Episodes 30
Avg. Duration 1h 20m
Activity Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (19)
Since Sep 2024
Latest Episode May 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
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Episodic
Consistency
72%
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About This Podcast

Brought to you by Mandylion®, 1-800-1800 is your guide to 19th-century history, art, literature, culture, and scandal. Each episode, we dial into a random year of the 1800s to gab about the chaos that shaped the modern world. Hosted by Madeline Porsella and Mabel Taylor, two Victorian Nightgown Girls and historians of art and design, 1-800-1800 delivers rigorous research with a healthy dose of gossip. So pick up the phone, the nineteenth century’s calling! More Mandylion®: mandylionpress.com mandylion.substack.com instagram.com/mandylionpress Music by Jeronimo Ezquerro Aguilar-Alvarez.

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Recent Episodes

1-800-1871 (feat. Sara Hinkley)

May 19, 2026 1h 13m

This week we are very excited to welcome the brilliant Sara Hinkley onto 1-800-1800 to discuss her forthcoming novel The Red Sacrament. Sara’s brilliant debut tells the story of a theater troupe of…

1-800-1841: London's Charivari

May 05, 2026 1h 19m

Madeline and Mabel discuss the founding of Punch Magazine, the most popular satirical magazine of the 19th century, and muse on its enduring influence. The girls also touch on a sensational…

1-800-The Princess Cassamissima

Apr 30, 2026 1m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comBook Club Alert !! This week the girls recap Henry James's The Princess Cassamissima, the story of a young man of…

1-800-1787: Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade

Apr 14, 2026 1h 14m

On this week’s episode, Madeline takes us back to her material culture roots to tell the story of the British abolition movement through one object, the Wedgwood “Slave Medallion.” Join us to learn…

1-800-The Gadfly

Mar 31, 2026 2m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comMandylion now has a book club at McNally Jackson called the Minor Works book club. Each month we read a forgotten…

1-800-1844: A telegraph and a train walk into a bar

Mar 10, 2026 1h 29m

What Hath God Wrought, indeed! This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel tells Madeline what a telegraph is. She starts in 1792 with the one and only Claude Chappe, a man so passionate about the optical…

1-800-1823: On the origin of an American religion

Mar 03, 2026 1h 3m

This week, Madeline and Mabel discuss the origins of Mormonism and how its founder, Joseph Smith, continues to influence the modern day iteration of the religion. Hypocrisy, hucksterism, hats, bad…

1-800-Wuthering Heights

Feb 17, 2026 58m

In this special episode of 1-800-1800, Madeline and Mabel discuss Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as well as Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The girls…

1-800-Death by Lightning

Feb 10, 2026 1m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comGood morning starshine! President James Garfield says hello!This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel and Madeline discuss the…

1-800-1852: The Princess Who Ate a Glass Piano

Feb 03, 2026 1h 16m

This week on 1-800-1800, Julia Carpenter, who writes the brilliant Substack “A Woman to Know,” joins us to discuss the Bavarian princess who was convinced that she had swallowed a glass piano. Our…

1-800-The Testament of Ann Lee

Jan 20, 2026 2m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comLast week, Mabel and Madeline braved a blizzard to go see The Testament of Ann Lee in theaters. In this episode,…

1-800-1832: The Great Wave

Jan 06, 2026 1h 14m

On the first episode of the new year, Mabel and Madeline consider the tortoise and discuss the sweatshirtification of Hokusai’s The Great Wave. We go deep on Prussian Blue, Japanese wood-block…

1-800-Frankenstein

Dec 16, 2025 2m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comThis week Madeline and Mabel read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and discuss Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation for…

1-800-1803: On Meat Beating & Batteries

Dec 02, 2025 1h 23m

This week on 1-800-1800, Madeline guides us through the horrifying world of early 19th century meat batteries and an experiment to raise a malefactor hanged at newgate prison from the dead. Listen…

1-800-Elsie Venner

Nov 18, 2025 3m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comThis week on 1-800-1800, Mabel and Madeline discuss their new book Elsie Venner with a VERY special guest: Mabel’s…

1-800-1882: Orlando and the Origin of Species

Nov 04, 2025 1h 28m

Today a man told me that pugs are “inherently naked” and now I can’t think about anything else for long enough to write an episode description. I hope you listen to the podcast anyway, it’s a doozy…

1-800-The Hill of Dreams

Oct 21, 2025 2m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comIn this special episode of 1-800-1800, the Mandylion girls discuss, debate, and fawn over their new book, The Hill…

1-800-1840: Everything you never wanted to know about queen victoria's wedding

Oct 07, 2025 1h 18m

This week’s episode goes out to our book designer Emily and her HUSBAND Jerónimo. They inspired this deep dive into the most important wedding of the 19th century: Victoria & Albert’s!!! We talk…

1-800-The Morgesons

Sep 23, 2025 4m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.comHey beautiful people! 1-800-1800 is back with this month’s bonus episode featuring THE MORGESONS!! Herein we…

1-800-1865: But it's not about the civil war

Sep 09, 2025 1h 43m

1-800-1800 is back baby. This month Mabel and Madeline talk about everything in 1865 except for the death of Abraham Lincoln. That means we’re talking refrigerated fish. We’re talking the audacity of…

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