The History Chicks – Queen Victoria Part Two
An alternative history podcast rundown of the second half of Victoria’s reign, if one isn’t enough.
2017
The Victorian Pharmacist
The follow-up to Victorian Farm seemed to be quite an obscure choice at first, but pharmacies turn out to offer more of a window onto Victorian life and society than even farms do, so there you go. Also, keeping Ruth Goodman on is a winning strategy. The Victorian Pharmacy [DVD]
America in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
A long-ish lecture series, quite good on overall political themes, but a bit lacking in a certain something – obviously I was most interested in popular culture, especially music, and it wasn’t really his area. As we will continue to see, finding worldwide perspectives seems to be difficult. The Great Courses – America in the …
Rex Factor – Victoria (Part 2 – 1861-1901)
A large part of this project involves immersing myself in the years I’m covering. Later on this will mean I’m able to include audio from films, radio, TV and eventually the internet. For now it means I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries and reading a fair few books. In order to fill some time …
Victorian Farm
A large part of this project involves immersing myself in the years I’m covering. Later on this will mean I’m able to include audio from films, radio, TV and eventually the internet. For now it means I’ve been watching a lot of documentaries and reading a fair few books. In order to fill some time …
1878-1885
https://centuriesofsound.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/1878-1885.mp3 MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS . Nearly two decades have passed, and Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s experiments with recording sound have so far not resulted in anything replayable. On the other side of the Atlantic, however, development are taking place which will eventually turn these …
Elsewhere in 1860
1859-1860Abraham Lincoln wins the presidential election, setting the scene for the outbreak of the American Civil War at the start of 1861 German chemist Albert Niemann makes a detailed analysis of the coca leaf, isolating and purifying the alkaloid which he calls cocaine. Japanese Chief Minister Ii Naosuke is assassinated by samurai outside the Sakurada …
1859-1860
The story you may have heard about the birth of sound recording goes something like this; Thomas Edison, alone in the lab after a hard day’s work, manages to record a recital of “Mary Had A Little Lamb” onto a wax cylinder. You may have even think you have heard the recording, but you haven’t. …
2016
2016 was, by all accounts, a bit of a rough year. In terms of music, though, it will probably be better-remembered. Tracklist 0:00:00 David Bowie – Lazarus 0:03:13 Ian William Craig – Contain (Astoria Version) 0:04:26 Buz Ludzha – Basslines For Life 0:06:32 Nadia Rose – Skwod 0:09:13 Yussef Kamaal – Strings of Light 0:11:55 …