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Sarah Hodgson, a radical type, with Helen Williams
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
"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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