Episode Overview: 1820: London. In this episode, you put yourself in the shoes of Barbara Wilberforce, the wife of British trans-Atlantic slave trade abolitionist and politician William Wilberforce. Hear about the impact of typhoid on 1820s London society, including Barbara’s own ongoing health, the role of women in society and William Wilberforce’s long arduous fight to abolish slavery.

Episode Highlights & Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Introduction to Barbara
• 01:35 – Gore House, and the architectural features of the time
• 02:07 – Barbara’s noble heritage contrasted with the poverty and injustice in 1820 London
• 03:57 – Breakfast with William and the underpinning forces of the Wilberforce marriage
• 05:27 – Barbara’s place as a woman in society – caring, supporting, and managing the household
• 06:57 – Typhoid and its ongoing impact on Barbara’s life and others in London
• 08:18 – William’s long arduous fight to abolish the slave trade
• 09:50 – Barbara’s daily chores including caring for her children, including wayward William Jnr
• 12:04 – Evening solace in the garden

References & Further Reading:

• ‘A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity’, William Wilberforce 1829 https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-usOAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
• https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/wilberforce-william-1759-1833

Credits:

• Opening and closing music: 'Esmerelda's Waltz' from Dusan Bogdanovic's Book of Unknown Standards, played by Daniel McKay, used with permission of the performer.
• Background music includes Meditation Charch Music by Natalia; Fur Elise (Beethoven) by Clavier-Music; Amazing Grace William Walker Version 1835 arranged for piano by Gregor Quendel all sourced from Pixabay
• Other copyright and royalty-free music and sound effects self-created, or from: freesound_community, Alexander Jauk, Universfield, Scottish Guysourced from Pixabay;

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1915, Paddington, London. Your 20-year-old son Dudley is serving on the Western Front in World War I. Most days he has written you a letter, requesting items and letting you know how he is going. But it’s been a few days since his last letter, which came with the alarming news that he was moving closer to the firing line.

Experience a day in the life of Katherine Stewart-Smith, as she manages her emotions, family-life and life in late Edwardian Britain during the First World War.

Episode Highlights & Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Introduction to Katherine and the morning routine
• 03:30 – Revisiting Paddington Station, where Katherine last saw Dudley
• 05:04 – House and home: Katherine’s domestic life, Dudley’s most recent letters and keeping up appearances
• 10:30 – A trip into town
• 11:08 – News from the Western Front
• 11:49 – Living in the present, with the children at your side
• 13:49 – Dinner and evening routine

References & Further Reading:

• https://awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/soldiers-stories/dear-mother/

Credits:

• With thanks to James Stewart-Smith, grandson of Dudley Cauley Stewart-Smith for providing the transcribed letters between Dudley and his mother and his diary as a Prisoner of War to aide research for this story.
• Opening and closing music: 'Esmerelda's Waltz' from Dusan Bogdanovic's Book of Unknown Standards, played by Daniel McKay, used with permission of the performer.
• Other copyright and royalty-free music and sound effects self-created, or from: freesound_community, Alexander Jauk, Universfield, Scottish Guy sourced from Pixabay; other music: 'His eye is on the sparrow'; 'Schubert Moment Musical', 'Old Photo' sourced from ClipChamp.

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Step into the shoes of Elizabeth Blackwell, a true trailblazer and the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US. In this episode, you'll experience a day in Elizabeth's life in January 1849. Take on Elizabeth's perspective as she awakes in her boarding house and takes a short walk to Geneva Medical School where she is the only female amongst her class of male students. Take time to consider Elizabeth's determination and discipline, standing against inequality or discrimination and the barriers she faced to education, which would otherwise have held her back from achieving.

Key Topics & Timestamps:

• 00:00 – Introduction to Elizabeth Blackwell
• 01:00 – Morning routine and life at the boarding house
• 03:18 – Attending Geneva Medical School
• 03:43 – Facing opposition and breaking barriers
• 05:25 – Elizabeth's motivation for being a trailblazing female medical student
• 06:30 – Elizabeth as a student
• 09:15 – Hospital visits and patient care
• 10:18 – An evening walk in Geneva, dinner and further study
• 11:33 – Elizabeth's thesis on 'Ship Fever'

Read Elizabeth's Blackwell's thesis on Ship Fever in the Buffalo medical journal and monthly review v.4 (1848-1849) – Blackwell’s thesis on ship fever p 523 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044103052585&view=1up&seq=535

Beginning and ending music 'Esmerelda's Waltz' from Dusan Bogdanovic's Book of Unknown Standards, played by Daniel McKay, used with permission.

Other copyright and royalty-free music and sound effects self created, or from: freesound_community from Pixabay; Mendelsohn Venetian Boat song Music by Gregor Quendel from Pixabay; Nostalgic Sad Piano by Music by Music by Tunetank from Pixabay.

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