The WPHP Monthly Mercury
The WPHP Monthly Mercury is the podcast of The Women's Print History Project, a digital bibliographical database that recovers and discovers women’s print history for the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries (womensprinthistoryproject.com). Inspired by the titles of periodicals of the period, the WPHP Monthly Mercury dives into the gritty and gorgeous details of investigating women’s work as authors and labourers in the book trades.
Podcasting since 2020 • 35 episodes
The WPHP Monthly Mercury
Latest Episodes
Address-ing Firms; or, The Consequences of Our Own Actions
One of the fields we include in our records for publishing, printing, and bookselling businesses in the WPHP—our firm records—is for the addresses where they operated. Sometimes this is straightforward: one individual working at one location fo...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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40:36
Ghosts of Print Culture Past
Do you believe in ghosts? In this spirited (ha ha) Halloween episode, Kandice and Kate encounter a ghost of their very own in circulating library owner and author Mary Tuck
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:19:40
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 5: Kirsteen McCue
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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29:47
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 4: Manu Samriti Chander
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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26:04
New Romanticisms Bonus Episode 3: Patricia Matthew and Andrew McInnes
In August 2022, Kate and Kandice traveled to Liverpool for “New Romanticisms”: the joint conference for the British Association for Romantic Studies and the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism—BARS and NASSR, respectively. Our c...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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45:33