<p>This episode looks at how 16th-century education prepared students for the world of work. Discover what Nashe's generation learned at school and university, about the kind of careers they were promised, and what happened when they graduated from university in the 1580s-90s. With guests Colin Burrow, Jennifer Richards, Oscar Haines. Transcript: <a href='https://tinyurl.com/mwjr4uj7'>https://tinyurl.com/mwjr4uj7</a> </p>

This episode looks at how 16th-century education prepared students for the world of work. Discover what Nashe's generation learned at school and university, about the kind of careers they were promised, and what happened when they graduated from university in the 1580s-90s. With guests Colin Burrow, Jennifer Richards, Oscar Haines. Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/mwjr4uj7

<p>This episode looks at how 16th-century education prepared students for the world of work. Discover what Nashe's generation learned at school and university, about the kind of careers they were promised, and what happened when they graduated from university in the 1580s-90s. With guests Colin Burrow, Jennifer Richards, Oscar Haines. Transcript: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/mwjr4uj7" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://tinyurl.com/mwjr4uj7</a>&nbsp;</p>

Episode 1: The Underside of a Humanist Education

There’s a fairy-tale version of the Elizabethan era: a golden age of long-awaited prosperity, of palaces and pageants, of sea-faring exploration - all of it presided over by a spectacular queen governing alongside wise counsellors. There’s a lot this story misses out. Elizabethan England was also an anxious, paranoid place; its last full decade, the 1590s, saw increasing food prices, plague, and profiteering by the wealthy. One writer in particular explored what it felt like to be living on the edge. Thomas Nashe isn’t a household name today, but he wrote and published throughout the turbulent 1590s. In these podcasts, we explore the writings of Nashe and his contemporaries to open up the precarious world in which they lived.

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Episode 1: The Underside of a Humanist Education

Episode 1: The Underside of a Humanist Education