Showing results for "Materials" in History

Oliver Wyman reads The Speakeasy Guide and captures the rich atmosphere and enduring cultural influence of the roaring ‘20s. While the anecdote about Audible staffers stumbling out of an anonymous casino might be in doubt, one thing’s for sure – this fun listen is the bee’s knees.

Naval officer Captain Jim Thornfield and Bill Cartwright, a lifelong pirate, are licensed to do Britain’s dirtiest work at sea. They plunder, they blunder and with the Crown watching and the rope waiting, every voyage becomes a gamble. Set in the politically murky waters of the 1840s-ish, Pirate Material is a swashbuckling, high stakes adventure. Think A-Team on the high seas. God save the Queen!Buy the official Pirate Material t-shirt now from Teemill: https://podomedy.teemill.com/collection/pirate-material/Follow us on Instagram www.instagram.com/piratematerialpod Hosted on Acast. See ...

The Battle of Gettysburg – the turning point of the American Civil War – would, in the words of one staff officer, stand “like Waterloo, conspicuous in the history of all ages."

Bill Bryson’s The Body meets Mary Roach’s Gulp (with a dash of What’s Your Poo Telling You?) in this delightfully weird, richly informative, and unexpectedly lyrical tour of our bodily emissions—revealing that the very parts of us that we seek to hide in embarrassment are actually an...

Examining producers and consumers linked in economic and moral relationships across great geographic and political distances, Plantation Goods explores how people in the nineteenth century thought about complicity with slavery while showing how slavery structured life nationwide and established a modern world of entrepreneurship and exploitation.

Trace Material breaks down the building blocks of our constructed environment, one material at a time. What can plastic tell us about suburbanization? What does redlining have to do with lead paint? And how did a president’s bias shape what our walls are made of?

4se Material is a podcast series that explores some of the many stories at the intersection of sport, entertainment, lifestyle and culture. Through a series of audio-documentaries, 4se Material brings you the formative moments in the development of these independent industries - specifically where they cross over for business (or societal) impact. This podcast is brought to you by 4SE, a two-day event experience on 23rd/24th May at Chelsea Industrial in NYC, created by Leaders in Sport, SportTechie and Sports Business Journal, in association with Constellation Brands and GMR. For more ...

The media is powered by primary sources. People who were there. People who saw it. People who lived it. Now with a camera in every pocket, phone footage is powering the press. From warzones to wildfires, every person is a cameraman filming one angle of a worldwide documentary. Source Material presents world events through the recordings of those who lived it. Cut out the host, cut out the reporter, and hear the Source Material for yourself. Source Material is a multimedia project that takes you behind the headlines and straight to the source. It is also a video series. Watch on VICE Youtube ...

With the growing awareness around how our food and clothing are made and where it comes from, our curiosity and desire to deepen our understanding of the fiber systems that undergird our lives and the communities impacted by them grow with it. Black Material Geographies is a collection of conversations and stories using Blackness and textile material culture to explore how we can create more sustainable systems and processes amid global climate crises and lifestyles deeply entrenched in global capitalism. This show projects “Blackness” into the past to understand the material cultures of ...

A New York Times Bestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surround us, packed with surprising stories and fascinating science Why is glass see-through? What makes elastic stretchy? Why does a paper clip bend? Why does any material look and behave the way it...

’Have You Heard? Stories From My Archive’ ’Stranger To The Truth: The Lies and Cover-Ups of Jeremy Thorpe’. Three episodes in which writer and historian Rose Collis, using her own original archival material as a starting point. She explores and unravels how, throughout the 1960s and 70s, the political and social Establishment colluded with one of its most prominent and charismatic figures to protect his career and reputation - regardless of the damage and danger it presented to anyone else.

This book is about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World - about how Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought about that obsessive and peculiarly American subject. Money is the basic American thing, the life's blood of the country. God and Mammon shows how the dynamics of money in its many dimensions (material, spiritual, cultural, psychological) worked to make America what it is. It traces the grand American binaries of success and failure to their theological origins in Calvinism's anxieties about salvation and damnation.

Het koloniale verleden leeft door in het heden. Dat is een feit. Maar hoe? In de vierdelige podcastserie Langdradig onderzoeken we de invloed van hedendaags kolonialisme op dance muziek, bewegingsvrijheid, eetculturen en werk. Ver weg en toen halen we terug naar hier en nu. Met intieme gesprekken, deep dives en originele muziek.