS-ai15aL9kLNA&dl_branch=1Follow Alex Freiman on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/alex.guitarfreiman/Featuring Flora Hibberd on vocals.Hear more of Flora Hibberd here: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5EFG7rqfVfdyaXiRZbRkpSVisit Flora Hibberd's website: This is my website:florahibberd.com and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/florahibberd/ Music production by Adrien Chicot.Hear more from Adrien Chicot here: https://bbact.lnk.to/utco90/Follow Adrien Chicot on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/adrienchicot/Photo of Eddie Izzard by Amanda Searle: https://www.instagram.com/amandas_photo/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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A story about how fiction becomes fact involving scheming poets, an enterprising beauty queen, and a Guinness World Record. Plus, a conspiracy theory about a powerful dynasty! VISUALSDefinitive proof that the city was pink long before British arrival, i.e., a painting from the 18th centuryA painting depicting a procession with the Maharaja of Jaipur and Prince of Wales in 1876A clip of Gayatri Devi sharing her sharp opinions on Indira Gandhi during her 1967 campaign.GLOSSARYPrince of Wales: A title usually granted to the heir apparent of the British throne. During Queen Victoria's reign, the Prince of Wales was Albert Edward—the future Edward VII— who visited India in 1875-76.Treaty of Alliance (Subsidiary Alliance): An agreement undertaken between native India states and the East India Company/British Government. The alliance would usually entail surrendering the control of their defence and foreign policy to the British in return for protection...and their guaranteed existence.Sepoy: A term used for native soldiers serving in the British East India Company (and then British Empire). The term is Persian in origin, and it was initially used by the Mughal Empire to refer to all infantry soldiers.ANNOTATED TRANSCRIPTVisit www.kahaani.io/pink-city to get an annotated transcript with citations and timestamps. TEACHER'S GUIDEDownload a free teacher's guide with activities and rubrics designed for high school history classes atDIG DEEPERStill reeling from the rich, colorful, and controversial history of Jaipur and its royals? Here are a few sources to pull you further down the Jaipur rabbit hole:Giles Tilotson's Jaipur Nama weaves a deft narrative about the city's history, culture, and the quirky characters that have populated its many periods.Gayatri Devi's autobiography “A Princess Remembers” to get a first-person account of the transition from a princely India to a republic. This is where we found all of her juicy quotes about the private plane and such.John Zubrzykcki's book The House of Jaipur to dive deeper into the modern history of the Jaipur Royals.MUSIC CREDITSMALFNKTN | RoachesYasuke Mazda | Tabla With 8-BitNickodemus & Maharaj Trio | Southern MagnoliaRajastani Jagalbandi | https://www.natyasutraonline.com/music/folk/invis/rajasthani-jugalbandhiVictor Orchestra | Hearts and Flowers Mausam Poorvanuman |  Bardte Kram Mein and Jal PrapaatSPECIAL THANKSThank you to Namrata Kolachalam and Meghna Rao for script review, and our voice actors Ashiq Rahiman and Shruti. And finally our lovely listeners who jumped on a call to tell us just how pink the Pink City is:Tanya GeorgeSumit VaswaniAditi KoomarNiteesha TolaniKavita K. D.SUPPORT THE PODCASTMISREPRESENTED is produced by Kahaani, a media organization that tells stories to widen the historical narrative. In order to make more episodes, we need your friends, your time and/or your money. Go to www.kahaani.io/misrepresented to help us out! FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM AND TWITTER

Today's episode explores the beautiful hidden courtyards of Place Edouard VII, near the Opera Garnier in Paris. We'll talk about the Fragonard Perfume Museum, the gorgeous Athenée Théatre Louis-Jouvet, and we'll discuss why Bertie--Queen Victoria's heir, Edward VII--really preferred the city of Paris. We'll also talk about why I believe Bertie should be commemorated wearing a smoking jacket, not a military uniform. Visit my website for extra links & images. Improbable Walks is grateful to the technical expertise of Bremner Fletcher (though even he couldn't fix my stumble in this episode, where I refer to an ENTIRE BUILDING as a painting. Listen for it, and forgive me. I had a cold while doing this episode, and I was stoned on cough syrup. All better now!) As always, the Improbable Walks theme music is performed by David Symons, New Orleans accordionist extraordinaire. 

Mr. Bloom runs a mysterious errand at the Westland Row Post Office.Topics include hidden lotuses, Corny Kelleher, Leopold Bloom's missing hour, tooraloom tooraloom tay, Orientalism and Bloom's fantasy of the Far East, stereotypes about climate's affects the character of a culture, Tom Kernan, how Bloom succumbs to the Lotus Eaters, Henry Flower, what Bloom has hidden in his hat, Major Tweedy and the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the Lotus Eaters of the British military, Maud Gonne's awkward activism, Edward VII's freemasonry.Sweny's Patreon helps keep this marvelous Dublin landmark alive. Please subscribe!On the Blog:Maud GonneGround Control to Major TweedySocial Media:Facebook | TwitterSubscribe to Blooms & Barnacles:Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher

In 1800, Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, erected the first known Christmas tree at Windsor Castle. She hosted a party for the children of Windsor families. According to Dr. John Watkins, who wrote a biography of Queen Charlotte, the large yew tree stood in a tub in the middle of the drawing room at Queen's Lodge. The branches were decorated with “bunches of sweetmeats, almonds, and raisins in papers, fruits and toys, most tastefully arranged, and the whole illuminated by small wax candles.” Prince Albert popularized the Christmas tree. As he and Queen Victoria shared their family tradition of gathering around the tree at Windsor Castle with popular publications of the day, the tradition caught on with families throughout the country. With the support (and possibly encouragement) of the royal family, Illustrated London News, Cassell's Magazine, and The Graphic shared images of the royal Christmas at Windsor with details about the royal trees.After Victoria, in the early 20th century, the royals began celebrating Christmas at Sandringham. Edward VII decided to start holding family Christmas celebrations there in 1864. George V continued the tradition of the royal family Christmas at Sandringham. In 1932, King George V delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast live from Sandringham House. George VI, who succeeded his brother, gave his first Christmas broadcast in 1937. In 1939, George VI spoke on the first Christmas of World War II. He sadly reflected on the loss of peace during the Christmas season and praised the Royal Navy, British Expeditionary Force, and armies of the Empire. As the war ended and new challenges arose, George VI spoke of the unity and steadfastness of the Commonwealth and the Empire.Her Majesty the Queen gave her first Christmas message from the same desk and chair that her father and grandfather had used. She pledged to carry on the tradition of Christmas broadcasts and thanked people for their loyalty and affection. She has delivered broadcasts from Sandringham, New Zealand, Buckingham Palace, and Windsor Castle. As technology progressed, she moved the broadcast from radio to television and then to HD, and often incorporates additional footing.This year, the Queen's annual Christmas message will be delivered from Windsor Castle—which is the same location as her two previous addresses of 2020. Last year, in 2019, the Queen said it is “the small steps, not the giant leaps” that bring about lasting change in the world. This was a reference to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and our own roles in doing good in the world. As always, her message is both timely and utterly timeless.

Windsor: a thousand years of English history.  We discuss everything from Edward III's Order of the Garter to Edward VII's new bathrooms, via the purchase of 40 Canalettos by George III and Christmas at Windsor for Victoria, Albert and their children.  We visit the royal tombs in the chapel, take an idyllic boat trip up the Thames and pop over the bridge to Eton, home of England's very poshest school. Useful links https://www.rct.uk/visit/windsor-castle https://www.frenchbrothers.co.uk (boat trips) http://johnlogiemotorboats.com (boats for hire) https://collections.etoncollege.com/museums/museum-of-eton-life   City Breaks: all the history and culture you'd research for yourself if you had the time! Check our website to find more episodes from our London series or to browse our back catalogue of other cities which are well worth visiting: https://www.citybreakspodcast.co.uk We love to receive your comments and suggestions!  You can e mail us at citybreaks@citybreakspodcast.co.uk And if you like what you hear, please do post comments or a review wherever you downloaded this episode.  It helps others to find us.  

Have you ever wondered why we have a crêpe named Suzette? This first French story will tell you everything you need to know. It's an historical legend with the Prince of Wales, the future king Edward VII, the famous actress Suzanne Reichenberg, and the pastry chef apprentice Henri Charpentier. Access the eBook version and the eBook Course on bobofrench.com and start building your Bobo French Library. Join us on Facebook! The group is still open to non-members of the Bobo French Library. Research has shown that Learning French through stories is the most efficient way to become fluent in no time. Did you know that we acquire a language by reading and listening first? Stop studying vocabulary lists and start listening to French stories. Debora

Maiden Lane - a "country dance" from John Playford's English Dancing Master, 1651. The dance and its melody is thought to be named after Maiden Lane in Covent Garden, and it is just one of a great number of dances called for London places. Situated between the Covent Garden Market and the Strand, Maiden Lane was originally a path running from Drury Lane to St Martin's Lane along the southern edge of the ‘Covent Garden': that is, the Convent Garden, belonging to the Benedictine monks of Westminster Abbey, and providing produce for their table. The street was first called Maiden Lane in 1636. A statue of the Virgin stood at the Eastern end of the lane, and this may be the origin of the name Maiden Lane. Another explanation is that it is a corruption of the Middle-English word ‘Midden'. Famous residents over the centuries include Louis Napoleon, Benjamin Disraeli, Voltaire and the artist J.M.W. Turner. Edward VII and Lily Langtry dined in Maiden Lane and William Terriss, a celebrated actor of his day was murdered here by a crazed understudy in 1897. Eleanor Cramer: bass viol Christopher Goodwin: cittern Peter Kenny: drum Tamsin Lewis: violin

The soap opera of Meghan and Harry, the deploying of Prince Philip in America's culture wars: why does  the British royal family exerted so strong an appeal in republican America ? This is not a new phenomenon. Queen Victoria's son, later Edward VII, toured America on the eve of the Civil War and was greeted with adulation. What's going on?  Adam talks to Arianne Chernock and Frank Prochaska to find out. 

This week, we’ll be looking at six of the women who came to England and became game-changers: Emma of Normandy, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Isabella of France, Henrietta Maria of France, Mary of Modena, and Mary of Teck. In her own way, each of these women had an extraordinary and lasting impact on her son (or, in some cases, sons) and his rule.Emma’s political alliances and influence helped shaped the monarchy. She also established a family relationship between the dukes of Normandy and the Anglo-Saxon kings of England, which gave the Normans a hereditary claim to the English throne. Emma was involved and influential in politics on both sides of the English Channel and throughout Europe. Less than 15 years after Emma’s death, William of Normandy set out for England. His claim to the throne was based in part on Emma and her influence. It was after Henry’s death in 1189 that Eleanor really came into her own. Richard, her favorite son, took the throne on his father’s death. One of his first acts was to release Eleanor from prison; he made her his Regent while he participated in the Third Crusade. Eleanor had a large and strong network across the kingdom, and she successfully promoted Richard’s policies and his reputation. He became known as Richard the Lionheart, in part because of her efforts to establish (or possibly embellish?) his reputation. When he was captured on his way home from the Crusade, Eleanor herself raised the funds for his ransom and traveled to deliver it. She was with him when he died in 1199. She died in 1203 and was buried next to her husband, Henry II.Isabella of France raised forces against her husband and installed her son on the throne. She ruled as Regent for a few years, then after her son took control, lived an independent and wealthy life. She is the only one of our Queen Mothers to actually overthrow her husband to put her child on the throne.Mary of Modena gave us one of the strangest scandals of the Stuart regime. After a series of miscarriages, she gave birth to a healthy son in 1688. Appalled at the thought of a Catholic succeeding to the throne, Protestants responded by accusing the Queen of miscarrying again and smuggling in a fake heir in a warming pan! The birth of the prince tipped Parliament into inviting William and Mary to replace James and Mary of Modena on the throne.Mary of Teck is the last non-English Queen consort and Queen Mother. Actually born and raised in the UK, she was technically Princess of Teck. She was selected as a royal bride by Queen Victoria and married her grandson Prince George. After the death of his father Edward VII, George became King George V and Mary became Queen. She represented continuity of the monarchy through the abdication of her son Edward VIII and helped generate support for her son George VI. She lived to see her granddaughter come to the throne, providing an amazing arc from Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II.

