Prom Plus: What Victorians Did For Fun
Historians Kathryn Hughes & Lee Jackson discuss 19th century entertainment.
Arts & Ideas · BBC Radio 4
August 16, 201921m 17s
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Show Notes
Historians Lee Jackson and Kathryn Hughes discuss what kept Queen Victoria's subjects amused indoors and outdoors. Presenter: Rana Mitter
Kathryn Hughes, historian and author of Victorians Unbound
Lee Jackson, the author of Palaces of Pleasure, How the Victorians invented Mass Entertainment.