There is nothing new under the sun, says Ecclesiastes, and when it comes to social media Tom Standage has set out to prove the saying right. His day job is as a journalist and the digital editor at The Economist. But he’s also the author of a book called The Victorian Internet. And he’s got another in the pipeline called Cicero’s Web. I began by asking him about a technology which totally transformed Australian life in the Victorian era - the telegraph wire.
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Interview: Tom Standage
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The Victorians: Gender and Sexuality
‘Victorian’ came in the twentieth century to stand for sexual repression and social convention. Personal life was governed by complex and rigid rules of behaviour. Like other aspects of Victorian culture this began to break down in the fin-de-siécle. Yet recent research, discussed in this lecture, has undermined this rather simplistic picture and begun to explore some of the contradictions and complexities of Victorian attitudes to marriage and sexuality. The place of women in Victorian culture was by no means as passive or subordinate as conventional images of the era suggest.
This lecture by Professor Richard J Evans, FBA is part of the series The Victorians: Culture and Experience in Britain, Europe and the World 1815-1914
More info: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-victorians-gender-and-sexuality
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The Life Of Edward Gorey, Told By An Old Friend
Gorey died in 2000 at the age of 75. Not long after, a slim paperback called The Strange Case of Edward Gorey was published. It was written by Alexander Theroux, one of Gorey’s close friends — he had few. Recently, Theroux went back to the now-out-of-print original monograph to rewrite, expand and redesign it. It’s just been published in hardcover, and Theroux spoke to Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen about his peculiar longtime friend.
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/20/133869853/the-life-of-edward-gorey-told-by-an-old-friend
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Mondo Diablo Episode 287: This Podcast Shall be the Finest Podcast in the Whole of London This Christmas!
This show is a treat, I tell you, a treat, because not only do you get Alastar Sim as Scrooge, you get ME informing you of Important Education Things. And nothing says "Christmas" like Lectures.
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Mondo Diablo Episode 286: This Christmas has Been Brought to You by Child Labor
This week, the Krampus and his workers, Knecht Ruprecht, Krampus, Hans Trapp, Zwarte Piet, Klaubauf, Muff, Butz, Pere Fouettard and Belsnickel, bring you the last in the series of Worst Jobs podcasts. This time it’s children making dolls for children, gos-herding and turkey dressing. As in, yanking the guts out of hundreds or maybe thousands of fresh turkeys, by hand, in time for Christmas.
But my own day of judgment is at hand (did you know that the Visit from Saint Nicholas could be considered a mini "day of judgment" for children? It’s true)! I will be presenting, tomorrow night, a small amount of information about Christmas political history, characters and pagan traditions that have come all the way to us. We will also have a nice atheist Christmas party. Now THAT’S how freethinkers have a Christmas party. With a lecture. Luckily, I have pictures.
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CNN News Anchor Rick Sanchez Plays ‘Not My Job’
CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez was tweeting before Twitter was cool. Wait, it’s still not cool … but no matter. Because he’s such an expert in new social media, we’ve asked him to play a game called "Queen Victoria could have tweeted, but chose not to." Three questions about old social media — namely, the telegraph — inspired by the book The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage.
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Peter Bazalgette, great great Grandson of Sir Joseph Bazalgette on the story of his ancestor’s proposal for a sewage system for London.
London Without…Bazalgette is a guided trail that celebrates one of London’s most important if not fragrant inventions, the sewage system invented by Victorian Engineer Joseph Bazalgette. With an I-Phone app, scratch n’ sniff cards and a special podcast, London Without… Bazalgette is intended to give the participant a visceral experience of life both before and after Bazalgette’s brilliant solution to London’s sewage problems. The trail takes in hidden parts of the Embankment, the remarkable Crossness Pumping Station and the Broad Street pump memorial. During the Story of London Festival, the walks will be available on each weekend (2nd/3rd & 9th/10th of October) at 9am, 1pm and 5pm respectively. The PDF trail is available for download here, along with the I-Phone app and accompanying podcast.
http://www.london.gov.uk/priorities/art-culture/storyoflondon/events/london-without-bazalgette
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Adam Curtis on ‘Is Facebook the New TV?’
One of six Adam Curtis interviews with The Register at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/23/beeb_week_adam_curtis_2/