There are fascinating through lines that draw House Windsor together in unexpected, and even (to our boring middle class values) unseemly, ways. In today's foray into Trashy Royals, Alicia introduces us to Prince of Wales "Dirty" Bertie, the future Edward VII, and one of his longtime mistresses, Alice "Freddie" Keppel. And then we meet again a young Prince Charles, the longest serving Prince of Wales, and learn how the pattern established by his great-great-grandfather led to a wild love triangle, an awful lot of heartache, and eventually, an unexpected marriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 68, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Geek Tragedy 1: Your hacker friends sneer at you, calling you by this rhyming word that sounds like something to eat. cracker. 2: Nodding off at 9 P.M., you missed the 10:00 CNN interview with this Microsoft chairman. Bill Gates. 3: The rain leaked in and damaged your complete video collection of this sci-fi show that aired from Sept. 1966 to Sept. 1969. Star Trek. 4: You're called the office "Beta Geek" instead of this higher position indicating the most tech-smart person there. "Alpha Geek". 5: You wanted to eat while in the Xena chat room but your packet of these "Top" noodles from Nissin is gone!. Top Ramen. Round 2. Category: Teachers 1: Mary McLeod Bethune was a friend of this WWII first lady and advised her husband on minority affairs. Eleanor Roosevelt. 2: Micki and David Colfax sent 3 sons to Harvard after teaching them exclusively in this place. At Home. 3: Like Plato, Corla Hawkins started a small, innovative school called this; hers is in Chicago's inner city. The Academy. 4: In Sikhism Nanak was the first teacher called this, now a term for any spiritual guide. Guru. 5: In the 1820s Josiah Holbrook pioneered this, also called continuing education. Adult Education. Round 3. Category: The World In 1901 1: These "wild" South Africans carried on their war with guerrilla actions against the British. Boers. 2: The world's most productive oil field was in the area of this city, now the capital of Azerbaijan. Baku. 3: On Jan. 22, 1901 the Prince of Wales succeeded to the English throne as this king. Edward VII. 4: Emil von Behring won the first Nobel Prize for Medicine with a serum against this "d"isease, a common killer. Diphtheria. 5: In 2000 the state of Alabama voted to end a 1901 ban on this type of marriage. Interracial marriage. Round 4. Category: That's So Random! 1: From the AP: a man from Natchez in this state stole $100 from a teller but left his parole I.D. on the counter. Mississippi. 2: His 1978 run for congress was a bust; his first public service would have to wait until 1994, as Texas' governor. George W. Bush. 3: "Han then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin', deah" is the flower girl's first line in this Shaw play. Pygmalion. 4: (I'm Ashleigh Banfield.) "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses", said this Algonquin Round Table member. Dorothy Parker. 5: It's prohibited by the 5th Amendment, but you'll be facing it in the next round. double jeopardy. Round 5. Category: Getting Biblical 1: In Matthew 26:72 he denies his friendship with Jesus and claims, "I do not know the man". Peter. 2: The prophet Jeremiah rhetorically queries, can this animal change his spots?. leopard. 3: In Genesis he has an all-night wrestling match and ends up getting blessed. Jacob. 4: Ebenezer is a stone Samuel put between Mizpeh and Shen after the Israelites smote these people. Philistines. 5: In the 1953 film version of this Biblical dancer's life, Rita Hayworth tries to save John the Baptist's life, not take it. Salome. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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In this episode Charlotte Appleyard and Bree Oliver discuss the fascinating role of a mistress in the Royal Court. We explore the place of a mistress, her political and social influences, her motivations and why the King was expected to take lovers. We also cover a wide span of examples ranging from Nell Gwynn and Charles II to Alice Keppel and Edward VII. For visual references visit our instagram @themuseumoffemininity SourcesKing's Mistress, Queen's Servant: The Life and Times of Henrietta Howardhttps://www.tatler.com/gallery/most-influential-royal-mistresses-throughout-historyhttps://www.history.com/news/royal-mistress-power-england-france-prince-williamhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/madame-de-pompadour-was-far-more-mistress-180967662/Wikipedia encyclopedia britannica

"from the top of the wheel you could gaze out and see Windsor Castle, 20 miles away, upside-down"

Scotland’s North Coast 500 was opened in 2015 and this 516 mile route has become a popular travel destination. This, Part 2, of our tour will take us from Dornoch to Wick on the east coast of northern Scotland. You will cross Loch Fleet and see an old Thomas Telford bridge (early 1800s) which has an incredible sluice gate system to allow the river to exit but stops the sea water from entering the river Fleet. You will visit the attractive seaside town of Golspie and, as lovely as it is, the Golspie Inn was witness to the iniquities of the Highland Clearances. Soon after Golspie you will see the ‘Mannie’, a monument to the 1st Duke of Sutherland and why some would like to see it knocked down. The Mannie stands on a hill overlooking the fabulous caste Dunrobin which we will visit on our travels. We will pass through Brora with its wonderful sandy beach and links golf course before going on to see a 2000 year old Broch at Ousdale. Soon afterwards we will visit Dunbeath which holds the secrets of King George VI’s younger brother, the Duke of Kent, who died in mysterious circumstances when his plane crashed into a hill some 3 miles from the town. Of course, George VI was the king who replaced Edward VII when he abdicated to marry Wallace Simpson. We’ll retire for the evening in the Wick area and enjoy a sumptuous dinner in an exquisite Victorian Villa. So exciting…..

In 1800, Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, erected the first known Christmas tree at Windsor Castle. She hosted a party for the children of Windsor families. According to Dr. John Watkins, who wrote a biography of Queen Charlotte, the large yew tree stood in a tub in the middle of the drawing room at Queen’s Lodge. The branches were decorated with “bunches of sweetmeats, almonds, and raisins in papers, fruits and toys, most tastefully arranged, and the whole illuminated by small wax candles.” Prince Albert popularized the Christmas tree. As he and Queen Victoria shared their family tradition of gathering around the tree at Windsor Castle with popular publications of the day, the tradition caught on with families throughout the country. With the support (and possibly encouragement) of the royal family, Illustrated London News, Cassell’s Magazine, and The Graphic shared images of the royal Christmas at Windsor with details about the royal trees.After Victoria, in the early 20th century, the royals began celebrating Christmas at Sandringham. Edward VII decided to start holding family Christmas celebrations there in 1864. George V continued the tradition of the royal family Christmas at Sandringham. In 1932, King George V delivered the first royal Christmas broadcast live from Sandringham House. George VI, who succeeded his brother, gave his first Christmas broadcast in 1937. In 1939, George VI spoke on the first Christmas of World War II. He sadly reflected on the loss of peace during the Christmas season and praised the Royal Navy, British Expeditionary Force, and armies of the Empire. As the war ended and new challenges arose, George VI spoke of the unity and steadfastness of the Commonwealth and the Empire.Her Majesty the Queen gave her first Christmas message from the same desk and chair that her father and grandfather had used. She pledged to carry on the tradition of Christmas broadcasts and thanked people for their loyalty and affection. She has delivered broadcasts from Sandringham, New Zealand, Buckingham Palace, and Windsor Castle. As technology progressed, she moved the broadcast from radio to television and then to HD, and often incorporates additional footing.This year, the Queen’s annual Christmas message will be delivered from Windsor Castle—which is the same location as her two previous addresses of 2020. Last year, in 2019, the Queen said it is “the small steps, not the giant leaps” that bring about lasting change in the world. This was a reference to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and our own roles in doing good in the world. As always, her message is both timely and utterly timeless.

Princes in The Tower adalah ungkapan yang sering digunakan untuk merujuk pada Edward V, Raja Inggris dan Richard dari Shrewsbury, Duke of York. Kedua bersaudara itu adalah satu-satunya putra Edward IV, Raja Inggris dan Elizabeth Woodville yang masih hidup pada saat ayah mereka meninggal pada tahun 1483. *DISCLAIMER : The data is not from our research. Sorry for the misspelling Edward IV and Edward VII.

Today’s subject is the man who would be King, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, firstborn son of Edward VII, Grandson of Queen Victoria, known to his friends and family simply as “Eddy." Wrapped up in a sizzling sex scandal, he became a prime example of a British royal story: an intellectually dull man, charmless, with neither cultural interests nor creative talents, but who, due to sheer accident of birth, found himself permitted to indulge all his whims. ----more---- SOURCES: Ackroyd, Peter. Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day. London: Vintage, 2018. Cook, Andrew. Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2009. Cook, Matt. London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Hyde, H. Montgomery. The Cleveland Street Scandal. New York: Coward McCann, 1976.   Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.

