Age Of Victoria Podcast

Prison is never nice, but the Victorian prison of Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land combined starvation, deprivation, desperation, and isolation. It was considered a hell on Earth. This episode covers: Intro & reviews. Guest podcast promo’s A vision of a better future. Reality check – isolation and mental health Narrowly avoiding prison The problems […] The post EP037 INSIDE THE GATES OF HELL appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

To celebrate the 4th anniversary, the episode will be all about Lovelace and Babbage; the true inventors of the computer age. The episode covers Intro & reviews. “There must be an easier way to do this” – why being lazy can change the world What were these engines? Ada Lovelace, a life in Technicolour Ada’s […] The post 4TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL – LOVELACE AND BABBAGE appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

At its heart, a prison is the people. But what kind of people ended up in the hellish Port Arthur Prison in Van Diemen’s Land? Was it really just for the worst of the worst? Or was it a machine that simple chewed people up indiscriminately. How can we begin to understand it. Join me […] The post EP036 MEET THE PRISONERS appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

How does it feel to be cast out? To lose everything you’ve ever known and be sent to the ends of the world? Want to understand what being a convict transported to Tasmania feels like? This show is for you. It covers; – Intro & reviews. – Introducing Hannah to the Court. – How did […] The post EP035 THE UNFORTUNATE HANNAH HERBERT appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

Clothes maketh the man; but how did a gent dress in the 1840s? This episode features; Intro & podcast update. Clothing, class, and mindset. Beauty standards. Aspirational dressing. Wasn’t it cold! Men getting dressed in 1840. Underwear. Shaving – a risky business. Shirts & sewing. Trousers. Waistcoats. A riot of colour & overcoats. Men get […] The post MINI0019 Men Getting Dressed 1840’s style appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

Merry Christmas everyone. What a year, so lets round it off in comfort. This special episode features. Thank you’s. Quick chat about Victorian Christmas Cards Introducing Mrs Beeton, and the standardisation of recipes. Why running a household really was difficult. A valet or a butler? Hints of gender conflicts and […] The post AOV CHRISTMAS SPECIAL 2020 appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

The journey into Empire continues as we look at Tasmania, known as Van Diemen’s Land. Here the European settlers, the indigenous people, the convict system, the bush rangers, the lure of food, the battle for land, resulted in war, conquest and genocide. The birth pang of a new world was […] The post EP034 HOW TO BUILD HELL appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

The journey into Empire continues as we look more closely at the Australia’s, and the difficult issues of landownership, native rights, and how land can tie to identity. I also cover the culture clash between the Europeans and the Indigenous Peoples. This is part 2, which covers more of the […] The post EP033 (PT2) WHO OWNS THE LAND? appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

The journey into Empire continues as we look more closely at the Australia’s, and the difficult issues of landownership, native rights, and how land can tie to identity. I also cover the culture clash between the Europeans and the indigenous aborigines. This episode then breaks and in part 2, it […] The post EP033 (PT1) WHO OWNS THE LAND? appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

To understand the past, sometimes we need to examine our values and subject them to philosophical analysis. The British Empire was a complex, varied entity that stretched across the world and changed over the centuries. How do we understand the mindset of those people in the C19th who created it, […] The post EP032 PHILOSOPHY OF EMPIRE – THE VALUE OF LIFE? appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

How does the Queen of Kingdom and ruler of the Empire choose a husband? This is not a choice to get wrong, so Victoria was under pressure. Was Albert the Romantic Prince and perfect companion of her dreams? Learn about the Prince, his childhood, his music, & his journey from […] The post EP031 VICTORIA & ALBERT – A ROMANTIC PRINCE & A WEDDING appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

How was Victoria coping with being Queen? She was intelligent, stubborn, cultured, but sometimes misguided and blinkered. Worse, the nation itself seemed fractured, bitter, and in danger of collapse. Her first two years as monarch showed the need for her to have a partner. Someone who could share the load, […] The post EP030 QUEEN VICTORIA’S NO GOOD, VERY BAD YEAR appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

EP030 3rd Anniversary Special: Victoria & Albert -a Royal and a Romantic. The podcast is 3 years old, so time for Victoria and Albert to become a couple. One of histories famous romances and two names that almost define the age. Yet it was a strange road that brought them […] The post 3RD ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL VICTORIA & ALBERT – A ROYAL, AND A ROMANTIC appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

EP029 “The Court of King Cholera – the great Victorian plague” explores one of the most famous pandemics in history. There was horror, death, and a little hope. Many bad decisions, anger and mistrust, but also groundbreaking science. When disease strikes it is easy to think humanity is levelled and […] The post EP029 THE COURT OF KING CHOLERA – THE GREAT VICTORIAN PLAGUE appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

MINISODE 018 RAILWAY TIME is here to take a light hearted look at the social etiquette of train travel, and the small matter of how the trains revolutionised time. This show covers Reviews and thank you’s Railways; is this a polite way to travel? “I say, have we met?” The […] The post MINI018 RAILWAY TIME appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

EP028 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? RAILWAY MANIA AND SOCIAL CHANGES is here to count the cost of progress. As railways make men staggeringly rich, people start to fly too close to the sun and get their wings singed. Or fall prey to predators, like George Hudson, the Railway […] The post EP028 BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME? RAILWAY MANIA AND SOCIAL CHANGES appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

Railways were one of the great achievements of the Victorian Era, but they are complicated and hard to build. This show covers the process and the people involved in building these incredible pieces of engineering. Pt 2 of this episode covers; The navigators; hard work for hard men. Drink hard, […] The post EP027 Pt2 “made it run” appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

Railway building was a great achievement of the Victorian Age, but railways are complicated and hard to build. This show covers the process and the people involved in building these incredible pieces of engineering. Pt 1 of this episode covers; The kinds of labourer & builders. Surveying and risks to […] The post EP027 Pt1 “Once I built a railroad” appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

The railway is here. What a change Britain was about to see! A herald of a new age, and new way of life. Something new in human history. This episode covers; The English landscape and the train 1820-1840. Early trains & popular . Economic impacts. Canal and coach monopolies. Slum clearance & Agar Town. A […] The post EP026 The railway is coming! appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.

Bonus episode of The Age of Victoria & The Siècle! Learn about the differences between how France and Britain experienced the years after Waterloo in a conversation between your host Chris Fernandez-Packham and David Montgomery, host of the Siecle Podcast. We chat about the state of Britain and France after the battle of Waterloo, to […] The post BONUS CHAT WITH THE SIECLE PODCAST – BRITAIN AND FRANCE AFTER WATERLOO appeared first on AGE OF VICTORIA PODCAST.