Transcript

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Transcript created by Natalie LoVetri.

References & Resources

Find out more about Christopher Keep’s research here. 

Investigate nineteenth-century accounts of the supernatural in this English translation of The Phenomena of Materialisation.

Nearly a century after Scientific American’s photo contest, you can read their article about it online! 

Visit Amanda Shubert’s website.  

Check out this book on the Koh-i-noor, as well as this opinion piece by one of the book’s authors. 

Explore this illustration of the first display for the Koh-i-noor at the Great Exhibition and read this article about its feminization.

Take a closer look at a painting of Queen Victoria wearing the Koh-i-noor as a brooch. 

Learn more about Anne Sullivan’s research.

Read about the 1936 fire on the London Fire Brigade website and see photos of it here. 

Watch these British Pathé videos about the 1936 fire and 1941 destruction of the tower.

Victorian Samplings was recorded and produced on the territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən and SENĆOŦEN speaking communities of the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples, and on Treaty One Territory, traditional Land of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and homeland of the Métis Nation.

Our podcast theme is “Happy Jazzy Ragtime Piano” by Praded, licensed by AudioJungle; our podcast stinger was made and donated by Brandon Christopher.