Episodes
Wednesday Mar 26, 2014
Daniel O'Neill: Cigarette Advertising
Wednesday Mar 26, 2014
Wednesday Mar 26, 2014
In this episode, University of Nottingham PhD student Daniel O'Neill explains the developments in cigarette advertising as public knowledge of the dangers increased, as well as giving an insight into his intrepid exploration of the John Player & Sons archive.
Warning: contains bad poetry.
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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