40: A Bitter Pill

Greetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Questions or comments? Email me here.Helpful Links:National Archives: Powers of PersuasionPrivate Joe LouisMusic: Escaping Forever by Michael Vignola Propaganda for the Win Rory Roberts

Greetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Questions or comments? Email me here.Helpful Links:Dr. Margaret Crocco on Texas TextbooksPBS Documentary The RevisionariesAvenue Q (musical)Kate McGee for The Texas Tribune on HB 3979National Archives’ Rediscovering Black History BlogMe and White Supremacy by Layla F. SaadGood Ancestor PodcastNPR’s Code Switch Podcast - Episode mentioned today: Tulsa: 100 Years LaterThe 1619 ProjectNice White Parents PodcastRachel CargleAlly Henny We Need to Talk About Our Racist Past and Present Bluestocking

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Greetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking!Helpful Links:https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/11/12/illustrations-of-madness-james-tilly-matthews-and-the-air-loom/Follow this link to purchase Mike Jay’s fascinating book and support the Public Domain Review: https://www.amazon.com/Visionary-Madness-Matthews-Influencing-Machine/dp/1583947175?tag=thepubdomrev-20Music: "Relaxing Piano Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email [email protected].

Greetings, and thank you for listening to Bluestocking! Helpful Links:https://edwardcareyauthor.com/books/little/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/mar/12/featuresreviews.guardianreview8 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/232365/the-underground-railroad-by-colson-whitehead/9780345804327/ https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32614/32614-h/32614-h.htm Music: "Relaxing Piano Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email [email protected]. Anatomy of a Good Yarn Rory Roberts

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Thank you for listening to Bluestocking, the podcast for people who love to learn, but don’t always have time to study. This episode, I was inspired by a series of stories covering art history in seven colors, and reminded of a book from one of my favorite authors, Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore. Helpful Links:https://www.kellygrovier.com/ - poet and art critic Kelly Grovier. Check out his art history series for the BBC. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180312-the-racist-message-hidden-in-a-masterpiece - Kelly Grovier’s take on black.https://www.chrismoore.com/books/sacre-bleu/ - Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore. Follow the link on this page to read the first two chapters. Music for this episode:"Inner Light" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email them to me at [email protected]! Black and Bleu Rory Roberts

Greetings, and welcome to Bluestocking, the podcast for people who love to learn, but don’t always have time to study. Today we’re delving into the fascinating world of Victorian libraries.  Helpful Links:Reading Rooms Designed for Women: https://daily.jstor.org/the-reading-rooms-designed-to-protect-women-from-library-loafers/ Gender and Public Space in Victorian America: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1215236?mag=the-reading-rooms-designed-to-protect-women-from-library-loafers The Dangers Facing Victorian Librarians: https://daily.jstor.org/being-librarian-dangerous/ More information beyond the short article can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25542241?mag=being-librarian-dangerous&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Some Books Can Kill: https://daily.jstor.org/some-books-can-kill/ Documentary covering deadly everyday items of the Victorian age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nqq_nFkRcs Dr. Suzannah Lipscombe: http://suzannahlipscomb.com/ The Dollop Episode about Hat Pins and Mashers: https://thedollop.libsyn.com/213-mashers-and-hatpins Victorians and their Dangerous Libraries Rory Roberts

Thank you so much for listening to Bluestocking! This episode is short and maybe not sweet, but certainly poignant. There are some links below if you’re interested in learning more about today’s topic or how you can help some ‘strangers’ through a group like the International Rescue Committee.  Helpful Links:https://www.rescue-uk.org/article/what-strangers-case https://qz.com/786163/the-banned-400-year-old-shakespearean-speech-being-used-for-refugee-rights-today/  - The full text of the speech can be read here, and there are also two videos not linked here: One of Ian McKellan performing it, and another featuring Harriet Walter.https://www.rescue-uk.org/video/strangers-case-shakespeares-rallying-cry-humanity - Filmed at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2018.https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/research/currentprojects/multiculturalshakespeare/news/?newsItem=8a17841a6411e8b401642243e1b859b6 - a different take, turning it into a local pub scene, also filmed in 2018. Questions, comments, or suggestions? Email [email protected].  Music: "String Impromptu Number 1" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The Strangers' Case Rory Roberts