Season 4 Ep. 14Circus freaks/side shows "When you're born, you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat." -- George Carlin    The “freak show,” or “sideshow,” rose to prominence in 16th century England. For centuries, cultures around the world had interpreted severe physical deformities as bad omens or evidence that evil spirits were present; by the late 1500s, these stigmas had translated into public curiosity.                   Businessmen scouted people with abnormalities, swooped them up, and shuttled them throughout Europe, charging small fees for viewings. One of the earliest recorded “freaks” of this era was Lazarus Colloredo, an “otherwise strapping” Italian whose brother, Joannes, protruded, upside down, from his chest. The conjoined twins “both fascinated and horrified the general public,” and the duo even made an appearance before King Charles I in the early 1640s. Castigated from society, people like Lazarus  capitalized on their unique conditions to make a little cash -- even if it meant being made into a public spectacle. Whether it was a person with dwarfism acting as a jester or clown for an individual monarch, or a person with a unique physical impairment displaying her body for the eyes of a curious and gawking public, freaking—exploiting the perceived peculiarities of your own body for an audience—was a means of support for some disabled people who might otherwise have died or struggled to survive. But until the 19th century, freak shows catered to relatively small crowds and didn’t yield particularly healthy profits for showmen or performers. It was in the mid nineteenth and early 20th centuries that freak shows had become a viable commercial enterprise in England and the U.S. alike. America and England both had men who would come into prominence by employing (or exploiting depending on whom you talk too)these types of folks for profit purposes. In England it was a man named Tom Norman. TOM NORMANTom Norman was born on 7 May 1860 in Dallington, Sussex and was the eldest of 17 children. His real name was Noakes and his father Thomas was a butcher who resided at the Manor House in Dallington. According to his autobiography he left home at the age of fourteen to seek fame and fortune on the road and before long he had found employment as a butcher’s assistant in London. Tom first became involved in showbusiness a year later when he went into partnership with a showman who had a penny gaff shop in Islington, exhibiting Mlle Electra(not a typo). However, as is often the case with Tom Norman, the facts are difficult to piece together from the legend and the first record we have for a showman called Norman from this time can be traced to the Agricultural Hall in Islington, the venue for The World’s Fair. Some of the showmen on view that day included the famous Tommy Dodd and his wife, "The smallest people in the world;" and a giant boy aged seventeen. Other showmen presenting attractions were Williams's Ghost Show; Chittock and Testo's dog and monkey circus and Mander’s Huge Collection of Wild Beasts. However, both The Era newspaper report and the handbill for the event note the presence of Norman's performing fishes, which reputedly could not only talk but also play the pianoforte; and Norman’s French Artillery Giant Horse. In his autobiography which was incomplete before his death in 1930, Norman states that he was fifteen when he first appeared at the World’s Fair. Therefore, the Norman mentioned could either have been a showman whose name Tom Noakes went on to use, or he was actually 13 years old when he first left home.By the 1870s the young aspiring showman had been involved in a number of careers including exhibiting Eliza Jenkins, the Skeleton Woman, a popular novelty show at the time, the Balloon Headed Baby and a whole range of freak show attractions as he stated in his autobiography:“But you could indeed exhibit anything in those days. Yes anything from a needle to an anchor, a flea to an elephant, a bloater you could exhibit as a whale. It was not the show, it was the tale that you told.”Perhaps one of the more gruesome shows he was involved with, was 'the woman who bit live rat heads off. 'In his autobiography Tom Norman describes the act a the most gruesome he had ever seen:“Dick Bakers wife, who used to be with me and gave I think now, the most repulsive performance, that I have ever had or seen, during the whole of my long career. it consisted of Mrs Baker, putting her naked hand into a cage, fetch out a live rat and proceed to bite its head off.”The effect on the audience was such wrote Tom that:“More than once, have I seen a member of either sex of the audience, fall forward in a faint during this extraordinary performance.”Tom Norman’s ability to tell the tale was the scene of one of his greatest compliments when in 1882 he was performing at the Royal Agricultural Hall. Unaware that the great showman P. T. Barnum(well get to him don't worry) was in the audience, Tom informed the crowd that none other than the greatest showman on earth had booked the show for its entire run. Upon meeting Tom Norman, Barnum pointed to the large silver Albert chain which he wore and said 'Silver King eh'. Despite being found out, Tom Norman took this as a compliment and from then on he became known as The Silver King.Throughout the 1880s his fame as a showman grew and by 1883 he had thirteen penny gaff shops throughout London including locations such as Whitechapel, Hammersmith, Croydon and Edgeware Road. He still continued to travel with his shows and Norman’s Grand Panorama was a highlight of the Christmas Fair for the 1883/84 season in Islington. It was at this time that Norman came into contact with Joseph Merrick through a showman called George Hitchcock who proposed that Norman took over the London management of the Elephant Man. This episode in Norman’s life is shrouded in controversy as Sir Frederick Treeves, the surgeon who reputedly rescued Joseph Merrick or John as he calls him, blackened the character of Norman in his autobiography published in 1923. There are differing accounts of the way Merrick was treated by Norman. Treeves maintains that he was treated poorly by Norman and simply exploited. There are others who claim that Norman treated Merrick extremely well and that Merrick was never healthier or happier than with Norman. The Elephant Man was managed by Tom for only a few months and after the London shop was closed by the police, Joseph Merrick was taken back by the consortium of Leicester businessmen and placed in the hands of Sam Roper, a travelling showman.Tom Norman’s career continued after the Elephant Man and over the next ten year he became involved with managing a troupe of midgets, exhibiting the famous Man in a Trance show at Nottingham Goose Fair, Mary Anne Bevan the World’s Ugliest Woman, John Chambers the Armless Carpenter and Leonine the Lion Faced Lady. In January 1893, the following advertisement appeared in The Era newspaper and seems to imply that Tom was thinking of leaving England for the Worlds’ Fair which was being held in Chicago. The advertisement appeared for the following weeks and although no details are available as to their final outcome they do give us a glimpse into the type of shows Tom Norman was exhibiting at the time. “Wanted, to Sell, 10ft Living Carriage, Light, One-horse Load, already Fitted for Road, £25, worth £35; also Novelty Booth, good as new, Size, 9ft by18ft, with Novelty and Four New Brass Lamps, with Filler and Oil Drum, by Mellor and Sons, £4; also Piano Organ, nearly New, scarcely soiled, TenTunes, by Capra, suit Waxworks or any Shop Exhibition, £7, worth £18; also Two Fat Paintings, Best on the Road, by Leach, Size 9ft by 10ft, ditto One, same size of Skeleton Girl, all good as new; also Two others of Fats, size 6ft by Thornhill, with large Case to carry the lot, £5, cost £20; also 9ft Square Booth for Performing Fleas, with Two Grand Oil Paintings for same, price £1; also Aerial Suspension for Child 15s; also the Largest Silver Albert in England, made expressly for me, £3, cost £6. The whole of the above to be sold together or separate. Can be seen any time. Reason, I am leaving for Chicago. Apply any Morning before 12.0 to TOM NORMAN, Silver King, Pearce's Temperance Hotel, Elephant and Castle, SE”.In 1896 Tom met and married Amy Rayner at the Royal Agricultural Hall and their marriage lasted until his death in 1930. At that time Tom was travelling his famous Midget show and the Ghost show he had bought from John Parker. Their first son Tom was born in 1899 and was soon followed by Hilda, Ralph, Jimmy, Nelly, Arthur, Amy, Jack, Daisy and George.Soon after the birth of his first son, Tom became an auctioneer and the first show he sold belonged to Fred and George Ginnett. His career as an auctioneer prospered and some of the most famous shows he sold included Lord George Sanger and Frank Bostock's.He advertised in both The Era and The Showman newspapers as the recognised Showman’s Auctioneer and Valuer throughout 1901 and early clients in 1902 included W. T. Kirkland who had concessions at Southport, Morecambe and New Brighton. He instituted the annual Showman and Travellers’ Auction Sales in London, Manchester and Liverpool from 1903 onwards and negotiated sales for showman such as Walter Payne, Edwin Lawrence and many others. His most famous sale to date place in 1905 when he organised the disposal of Lord George Sanger’s Zoo at Margate. This was followed by what Tom Norman described as the crowning point in my life as regards the auctioneering business, when he was called upon by Sanger to auction the whole of his travelling circus effects. The following tribute published in 1901 demonstrates the esteem in which he was held by the fairground fraternity:'Mr Norman believes in catering for modern tastes - brilliancy; brightness, cleanliness and order are Tom’s strong points'Tom Norman continued to travel with his shows and maintained his penny gaff shops in London while basing the auctioneering side of the business at his family home the Manor House Dallington. Although Tom did not reveal in his autobiography the reasons for changing his name, he obviously maintained links with his place of birth in order to base this part of his business activities there.In the period leading up the First World War, Tom was now the father of ten children, nine surviving and his sons Tom, Ralph, Jimmy, Arthur and George had inherited their father’s showmanship. Ralph Van became known as Hal Denver and travelled throughout Europe and America as a wild west performer, George and Arthur found fame as clowns in many of the world’s greatest circuses and Tom and Jim Norman remained on the fairground.By 1915 the family were firmly based in Croydon and Tom was starting to dispose of some of his business concerns when his eldest son Tom Jnr enlisted. The shops for sale included Tom Norman's New Exhibition with waxworks and novelty museum and the Croydon Central Auction Rooms. Tom slowly retired from the fairground business and although he maintained his auctioneering concerns, he mainly concentrated on buying and selling caravans and dealing in horses for circuses and pantomimes. After the end of the first World War, Tom became restless again and appeared at the Olympia Circus in 1919 with Phoebe the Strange Girl and exhibited at Birmingham and Dreamland, Margate in 1921. Tom also returned to the venue where he had first started, The Royal Agricultural Hall and worked there throughout the 1920s although he was living in semi-retirement at the family base in Beddington Lane, Croydon.Tom Norman left behind a comfortable professional birthright to become one of the leading travelling showmen of his day. The benevolence he showed to his fellow showmen, his association with the newly formed Van Dwelling’s Association and his role in the United Kingdom Temperance Association demonstrate the injustice done to his reputation by inaccurate accounts of The Elephant Man. He died in Croydon on 24 August 1930, while according to his son George Van Norman, making plans to travel to a large auction show around the country.The following tribute was published in the World’s Fair.'There are very few showmen who have not met the famous showman’s auctioneer, “The Silver King”, He has been a conspicuous and charismatic figure in our business for the past half a century and has conducted more showman’ sales than any other auctioneer in the country... During his fifty years with us, he has endeared himself to all section from the humblest to the highest. He was a charming personality with a commanding appearance that left a lifetime impression upon anyone that he met. All his life he has been a showman and as such he died.'So that's England's great showman, the man who really helped bring freak shows to prominence ther. But as i mentioned earlier, the U.S. had one as well. He was brought up earlier and I'm sure you all know who it is.. Good old Phineas Taylor Barnum, better known as P.T. Now, now i'm sure most of you know at least a little about him, or have at some point as a kid been to a circus with his name somewhere in the title. Some of you younger listeners may have missed out on the joys of the circus. Were gonna take a loom at his life and how he rose to prominence.P.T. BARNUMBarnum was born in Bethel, Connecticut, the son of innkeeper, tailor, and store-keeper Philo Barnum (1778–1826) and his second wife Irene Taylor. His maternal grandfather Phineas Taylor was a Whig, legislator, landowner, justice of the peace, and lottery schemer who had a great influence on him.Barnum was 15 years old when his father died, and the support of his mother and his five sisters and brothers fell largely upon his shoulders. After holding a variety of jobs, he became publisher of a Danbury, Connecticut, weekly newspaper, Herald of Freedom. Arrested three times for libel, he enjoyed his first taste of notoriety.In 1829, at age 19, Barnum married a 21-year-old Bethel woman, Charity Hallett, who was to bear him four daughters. In 1834 he moved to New York City, where he found his vocation as a showman. He began his career as a showman in 1835 when he was 25 with the purchase and exhibition of a blind and almost completely paralyzed slave woman named Joice Heth, whom an acquaintance was trumpeting around Philadelphia as George Washington's former nurse and 161 years old. Slavery was already outlawed in New York, but he exploited a loophole which allowed him to lease her for a year for $1,000, borrowing $500 to complete the sale. Heth died in February 1836, at no more than 80 years old. Barnum had worked her for 10 to 12 hours a day, and he hosted a live autopsy of her body in a New York saloon where spectators paid 50 cents to see the dead woman cut up, as he revealed that she was likely half her purported age. It was very common for Barnum's acts to be schemes and not altogether true. Barnum was fully aware of the improper ethics behind his business as he said, "I don't believe in duping the public, but I believe in first attracting and then pleasing them." During the 1840s Barnum began his museum, which had a constantly rotating acts schedule, which included The Fat Lady, midgets, giants, and other people deemed to be freaks. The museum drew in about 400,000 visitors a year.THE AMERICAN MUSEUM During the 1840s Barnum began his museum, which had a constantly rotating acts schedule, which included The Fat Lady, midgets, giants, and other people deemed to be freaks. The museum drew in about 400,000 visitors a year.[14]P.T. Barnum's American Museum was one of the most popular museums in New York City to exhibit freaks. In 1841 Barnum purchased The American Museum, which made freaks the major attraction, following mainstream America in the mid-19th century. Barnum was known to advertise aggressively and make up outlandish stories about his exhibits. The façade of the museum was decorated with bright banners showcasing his attractions and included a band that performed outside. Barnum's American Museum also offered multiple attractions that not only entertained but tried to educate and uplift its working-class visitors. Barnum offered one ticket that guaranteed admission to his lectures, theatrical performances, an animal menagerie, and a glimpse at curiosities both living and dead.One of Barnum's exhibits centered around Charles Sherwood Stratton, the dwarf billed as "General Tom Thumb" who was then 4 years of age but was stated to be 11. Charles had stopped growing after the first 6 months of his life, at which point he was 25 inches (64 cm) tall and weighed 15 pounds (6.8 kg). With heavy coaching and natural talent, the boy was taught to imitate people from Hercules to Napoleon. By 5, he was drinking wine, and by 7 smoking cigars for the public's amusement. During 1844–45, Barnum toured with Tom Thumb in Europe and met Queen Victoria, who was amused and saddened by the little man, and the event was a publicity coup. Barnum paid Stratton handsomely - about $150.00 a week. When Stratton retired, he lived in the most esteemed neighborhood of New York, he owned a yacht, and dressed in the nicest clothing he could buy.In 1860, The American Museum had listed and archived thirteen human curiosities in the museum, including an albino family, The Living Aztecs, three dwarfs, a black mother with two albino children, The Swiss Bearded Lady, The Highland Fat Boys, and What Is It? (Henry Johnson, a mentally disabled black man). Barnum introduced the "man-monkey" William Henry Johnson, a microcephalic black dwarf who spoke a mysterious language created by Barnum and was known as Zip the Pinhead . In 1862, he discovered the giantess Anna Swan and Commodore Nutt, a new Tom Thumb, with whom Barnum visited President Abraham Lincoln at the White House. During the Civil War, Barnum's museum drew large audiences seeking diversion from the conflict.Barnum's most popular and highest grossing act was the Tattooed Man, George Contentenus. He claimed to be a Greek-Albanian prince raised in a Turkish harem. He had 338 tattoos covering his body. Each one was ornate and told a story. His story was that he was on a military expedition but was captured by native people, who gave him the choice of either being chopped up into little pieces or receive full body tattoos. This process supposedly took three months and Contentenus was the only hostage who survived. He produced a 23-page book, which detailed every aspect of his experience and drew a large crowd. When Contentenus partnered with Barnum, he began to earn more than $1,000 a week($31,000 in 2020). His wealth became so staggering that the New York Times wrote, "He wears very handsome diamond rings and other jewelry, valued altogether at about $3,000 [roughly $93,000 in 2020 dollars] and usually goes armed to protect himself from persons who might attempt to rob him." Though Contentenus was very fortunate, other freaks were not. Upon his death in 1891, he donated about half of his life earnings to other freaks who Barnum retired in 1865 when his museum burnt to the ground. Though Barnum was and still is criticized for exploitation, he paid the performers fairly handsome sums of money. Some of the acts made the equivalent of what some sports stars make today. Between 1842, when he took over the American Museum, and 1868, when he gave it up after fires twice had all but destroyed it, Barnum’s gaudy showmanship enticed 82 million visitors—among them Henry and William James, Charles Dickens, and Edward VII, then prince of Wales—into his halls and to his other enterprises.  Barnum did not enter the circus business until he was 60 years old. He established "P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome" in Delavan, Wisconsin, in 1870 with William Cameron Coup; it was a traveling circus, menagerie, and museum of "freaks". It went through various names: "P. T. Barnum's Travelling World's Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show on Earth", and "P. T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth, And The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and The Grand International Allied Shows United" after an 1881 merger with James Bailey and James L. Hutchinson, soon shortened to "Barnum & Bailey's". This entertainment phenomenon was the first circus to display three rings.