Tag Archive For: children

HOMESICKNESS!

15, 6, 2023 - In this latest episode, the Unexpected duo, Professor James Daybell and Dr Sam Willis get .... Read More

Tags: children, history, letters

Episode 77: The Lean

20, 4, 2018 - “We sink, we swim, we rise, we fall. We meet our fate together.” (Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark .... Read More

Tags: buildings, children, Greenwich Pensioner's, Hollywood, James Dean, lean, Masculinity, Queen Anne, Reformation, shambles, status, swagger, York

Episode 75 – Childhood

18, 4, 2018 - “There comes a time in every rightly-constructed boys life when he has a raging desire to go .... Read More

Tags: accidents, brickbat, child, childhood, children, daughter, education, father, hornbook, John Dee, mother, parents, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, reading, Reformation, scars, son, upbringing

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 71: Hats

6, 4, 2018 - For this episode let us join the cat in the hat of history, Professor James Daybell, and the .... Read More

Tags: 17th century, Anthony Eden hat Beaver Beefeaters' hat Bicorne Boater, baldness, Beefeaters' hat, Bicorne hat, billycock, boxer, bun hat, chevaliers, children, Cocked hat, coke hat, copatain Caubeen – Irish hat Cavalier hat, copotain, Deerstalker, dunces hat, education, Fedora, Fez, Hanfu, Hats, headwear, Henry VIII, Homburg, hunting cap, Kolpik, Oliver Cromwell, Panama hat, Papakha, punishment, Sir Winston Churchill, Tudor court, Witch, witchcraft, witches

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