#26: TNK returns!

The end of the four-year hiatus: Charlotte and Emma discuss covid, childcare and careers, plus how to handle great historical moments, and possibly record them too.

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EPISODE #26 FOOTNOTES

Our last pre-hiatius episode was this one, #25: Mothers, Part II – presence and representation;

Emma went on parental leave between Episode #20: #MeToo and Episode #22: Eugenics. That looks cheery, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, we squeezed in Episode #21: The (Second) Christmas Special (on The Crown) in the middle of it all;

Charlotte’s book is Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain, and it’s published by Penguin on 24 August 2023. Pre-order your copy from your local bookshop or order it on Hive.co.uk!

The exhibition at the Southbank Centre that we went to was In The Black Fantastic, which was at the Hayward Gallery between June and September 2022. Read more about it and see photos and videos here;

We were going to link to lots of stuff on British and Swedish childcare systems, but we’ll save that for a stand-alone episode instead. In the meantime, sign up to Emily Baughan’s Substack newsletter Playgroup: children, community, and the family in contemporary Britain here;

When Emma talks about the bleak, dark days of the pandemic, they were sometimes very dark – literally. Here’s a chart of average monthly hours of sunshine in Malmö in southern Sweden;

The Mass Observation Archive records everyday life in Britain since 1937. Read more about online at www.massobs.org.uk It also has a podcast!

Tony Kushner’s We Europeans? Mass-Observation, Race and British Identity in the Twentieth Century was published as a paperback by Routledge in 2016. Read more about Tony’s work here;

James Hinton has published several anthologies and books on Mass Observation – you’ll find one here, and more about James here;

Charlotte also recommends Claire Langhamer’s work on Mass Observation – you’ll find an article of hers here, and more about Claire here;

Read more about Eve Colpus is Charlotte’s colleague at Southampton – read more about Eve here;

‘What the Hell Is a ‘Geriatric Millennial’ and How To Find Out if You're One’, Vice, 19 May 2021;

Helen McCarthy’s article about age as a historian is called ‘Time and the Middle-Aged Historian’ and was published by History Workshop on 23 March 2023. Read more about Helen here;

Eric Hobsbawm said “Every historian has his or her lifetime, a private perch from which to survey the world,” in his 1993 Creighton Lecture. Hobsbawm, who was born in 1917, died in 2012.

Sociologists Beverley Skeggs & Helen Wood’s Reacting to Reality Television Performance, Audience and Value was published in 2012 by Routledge. Read more about Beverley Skeggs here and more about Helen Wood here;

Listen to Episode #24: Foreign policy part I here - Part II is coming soon!

The poem is Kate Baer’s Reasons to Log Off. It starts like this:

The girl who said she could never eat a second slice

of pizza my senior year of college is doing really well.

My cousin posts a photo of a loaded gun. Have I ever

heard of the Second Amendment? Have I ever heard

of this new recipe?

Read the whole poem – or hear Kate read it herself – at the New Yorker here.

OUR RECOMMENDATIONS

Charlotte is recommending Alison by Lizzy Stewart, which was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2022. Buy it in your local bookshop or on Hive.co.uk here. Here’s an interview – with plenty of photos from the book – on It’s Nice That. Lizzy Stewart’s picture book is called There’s a Tiger in the Garden, and it’s one of Emma’s favourites.

Emma is recommending The Instant by Amy Liptrot, which was published by Canongate in 2022. Buy it in your local bookshop or on Hive.co.uk here.

THE NEXT EPISODE…

…is the long-awaited second part in our two-part series on foreign policy. Listen to the first one here.