[25] The show's first primary attraction was Jumbo, an African elephant that Barnum purchased in 1882 from the London Zoo. The Barnum and Bailey Circus still contained acts similar to his Traveling Menagerie, including acrobats, freak shows, and General Tom Thumb. Barnum persisted in growing the circus in spite of more fires, train disasters, and other setbacks, and he was aided by circus professionals who ran the daily operations. He and Bailey split up in 1885, but they came back together in 1888 with the "Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show On Earth", later "Barnum & Bailey Circus" which toured the world.Barnum was one of the first circus owners to move his circus by train, on the suggestion of Bailey and other business partners, and probably the first to own his own train. Given the lack of paved highways in America at that time, this turned out to be a shrewd decision that vastly expanded Barnum's geographical reach. In this new industry, Barnum leaned more on the advice of his partners, most of whom were young enough to be his sons.Barnum became known as the "Shakespeare of Advertising" due to his innovative and impressive ideas.     Barnum went on to write his autobiography and do something interesting, more interested in publicity than profits, he made his biography public domain. This meant that anyone who wanted to publish his biography could do so without having to secure rights for it. In his 81st year, Barnum fell gravely ill. At his request, a New York newspaper published his obituary in advance so that he might enjoy it. Two weeks later, after inquiring about the box office receipts of the circus, Barnum died in his Connecticut mansion. The Times of London echoed the world press in its final tribute: “He created the métier of showman on a grandiose scale.…He early realized that essential feature of a modern democracy, its readiness to be led to what will amuse and instruct it.…His name is a proverb already, and a proverb it will continueThose are the stories, for the most part of two of the major players in the freakshow game. There were more, and maybe we will revisit the rest of the stories and the other folks involved at a later date but for now we are going to move on to what you all want…some of the coolest  freaks there were!!!LAZARUS COLLOREDOWe mentioned this fellow a bit earlier and it was time to bring him back. Born in 1617 in Genoa, Italy, Colloredo would exhibit himself all across Europe during his lifetime. Colloredo is among the earliest—and most extraordinary—recorded cases of parasitic twins. We found this description of Lazarus by Danish anatomist Thomas Bartholinus, as detailed in the 19th-century book, Kirby’s Wonderful and Eccentric Museum: “I saw, saith Bartholinus, Lazarus Colloredo, the Genoese, first at Copenhagen, after at Basil, when he was twenty-eight years of age, but in both places with amazement. This Lazarus had a little brother growing out at his breast, who was in that posture born with him. If I mistake not, the bone, called xyphoideus, in both of them grew together; his left foot along hung downwards; he had two arms but only three fingers upon each hand: some appearance there was of the secret parts: he moved his hands ears and lips, and had a little beating in the breast. This little brother voids no excrements but by the mouth, nose, and ears, and is nourished by that which the greater takes: he has distinct animal and vital parts from the greater, since he sleeps, sweats, and moves when the other wakes, rests and sweats not. Both received their names at the font; the greater that of Lazarus, and the other that of Johannes Baptista. The natural bowels, as the liver, spleen, &c. are the same in both. Johannes Baptista hath his eyes for the most part shut: his breath small, so that holding a feather at his mouth it scarcely moves, but holding the hand there we find a small and warm breath. His mouth is usually open, and wet with spittle; his head is bigger than that of Lazarus, but deformed; his hair hanging down while his face is in an upright posture. Both have beards; that of Baptista is neglected, but that of Lazarus very neat. Lazarus is of a just stature, a decent body, courteous deportment, and gallantly attired: he covers the body of his brother with his cloak, nor would you think a monster lay within at your first discourse with him. He seemed always of a constant mind, unless that now and then he was solicitous as to his end, for he feared the death of his brother, presaging that when it came to pass, he should also expire with the stench and putrefaction of his body; and therefore he took greater care of his brother than himself.”Well then! That sounds like a fucking insane thing to see!!TARRAREThe walking manifestation of one of the seven deadly sins prowled the cobbled streets of 18th-century Paris, seeking only to indulge his endless hunger. Earlier in life, his dietary needs started out robustly, but were otherwise innocuous. However, things would soon take a sinister turn so far as this overzealous diner was concerned. According to contemporary accounts and existent medical records, his quenchless appetite continued growing to the point that his legendarily gluttonous gorging caused this ravenous Frenchman to ingest live animals and maraud morgues for sustenance. He was once even suspected of kidnapping and devouring a toddler.The crack team at Ripleys.com was able to speak with a doctor who specializes in science-based nutrition in search of a possible diagnosis, but first, let’s chew the fat on the life of this legendary cannibal and his strange circumstances of existence. Be warned, this is not for the weak of heart—but if you think you can stomach it, then strap in! PARIS, CIRCA 1788With a large, lip-less mouth stretched wide beyond human regularity and filled with stained teeth, he ate corks, stones, entire baskets of apples—one at a time in quick succession—and live animals (his favorite was snake) for the morbid amusement of repulsed onlookers that were challenged to satiate his seemingly interminable appetite.Like most modern competitive binge-eaters, Tarrare was diminutive in stature, weighing no more than one hundred pounds—prior to eating, at least. Despite all of his daily intake, he never seemed to keep any of the weight on. When empty, his stomach was loosely distended to the point that he could wrap it around his waist as if it were a belt made of his own, still-attached flesh. When full, it was inflated like a balloon—not unlike a pregnant woman in her final trimester. His hair was fair and soft, while his cheeks, when not engaged at capacity—allegedly able to hold so much as a dozen eggs—were wrinkled and hung slack to create premature jowls.Prior to life as a successful street performer, the individual is known only by his stage name, Tarrare, lived in destitution as part of a traveling caravan of criminal misfits. Born in the rural countryside surrounding the epicenter of the booming silk-weaving trade in Lyon, France in approximately 1772, his rapacious appetite was readily apparent from an early age. As the legend goes, a young Tarrare was capable of eating his own bodyweight in cow meat within a 24-hour period. Sadly, this boundless craving forced him out of his family’s home as a teenager, as they could no longer afford to feed him.After several years of touring the country as a vagabond begging for food, for a time Tarrare became the opener for a snake-oil peddling mountebank before taking off to Paris to perform as a solo act. With success came risk. Tarrare once collapsed mid-performance with what was later discovered to be an intestinal obstruction, requiring his audience to carry him to the nearby Hôtel-Dieu hospital. After being treated with laxatives, a grateful Tarrare offered to demonstrate his talents by eating the surgeon’s pocket watch. The surgeon agreed, but only under the condition that he be allowed to cut Tarrare open to retrieve it. Wisely, Tarrare declined.It was during the French War of the First Coalition when respected military surgeon Dr. Pierre-François Percy first made the acquaintance of the inexplicable Tarrare, now a soldier for the French Revolutionary Army. Barely twenty years old, this peculiar patient proved to be quite extraordinary. Unable to subsist off of military rations alone, Tarrare began doing odd jobs around the base for other soldiers in exchange for their rations and, when that proved to be insufficient, foraged for food scraps in dunghills. Despite all of his scrounging, Tarrare succumbed to exhaustion and was admitted to a military hospital under the care of Dr. Percy.There, even being granted quadruple rations failed to satiate his hunger. Tarrare began to eat out of the garbage, steal the food of other patients, and even chow down on the hospital’s bandage supply. Psychological testing found Tarrare to be apathetic, but otherwise sane.Percy’s report described Tarrare as having bloodshot eyes and constantly being overheated and sweating, with a body odor so rancid that he could be smelled from twenty feet away—and that’s by 18th-century French military surgeon standards. Woof. The smell only got worse after eating. Percy described it as being so bad he literally had visible stink lines.After eating, Tarrare would succumb to the itis and pass out. Percy observed this after preparing a meal made for fifteen to test Tarrare’s limits, which he predictably porked down. Percy continued this experiment by feeding Tarrare live animals: a cat—which he drank the blood of and after consuming, like an owl, he only regurgitated its fur—lizards, snakes, puppies, and an entire eel.Months of experimentation passed before the military discovered a way to put Tarrare’s unique ability to use: Tarrare was commissioned as a spy for the French Army of the Rhine. His first mission was to secretly courier a document across enemy lines in a place that it could not easily be detected if caught: his digestive tract. After being paid with a wheelbarrow full of thirty pounds of raw bull viscera—which he ate immediately upon presentation directly in front of what we can only imagine to be the incredibly revolted generals and other commanding officers—Tarrare swallowed a wooden box containing a document that could pass through his system completely in-tact and be delivered to a high-ranking prisoner of war in Prussia. As one might expect, an individual who smells like a foot and compulsively eats from the garbage would likely attract attention—not exactly the ideal, hallmark makings of a spy.Compound this with the fact that Tarrare did not speak any German and he was quickly caught, beaten, imprisoned, and forced to undergo the psychological torment of a mock execution before being returned to France.Again under the care of Dr. Percy, the trauma Tarrare endured left him incapable of continuing his military service and desperate to find a cure for his condition. Laudanum opiates, wine vinegar, tobacco pills, and a diet of soft-boiled eggs were all employed, but Tarrare was still forced to walk the streets fighting stray dogs for discarded slaughterhouse cuisine, drink the blood of patients who were being treated with bloodletting, and was even caught consuming cadavers from the hospital morgue multiple times. Eventually, a toddler went missing from the hospital and Tarrare, the suspected culprit, was chased from the premises before disappearing into the city.Dr. Percy is contacted by a physician of Versailles hospital at the behest of a patient on their deathbed. Sure enough, it was Tarrare, now brought to death’s door by what he professed to be a golden fork he had swallowed two years previously and was now lodged inside of him. It had been four years since Percy had last seen Tarrare, who hoped he could save his life by removing the fork. Unfortunately for Tarrare, it was not a fork that was killing him, but end-stage tuberculosis. Within a month, he passed.A curious colleague intended to inspect Tarrare’s corpse. However, fellow surgeons refused to partake and it quickly became a race against the clock as the body began to rot rapidly. Findings from the autopsy revealed that Tarrare possessed a shockingly-wide esophagus which allowed spectators to look directly from his open mouth into his stomach, which was unfathomably large and lined with ulcers. His body was full of pus, his liver and gallbladder abnormally large, and the fork was never recovered. So, what was the cause of Tarrare’s insatiable hunger? In short, we don’t know for sure. When contemporary medical procedures of the time included drinking raw mercury to clear out head demons (probably), should it come as a surprise that Tarrare received no suitable diagnosis or treatment in his own lifetime?However, some interesting theories have been suggested over the years. Ripleys.com was able to speak to Dr. Don Moore, a chiropractor certified in science-based nutrition and owner and operator of Synergy Pro Wellness, to get his take on things.Now, granted, there is a possibility that Dr. Percy’s personal documentation in the years following Tarrare’s death were exaggerated or falsified, but they were considered credible enough at the time of their publication to be featured in reputable medical texts such as The Study of Medicine, Popular Physiology, and London Medical and Physical Journal. Plus, Dr. Percy is considered the father of military surgeons, was Chief Surgeon to the French Army, a university professor, inventor of important battlefield medical implements, and is considered an all-around highly reputable guy. So, given we accept the above tale as an accurate representation of Tarrare’s symptoms, what does Dr. Moore have to say about it?“It can be broken down by category: He didn’t suffer from psychosis, so he was completely aware and cognitive. But that doesn’t rule out hyperactivity of hormones and dysfunction of components of the brain. His sensor that would let him know he was full was damaged. If he underwent a brain study, he would have probably been identified as having had an enlarged hypothalamus.” The hypothalamus regulates the body’s temperature and is responsible for causing the sensation of hunger. Given Tarrare was constantly overheated and in dire search of food, it’s a perfect fit. Dr. Moore also suspects a possible case of pica, which causes the eating of non-edible objects.As for why Tarrare never weighed more than one hundred pounds, Dr. Moore adroitly theorizes, based on his habitually eating raw meat: “He most likely had a parasite as well. The fact that he was of normal size means something else is being nourished, and the fact that he was constantly hungry leans towards him feeding a secondary organism. A parasite like a hookworm or roundworm, perhaps.”  FANNIE MILLSThis next one...i had to put in for obvious reasons! As far as freak shows go, Fanny Mills was one of the most unusual performers to ever step foot inside the sideshow tent. Known as the “Ohio BigFoot Girl,” Fanny seemed normal in every respect…except for her massive feet. Fanny was born in Sussex, England in 1860, and then immigrated with her family to Sandusky, Ohio. The condition that brought her notoriety was Milroy Disease, a rare disorder that causes lymphedema, in which the lower legs and feet swell with lymph fluid. Neither of Fanny’s sisters were born with the disease.Fanny was a petite woman who only weighed 115 pounds. Her feet, however, were 19 inches long and 7 inches wide. She wore a size 30 shoe made of three goatskins.Fanny started touring the country in 1885 as “that girl from Ohio” with the “biggest feet on Earth.” She traveled with a nurse named Mary Brown, who helped her get around. Her promoters advertised her to unwed men as “a boon for poor bachelors,” offering $5,000 and a well-stocked farm to any respectable man who would marry her.“Don’t permit two big feet to stand between you and wedlock tinged with fortune,” the ad read. Fanny eventually married William Brown, Mary’s brother, in 1886.She retired from show business in 1891 because of an illness, and died later that yearGRADY STILES JR.This guy is another famous guy. But you may not know his whole, incredibly crazy story! He’s the mutha fuckin lobster boy!!! The Stiles family was suffering from a peculiar physical condition known as Ectrodactyly, which is a rare congenital deformity that makes the hand look like lobster claws as the middle fingers are either missing or seemingly fused to the thumb or pinky finger.The family has been afflicted for over a century with ectrodactyly, a condition commonly known as the Lobster claw. It is an uncommon inherent distortion of the hand where the center digit is missing and the hand is parted where the metacarpal of the finger ought to be.This split regularly gives the hands the presence of lobster hooks in spite of the fact that cases run in seriousness. Frequently this condition happens in both the hands and the feet and, while it is an acquired condition, it can skirt an age. While the term ectrodactyly sounds medicinally clean when contrasted with ‘Lobster Claw Syndrome’.While many have viewed Ectrodactyly as a handicap, for the Stiles family it came with an opportunity. The physical condition stayed within the family and any newcomer to the family came out with unusual hands and feet.But one member from the family, Grady stiles Jr., would give the Stiles’ family a different reputation when he became a serial abuser and murderer.The home of Gardy Stiles, or popularly known as the lobster boy was an unpleasant place to be. During the carnival season in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Grady was one of the many sideshow performers who people came to gawk at some time in wonder and sometimes out of rudeness.Grady never concerned himself too much with the opinions of onlookers, he was only there to put on a show, his audience was impressed or not. Grady was born with a severe deformity that gave him the name, The Lobster Boy.GRADY STILES JR. A.K.A THE LOBSTER BOY (CREDIT: YOUTUBE)Lobster Boy was born in Pittsburgh in 1937, at that point his father was already part of the “freak show” circuit, adding his kids with the peculiar physical condition to the act.Because of the deformity Grady couldn’t walk and was confined to a wheelchair, his legs were almost flipper-like and unable to bear weight this resulted in him using his upper body to maneuver around usually in a wheelchair.All of the locomotion provided by his arms turned Grady into a rather strong man despite his downfalls but he didn’t only utilize his to make his life easier for himself but also to make other’s life harder.For most of his life, Gary primarily used a wheelchair — but also learned to use his power to use his upper body to pull himself across the floor with impressive strength.As Grady grew up he would become immensely strong, something which will cost his family later in life.At age 19 Mary ran off to join the carnival, escaping her old life, oddly enough she felt she belonged best there. Despite the fact that she was surrounded by people with shocking abilities and deformities but for her this was normal.Mary Theresa wasn’t there for the same reasons the performers were but the carnival always needed staff to keep the shows running. It was here that she met Grady Stiles.Mary Theresa didn’t see the monster in Grady as others had, she quickly fell in love with Grady and the two were married within no time. Together they had two children and, like his father before him, introduced the children with ectrodactyly to the family business.Grady added his children into his sideshow with him traveling as an act known as the Lobster Family, of the many issues