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All the Year RoundVictorian New Year: Resolutions, Games and ‘Party Food’Happy New Year! In this episode we talk about Victorian New Year traditions and think about the way resolutions were made (or not) then and now. We also set out our own exciting resolutions for All the Year Round in the year to come.WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/
2024-02-1039 min
All the Year RoundVictorian Christmas in the Periodicals: Popular Gifts, Party Games and Ghosts!It's Christmas! As many are searching for the latest gadgets to give as gifts, or wondering which party games might go down well after Christmas dinner, we look at how the Victorians answered those festive dilemmas. We also explore what the Victorians were reading at Christmas in periodicals like All the Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens. [Warning: we would not suggest trying all of these party games at home!] A huge thank you to all of our viewers and listeners in 2023. We wish you all a very merry Christmas! Here is a little victorian gift from...
2023-12-2240 min
All the Year RoundDastardly Doubles: Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson!In this episode we delve into the dark world of the double brain and to celebrate the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, we do it by looking at The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! Is it worth releasing your ‘bad’ side? Victorian science suggests not! WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/
2023-11-3034 min
All the Year RoundVictorian Halloween: Disturbing DreamsFor Halloween we delve into the weird world of Victorian dreams. Join us as we talk about experiments, spirits and prophecies, as well as attempting some genuine Victorian dream interpretation! WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/
2023-10-3148 minAll the Year RoundElizabeth Gaskell's Birthday: Road Trip to Gaskell's House!In honour of Elizabeth Gaskell's birthday, this month we paid a visit to her house in Manchester. Lovingly restored with authentic Victorian furniture, the house transports you back in time to really get a feel for the environment in which Gaskell wrote the books which are still so loved today. Join us for Victorian secrets, Dickens drama and fun facts about cute cats!Home elizabethgaskellhouse.co.ukAccessibility - www.elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/visit/accessibility/Please note: trigger warning for infant deathWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism...
2023-09-291h 15
All the Year RoundHot weather, Heatwaves and Corsets: what to wear in a Victorian summerThis month we had the honour of visiting the Symington collection of corsets at an archive in Barrow-upon-Soar. Sarah Nichol was kind enough to chat to us about the kinds of corsets Victorian women wore to keep cool while on holiday, or while undertaking their daily summer activities! So how comfortable were corsets?Does the archival evidence back up the claims of the day?And what’s the story behind this huge Victorian factory in a market town of Leicestershire? We would like to extend a huge thank you to Sarah Nichol. You can find out more about her wo...
2023-08-311h 06
All the Year Round8 Hours of Elliot: A George Eliot Road Trip - All The Year RoundWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/Join us as we explore Eliot country in our very first road trip episode on All the Year Round! We get a very special George Eliot house tour, hear about the potential upcoming renovations to Eliot's Victorian home and visit a museum disguised as a Victorian house!
2023-07-3139 min
All the Year RoundVictorian Seaside - All The Year RoundWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ We do like to be beside the seaside – but how did the seaside change throughout the nineteenth century? What exactly did people like (and dislike) about it’s changing face, and how much of the nineteenth-century seaside is still visible today? Join us as we explore the nineteenth-century seaside, from donkeys to dippers and fairgrounds to fossil hunters! KEY SOURCES:Delgado, Alan...
2023-06-2834 min
All the Year RoundThe Secret Language of Flowers - All The Year RoundWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US:https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/The Secret Language of Flowers! When did the art of sending bouquets of flowers, with hidden messages conveyed through each symbolic bloom become so popular? Did people really send messages to each other through flowers? How did men and women of the Victorian era use flowers as symbols in their daily lives...
2023-05-3140 min
All the Year RoundCharlotte Brontë and Fairyland feat. Dr Jacqueline Favaloro - All The Year RoundWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pmFIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ Dr Jacqueline Favaloro Twitter - https://twitter.com/j_frances14Celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s birthday in style with Hayley, Emma, and Jacqueline by taking a new and more positive look at the role of fairy and fairyland in Charlotte Brontë’s fiction and her own life!
2023-04-2139 min
All the Year RoundMother's Day: Victorian Magazine's Top Tips - All The Year RoundWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/We take a VERY deep dive into women's magazines of the nineteenth century to discover what motherhood ideals were presented in short stories, verbose poems, and cautionary tales! And what top tips magazines gave out to women and mothers on how to behave, how to chastise children, how to manage the household, and all...
2023-03-1935 min
All the Year RoundHistory of Mother's Day - All The Year RoundWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/In this month's episodes we're looking at Mother's Day in the 19th century. We talk about its very long history, its roots with Mother Church, what role mother's had in society, and our favourite mothers in Victorian literature! And best of all - this is only part one! This month, Hayley and I were...
2023-03-1847 min
All the Year RoundAll The Year Round - Mother's Day in the Nineteenth Century In this Mother's Day episode we look at what Mother's Day meant in the past and how it was celebrated. We also reveal our favourite Victorian literary mothers!Socials Twitter - twitter.com/allyearroundpod Instagram - instagram.com/allyearroundpod
2023-03-1747 min
All the Year RoundWhat Women Want: Happy Galentines Day! - All The Year RoundWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianismLISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/Welcome to our very first, full length episode! Today we're exploring What Women Want in that mixed space between the modern phenomenon of Galantines' Day and Valentine's Day. Uploaded on February 13, Galantine's Day, we wanted to celebrate women, women's writing, and talk about all the dreams and desires that women have in literature of...
2023-02-131h 16
All the Year RoundAn Introduction to All The Year RoundAn Introduction to Dr Hayley Flynn and Emma Probett's new podcast on the 19th centuryWATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGHgHitsC1YFIND US: Twitter.com/allyearroundpod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpodHello, and welcome to All the Year Round! We're a new podcast on 19th century British and Irish literature and culture, and we wanted to introduce ourselves! We will be publishing one main episode every month to take you through the seasons. We have an exciting line up including: magazine advice in women's magazines on how to...
2023-02-1203 min