Everything Is Awful Forever
A macabre history podcast in which Jess and Philippa wax lyrical over the awful oddities of the past.
Everything Is Awful Forever
Consuming Fashion
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Philippa and Jess
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Episode 59
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It's the mid 1850s and one thing is on everyone's lips (and perhaps their freshly laundered handkerchiefs): tuberculosis. Deadly, incurable, and oh so incredibly fashionable.
Join Jess and Philippa as they look at what was then called "the white plague", "consumption", or even "graveyard cough" and how the Victorians cultivated its sickly pallor in order to give themselves a moral, intellectual - and above all trendy - glow.