that were in the family, money wasn’t one of them. The family would make $50,000-$80,000 per season and Grady was considered the major star of the show.There were no gimmicks with the lobster family no tricks or illusions, What the crowd saw is what the crowd got.Once the winter set in the show’s closed down and many of their performers including the Stiles family resided in Florida until the new season came around.Despite the pleasant weather and more free time, Grady still didn’t hesitate to inflict physical and emotional pain on his family.If Many only would have known when she was younger what she knew after marrying Grady perhaps it would have made a difference.Mary recollected that Grady was the best anybody could be, a genuinely honorable man however as soon he poured the liquor in his body, something in his brain changed and he would abandon a nobleman to a harsh spouse and father. He turned into a much more alarming man, a genuine beast, more noteworthy than the one others considered him to be. He was a real nightmare come to life.Marry was impacted in ways that she would never forget. She remembered that her husband was a great guy when he woke up in the morning by 8:00 am and started drinking by 10 and would be miserable for the rest of the day.In 1973, Grady-Mary’s marriage hit its first end when Mary decided that she couldn’t take the abuse any longer after Grday launched himself at her, took her to the floor, ripped her pantyhose, reached his clawed hand and ripped out the intrauterine device, a device used to prevent pregnancy, and used her hands to choke her – something they were seemingly designed to do well.Mary was so disgusted, horrified, and emotionally wounded that she wisely left him.The worst was yet to come after Mary was gone, Grady started drinking even more and when her teenage daughter, Donna fell in love with a young man that he didn’t approve of, he didn’t take the decision very well.Donna and Jack Lane were in loved and wanted to marry but Grady forbade the marriage threatening to kill Jack numerous times. Donna was unhappy with her drunk and abusive father and wanted an escape.Donna told Grady that if he didn’t approve the underage marriage, she would live with Jack anyway. This further enraged Grady who prided himself in the way he dominated his family and controlled them.Grady was home when Jack came home to see him on the night before Jack and Donna were to be married, thinking that maybe Grady has changed his mind and is now happy with our marriage.Instead of agreeing, Stiles picked up his shotgun and murdered his daughter’s fiance in cold blood. HE sat there while his daughter came and said ‘I told you I would kill him.’Grady went to trial where the defense attempted to get the jury to pity Grady and his condition. The defense played heavily into the fact that Grady had an unfortunate life driven to drinking and violence by the incessant struggles he faced.Grady even managed to shed some tears in the courtroom, his daughter Donna took the stand and told him that “she would see him at his grave.”The jury took three hours in deciding that Grady was guilty of third-degree-murder, Grady received a sentence of 15 years but not in prison but 15 years of probation.The state believed that their prison system even in their handicap accessible facilities weren’t equipped to handle the specific need for Grady Stiles: no prison could deal with his handicap and to restrict him to jail would be merciless and irregular discipline. He additionally, at this point, had procured liver cirrhosis from drinking and had emphysema from long stretches of cigarette smoking.So Grady got to serve his sentence from home where he continued to drink heavily and beat his children.For reasons that no one — either in the Stiles family or outside of it — has been able to understand, his first wife agreed to remarry him in 1989.Mary who left Grady earlier came back in his life again in 1989 and surprisingly enough forgave the monster for all his wrongdoings.As earlier Grady was decent for a while but after some time the monster in him came back to haunt the lives of Mary and her children. The violence surged back to the surface as did copious amounts of sexual assault.A couple of years after she remarried Stiles, she paid her 17-year-old neighbor, Chris Wyant, $1,500 to murder him. Mary Teresa’s child from another marriage, Glenn, helped her imagine the thought and complete the arrangement.One night, Wyant took a .32 Colt Automatic he had a companion buy for him. He went into Stiles’ trailer, Grady was watching television in his underwear, Wyant put 2 round in the back of his head at the point-clear range, killing him instantly.Freedom But with A CostPolice arrested Mary, her son Harry and the killer Wyant. The jury convicted Wyant of second-degree murder and sentenced him to 27 years in prison.Not one of them denied that they had intended to kill Grady Stiles. During the trial, his wife spoke at length of his abusive history. “My husband was going to kill my family,” she told the court, “I believe that from the bottom of my heart.”Unfortunately for Mary’s child Glenn, self-defense isn’t applicable when hiring a hitman and Glenn was convicted of first-degree murder and was given life-sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years.At least one of their children, Cathy, testified against him as well.Mary was also charged with first-degree murder and her conviction was reduced to manslaughter and she was sentenced to 12 years behind bars.She unsuccessfully appealed her conviction and began to serve her sentence in February of 1997. She had tried to get Glenn to take a plea bargain but he refused. The court sentenced him to life in prison.Just as a significant portion of his living family was being tried for his murder, Grady Stiles’ body was put to rest. Or unrest, as it were: Lobster Boy was so disliked, not just in his family but within the community, that the funeral home could not find anyone willing to be pallbearers.That's a story that most people don't know about the Lobster Boy!!ELLA HARPERMost sources indicate that Ella Harper was born in Hendersonville, Tennessee around 1870 – although there are some conflicting reports. It has also been revealed that Ella had a twin brother, who died quite early. What is not argued, however, is the fact that Ella was born with an unusual orthopedic condition resulting in knees that bent backwards.  The nature of this unusual affliction is exceedingly rare and relatively unknown, however most modern medical types would classify her condition and a very advanced form of congenital genu recurvatum – also known as ‘back knee deformity’. Her unusually bent knees, coupled with her preference of walking on all fours resulted in her moniker of ‘The Camel Girl’.In 1886, Ella was the star of W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, often appearing accompanied by a camel when presented to audiences and she was a feature in the newspapers of every town the circus visited. Those newspapers touted Ella as ‘the most wonderful freak of nature since the creation of the world’ and that her ‘counterpart never did exist’.The back of Ella’s 1886 pitch card is far more modest in its information: I am called the camel girl because my knees turn backward. I can walk best on my hands and feet as you see me in the picture. I have traveled considerably in the show business for the past four years and now, this is 1886 and I intend to quit the show business and go to school and fit myself for another occupation. It appears that Ella did indeed move on to other ventures, and her $200 a week salary likely opened many doors for her. For quite some time no further information was available on Ella following 1886, but recently a genealogist managed to not only trace Ella’s family tree, but also provide some information regarding her life after sideshow.On 28 June 1905 Ella Harper married a man named Robert L. Savely. Savely was a school teacher and later a bookkeeper for a photo supplies company.  A 1910 Census shows Ella and her husband living in Nashville, Tennessee with Ella’s mother and it also revealed that Ella and her husband had adopted a 3 month old child, but that the child passed away only 18 days later.We also now know that Ella died of colon cancer on 19 December 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee and that she was buried at Spring Hill Cemetery in Nashville. A simple gravestone marks her plot, but she is surrounded by family.LEONARD TRASK THE WONDERFUL INVALIDSome human marvels are made, not born. Often their manufacture is accidental and painful, such is the case of Leonard Trask. Born on June 30, 1805 in Hartford, Maine Trask suffered a major neck injury in his 20’s when he was thrown from his horse. The story was that a pig ran under the hooves of his horse and, after being thrown from the back of his steed, Trask spent several days crawling back home. Despite the serious injury, Trask continued to work as a farm hand until his spine began to bow.Soon, Trask’s chin was pressed into his chest permanently, and subsequent injuries only exasperated his misery. In 1840 he took a nasty fall and in 1853 he was thrown from his wagon and broke 4 ribs and his collarbone. On May 24, 1858 Trask was involved in a high-speed coach accident, in which he and several passengers where thrown to the ground. In the accident, Trask struck his head and opened ‘a gash in his head five inches long’. The injury was severe, and he was not expected to survive, but he did and was even more disabled and miserable as a result of the injury.Through much of his adult life, his wife took care of him, and despite his physical limitations he fathered seven children with her. Unable to work, Trask was eventually able to spin his status as a medical curiosity into small career as a human oddity attraction to the general public. As “The Wonderful Invalid”, Trask was able to capture a small measure of fame. His 1860 self-published story A Brief Historical Sketch of the Life and Sufferings of Leonard Trask, the Wonderful Invalid, which included accounts of his activities like ‘Mr. Trask at the Circus’ and ‘Mr.Trask Going to Drink’ that were both amusing and sad.At the time of his death on April 13, 1861 Trask’s condition was still not officially diagnosed despite seeing more than 22 doctors during his lifetime. Today Trask would be diagnosed with Ankylosing spondylitis, a condition that affect less than 0.2% of the general populationJOSEPHINE MYRTLE COARBINFor all intents and purposes, Josephine Myrtle Corbin was a normal girl. Her birth was not marked by anything out of the ordinary, and her mother claimed to have had a typical labor and delivery, apart from the baby being momentarily in the breech position.The doctors who examined the baby after birth reported her to be strong and healthy, adding that she was growing at a good rate. A year later she was found to be nursing “healthily” and “thriving well.”Overall, Myrtle Corbin was a perfectly healthy, active, and thriving baby girl. All in spite of having four legs.Perfectly Ordinary (Almost)After being born with four legs, two normal sized ones on either side of a pair of diminutive ones, the doctor who delivered Myrtle Corbin felt it necessary to point out the factors they felt could have resulted in her deformity. First, the baby’s parents, the doctors said, were about 10 years apart in age. William H. Corbin was 25, and his wife Nancy was 34. Second, the doctors noted that the couple bore a striking resemblance to each other. Both of them were redheads, with blue eyes and very fair complexions. They actually looked so similar that the doctors felt it necessary to explicitly point out that the two were not “blood kin” in their medical reports.Despite the two factors the doctors listed, it seemed that the young girl was simply an oddity – her parents had had seven other children, all of whom were perfectly ordinary.Later, it would be determined that she was born with dipygus and her condition was likely the result of her body’s axis splitting as it developed. As a result, she was born with two pelvises side by side.With each pelvis, she had two sets of legs, one normal sized, and one small. The two small legs were side by side, flanked on either side by two normal legs, though one with a clubbed foot.According to medical journals written by the physicians that studied Myrtle Corbin throughout her life, she was able to move her smaller inner legs, though they weren’t strong enough for her to be able to walk on. Which, of course, didn’t really matter, as they were not long enough to touch the ground.In 1881 at age 13, Myrtle Corbin joined the sideshow circuit under the moniker “The Four-Legged Girl From Texas.” After showing her to curious neighbors and charging them a dime each, her father realized her potential for publicity and for cash. He had promotional pamphlets made up and began placing ads in newspapers for people to come see her.The promotional pamphlets described her as a girl with “as gentle of disposition as the summer sunshine and as happy as the day is long.” And, indeed, that appeared to be true.Throughout her time as a sideshow attraction, she became wildly popular. Eventually, rather than bringing the curious onlookers to her she began traveling. By visiting small towns and cities and performing for the public, she ended up earning up to $450 a week.Eventually, famed showman P.T. Barnum heard about her and hired her for his show.For four years, she continued to work for Barnum and even inspired several other showmen to produce fake four-legged humans for their own shows when they couldn’t get her. At 18 years old, Myrtle Corbin retired from the sideshow business. She’d met a doctor named Clinton Bicknell and fallen in love. At 19, the two were married.About a year later in the spring of 1887, Myrtle Corbin discovered she was pregnant. She’d gone to a doctor in Blountsville, Ala., complaining of pain in her left side, fever, headache, and a decreased appetite. Despite her unique anatomy (she had two sets of internal and external reproductive anatomies), doctors did not believe there was a reason she couldn’t carry to term. Though she became gravely ill during the first three months of her pregnancy, resulting in her doctor performing an abortion, she ended up giving birth to four more healthy children in her life.After performing in the sideshow and giving birth to her children, Myrtle Corbin’s life was rather normal. Though her case continued to pop up in medical journals around the country, she maintained a quiet existence in her Texas home with her husband and children.Eventually in 1928, she died as the result of a streptococcal skin infection. Though antibiotics make the condition easily treatable today, in the 1920s there was no such treatment available.SEALOStanislaus Berent  was an American freak who performed at many freak shows, including the World Circus Sideshow in 1941 under the stage name of Sealo the Seal Boy (often stylized to just Sealo). He was known for his seal-like arms, which were caused by a congenital medical condition known as phocomelia. In 2001, Mat Fraser's play inspired by Sealo called Sealboy: Freak debuted. Berent was born November 24, 1901 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  He was brought up as a Polish Catholic and suffered from an extremely rare congenital disorder known as phocomelia, which caused his "seal arms".  He had no arms; his hands grew from his shoulders. Sealo started off his career as a newspaper seller, then was discovered by freak scouters.He  was a regular feature at Coney Island's freak show from circa 1920 to 1970[4] and was exaggerated as a human with a seal body on some promotional sideshow posters. Despite his genetic disability, Sealo was still able to carry out feats like sawing a crate in half and shaving with a straight razor on his own, as well as moulding animal figurines out of clay. His partner on-stage was Toby, a chimpanzee. Sealo had trouble getting up and down the performance stage due to his weak legs. He would spend the time in which he was not performing on stage selling pitch cards. After performing, he preferred resting at hotels to sleeping at the fairground. He performed at the World Circus Sideshow in 1941. He also toured around the world and performed at many other freak shows.Sealo's freak show career lasted for thirty-five years; he retired in 1976 and moved to Showmen's Retirement Village in Gibsonton, Florida. He returned to his hometown of Pittsburgh afterwards when his health started to decline.  He spent his final days at a Catholic hospital and died in 1980.GEORGE AND WILLIE MUSEThe Muse brothers had an incredible career. The story of the two black albino brothers from Roanoke, Virginia is unique even in the bizarre world of freaks and sideshows. They were initially exploited and then later hailed for their unintentional role in civil rights.Born in the 1890’s the pair were scouted by sideshow agents and kidnapped in 1899 by bounty hunters working in the employ of an unknown sideshow promoter. Black albinos, being extremely rare, would have been an extremely lucrative attraction. They were falsely told that their mother was dead, and that they would never be returning home.The brothers began to tour. To accentuate their already unusual appearance, their handler had the brothers grow out their hair into long white dreadlocks. In 1922 showman Al G. Barnes began showcasing the brothers in his circus as White Ecuadorian cannibals Eko and Iko. When that gimmick failed to attract crowds the brothers were rechristened the ‘Sheep-Headed Men’ and later, in 1923, the ‘Ambassadors from Mars’.As the ‘Men from Mars’ the two traveled extensively with the Barnes circus. Unfortunately, while they were being fed, housed and trained in playing the mandolin, they were not being paid.In the mid 1920’s the Muse brothers toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In 1927, while visiting their hometown, their mother finally tracked them down. She fought to free her sons, some 20 years after their disappearance. She threatened to sue and the Muse brothers were freed.The brothers filed a lawsuit for the wages they earned but were never paid. They initially demanded a lump-sum payment of 100,000. However, as time passed the Muse brothers missed the crowds, the attention and the opportunities sideshow provided. Their lawyer got them a smaller lump-sum payment and a substantial contract with a flat monthly wage. The pair returned to show business in 1928.During their first season back they played Madison Square Garden and drew over 10,000 spectators during each of their performances. They made spectacular money as their new contract allowed them to sell their own merchandise and keep all the profits for themselves. In the 1930’s they toured Europe, Asia and Australia. They performed for royals and dignitaries including the Queen of England. In 1937 they returned to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for several years and finally ended their career in 1961 with the Clyde Beatty Circus.The brothers returned to their hometown and lived together in a house they originally purchased for their mother. Neither brother married, though they were well known for their many extravagant courtships.George Muse died in 1971 and many expected Willie to quickly follow his brother. Those people were wrong as Willie continued to play his mandolin and enjoy the company friends and family until his death on Good Friday of 2001.He was 108 years old.These are just a few of the many many many circus freaks throughout history. We purposefully did not cover guys like The Elephant Man and other more popular ones as we wanted to bring you some interesting ones you may not know about, except maybe the lobster boy but that shit is crazy! There are some more interesting stories and Coney Island deserves its own discussion...can you say….BONUS episode!!!              

