Season 3 Episode 4: Around the World

Hosted by Vanessa Warne, Jessie Krahn, and Anne Hung

With Guests Veronica Alfano, Christine Olson, and Allison Fizzard

From Australia to Canada to Spain, this episode explores connections between migration, place, and material history.

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Transcript

Read a complete transcript of the episode here!

Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.

References & Resources

Learn more about Veronica Alfano’s research.

Preview The Lyric in Victorian Memory here.

Get to know the Kelmscott Chaucer by printing off this colouring book from UBC’s Colour Our Collections project. 

Visit Christine Olson’s research page.

View the Alhambra-inspired motifs in J. G. Lockhart’s Ancient Spanish Ballads

Explore these nineteenth-century editions of Owen Jones’s Plans, Elevations, Sections, and Details of the Alhambra (1842) and The Grammar of Ornament (1856).

For more on Allison Fizzard’s research, click here

Read Allison’s article about the carved altar at St. Thomas' Anglican Church.

Check out this elaborate clock case carved by Valentine Eliot.

 

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.

Plate XXIX [Page 1], Patio de los Leones. Owen Jones. From Plans, elevations, sections, and details of the Alhambra, vol. 1. (1842).

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