What did people do for fun in the 18th century? How did they interact with their friends and peers? We're still not quite sure, but we do talk broadly about leisure time in the 18th century.

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

Continuing after a long break and figuring out how to get around distanced recording, we talk broadly about traveling in 18th century literature and reality.

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

We rag on the general state of health and hygiene as it would have been in the 18th century, and its presentation in texts from the time.

Also contains minor discussion on the movie The Favourite.

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

We invite special guest Sarah Carter from McGill University to talk about her research in eighteenth-century erotic art, erotic media in general, and how distinctly not prudish the Enlightenment was!

Featuring discussion about GS Rousseau's Perilous Enlightenment (1991) and Camilla Smith's "Between Fantasy and Angst: Assessing the Subject and Meaning of Henry Fuseli’s Late Pornographic Drawings, 1800–25" (2010)

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

We have special guest Dr. Andrew McKendry from Nord University to talk about religion and secularity in the long eighteenth century, and how much of our modern conceptions of these two poles stem from this era.

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

We get special guest Dr. Mira Zaman to talk with us about the Devil in his many incarnations in pop culture, both contemporary and historical. Including the supposed death of the devil in the 18th century. *Spoilers, reports of his demise have been greatly exaggerated!

**Contains spoilers for The Witch (2015)**

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

Wherein we chat about a big conference, theatre research, and how Samuel Pepys pleasured himself in church.

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)

Two PhD students chat about the beginnings of coffeehouses in the West, specifically in England, and how that changed us as a society and the course of world history.

Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewell" (1772)