2020 has been a tough year for everyone, and right now between everything I feel so depleted. I devote so much time to running the Hisdoryan blog, writing the posts, producing the monthly newsletter, running the social media feeds, devising regular features… and right now I need that time and energy for other things in…
Guest Post – The First Welsh Witch – Gwen Ferch Ellis
When you think of a witch, what comes to mind? Green skin? Pointy Hat? Broomstick? Black cat? These are all iconic characteristics of ‘witches’ as we have come to know them in twenty-first-century popular culture, but in the Early Modern period the word ‘witch’ meant something else. The existence of witches was feared throughout the…
4 Spooky History Podcasts That Will Send Chills Down Your Spine
Halloween may be a few weeks away – but it is never too early to get in the mood. And how should one get in the mood? How about with a classic ghost story? Only this time the ghost stories aren’t being told around the campfire. They’re coming to you via the medium of podcasting….
8 New Period Dramas To Watch On Netflix This Autumn
As the days start to draw in and we reach once again for the cozy jumpers, thoughts inevitably turn to snuggling on the sofa on a Sunday night with a good period drama. Well, my thoughts do anyway. Netflix’s original content has always been one of the streaming service’s strengths, and over the past year…
International Podcast Month – Works Not Cited
Its the final instalment of my week-long feature to celebrate International Podcast Month! We round up this feature by talking to the lovely Tessa from Works Not Cited Podcast, a podcast where she shares the stories of women’s history and material culture that didn’t make it into her thesis. After graduating (virtually, of course) from William…
International Podcast Month – Past Matters Podcast
On the penultimate day of our week-long feature of #historygirls podcasts in celebration of International Podcast Month, we speak to Ploy Radford, host of Past Matters Podcast. When I told a friend from university I was setting up a history podcast, her response, in her typically blunt but well-meaning fashion, was ‘having your own podcast…
International Podcast Month – Things In Jars Podcast
Next up in my week-long feature for International Podcast Month we have one of my fave new history podcasts of 2020 – the Things in Jars Podcast. Six months ago, Assistant Curators Melissa and Poppy were busy preparing for Wordsworth Grasmere’s grand reopening. Formerly known as Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum, our little Cumbrian…
International Podcast Month – For The Love of History Podcast
In the latest instalment of my week-long feature celebrating the amazing history podcasts created by members of the History Girls community, we speak to TK, creator and host of the For The Love of History Podcast. Well hello, friend! My name is TK, and I’m the creator and voice behind the “For the Love of…
International Podcast Month – Past Loves Podcast
In the latest instalment of my week-long feature to celebrate International Podcast Month, Holly from Past Loves Podcast – a podcast devoted to the greatest love stories from history – tells the Hisdoryan blog all about her podcast, including her favourite episode so far. Since I finished my undergraduate in History & Economics at the…
International Podcast Month – Sistory Untold Podcast
In the second installment of my feature about fabulous female-led history podcasts, the Hisdoryan blog shines a spotlight on the Sistory Untold Podcast – a unique podcast hosted by sisters Marva and Sabrina that looks at history through the eyes of sisterhood. A few months into the 2020 quarantine that seemed like it would never…
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