S3 Ep8: “Slept All Day”. A Victorian Teacher’s Diaries
What was a typical day like for a teacher in a small town in 1890s Illinois? Today we’re reading diaries of Emma Wormwood and reflecting on the lifestyle, duties and leisure a woman faced in a 19th ce...
11 Juni 32min
S3 Ep7: The 17th Century Relationship Advice Column
What if I told you first popular advice column was published in the 1690s? “The Athenian Mercury” followed a Q&A format, which dealt with issues from the fields of philosophy, physics, religion, and i...
28 Maj 28min
S3 Ep6: How To Woo: Courting in The 1920s
Should a potential 1920s candidate for a wife be "untouched”? Not at all, let her use life! At least that was the opinion of Clement Wood, the author of today’s text - “The Art of Courtship” from 1926...
14 Maj 33min
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 Mars 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 Mars 36min
