Lithium Jubilee

There's nothing we here at Lithium Jubilee love more than a good mania and, thankfully, the Victorians were all about obsession! This week Jon and Erin dig up and brush off some of Egyptomania's oddes...

5 Sep 20171h 6min

Whether it's an astronomical wonder or an infamous hate group, some events will repeat ad nauseam, even during the Victorian era. Episode 6 focuses on that sense of de ja NEWS (get it?!). Jon will tak...

29 Aug 20171h 13min

Ahoy! It's Episode 5 and you can not call us Ishmael. You can instead call us Lithium Jubilee and listen to us get waist deep in the multitude of uses for a dead whale! As promised on an earlier episo...

22 Aug 20171h 2min

While the styles and devices used to enjoy entertainment may constantly change, our unhealthy obsessions with entertainers never waver. Lithium Jubilee didn't need to look behind the curtain, all the ...

15 Aug 20171h 4min

We've reached the third episode, it's time to get gritty! We're celebrating heroes (heroines, rather) and villains of the criminal underbelly of Victorian society. Jon brings us the eerily modern tale...

8 Aug 20171h 6min

Lithium Jubilee's second episode is celebrating Summer! Erin describes one of the most cumbersome aspects of a day at the beach for a refined Victorian lady and Jon takes you on a trip (the first of m...

1 Aug 201750min

For our premiere episode, we look at some of the Victorian era's inventions from irrelevant to downright dangerous! Jon talks about the phonautograph, the earliest known sound recording device, while ...

25 Jul 20171h 6min