What the Dickens?!

Colonel Sibthorpe's Elms

In this episode, join podcast host Dory Agazarian as she travels back in time to Hyde Park on the eve of the Great Exhibition to explore a remarkably contemporary controversy over the fate of a stand of beloved elm trees — and the curmudgeon who fought to save them. Written by Dory Agazarian, with special thanks to Jacqueline Banerjee and Simon Cooke.

Dickens' Ghosts

In this episode, podcast host Dory Agazarian is joined by Simon Cooke, senior editor at the Victorian Web, as they explore the meaning of ghosts, spirits, spooks, and other unsettling presences in the work of Charles Dickens. What are we to make of these Victorian emanations from the spirit world? How do these figures of menace and mystery connect with larger Victorian notions of spirituality, rationality, labor, and capital?Written by Simon Cooke.

The Old London Street

In this episode, join History Editor Dory Agazarian for a deep dive into the history of The Old London Street, a Victorian reproduction of a London street that appeared in the 1884 International Health Exhibition and became a hub of commercialized nostalgia for a vanishing urban past. Written by Dory Agazarian.