All the Year Round

About All the Year Round

An exploration of the nineteenth century through the seasons with Hayley and Emma

Publisher

Emma Probett, Dr Hayley Flynn

Category

arts · history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

12 Feb 2023

Latest episode

10 Feb 2024

Latest episodes

14 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Feb 2024

   Victorian New Year: Resolutions, Games and ‘Party Food’

   Happy New Year! In this episode we talk about Victorian New Year traditions and think about the way resolutions were made (or not) then and now. We also set out our own exciting resolutions for All the Year Round in the year to come. WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/)

2. 

   22 Dec 2023

   Victorian Christmas in the Periodicals: Popular Gifts, Party Games and Ghosts!

   It's Christmas! As many are searching for the latest gadgets to give as gifts, or wondering which party games might go down well after Christmas dinner, we look at how the Victorians answered those festive dilemmas. We also explore what the Victorians were reading at Christmas in periodicals like All the Year Round, edited by Charles Dickens. [Warning: we would not suggest trying all of these party games at home!] A huge thank you to all of our viewers and listeners in 2023. We wish you all a very merry Christmas! Here is a little victorian gift from us! https://imgur.com/CVwYgVu (https://imgur.com/CVwYgVu) WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/)

3. 

   30 Nov 2023

   Dastardly Doubles: Happy Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson!

   In this episode we delve into the dark world of the double brain and to celebrate the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, we do it by looking at The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde! Is it worth releasing your ‘bad’ side? Victorian science suggests not! WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/)

4. 

   31 Oct 2023

   Victorian Halloween: Disturbing Dreams

   For Halloween we delve into the weird world of Victorian dreams. Join us as we talk about experiments, spirits and prophecies, as well as attempting some genuine Victorian dream interpretation! WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/)

5. 

   29 Sept 2023

   Elizabeth Gaskell's Birthday: Road Trip to Gaskell's House!

   In honour of Elizabeth Gaskell's birthday, this month we paid a visit to her house in Manchester. Lovingly restored with authentic Victorian furniture, the house transports you back in time to really get a feel for the environment in which Gaskell wrote the books which are still so loved today. Join us for Victorian secrets, Dickens drama and fun facts about cute cats! Home elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk (http://elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk) Accessibility - www.elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/visit/accessibility/ (https://elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/visit/accessibility/) Please note: trigger warning for infant death WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/)

6. 

   31 Aug 2023

   Hot weather, Heatwaves and Corsets: what to wear in a Victorian summer

   This month we had the honour of visiting the Symington collection of corsets at an archive in Barrow-upon-Soar. Sarah Nichol was kind enough to chat to us about the kinds of corsets Victorian women wore to keep cool while on holiday, or while undertaking their daily summer activities! So how comfortable were corsets?Does the archival evidence back up the claims of the day?And what’s the story behind this huge Victorian factory in a market town of Leicestershire? We would like to extend a huge thank you to Sarah Nichol. You can find out more about her work and the collection here:https://leicestershirecollections.org.uk/ (https://leicestershirecollections.org.uk/)http://www.instagram.com/leicestershire_collections/ (http://www.instagram.com/leicestershire_collections/)John Liddell’s ebay store can be found here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=john-liddell&_oac=1 (https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_dkr=1&iconV2Request=true&_blrs=recall_filtering&_ssn=john-liddell&_oac=1)

7. 

   31 Jul 2023

   8 Hours of Elliot: A George Eliot Road Trip - All The Year Round

   WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism)LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567)FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/)Join us as we explore Eliot country in our very first road trip episode on All the Year Round! We get a very special George Eliot house tour, hear about the potential upcoming renovations to Eliot's Victorian home and visit a museum disguised as a Victorian house!

8. 

   28 Jun 2023

   Victorian Seaside - All The Year Round

   WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism)LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567)FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/) We do like to be beside the seaside – but how did the seaside change throughout the nineteenth century? What exactly did people like (and dislike) about it’s changing face, and how much of the nineteenth-century seaside is still visible today? Join us as we explore the nineteenth-century seaside, from donkeys to dippers and fairgrounds to fossil hunters! KEY SOURCES:Delgado, Alan, Victorian Entertainment (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971)Hadjiafxendi, Kyriaki and John Plunkett, ‘Science at the Seaside’ in Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge ed. Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom and Jos Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) p.181-284Johnson, Rachael, ‘The Venus of Margate: Fashion and Disease at the Seaside’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.4 (2017)

9. 

