S3 Ep5: Strawberries, Mermaids and Revenge
Are women good at poetry? Can they even write it? These were probably serious questions people in the past were asking. In today’s episode we have an answer that is a loud and clear “YES”, as we read ...
30 Apr 28min
S3 Ep4: Filthy Matters. A Renaissance Guide to Good Manners
We might imagine Renaissance Italy as a place of innovation and art, but the day to day reality was plagued by disgusting behaviors. Today we're reading a surprisingly foul 16th century manual on bein...
16 Apr 28min
S3 Ep3: Jane Austen's Situationship
Tom Lefroy is often pictured as Jane Austen’s true love that forever ruined her views on marriage. But do her own writings suggest it was mostly... well, a situationship? Find out in today’s episode! ...
2 Apr 33min
S3 Ep2: Eaten Away - Observations on The Venereal Disease, 1686
Rotting flesh, deformed bones, disappearing noses... Old medicine didn’t have much to offer for those suffering from the most horrific diseases - like syphilis - but some attempted ailing the sick. In...
19 Mar 26min
S3 Ep1: How To Be a Victorian Servant
From never-ending list of tasks and duties to possibly being mistreated, domestic service in the Victorian era sounds like absolute hell. And yet, for many women, it was a dream job. Today we’re readi...
6 Mar 36min
S2 Ep20: Women War Workers
Working nights? Working from home? Lunch breaks? These were some of the very modern-sounding questions working women were asking during WW1. In today's episode we're talking women's labour and reading...
11 Des 202525min
S2 Ep19: Victorian Ballroom Etiquette
Gloves or no gloves? How did you get introduced to eligible gentleman? Could he buy you a drink? Today we're reading “Routledge’s Ballroom Companion” from 1866. ________________ If you enjoy the podc...
27 Nov 202525min
S2 Ep18: How To Avoid Consumption
It's winter season in 1839 and you're trying to survive. What would be your reading of choice? Probably "How To Prevent Consumption", with bleakly useless advice and wild theories.
13 Nov 202531min
