All the Year Round

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-y...

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 part...

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...

For 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://...

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.c...

This 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 be...

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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/ We do like to be beside the seaside – but how did the seaside change throughout the nineteenth century? What exactly di...

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/ The Secret Language of Flowers! When did the art of sending bouquets of flowers, with hidden messages conveyed through...

WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ Dr Jacqueline Favaloro Twitter - https://twitter.com/j_frances14 Celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s birthday in style with Hayley, Emma, and Jacqueline by taking a new and more positive look at the r...

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/ We take a VERY deep dive into women's magazines of the nineteenth century to discover what motherhood ideals were prese...

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/ In this month's episodes we're looking at Mother's Day in the 19th century. We talk about its very long history, its ro...

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/ Welcome to our very first, full length episode! Today we're exploring What Women Want in that mixed space between the m...

An Introduction to Dr Hayley Flynn and Emma Probett's new podcast on the 19th century WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGHgHitsC1Y FIND US: Twitter.com/allyearroundpod and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod Hello, 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 publishi...