   31 May 2023

   The Secret Language of Flowers - All The Year Round

   WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/) The Secret Language of Flowers! When did the art of sending bouquets of flowers, with hidden messages conveyed through each symbolic bloom become so popular? Did people really send messages to each other through flowers? How did men and women of the Victorian era use flowers as symbols in their daily lives? Find out all this and more in this month’s episode! KEY SOURCES: The poem read at the beginning of the episode is "The Language of Flowers", an unpublished song from a poem by the American geologist and poet James Gates Percival, with music written by the English composer Edward Elgar when he was only fourteen years old. It is dated 29 May 1872, inscribed "by Edward W. Elgar", with "words by Percival" (at first thought to be Elgar himself) and dedicated "to my sister Lucy on her birthday." The Floral Offering: A Token of Friendship by Frances Sargent Osgood (Carey and Hart), 1847 The Language of Flowers by an Unknown Author (London: Ernest Nigler), 1850French Flower Books of the Early Nineteenth Century by Beverley Seaton, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Fall—Winter 1982—83, Vol. 11, No. ½ (Fall—Winter 1982—83), pp. 60-71 Language of Flowers: a Miscellany by Mandy Kirkby (Pan Macmillan), 2011 The Language of Flowers: A History by Beverley Seaton (London: University of Virginia Press), 2012 Language of Flowers - Illustrated by Kate Greenaway (London: Read Books Limited), 2013 The Meaning of Flowers: Myth, Language & Lore by Gretchen Scoble and Ann Field (California: Chronicler Books LLC), 2014 The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives by Stephen Buchmann (London: Scribner), 2015 Floriography: The Myths, Magic & Language of Flowers by Sally Coulthard and Clover Robin (Quadrille), 2021 The Complete Language of Flowers: A Definitive and Illustrated History by S. Theresa Dietz (New York: Wellfleet Press), 2022 Flowers and Their Meanings: The Secret Language and History of Over 600 Blooms (A Flower Dictionary) by Karen Azoulay (United States: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed), 2023 ‘Painting of Queen Victoria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-73). Currently held by the Royal Collection Trust’

10. 

    21 Apr 2023

    Charlotte Brontë and Fairyland feat. Dr Jacqueline Favaloro - All The Year Round

    WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/) Dr Jacqueline Favaloro Twitter - https://twitter.com/j_frances14 (https://twitter.com/j_frances14) Celebrate Charlotte Brontë’s birthday in style with Hayley, Emma, and Jacqueline by taking a new and more positive look at the role of fairy and fairyland in Charlotte Brontë’s fiction and her own life!

11. 

    19 Mar 2023

    Mother's Day: Victorian Magazine's Top Tips - All The Year Round

    WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/) We take a VERY deep dive into women's magazines of the nineteenth century to discover what motherhood ideals were presented in short stories, verbose poems, and cautionary tales! And what top tips magazines gave out to women and mothers on how to behave, how to chastise children, how to manage the household, and all manner of how-tos! A reeling long list of how to be the Perfect Mother, you can see some of the roots with influencer culture today. References Dale H. Porter, The Thames Embankment: Environment, Technology, and Society in Victorian London (Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 1998). Harry Stone, ‘Fairy Tales and Ogres: Dickens’ Imagination and David Copperfield’ in David Copperfield (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990). ‘Essay - Female Education’ The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, vol. 1 (1852), p.3. ‘The Sick Room and Nursery’ The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, vol. 1 (1852) p.60. Mrs Ellis, ‘The Mother’s Love’ The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, vol. 2 (1853) p.24. ‘The Stepmother’ The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, vol. 2 (1852) p. 70. ‘Large Families’ The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, vol.1 (1852) p.4. ‘Aunt Deborah’s Receipt Book’ The Ladies' Treasury, 1 November 1857. ‘Domestic Gatherings’ The Ladies' Treasury, 1 March 1861. ‘The Education of Girls’ The Ladies' Treasury, 1 July 1868. ‘The Grandmother’ The Ladies' Treasury, 1 June 1859. ‘On the Expenditure of Limited Incomes’ The Ladies' Treasury, 1 April 1861.

