Eilidh and Lily's last episode and Q&A!

good enough that people want a formal podcast

people want to know like a very I think just facts and dates is what people come listen to this podcast for ask us about the constitution ask us about when did the battle of Hastings take place do you know what I mean when did it

1066 and it was the 14th of October I think or the 17th okay you

beg how do you know that

because I think well actually I don't want to like accidentally dox a relative but it's someone's birthday

wow

okay well there we go yeah so our

first question is from aforementioned math student which is what is your favorite historical period part a of the question and part b is does it annoy you when people ask about your favorite historical period

um do you want us to each answer like the first part of the question first

yeah let's do that let's answer the first part

yeah

um go on what is yours

uh how specific do you want yeah whatever you feel like guys i

love i do love the enlightenment i love it in first year i managed to get the words the enlightenment into every single essay i wrote which was really impressive considering some of the stuff i did was like literally bc and I managed to talk about the enlightenment I was like this really is the precursor to the enlightenment I do really like the enlightenment I think so transformative in terms of the way that people thought about things like rationality and reason and things that we really take for granted now but just like how people viewed the self essentially

yeah

find it really interesting

This is really difficult actually because you've gone for like a kind of like an event or like a shift or whatever.

I have.

I feel like when I think of history I think of like, I mean we both really like gender history.

yeah we do

yeah um i think i'm more into what i've ended up being like more drawn to like studying is like welfare state in like 20th century britain yeah um in particular like history of like like childhood i think the family but i did always used to love the victorians and any excuse to do like gender and victorians

yeah do you know how this is quite good the georgians that was that was really interesting

georgian humor episode

that was really interesting georgians were very interesting because i think they were good because like we got a lot of results of gender and different ideas as well but also they're the i think they're the most in terms of looking back in people in history you can almost recognize the most modern things in them Whereas often if you go too far back, people who do medieval history,

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