"possessor of the least inhibited tongue in Europe"

Imagine for a moment you’re at funeral of a beloved uncle, one of those guys who knew a ton of people, resulting in a massive who’s who of attendees. Then imagine yourself amongst all your other cousin’s and uncles, and other not so distant relatives. Usually something of a cathartic experience amid sadness, right?But now introduce some family drama into the mix. Let’s say there’s some history between you and a few other members. Makes this gathering a bit more uncomfortable, right? But I’m not done. How about your all unimaginable rich and each have enormous standing armies with hundreds of thousands of men. On top of that, all of you know that someone in the near future is going to start a war – but no one know who. Though there are some prime suspects. So much for the funeral – this quaint little family gathering has turned into something far more consequential. Something far more explosive. The event I’m trying to relate is exactly what this Almost Episode is about. Or better, its about the men who posed for perhaps the most ominous photo ever taken in human history. These men are The Nine. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/writteninbloodhistory)

This Week in British History: 3rd - 9th August

The concluding episode in our two part series about Lady Louis Mountbatten, one of the most intriguing and intelligent debutants of her day and of course mother to Lady Pamela and grandmother to India. Born Edwina Ashley she was the goddaughter of Edward VII and heiress to a vast fortune. She married Louis Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, in 1922 and in this episode Lady Pamela explores how the war years and her role as the last Vicereine of India transformed her mother from a party-loving socialite to the formidably powerful and intuitive force she became.

Biographer and academic Jane Ridley and screenwriter and novelist Daisy Goodwin join the Slightly Foxed Editors to reveal the wealth to be found in royal biographies, memoirs and historical novels. From the remarkable diaries of Queen Victoria and the extraordinary life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria to Prince Albert’s cashmere breeches, a cottage meal at Sissinghurst with the Queen Mother, and Edward VII’s many mistresses, the parade of tales about the lives and loves of royal people roams far and wide. And we go on a on a quest for Queen Mary with James Pope-Hennessy in this month’s hunt through the magazine’s archives. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 38 minutes; 16 seconds) Books Mentioned We may be able to get hold of second-hand copies of the out-of-print titles listed below. Please get in touch (mailto:anna@foxedquarterly.com) with Anna in the Slightly Foxed office for more information. - Blue Remembered Hills (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/rosemary-sutcliff-blue-remembered-hills-plain-foxed-edition/) , Rosemary Sutcliff. Plain Foxed Edition published 1 March 2020 (2:15)   - Browse and buy (https://foxedquarterly.com/products/slightly-foxed-best-first-biography-prize-2019/) the shortlisted titles for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2019 (2:50) - Victoria (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/daisy-goodwin-victoria/) , Daisy Goodwin (4:10) - Bertie: A Life of Edward VII (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jane-ridley-bertie-slightly-foxed/) , Jane Ridley (4:27) - The historical novels of Jean Plaidy are out of print (16:39) - The Fortune Hunter (https://www.headline.co.uk/titles/daisy-goodwin/the-fortune-hunter/9780755348114/) , Daisy Goodwin (17:18) - Victoria (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jane-ridley-victoria-penguin-monarchs) (Penguin Monarchs series), Jane Ridley (22:49) - Queen Mary (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/james-pope-hennessy-queen-mary/) , James Pope-Hennessy (22:46) - The Quest for Queen Mary (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/james-pope-hennessy-hugo-vickers-the-quest-for-queen-mary) , James Pope-Hennessy, Ed. Hugo Vickers (31.02) - The Honjin Murders (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/seishi-yokomizo-the-honjin-murders/) , Seishi Yokomizo (33:33) - Lady in Waiting (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/anne-glenconner-lady-in-waiting/) , Anne Glenconner (34:24) - The Journals of Kenneth Rose: Volume One 1944-1979 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/kenneth-rose-whos-in-whos-out-journals-vol-i/) & Volume Two 1979-2014 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/kenneth-rose-who-loses-who-wins-journals-vol-ii/) , Ed. D. R. Thorpe (36:04) Related Slightly Foxed Articles - The Purple Moth (https://foxedquarterly.com/james-pope-hennessy-queen-mary-literary-review/) , Jane Ridley on James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary in Issue 41 (25:13) Other Links - The Petersfield Bookshop (https://www.petersfieldbookshop.com/) (1:30) - The Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize (https://foxedquarterly.com/category/best-first-biography-prize/) (2:42) - Queen Victoria’s Journals (http://www.queenvictoriasjournals.org/home.do) (5:13) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Reading music: Nimrod from Enigma Variations by Elgar The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

We're sitting in the drawing room of Lady Pamela Hicks' home in Oxfordshire listening intently to Lady Pamela's mesmerising stories. It's just India, Lady Pamela and Lisa the producer who's recording it and putting it all together. We've chosen to have no studio, no formalities just conversation and plenty of tea and cake. This episode is all about Lady Louis Mountbatten, one of the most intriguing and intelligent debutants of her day, mother to Lady Pamela and grandmother to India. Born Edwina Ashley she was the goddaughter of Edward VII and heiress to a vast fortune. Already very much in the public eye, her wedding to Louis Mountbatten, great grandson of Queen Victoria, in 1922 cemented this powerful couple's place in British society. In episode one of two, Lady Pamela explores her mother's glamorous years of parties and travels, her life and loves, and the way in which the war years changed her from a party-loving socialite to the formidably powerful and intuitive woman she became.  

Sam King and Edward Barber both chat about Edward VIII and Mr's Simpson and also provide the sketches!

