Welcome to the sixth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2025 conference. This episode explores institutions in Ambridge as sites of power, care, and controversy. Through two papers, speakers examine Underwoods as a space of women’s social change and Lower Loxley as a flashpoint for debates about history, race, and responsibility. Institutions, Care, and Contested Histories 0:59 – Are You Being Served? The Department Store in the Communit...
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Welcome to the sixth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2025 conference. This episode explores institutions in Ambridge as sites of power, care, and controversy. Through two papers, speakers examine Underwoods as a space of women’s social change and Lower Loxley as a flashpoint for debates about history, race, and responsibility. Institutions, Care, and Contested Histories 0:59 – Are You Being Served? The Department Store in the Communit...
“A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen
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“A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen
Welcome to the fifth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2024 conference. This episode revisits the question of truth, lies and deception in Ambridge, asking whether the village is still a moral quagmire. “A Lying, Cheating, Chancer”: Truth and Deception in Ambridge - Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen George Grundy was recently branded “a lying, cheating chancer” by listeners, even compared to Boris Johnson. But research shows we all li...
Academic Archers
Welcome to the sixth series in the annual podcast programme from Academic Archers, bringing you papers from our 2025 conference. This episode explores institutions in Ambridge as sites of power, care, and controversy. Through two papers, speakers examine Underwoods as a space of women’s social change and Lower Loxley as a flashpoint for debates about history, race, and responsibility. Institutions, Care, and Contested Histories 0:59 – Are You Being Served? The Department Store in the Communit...
