Miniatures Episode 9: Everyday Life in a Pandemic - Time, Diarists, and the Scotch Egg

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Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

Miniatures Podcast

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Welcome to Miniatures, the Podcast for the History of Everyday Life. We show how the big picture in history is best seen through the assemblage of individual and local stories, what the German historian Alf Lüdtke called ‘miniatures’. We discuss all aspects of the history of everyday life, microhistory, and ‘history from below’, featuring interviews and discussion with experts in the field. Between 2020 and 2024 this podcast was supported by the European Research Council as part of the 'Dictatorship as Experience Project' at the University of St Andrews.

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Miniatures Episode 9: Everyday Life in a Pandemic - Time, Diarists, and the Scotch Egg

Miniatures: Small Stories - Big Histories

32 minutes 14 seconds

1 year ago

Miniatures Episode 9: Everyday Life in a Pandemic - Time, Diarists, and the Scotch Egg

In this special episode on everyday life in the COVID-19 pandemic recorded during the UK lockdown, Dr Emma Hart (University of Pennsylvania) talks about how the pandemic caused her to reflect differently on the 18th-century diarists she studies, and Prof. Kate Ferris (University of St Andrews) discusses how the insights and conceptual tools of everyday life history can be used to interpret the furore over the Scotch egg and the “substantial meal”.

This podcast was originally published on 8th November 2021 as part of the ERC research project ‘Dictatorship as experience: A comparative history of everyday life and the ‘lived experience’ of dictatorship in Mediterranean Europe (1922-1975)’ led by Prof. Kate Ferris at the University of St Andrews. To learn more about the wider project, visit: ⁠arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/everyday-dictatorship/⁠

Hosted by: Dr Huw Halstead

Produced by: Dr Huw Halstead

Music by: Oi Palaiológoi (Violin - Roddy Beaton, Outi - David Hughes)