Season 1 Episode 2: Intimate Histories

Hosted By Vanessa Warne and Jessie Krahn

With Guests Heather Hind, Jacqueline Hyman, and Kyle McPhail

In this episode, we speak with a scholar, a conservator and a curator to learn about Victorian objects and the unspoken stories they can tell.

Transcript

Read a complete transcript of the episode here!

Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.

References & Resources

Visit the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

See “The Brontë Family’s Broken Hair Bracelet” at Victorian Things.

Read Heather Hind’s “Victorian Hairwork and the Brontës.” Victorian Review blog, 2020.

Visit Jacqueline Hyman’s The Textile Restoration Studio.

Visit Dalnavert Museum and take the virtual tour.

Watch Kyle McPhail’s lecture “Gender and Sexuality in the Victorian Era and Throughout the Ages.” Elizabeth Alloway Lecture Series, 21 March 2021, Dalnavert Museum.

Read “Dalnavert, in Yellow,” part of the Dalnavert in Colour Exhibit.

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.

Jet keepsake box. Date unknown.

Victorian Samplings