Iconography

Every day of the holiday season, there is probably someone in your neighborhood watching or reading some version of A Christmas Carol. If you think about it, that means we probably see early Victorian England as often as any other time period. What has kept the story so vital? And how did a young Charles Dickens engender so much empathy for such a miserable man?

This is a remastered 2nd edition of Iconography episode 3, with additional bonus content created in December 2021. To hear the original 1st edition, produced and published in December 2016, visit https://iconographypodcast.com/articles/ebenezer-scrooge-original-edition-s1!47ae0

The poppy is an elegant symbol of remembrance - for soldiers who died and for those who came back; but there's a lot of conflict behind the story of its creation - the war that inspired a poem, and the two women who fought to be the true Poppy Lady.

Many who cross London Bridge today wonder why the bridge to the east looks more like the London Bridge they imagined. In this episode, we look at the powerful, enduring image of London Bridge - a nursery rhyme, a medieval wonder of the world, a quirky Arizona tourist attraction, and of course, a definitive Fergie jam.