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M1 – Cricket as Propaganda
Manage episode 240745114 series 2283857
In this mini-sode, we discuss 2 of our latest email dispatches in more detail, getting to grips with:
- Do the maps from the nineteenth century inadvertently (or deliberately) reveal the mapmaker’s sentiments (especially as new nations are born in Europe!)
- The terror felt by one military man in England when Prussia absorbed Germany (he was so scared that he wrote a novel to wake everyone up to the danger!)
- The weirdly but oh-so-Victorian story of why The Ashes is called “The Ashes”
- Where cricket failed as a propaganda weapon in the British Empire (when it worked almost everywhere else!)
Enjoy the episode – but don’t forget you can join us on our daring historical journey simply by lending us your email address at footnotesofhistory.com!
41 episodes
Manage episode 240745114 series 2283857
In this mini-sode, we discuss 2 of our latest email dispatches in more detail, getting to grips with:
- Do the maps from the nineteenth century inadvertently (or deliberately) reveal the mapmaker’s sentiments (especially as new nations are born in Europe!)
- The terror felt by one military man in England when Prussia absorbed Germany (he was so scared that he wrote a novel to wake everyone up to the danger!)
- The weirdly but oh-so-Victorian story of why The Ashes is called “The Ashes”
- Where cricket failed as a propaganda weapon in the British Empire (when it worked almost everywhere else!)
Enjoy the episode – but don’t forget you can join us on our daring historical journey simply by lending us your email address at footnotesofhistory.com!
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