This week we're going back to 1930s England with the very silly Fackham Hall! Join us as we learn about wedding music, cousin marriage, domestic worker unions, and more!
Sources:
Kelly Massicot, "The History of the Wedding March," New Orleans Magazine, available at https://www.myneworleans.com/the-history-of-the-wedding-march/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fackham_Hall
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/fackham_hall/reviews/top-critics
https://spartacus-educational.com/Domestic_Workers_Union.htm
Laura Schwartz, "A Job Like Any Other? Feminist Responses and Challenges to Domestic Worker Organizing in Edwardian Britain," International Labor and Working-Class History 88 (2015): 30-48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43956663
Selina Todd, "Domestic Service and Class Relations in Britain 1900-1950," Past & Present 203 (2009): 181-204. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25580932
Anna Clark, "Domestic Servants and the Labour Movement, 1870s-1914" in Labour United and Divided from the 1830s to the Present edited by Emmanuelle Avril and Yann Beliard (Manchester University Press, 2018). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv18b5dxr.12
SMITH MT. ESTIMATES OF COUSIN MARRIAGE AND MEAN INBREEDING IN THE UNITEDKINGDOM FROM 'BIRTH BRIEFS.' Journal of Biosocial Science. 2001;33(1):55-66. doi:10.1017/S0021932001000554
Dominic Wilkinson, "Banning first cousin marriage would be eugenic and ineffective," Practical Ethics, available at https://blog.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/2025/03/banning-first-cousin-marriage-would-be-eugenic-and-ineffective/
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3907
Amy Cole and Emb Hashmi, "Couple defend first-cousin marriages amid ban call," BBC, available at https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g38l07895o
