Tag Archive For: Charles Dickens

Episode 74: Pockets

18, 4, 2018 - ‘Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket’. (Lord .... Read More

Tags: cargo pants, Charles Dickens, children, crime, holes, jeans, Masculinity, military, Oliver Twist, pickpockets, pockets, purses, Reformation, Renaissance, Victoria and Albert Museum

Episode 61: Dust

6, 4, 2018 - ‘Pelvis et umbra sumus’ (We are but dust and shadow – Horace, The Odes (23BC)) Welcome .... Read More

Tags: book covers, Charles Dickens, cleaning, coal dust, disease, dry as dust, Dust, dust bowl, dust jacket, feather duster, Grapes of Wrath, housework, John Steinbeck, Karl Marx, lungs, microscope, miner's lung, paper industry, rag pickers, specks of dust, The National Trust, Victorian dust

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