Tag Archive For: Reformation

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 1: Windows

27, 9, 2016 - What could unexpectedly connect Henry VIII and the Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys to the .... Read More

Tags: Henry VIII, HMS Victory, iconoclasm, Jane Austen, Reformation, stained glass, Thirty Years War, vampires, warship, windows

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