EP068: WHEN HUNGER WALKS THE LAND is live, investigating the visceral, human reality of the Irish Potato Famine.
💀 Biology of Starvation
⚖️ The Gregory Clause
🛶 The Empathy Gap
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EP067 Highlands & Hardship.
The Highland Potato Famine of 1846 was a structural crisis often hidden behind romanticised myths. We examine how Scotland teetered on the brink, but avoid true catastrophe.
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EP066 is out: THE PANDEMIC OF ROT. 🥔🦠
Forget the "Great Men" of history. In 1845, the real driver of change was a microscopic fungus.
We’re diving into the deep history, the Malthusian Trap, and the biological foundations of the Great Famine.
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How did one woman set Europe on fire and bring down a King? 💃🔥
Episode 065 is live! Join over 1,000 listeners this week as we kick off the 1840s series with the scandalous Lola Montez.
Perfect for your Monday commute: ageofvictoriapodcast.com/ep065-settin...
EP065: SETTING EUROPE ON FIRE is live! ⚔️
Meet Lola Montez, the "accidental bunch of dynamite" who sparked a royal scandal and helped ignite the 1848 revolutions. From Paris bohemia to the fall of a Bavarian King, the fire starts here. 🔥
Listen now: ageofvictoriapodcast.com/ep065-settin...
Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day
Today's fact is another C19th phrase used from the 1870s onwards.
Farthing-taster.
Meaning: The lowest quantity of the commonest ice cream sold by London's street vendors.
OUT NOW!!
EP064: LOLA TAKES THE STAGE
Scandal, reinvention & rebellion – Lola Montez lit up the Victorian stage & shook Europe.
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Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure.
It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.
That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.
Put water back into public hands, now.
🎉 New episode out now!
The Age of Victoria Podcast is 8yrs old! To celebrate, we’re taking a wild ride through history with Sir Harry Flashman — rogue, liar, coward… accidental legend. It's A Flashy Celebration — part satire, part serious history.
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THIS IS MY EPISODE ON THE NEW POPE RECORDED JUST PRIOR TO HIS BECOMING A CARDINAL IN 2023. ENJOY!
🎧 New Episode: EP063 – Are We Nearly There Yet?
Set sail for 1840s India—not to fight, but to live. From seasick voyages to settling in Calcutta or Madras. Long trips, complex identities, & quiet routines that built an empire.
🎙️ Listen now: ageofvictoriapodcast.com/ep063-are-we...
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Join us on a journey through the Victorian era with @drmaureenwright.bsky.social as we explore the life of Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy. Discover the roots of women's suffrage and the fierce battles fought for equality. #WomensRights
Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2bcfdd
#History #Podcast
New blogpost!
Lucy McCormick writes about emotion and space in the mid-Victorian Women's Suffrage Movement. She explores how anti-suffragists weaponised emotion in relation to politicised spaces, and how suffragists renegotiated these links.
Read here: womenshistorynetwork.org/emotion-and-...
Hezekiah Moscow was born in the Caribbean. As a teenage cabin boy, he travelled the world. At 19 he got to London and stayed for 10 years, becoming a boxer, bear and lion tamer, a music hall performer known as Ching Hook or Ghook, and a husband and father:
grapplingwithhistory.com/2019/05/07/w...
Daniel Mays as William Caddell Lewis. He's a white man with mutton chops, a patterned waistcoat and bowler hat, throwing his arms back in welcome in a boxing ring.
Punch Lewis (Bill) was born in Norwich ~1844. A boxer & publican, in '82 he opened the Blue Coat Boy boxing saloon on the 'worst street in London'. He kept two black bulldogs. Punch died in '83 from heart disease, financially ruined. The boxing fraternity supported his wife, Annie 🥊 #AThousandBlows
Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha #OnThisDay in 1840. The bride helped to design the simple white silk dresses, trimmed with sprays of white roses, worn by her twelve aristocratic bridesmaids. Watercolour in the Royal Collection Trust collection #wedding #fashionhistory
Experience the serenity as the sun sets over the misty city and moored boats ~ John Atkinson Grimshaw, Nightfall on the Thames (1880) Leeds Art Gallery
Done 👍
Imagine if we spent less time on war and profit, and appreciated the wonders of this incredible world more 😀
Imagine if we spent less time on war and profit, and appreciated the wonders of this incredible world more 😀
In case you missed it, the latest action packed episode is out now. #history #podcast #victorian
So we put Darwinism's Generations academic.oup.com/book/58805 to the 'page 99' test. Turns out that it works pretty well!
🚨 New Episode: EP061 Don’t Carry On Up the Khyber 🚨
The disastrous 1842 retreat from Kabul—freezing conditions, brutal ambushes, & one of the worst defeats in Victorian military history.
🎧 Listen now: ageofvictoriapodcast.com/ep061-dont-c...
If you're following me here, I'd like to think you might be interested in a three-part blog about a 6ft 2, 252lb, lady wrestler, born in the 1880s. A music hall sensation in 1906. Not - sadly - a suffragist. But possibly, maybe, Mrs The Terrible Greek 🤼♀️
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Latest episode is nearly ready. How will General Elphinstone get the British army out of Afghanistan? I'm sure he had a cunning plan right? Right? #Victorian #history #afghanistan #militaryhistory
It’s moving day! Here we go. Frantic last minute packing, removal van will be here in an hour, and I’m waiting for the call to get the keys to my new place.
Hi, thanks! I’ve narrowed it down to a problem caused by my website update. It is proving tricky to fix. The shows still available via Apple and directly from the site. Weirdly Spotify UK is fine. Guess I need a web dev 🙂😳
