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Dust, Documents and Diamonds

Dust, Documents and Diamonds

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 A podcast by Lucy Underwood about history, researching history, and the joy of finding diamonds when we search the archives for the dust of past lives. I aim to tell lively stories by seeking out the voices of the past, encoded in the archives, and letting them speak. My research mostly focuses on Tudor and Stuart England. I’m a historian and writer. My historical writing has appeared in various scholarly journals and books, while my first novel, an Elizabethan adventure titled ’The Guest of Night’, is published by EnRoute Books & Media (as Lucy Underwood-Healy) https://enroutebooksandmedia.com/guestofnight/ I completed my first degree at Oxford University (History and English, 2005) and postgraduate studies at Cambridge University (M.Phil 2008, Ph.D. 2012). I’m currently affiliated with the History Department at the University of Warwick.lau20 World
Episodes
  • Ep 2:4 Shiny lucre: money, c.1600. Bullion, penny loaves, and corrupt politicians

    Ep 2:4 Shiny lucre: money, c.1600. Bullion, penny loaves, and corrupt politicians
    Oct 10 2024

    I talk to Simon Healy about early modern money: the currency and coins, wages and free dinners, how big a loaf of bread is, bullion smuggling and bribing politicians.
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    57 mins
  • Ep 2:3 In search of the sound of the past

    Ep 2:3 In search of the sound of the past
    Oct 10 2024
    I talk to Dr Katie McKeogh about how music was first printed, what that did to how people heard and played music, and how we can trace this story in the libraries where their music books have come to rest. And about finding slanderous gossip in the margins of contraband liturgy books.
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    46 mins
  • Ep 2:2 Blood thicker than water?

    Ep 2:2 Blood thicker than water?
    Sep 17 2024
    Family, religious conflict, and what to do when your outlawed cousin/brother/son rings your doorbell. This episode explores how family networks and the ties of kinship shaped Catholic resistance in Protestant England.
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    47 mins
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