HeyJaredAlbion Tonight
Albion Tonight is an eclectic podcast dedicated to exploring questions related to the nineteenth-century and twentieth-century history, culture, and literature of the United Kingdom.
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- Aug 10, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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Slavery and Food: Ethics of Consumption (opens the original)
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Tonight, I tackle the topic that has been haunting the whole season: slavery and its inextricable involvement in the history of food, the history of society, and the history of humanity. This episode contains a discussion of the context of slavery in the United Kingdom and its colonies and abolitionist movements. In the second half, it turns to the voices of the enslaved and formerly enslaved.
Ad-Venture: Guess the 20th-Century Food Ad (opens the original)
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Did you enjoy listening to people try to guess obscure Victorian ads? Are you curious about what the terrible pun ad-venture could mean? Well, have we got a show for you! In this fun intermission between history expositions, listen as some of my guests try to guess what 20th century ads are for based on out-of-context quotes and descriptions. Through this fun game, we unpack some of the rhetoric surrounding advertisements over time, and, of course, look at the intersections of food, gender, and
Mothers, Babies, and Food (opens the original)
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Welcome back to the podcast after a most unfortunate hiatus! History was happening to me in real life, but rest assured that Albion Tonight lives on. This episode is about the lives of historic mothers—the pressures placed on them, the things they fed their babies, and the sociocultural implications of such issues as breastfeeding and nutrition. In this episode we explore the tragedies and triumphs experienced by everyday people as they tried to take care of their infants.
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