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After both the Duke and his father died in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. The United Kingdom was an established constitutional monarchy in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. Privately, she attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. Victoria married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe" and spreading haemophilia in European royalty. After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism in the United Kingdom temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. She died on the Isle of Wight in 1901. The last British monarch of the House of Hanover, she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent and his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)—by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte's widower. The Duke and Duchess of Kent's only child, Victoria, was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. Victoria was christened privately by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, on 24 June 1819 in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace. She was baptised Alexandrina after one of her godparents, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and Victoria, after her mother. Additional names proposed by her parents—Georgina (or Georgiana), Charlotte, and Augusta—were dropped on the instructions of Kent's eldest brother George, Prince Regent. At birth, Victoria was fifth in the line of succession after the four eldest sons of George III: the Prince Regent (later George IV); Frederick, Duke of York; William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV); and Victoria's father, Edward, Duke of Kent. The Prince Regent had no surviving children, and the Duke of York had no children; further, both were estranged from their wives, who were both past child-bearing age, so the two eldest brothers were unlikely to have any further legitimate children. William and Edward married on the same day in 1818, but both of William's legitimate daughters died as infants. The first of these was Princess Charlotte, who was born and died on 27 March 1819, two months before Victoria was born. Victoria's father died in January 1820, when Victoria was less than a year --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeofqueenvictoria/support

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After both the Duke and his father died in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. The United Kingdom was an established constitutional monarchy in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. Privately, she attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. Victoria married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe" and spreading haemophilia in European royalty. After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism in the United Kingdom temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. She died on the Isle of Wight in 1901. The last British monarch of the House of Hanover, she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent and his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)—by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte's widower. The Duke and Duchess of Kent's only child, Victoria, was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. Victoria was christened privately by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, on 24 June 1819 in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace. She was baptised Alexandrina after one of her godparents, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and Victoria, after her mother. Additional names proposed by her parents—Georgina (or Georgiana), Charlotte, and Augusta—were dropped on the instructions of Kent's eldest brother George, Prince Regent. At birth, Victoria was fifth in the line of succession after the four eldest sons of George III: the Prince Regent (later George IV); Frederick, Duke of York; William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV); and Victoria's father, Edward, Duke of Kent. The Prince Regent had no surviving children, and the Duke of York had no children; further, both were estranged from their wives, who were both past child-bearing age, so the two eldest brothers were unlikely to have any further legitimate children. William and Edward married on the same day in 1818, but both of William's legitimate daughters died as infants. The first of these was Princess Charlotte, who was born and died on 27 March 1819, two months before Victoria was born. Victoria's father died in January 1820, when Victoria was less than a year --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeofqueenvictoria/support

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. On 1 May 1876, she adopted the additional title of Empress of India. Known as the Victorian era, her reign of 63 years and seven months was longer than that of any of her predecessors. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire. Victoria was the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (the fourth son of King George III), and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. After both the Duke and his father died in 1820, she was raised under close supervision by her mother and her comptroller, John Conroy. She inherited the throne aged 18 after her father's three elder brothers died without surviving legitimate issue. The United Kingdom was an established constitutional monarchy in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. Privately, she attempted to influence government policy and ministerial appointments; publicly, she became a national icon who was identified with strict standards of personal morality. Victoria married her cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1840. Their children married into royal and noble families across the continent, earning Victoria the sobriquet "the grandmother of Europe" and spreading haemophilia in European royalty. After Albert's death in 1861, Victoria plunged into deep mourning and avoided public appearances. As a result of her seclusion, republicanism in the United Kingdom temporarily gained strength, but in the latter half of her reign, her popularity recovered. Her Golden and Diamond Jubilees were times of public celebration. She died on the Isle of Wight in 1901. The last British monarch of the House of Hanover, she was succeeded by her son Edward VII of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Victoria's father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, the fourth son of the reigning King of the United Kingdom, George III. Until 1817, Edward's niece, Princess Charlotte of Wales, was the only legitimate grandchild of George III. Her death in 1817 precipitated a succession crisis that brought pressure on the Duke of Kent and his unmarried brothers to marry and have children. In 1818 he married Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, a widowed German princess with two children—Carl (1804–1856) and Feodora (1807–1872)—by her first marriage to the Prince of Leiningen. Her brother Leopold was Princess Charlotte's widower. The Duke and Duchess of Kent's only child, Victoria, was born at 4.15 a.m. on 24 May 1819 at Kensington Palace in London. Victoria was christened privately by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, on 24 June 1819 in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace. She was baptised Alexandrina after one of her godparents, Emperor Alexander I of Russia, and Victoria, after her mother. Additional names proposed by her parents—Georgina (or Georgiana), Charlotte, and Augusta—were dropped on the instructions of Kent's eldest brother George, Prince Regent. At birth, Victoria was fifth in the line of succession after the four eldest sons of George III: the Prince Regent (later George IV); Frederick, Duke of York; William, Duke of Clarence (later William IV); and Victoria's father, Edward, Duke of Kent. The Prince Regent had no surviving children, and the Duke of York had no children; further, both were estranged from their wives, who were both past child-bearing age, so the two eldest brothers were unlikely to have any further legitimate children. William and Edward married on the same day in 1818, but both of William's legitimate daughters died as infants. The first of these was Princess Charlotte, who was born and died on 27 March 1819, two months before Victoria was born. Victoria's father died in January 1820, when Victoria was less than a year --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeofqueenvictoria/support

He wasn't king long, but Edward VII had a whole era named after him. His mother, Queen Victoria, blamed him for the death of his father and never forgave him. But other people liked him. Especially the ladies.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Den røde juletråd i pakkene under MUSEUMs juletre er hvordan juletradisjonene har endret seg og blandet seg med hverandre fra hedensk tid og til i dag. Også selve juletreet får noen kommentarer, både fra folklorist Reimund Kvideland og fra Einar Gerhardsens stemme fra arkivet. Landsfaderen forteller om en julaften i 1904 da hans far rev ned alle papirflaggene fra familiens juletre. Det var nemlig ”sildesalat” på dem, og da paset de best i ovnen. Røttene til det kristne julebudskap får vi av kirkehistoriker Jan Schumacher, som tar oss med til Ruthwellkorset i Skottland. Med norrøn ornamentikk og runeskrift fremstår dette store steinkorset som den reneste ”bildebibel”, ment som en forkynnelse til de hedenske innvandrere fra Skandinavia på 700-tallet, mange hundre år før kristendommen kom til Norge. Det blir også en kikk inn i Dronning Mauds kirke i Oslo, St. Edmunds, hvor kongebiograf Tor Bomann-Larsen forteller om den nye kongefamiliens første jul i 1906, og hvordan det på nære nippet hadde blitt mørke vinduer på Slottet i Oslo. Selveste kong Edward VII måtte gripe inn for å beordre datteren og hennes familie hjem til hvit jul i deres nye fedreland. Sendt første gang julen 2011. Programleder Øyvind Arntsen. Med Sigrid Kvaal, Tor Bomann-Larsen, Jan Schumacher og Reimund Kvideland

Sweet holy mother of everything that's heroically awful: we made it to 100 episodes!  To celebrate Ben and Barry drill down into everything terrible about the number 100: from dodgy bank notes to terrible cricketers and golfers, suspiciously young super-centenarians, premature wartime celebrations and bang average cars.   As ever, we take you on a journey including all human life from Ancient Etruscans to disappearing Carolingians, via the Venerable Bede and Edward VII.   Follow us on Twitter: @worstfoot @bazmcstay @benvandervelde  Visit www.worstfootforwardpodcast.com for all previous episodes and you can now donate to us on Patreon if you’d like to support Ben’s new baby and Barry’s crippling trivia addiction: https://www.patreon.com/WorstFootForward Worst Foot Forward is part of Podnose: www.podnose.com

90 minutes of great radio: Tasha Alexander, JJ Hensley and Daniella Bernett. Tasha Alexander "Uneasy Lies The Crown" a Lady Emily Mystery: " In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward VII. On her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted agent of the Crown, Colin Hargreaves, and slips him a letter with one last command: Une sanz pluis. Sapere aude. "One and no more. Dare to know." The year is 1901 and the death of Britain's longest-reigning monarch has sent the entire British Empire into mourning. But for Lady Emily and her dashing husband, Colin, the grieving is cut short as another death takes center stage. A body has been found in the Tower of London, posed to look like the murdered medieval king Henry VI. When a second dead man turns up in London's exclusive Berkeley Square, his mutilated remains staged to evoke the violent demise of Edward II, it becomes evident that the mastermind behind the crimes plans to strike again. The race to find the killer takes Emily deep into the capital's underbelly, teeming with secret gangs, street children, and sleazy brothels—but the clues aren't adding up. Even more puzzling are the anonymous letters Colin has been receiving since Victoria's death, seeming to threaten her successor, Edward VII. With the killer leaving a trail of dead kings in his wake, will Edward be the next victim?"

90 minutes of great radio: Tasha Alexander, JJ Hensley and Daniella Bernett. Tasha Alexander "Uneasy Lies The Crown" a Lady Emily Mystery: " In Uneasy Lies the Crown, the thrilling new mystery in Tasha Alexander's bestselling series, Lady Emily and her husband Colin must stop a serial killer whose sights may be set on the new king, Edward VII. On her deathbed, Queen Victoria asks to speak privately with trusted agent of the Crown, Colin Hargreaves, and slips him a letter with one last command: Une sanz pluis. Sapere aude. “One and no more. Dare to know.” The year is 1901 and the death of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch has sent the entire British Empire into mourning. But for Lady Emily and her dashing husband, Colin, the grieving is cut short as another death takes center stage. A body has been found in the Tower of London, posed to look like the murdered medieval king Henry VI. When a second dead man turns up in London's exclusive Berkeley Square, his mutilated remains staged to evoke the violent demise of Edward II, it becomes evident that the mastermind behind the crimes plans to strike again. The race to find the killer takes Emily deep into the capital’s underbelly, teeming with secret gangs, street children, and sleazy brothels—but the clues aren’t adding up. Even more puzzling are the anonymous letters Colin has been receiving since Victoria's death, seeming to threaten her successor, Edward VII. With the killer leaving a trail of dead kings in his wake, will Edward be the next victim?"

W niedzielę 14 października będę biegł trzeci raz maraton w Leicester. Poprzednie dwa razy zajęło mi to niecałe 4 godziny i 30 minut. Teraz chciałbym być szybszy. Za każdym razem gdy przygotowuję się do maratonu przypomina mi się historia tego biegu.Wszystko zaczęło się w starożytnej Grecji. Jak może pamiętacie w odcinku 28 mówiliśmy o polskich Termopilach czyli obronie Wizny. Tam Polacy bardzo dzielnie bronili się przed dużo większym wojskiem niemieckim. Nazywa się tą bitwę Termopilami, bo podobnie walczyli Spartanie w wąwozie Termopile podczas II inwazji perskiej na Grecję. Dzisiaj powiem trochę o bitwie pod Maratonem. Była to bitwa, która odbyła się podczas I inwazji perskiej na Grecję. Tak więc bitwa pod Maratonem odbyła się przez bitwą pod Termopilami. Tam (czyli pod Termopilami) walczyli Spartanie, a pod Maratonem walczyli Ateńczycy. Dowiedzieli się oni, że wojsko perskie wylądowało niedaleko miejscowości Maraton, a więc armia Ateńczyków wyszła ze swojego miasta i poszła z nimi walczyć. Maraton jest oddalony od Aten około 37 kilometrów. 12 września 490 p.n.e. odbyła się bitwa, którą wygrali Ateńczycy. Jeden z nich Filipides miał pobiec do Aten, tam krzyknął “Zwycięstwo” i umarł z wycieńczenia. Tak mówi legenda.Gdy Persowie przegrali wycofali się na swoje statki i pomyśleli, że gdy armia ateńska jest pod Maratonem, to nikt nie pilnuje Aten. Tak więc popłynęli tam, aby zdobyć to miasto. Wojsko ateńskie jednak to przewidziało i żołnierze w hełmach, z tarczami, dzidami i mieczami pobiegło spowrotem do Aten. Zdążyli się ustawić gdy przypłynęli Persowie. Gdy zobaczyli stojących żołnierzy ateńskich przed miastem nie próbowali atakować i odpłynęli do Persji.Podczas tej bitwy było dużo biegania. Persowie mieli dużo łuczników. Ateńczycy musieli więc szybko biec, aby łucznicy mieli mało czasu. Później Ateńczycy musieli po bitwie biec do Aten, aby chronić swoje miasto. A przed samą bitwą wysłano Filipidesa do Sparty z prośbą o pomoc. Odległość z Aten do Sparty to około 250 kilometrów (246 km). Filipides tam pobiegł. Spartanie powiedzieli, że pomogą, ale dopiero jak się skończy ich święto. Filipides pobiegł więc z powrotem. Ponowieni te 250 km. Potem wziął udział w bitwie pod Maratonem, a potem pobiegł jeszcze z wszystkimi do Aten aby ich bronić przed Persami, którzy tutaj popłynęli. Gdy już Ateńczycy wygrali, a przegrani Persowie popłynęli do domu, wtedy przybiegli Spartanie, żeby pomóc w walce. Ateńczycy powiedzieli im, że już jest po bitwie. Spartanom było chyba bardzo głupio, że nie pomogli i że Ateńczycy bez ich pomocy pokonali Persów. Gdy więc później była druga inwazja perska Spartanie walczyli pod Termopilami.Może się zastanawiacie skąd Grecy mieli tyle siły do biegania. Jednym z powodów są igrzyska olimpijskie, które organizowali co 4 lata. Niestety później jeden z cesarzy rzymskich zakazał ich organizowania. Gdy więc w 1896 roku Pierre de Coubertin zorganizował pierwsze nowożytne igrzyska olimpijskie zrobił to w Atenach. Postanowiono wtedy włączyć do igrzysk także bieg maratoński. Zmierzono dystans z Aten do Maratonu i wyszło jakieś 37 kilometrów, ale nie podobała im się ta liczba i postanowili, że bieg maratoński będzie na dystansie 40 kilometrów. Zawsze po przebiegnięciu tych 37 kilometrów jestem już bardzo, bardzo zmęczony i wtedy jestem zawsze zły na tych ludzi, którzy dodali te 3 kilometry, aby było równo 40 kilometrów. Ale to nie wszystko. Na czwartych igrzyskach w Londynie bieg maratoński przedłużono jeszcze o ponad dwa kilometry, aby meta była obok miejsca, gdzie siedział król Edward VII (jest to pradziadek królowej Elżbiety II, która teraz panuje w Anglii). Tak więc po przebiegnięciu 40 kilometrów zaczynam być zły na króla Anglii, że muszę jeszcze biec 2 kilometry 195 metrów. Ale wtedy zawsze sobie przypominam, że Ateńczycy biegli z Maratonu do Aten po długiej bitwie i w dodatku oni biegli w zbrojach, z tarczami i bronią. Ja mam o wiele lżej od nich.Najstarszy polski maraton odbywa się w miejscowości Dębno. Pierwszy raz odbył się on w 1969 roku. W tym samym roku ja się urodziłem. Dziesięć lat później zaczęto organizować maraton warszawski. Pierwszy raz w 1979 roku. Rekord Polski w maratonie ma Henryk Szost, który przebiegł ten dystans w 2:07:39. Najszybsza wśród kobiet jest Małgorzata Sobańska, której zajęło to 2:26:08. Przypomnę może, że mi zajmuje to 4:30, a im tylko 2:07 i 2:26. Tak więc jestem dwa razy wolniejszy od najszybszych Polaków, ale może się w tym roku poprawię.Jak już wspomniałem ja będę biegł maraton po raz trzeci w niedzielę 14 października. Będę biegł jak wszyscy inni w spodenkach i koszulce, ale czy wiecie, że w naszych czasach są ludzie, którzy biegają w zbrojach? Jest taka grupa polskich biegaczy, którzy nazywają się “Spartanie dzieciom”. Biegają maratony właśnie w zbrojach i zbierają w ten sposób pieniądze na pomoc dla dzieci. W notatkach będzie link do ich strony.http://spartaniedzieciom.orgJa dziękuję wam za wysłuchanie tego specjalnego odcinka. Jeżeli mieszkacie w Leicester zapraszam do oglądania biegu, może mnie wypatrzycie. Mój numer to 3176.