12. 

    18 Mar 2023

    History of Mother's Day - All The Year Round

    WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/) In this month's episodes we're looking at Mother's Day in the 19th century. We talk about its very long history, its roots with Mother Church, what role mother's had in society, and our favourite mothers in Victorian literature! And best of all - this is only part one! This month, Hayley and I were snowed in, so we did a two-part series, and we had enough time over to bake a simnel cake, which you can find in our Let's Bake! playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5xB7uirZodt9CLvi3NgplEVUDQkuVgXk (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5xB7uirZodt9CLvi3NgplEVUDQkuVgXk) References: Anna Letitia Barbauld, On The Origin And Progress Of Novel-Writing in The British Novelists; with an Eassay, And Prefaces Biographical And Critical (Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 1999). Anne Brontë (Acton Bell), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, (London: T. C. Newby, 1848). Charles Dickens, The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery, (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1850). John Fowles, The Collector, (London: John Cape, 1963). Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1865). Alice Bertha Gomme, The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: David Nutt, 1894). Patrick Hamilton, Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (London: Constable and Co Ltd, 1935). George MacDonald, Phantastes (London: Paternoster, 2008). George Bernard Shaw, Mrs Warren’s Profession (1893). Queen Mary’s University of London, History of Tea project: https://qmhistoryoftea.wordpress.com/ (https://qmhistoryoftea.wordpress.com/)... Beeton Englishwoman’s Almanac: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i)... Alond-free Simnel Cake from Sylvia’s Kitchen: http://sylviaskitchen.co.uk/easter-time-with-allergies-gluten-nut-free-light-fruity-simnel-cake/ (http://sylviaskitchen.co.uk/easter-time-with-allergies-gluten-nut-free-light-fruity-simnel-cake/)

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    13 Feb 2023

    What Women Want: Happy Galentines Day! - All The Year Round

    WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism (https://www.youtube.com/@victorianism) LISTEN TO US: https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm (https://open.spotify.com/show/01l0rmgnYNKDUXxiAXh5pm) and https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-the-year-round/id1671414567) FIND US: https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod (https://twitter.com/AllYearRoundPod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/ (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod/) Welcome to our very first, full length episode! Today we're exploring What Women Want in that mixed space between the modern phenomenon of Galantines' Day and Valentine's Day. Uploaded on February 13, Galantine's Day, we wanted to celebrate women, women's writing, and talk about all the dreams and desires that women have in literature of the nineteenth century. We talk about Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Gaskell's (very under-rated!) Sylvia's Lovers, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, and the many adaptations that women's literature have enjoyed in he C21st and how it speaks to modern audiences! Corrections 19:19 - A Strange Story by S.M. 35:21 - It was, in fact, Thomas Gisborne’s An Enquiry into the Duty of the Female Sex(1801) 37:00 - 1851 by Frances Trollope 37:13 - Emma was NOT mistaken Mary King was 50 39:30 - It was Marion Shaw 46:30 - Due to the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1857

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    12 Feb 2023

    An Introduction to All The Year Round

    An Introduction to Dr Hayley Flynn and Emma Probett's new podcast on the 19th century WATCH US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGHgHitsC1Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGHgHitsC1Y) FIND US: Twitter.com/allyearroundpod (http://Twitter.com/allyearroundpod) and https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod (https://www.instagram.com/allyearroundpod) Hello, and welcome to All the Year Round! We're a new podcast on 19th century British and Irish literature and culture, and we wanted to introduce ourselves! We will be publishing one main episode every month to take you through the seasons. We have an exciting line up including: magazine advice in women's magazines on how to be a good Mum, celebrating Charlotte Brontë's birthday with an expert from the oldest Centre for Victorian studies in the UK, and exploring the Language of Flowers, and that's only in the first few months! Stay tuned for much, much more, as well as some complementary content such as Victorian baking and new age experiments with recipes!

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