An introduction to the world of fashion and the politics of the petticoat, seen through the poetry of the time.
Petticoats and fashion
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This podcast gives a glimpse into the social and cultural history of fashion in the eighteenth century by looking at the representation of petticoats.
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Ten short podcasts on quirky aspects of eighteenth-century life.
This series of short podcasts offers an alternative history of the eighteenth century. Ten poems were chosen that illustrate the everyday and the extraordinary, the comic and the serious aspects of the period. Each talk begins with a poem, and shows its significance: how a satire on the pleasures of tobacco tells us of the relationship between intoxication and inspiration, or how a poem on apple pie speaks of evolving...
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