To call it a Gin Craze is to be grossly inaccurate; addiction to the spirit in Georgian London created an epidemic of devastating proportions, negatively affecting fertility, mortality, production, and infrastructure throughout the entire city in the 1700s.  In this episode, we explore how gin ascended to control an entire metropolis, and examine the solutions put forth by the government in its numerous attempts to restore health and production to the utterly ravaged city. Join us, as we look at the legacy of this epidemic, as well as the tragedies and innovations it inspired.

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Innocent children’s rhyme or Death Row ditty?

Take a virtual walking tour through seven sites mentioned in the song while learning some intriguing and, yeah, macabre history.

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Image from From The Singing Game by Iona and Peter Opie. Accessed through Open Library, The Internet Archive.

When you think of Vogue magazine, what comes to mind? Colorful, shiny covers? Supermodels? Luxurious clothes and accessories? 

But, did you know that British Vogue was an important cog in the UK’s  defense machine during WWII? In the words of its legendary editor, Audrey Withers, “Here is Vogue, in spite of it all!” - and there was a lot to spite, indeed: nightly bombings, strict rations on all of life’s necessities, and constant destruction, fear, and loss. Yet Vogue persevered, becoming an important tool of government communication to women on the homefront, as well as a crucial instrument of war correspondence as it documented the horrors of German concentration camps, the first use of napalm as a weapon of chemical warfare, and the incredible violence of total warfare. 

From wartime fashion to revolutionary female war correspondent, Lee Miller, who dared to scrub off the horrors of WWII in Hitler’s bathtub, Vogue was most definitely there - in spite of it all.

More information about British Vogue, wartime fashion, Audrey Withers, Lee Miller, photos, and sources can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-nV0WjRrLWFET3ISuQQrxZUu-XE6EKWcsAtOOy2zzR8/edit

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Our music is from the album Astral Gate,  used with permission of the artists, Lucas Perny and Miroslav Kollar.  Audio mixing by DJ Kensington.

What’s more fun than daydreaming about what you would do if you won the lottery?

Yes, there would be the question of what you do with the money, but other questions arise. What would you do with newfound friends or suitors? How can you discern true relationships?

Angela Burdett-Coutts won a type of lottery in the form of an inheritance that made her “the richest heiress in all of England.” Her true story is stranger than fiction.

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Image from the Coutts philanthropic organization.

Have you ever wondered how you would react in a life and death situation?
What makes an everyday hero?
In this introductory episode, meet two of London's lesser-known heroes: bus driver Albert Gunter and doctor Joan Martin.
In very different circumstances, each  rose to a seemingly insurmountable challenge that lay quickly before them.
 
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Inquire, explore, and dig deeply as we dredge London's past to unearth the quirkier - and perhaps forgotten - aspects of the city's curious history.  Join us, Jen and Mares, as we celebrate the lesser known people, places, and events that have contributed to the brilliant and peculiar mosaic that is London.