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Episode 60: Our Books

6, 4, 2018 - “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” (Winston Churchill) Welcome to .... Read More

Tags: gender, Henry VIII, letter, letter-writing, letters, maritime history, Mary queen of scots, materiality, Our Books, politics, power, Tudor England, US War of Independence

Episode 58: Codes

7, 11, 2017 - “Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech .... Read More

Tags: Anthony Babington, Babington Plot, black chamber, break cipher, Cardinal Richelieu, Casket Letters, cipher, code, cryptography, cryptography manuals, execution, invisible ink, lemon juice, Louis XIV, Mary queen of scots, Nazi Germany, orange juice, polysyllabic system, secrets, Sir Francis Walsingham, system, the enigma machine, Thomas Phelippes, Versailles, WWII

Episode 4: Gloves

11, 10, 2016 - The gloves are off as the general of generations, Professor James Daybell, and the seadog of .... Read More

Tags: AHRC Gender Power and Materiality, Baseball, gifts, Holy Roman Empire, leather, Mary queen of scots, Masculinity, Murder, Paring knife, Poison, Relics, Sex, Shakespeare, status, Worshipful Company of Glovers

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