Welcome back! In this episode, Noah Tetzner chats with Dr. John Laband about the famous battle of Rorke's Drift, during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, a battle which actually took place on this day 141 years ago!

Professor Laband is a historian of war and society in Africa and a retired professor from Wilfrid-Laurier University. He is an expert on the Anglo-Zulu War and has written several books about the conflict.

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Welcome back to Victoria's World with Noah Tetzner. In this episode, Noah chats with podcaster, editor, and teacher, Heidi White (managing editor of FORMA Journal and co-host of the Close Reads Podcast), about the very Victorian poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of the most important and popular literary figures of the Victorian era. They chat about the nature of his work, the way it reflects the era, and much more.

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Here in episode 3, Noah chats with Judith Flanders, a New York Times best-selling author and one of the foremost social historians of the Victorian Era. Together, they take a journey across Victorian London and look at it through the eyes of Charles Dickens, one of the most important figures of the era.

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In episode two, host Noah Tetzner chats with Professor Carol Reynolds about music in the Victorian era. They chat about theatrical partnerships, folk traditions, English Opera, and much more.

Dr Reynolds is an expert in the history of music and fine art. For more than 20 years, Carol was associate professor of music history at the Meadow School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas.

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Welcome to the debut episode of Victoria's World, a podcast about life and death in the age of Queen Victoria. Here in episode one, host Noah Tetzner chats with Sarah Chrisman about what everyday life was like during the age. Sarah Chrisman is author of This Victorian Life: Modern Adventures in Nineteenth-Century Culture, Cooking, Fashion, and Technology and several other popular books on the Victorian Era.

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