Podcasts by A Students Progress - The Eighteenth-Century Podcast
Two PhD students chat about how weird, interesting, and enduring the 18th century has been.
There's literature, laughs, and trivia.
Further podcasts by David Hou
Podcast on the topic Geschichte
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Episode 8 - Leisure time in the Eighteenth Century from 2021-04-24T04:56:28
What did people do for fun in the 18th century? How did they interact with their friends and peers? We're still not quite sure, but we do talk broadly about leisure time in the 18th century.
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Episode 7 - Traveling in the Eighteenth Century from 2021-02-12T23:54:59
Continuing after a long break and figuring out how to get around distanced recording, we talk broadly about traveling in 18th century literature and reality.
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Episode 6 - Health and Hygiene in the Eighteenth Century from 2020-07-16T17:09:58
We rag on the general state of health and hygiene as it would have been in the 18th century, and its presentation in texts from the time.
Also contains minor discussion on the movie T...
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Episode 5 - Erotic Art in the Eighteenth Century from 2020-04-04T21:00:42
We invite special guest Sarah Carter from McGill University to talk about her research in eighteenth-century erotic art, erotic media in general, and how distinctly not...
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Episode 4 - Religion and Secularism in the Eighteenth Century from 2020-03-20T00:24:12
We have special guest Dr. Andrew McKendry from Nord University to talk about religion and secularity in the long eighteenth century, and how much of our modern conceptions of these two poles ste...
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Episode 3 - The Death of the Devil (in the 18th Century) from 2020-01-01T02:39:56
We get special guest Dr. Mira Zaman to talk with us about the Devil in his many incarnations in pop culture, both contemporary and historical. Including the supposed death of the devil in the 18...
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Episode 2 - Conferences, Theatre, and Pepys' Scandals from 2019-11-30T07:59:03
Wherein we chat about a big conference, theatre research, and how Samuel Pepys pleasured himself in church.
Music from Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 45 in F# minor "Farewe...
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Episode 1 - Coffeehouse Culture from 2019-10-17T16:49:22
Two PhD students chat about the beginnings of coffeehouses in the West, specifically in England, and how that changed us as a society and the course of world history.
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