This utopia has one big drawback
No Sex. Unlimited Baskets.
A History of Waffles
Communion Wafers to Eggo
Beyond The Pottery: The Creative Giant, Josiah Wedgwood
Historian and author AN Wilson explores the life of his great hero, Josiah Wedgwood. As one of the founding fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Wegdwood was a self-made, self-educated creative…
Chinese Porcelain
A BBC Documentry
The Shakers Explained
Religion For Breakfast
Our Opinions Are Correct Episode 184: Spooky Season Books and Hellbenders
It's time to light a fire and curl up with a cup of cocoa and a terrifying book full of creepy shit -- or escaping from creepy shit. We've got…
Ian McKellen finds another actor in the family
As the 'last of the McKellens', Sir Ian admits to a degree of melancholy as he delves into his family history. But the results pay off richly for one of…
Working Class History Podcast – Pirates
Double podcast episode about the Golden Age of Piracy, with historian Marcus Rediker. The legendary pirates of this era weren’t just thieves—they were daring rebels challenging the very systems of…
Defoe and the Distance to Utopia
In Defoe’s Captain Singleton, published a year later, the eponymous pirate comes back home with new notions of equality and communal property. Indeed, as Defoe teaches us, the highest ideals…
Written in the Waters
Tara Roberts