Transcript

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Transcript created by Lucie von Schilling.

References & Resources

Find a digitized copy of The Comic Bradshaw; or Bubbles from the Boiler here.

Read Patrick Leary’s book, The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London.

Learn more about Meredith Bak’s research here. 

Check out Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children's Media Culture by Meredith Bak.

Explore your creativity and make your own thaumatrope following Kiarra Burd’s tutorial on our Tutorials page.

Find out more about Catherine Golden’s research here. 

Visit the Smithsonian National Postal Museum website for a blog post about the Penny Black by Catherine Golden. 

Check out these Victorian Web entries on the history of postal reform, the Victorian revolution in letter writing, and letter-writing manuals.

Explore Victorian styles of letter writing and folding by following along with Rebekah Stretch’s tutorial on writing, folding, and sealing a letter.

Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.

Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.