W niedzielę 14 października będę biegł trzeci raz maraton w Leicester. Poprzednie dwa razy zajęło mi to niecałe 4 godziny i 30 minut. Teraz chciałbym być szybszy. Za każdym razem gdy przygotowuję się do maratonu przypomina mi się historia tego biegu.Wszystko zaczęło się w starożytnej Grecji. Jak może pamiętacie w odcinku 28 mówiliśmy o polskich Termopilach czyli obronie Wizny. Tam Polacy bardzo dzielnie bronili się przed dużo większym wojskiem niemieckim. Nazywa się tą bitwę Termopilami, bo podobnie walczyli Spartanie w wąwozie Termopile podczas II inwazji perskiej na Grecję. Dzisiaj powiem trochę o bitwie pod Maratonem. Była to bitwa, która odbyła się podczas I inwazji perskiej na Grecję. Tak więc bitwa pod Maratonem odbyła się przez bitwą pod Termopilami. Tam (czyli pod Termopilami) walczyli Spartanie, a pod Maratonem walczyli Ateńczycy. Dowiedzieli się oni, że wojsko perskie wylądowało niedaleko miejscowości Maraton, a więc armia Ateńczyków wyszła ze swojego miasta i poszła z nimi walczyć. Maraton jest oddalony od Aten około 37 kilometrów. 12 września 490 p.n.e. odbyła się bitwa, którą wygrali Ateńczycy. Jeden z nich Filipides miał pobiec do Aten, tam krzyknął “Zwycięstwo” i umarł z wycieńczenia. Tak mówi legenda.Gdy Persowie przegrali wycofali się na swoje statki i pomyśleli, że gdy armia ateńska jest pod Maratonem, to nikt nie pilnuje Aten. Tak więc popłynęli tam, aby zdobyć to miasto. Wojsko ateńskie jednak to przewidziało i żołnierze w hełmach, z tarczami, dzidami i mieczami pobiegło spowrotem do Aten. Zdążyli się ustawić gdy przypłynęli Persowie. Gdy zobaczyli stojących żołnierzy ateńskich przed miastem nie próbowali atakować i odpłynęli do Persji.Podczas tej bitwy było dużo biegania. Persowie mieli dużo łuczników. Ateńczycy musieli więc szybko biec, aby łucznicy mieli mało czasu. Później Ateńczycy musieli po bitwie biec do Aten, aby chronić swoje miasto. A przed samą bitwą wysłano Filipidesa do Sparty z prośbą o pomoc. Odległość z Aten do Sparty to około 250 kilometrów (246 km). Filipides tam pobiegł. Spartanie powiedzieli, że pomogą, ale dopiero jak się skończy ich święto. Filipides pobiegł więc z powrotem. Ponowieni te 250 km. Potem wziął udział w bitwie pod Maratonem, a potem pobiegł jeszcze z wszystkimi do Aten aby ich bronić przed Persami, którzy tutaj popłynęli. Gdy już Ateńczycy wygrali, a przegrani Persowie popłynęli do domu, wtedy przybiegli Spartanie, żeby pomóc w walce. Ateńczycy powiedzieli im, że już jest po bitwie. Spartanom było chyba bardzo głupio, że nie pomogli i że Ateńczycy bez ich pomocy pokonali Persów. Gdy więc później była druga inwazja perska Spartanie walczyli pod Termopilami.Może się zastanawiacie skąd Grecy mieli tyle siły do biegania. Jednym z powodów są igrzyska olimpijskie, które organizowali co 4 lata. Niestety później jeden z cesarzy rzymskich zakazał ich organizowania. Gdy więc w 1896 roku Pierre de Coubertin zorganizował pierwsze nowożytne igrzyska olimpijskie zrobił to w Atenach. Postanowiono wtedy włączyć do igrzysk także bieg maratoński. Zmierzono dystans z Aten do Maratonu i wyszło jakieś 37 kilometrów, ale nie podobała im się ta liczba i postanowili, że bieg maratoński będzie na dystansie 40 kilometrów. Zawsze po przebiegnięciu tych 37 kilometrów jestem już bardzo, bardzo zmęczony i wtedy jestem zawsze zły na tych ludzi, którzy dodali te 3 kilometry, aby było równo 40 kilometrów. Ale to nie wszystko. Na czwartych igrzyskach w Londynie bieg maratoński przedłużono jeszcze o ponad dwa kilometry, aby meta była obok miejsca, gdzie siedział król Edward VII (jest to pradziadek królowej Elżbiety II, która teraz panuje w Anglii). Tak więc po przebiegnięciu 40 kilometrów zaczynam być zły na króla Anglii, że muszę jeszcze biec 2 kilometry 195 metrów. Ale wtedy zawsze sobie przypominam, że Ateńczycy biegli z Maratonu do Aten po długiej bitwie i w dodatku oni biegli w zbrojach, z tarczami i bronią. Ja mam o wiele lżej od nich.Najstarszy polski maraton odbywa się w miejscowości Dębno. Pierwszy raz odbył się on w 1969 roku. W tym samym roku ja się urodziłem. Dziesięć lat później zaczęto organizować maraton warszawski. Pierwszy raz w 1979 roku. Rekord Polski w maratonie ma Henryk Szost, który przebiegł ten dystans w 2:07:39. Najszybsza wśród kobiet jest Małgorzata Sobańska, której zajęło to 2:26:08. Przypomnę może, że mi zajmuje to 4:30, a im tylko 2:07 i 2:26. Tak więc jestem dwa razy wolniejszy od najszybszych Polaków, ale może się w tym roku poprawię.Jak już wspomniałem ja będę biegł maraton po raz trzeci w niedzielę 14 października. Będę biegł jak wszyscy inni w spodenkach i koszulce, ale czy wiecie, że w naszych czasach są ludzie, którzy biegają w zbrojach? Jest taka grupa polskich biegaczy, którzy nazywają się “Spartanie dzieciom”. Biegają maratony właśnie w zbrojach i zbierają w ten sposób pieniądze na pomoc dla dzieci. W notatkach będzie link do ich strony.http://spartaniedzieciom.orgJa dziękuję wam za wysłuchanie tego specjalnego odcinka. Jeżeli mieszkacie w Leicester zapraszam do oglądania biegu, może mnie wypatrzycie. Mój numer to 3176.

Live from Oxford, Dan, James Anna and Andy discuss the man with an egg stuck in his mouth, Lost Wife posters and Edward VII's driving-drink.

In the 1890s, a wild, lawless (and often terrifying) dive saloon in New York City somehow became a destination for desperate young women who desired to end their life. HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Sante, Luc, Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991). McCabe, James D., New York By Sunlight and Gaslight (1882). Howe, William F., Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations (1886). McGurk’s Suicide Hall – 295 Bowery. Down In The Bowery Dives. McGurk’s Suicide Hall History Quickie -- 291-293 & 295 Bowery (video) Chesterton, G.K., Illustrated London News, The Death of Edward VII, May 28, 1910. New York Times, March 23, 1893. New York Herald, March 12, 1899. New York World, December 2, 1899. New York Times, March 23, 1901. New York Press, May 27, 1905. GUEST VOICES: New York World reporter – Nina Innsted from the Already Gone podcast. John McGurk - Barney Black from the Bloody Murder podcast. Woman Quoted in 1896 Social Worker Report - Sara Stapleton from the Karen & Ellen Letters podcast. Marge Davenport / Big Mame storyteller - Dennis Serra from the Evil podcast. New York Herald reporter - Jeff Richardson from the Everything is Awesome podcast and the Shattered Worlds RPG podcast. William F. Howe - Frank Docherty from the the English Martial Arts Podcast Show Liberty Hotel owner - Penny Leal from the Murder She Spoke podcast. James D. McCabe - Sam Kulper from the Breakers podcast. New York Times reporter - John Ashton from the Those Weekend Golf Guys podcast.  New York Press reporter - Paul Csomo from the Varmints! podcast. New York Times reporter - Kirk Griffin from the Podcast Discovery Show. Listener Warning &  Extro Aphorism - Kit Caren, co-host of the Forgotten News Podcast. MUSIC: Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by/3.0   At Rest I Knew A Guy Cool Vibes Sweet Vermouth The Curtain Rises   Freesound.org: ghost_piano_1 Harmonica_Rift_Ending_01 Piano_Ending_Tune Angelic Voice   The Bowery Singers: Jesse Kahat from the Pearls From My Mom podcast Andy Wang from the Inspired Money Podcast. Amelia LaBibarr from Pitney & Amelia’s Bitchen Boutique podcast. Amy Cappella Leitch, a listener and fan.   Regina Music Box The Bowery (music box version).   SOUND EFFECTS: sound fx Fairy Dust sound effect Freesound.org dying coughs cheering Tavern Ambience   EXTRO APHORISM: Source: Chesterton, G.K., The Eye-Witness, A Ballade of Suicide, September 21, 1911 (shortened and slightly paraphrased, on the podcast).   CONTACT US:   E-Mail:  ForgottenNewsPodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Forgotten-News-Podcast Twitter: @NewsForgotten @KitCaren   SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR! This episode was brought to you by Sudio Sweden headphones Use the discount code "FORGOTTEN" for 15% OFF on ANY purchase.   HEY! CAN YOU HELP US?!   PLEASE HELP THE FORGOTTEN NEWS PODCAST TO COVER THE COSTS OF RESEARCH, INVESTIGATION, AUDIO EQUIPMENT. AND PODCAST HOSTING FEES.   ANY DONATION - EVEN A DOLLAR - WOULD REALLY HELP US OUT!   Just click on this PayPal link, to contribute. PAYPAL Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

On this week’s episode, Jenna and Katelyn (belatedly) celebrate the Fourth of July with a look at how the relationship between British royalty and U.S. presidents has evolved since we Yanks said “No, thanks,” to King George III. Join us as we wander through the hedge-maze of time to investigate how “the Tyrant King George” was a scapegoat, Queen Victoria (possibly) hated Ulysses S. Grant, Edward VII partied in the U.S.A., and George V and George VI appealed to their American allies. We also discuss Queen Elizabeth’s longevity and its impact on the “special relationship,” three of Charles’s most important trips across the pond, the royals fever that has sprung up both times Will and Kate have stopped in the States, and Harry’s scandalous Las Vegas vacation. At the top of the episode, as usual, we look at recent royals news, including Kate’s latest sartorial choices, the Queen’s home renovations, and an amazing Daily Mail article about Harry and Meghan’s rosé romance.

Edward VII had an instinctive understanding of the human side of monarchy. Both at home and abroad, he sought to conciliate, and was known as Edward the Peacemaker. He helped to create the good feeling with France which prepared the way for the Entente Cordiale of 1904. At home he faced a constitutional crisis when the House of Lords rejected the budget in 1909. The crisis remained unresolved at Edward's death in 1910.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/king-edward-viiGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,900 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollege Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/greshamcollege