Episodes 10
Avg. Duration 42m
Activity Declining
Since Nov 2022
Latest Episode Mar 2025

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"By separating into one biographicon this peculiar class of lives, a philanthropic emulation would be excited, a debt of social gratitude would be discharged, a trophy to patriotism would be erected, and an instructive knowledge of the present state of nations and the gradual concatenation of intercourse would be diffused. Literature should rear altars to the missionaries of human civilization." - [William Taylor of Norwich] The Monthly Review: or Literary Journal, 74 (1814).

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Sarah Hodgson, a radical type, with Helen Williams

Mar 16, 2025 34m

In this episode I am joined by Helen Williams, a specialist in eighteenth-century book history to find out about the Newcastle-born printer, newspaper editor and radical Sarah Hodgson.Dr Helen…

S1E8 The Cumberland Bard, with Sue Allan

Dec 01, 2024 49m

This episode features Dr Sue Allan, an expert on Cumbria’s folk tradition, talking about one of the most significant dialect poets of Georgian Northern England, Robert Anderson from Carlisle.A calico…

S1E7 Preach It! Rachel Hammersley on James Murray

Mar 21, 2024 49m

A major influence on the radical Thomas Spence, James Murray was a preacher who used the pulpit and print to promote new ideas. As well as publishing works on religious subjects, Murray was also a…

S1E6 William Newton and the North’s Rural Renaissance, with Richard Pears

Feb 12, 2024 40m

Richard Pears and I discuss William Newton, arguably northern England's first home-grown architect who was responsible for Newcastle’s Assembly Rooms and Charlotte Square the town’s first fashionable…

S1E5 William Shield: no Geordie Dick Whittington, with Amélie Addison

Sep 10, 2023 45m

William Shield was born in the village of Swalwell near Gateshead in County Durham. Through the help of his friend, the poet and actor John Cunningham, he became the leader of the Durham Theatre…

S1E4 The Ephemeral Tate Wilkinson, with Gillian Russell

Jul 28, 2023 44m

In All Saints Pavement Church in York City Centre, there is a marble plaque high on the wall, dedicated to one of the most famous provincial theatre managers of the eighteenth century: Tate…

S1E3 Mind your grammar! Barbara Crosbie on Anne Fisher

May 23, 2023 49m

In this episode, Barbara Crosbie and I talk about why modern English's first female grammarian, Anne Fisher, was such a trailblazer, and the work Barbara has done to revive interest in this…

S1E2 Joseph Ritson's Revolution, with Jon Mee

Feb 05, 2023 38m

Professor Jon Mee from the University of York joins me in this episode to talk about the cantankerous northern antiquarian Joseph Ritson, the man who is responsible for making Robin Hood a champion…

S1E1 Psychogeography & Thomas Spence, with Alastair Bonnett

Jan 05, 2023 34m

Be warned – you may risk arrest if you listen to this podcast!In this first episode of Biographicon, Professor Alastair Bonnett and I explore the mind of Thomas Spence – a thinker so dangerous he was…

S1E1 What is Biographicon?

Nov 22, 2022 11m Trailer

"By separating into one biographicon this peculiar class of lives, a philanthropic emulation would be excited, a debt of social gratitude would be discharged, a trophy to patriotism would be erected,…

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Biographicon has published 10 episodes since November 2022, covering topics in Arts, History.

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Biographicon is currently declining with new episodes quarterly. Average episode length is 42m.

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