Episodes
Monday Jan 27, 2014
Robbie Rudge: Royalists in Defeat
Monday Jan 27, 2014
Monday Jan 27, 2014
How did Royalists cope following the defeat of their cause in the British Civil War? What made it into their letters, diaries and scrapbooks? And how did they prevent their letters from giving the recipients smallpox? Plus forged passports, suspiciously tired horses, and why a good camera can be a historian's best friend.
Robbie Rudge is a PhD student in History at the University of Nottingham. For more on his topic visit the 1066 blog.
Saturday Jan 11, 2014
Ben Wilcock: Luxury Goods in England's Pre-Industrial North West
Saturday Jan 11, 2014
Saturday Jan 11, 2014
Why can't Liverpool and Manchester be friends? Why were 18th-century adverts so long? How is Ben staying sane as he writes up his thesis? All this and more in our pilot episode!
Ben Wilcock is in his writing-up year at the University of Manchester, working on the thesis, "The Supply and Demand of High-End Consumer Goods in the North West, c.1720-1785". His other goal for 2014 is to double his twitter following.
For more on his topic visit the 1066 blog.
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