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Biographicon

Biographicon

By: Dr Declan McCormack
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 "By separating into one biographicon this peculiar class of lives, a philanthropic emulation would be excited, a debt of social gratitude would be discharged, a trophy to patriotism would be erected, and an instructive knowledge of the present state of nations and the gradual concatenation of intercourse would be diffused. Literature should rear altars to the missionaries of human civilization." - [William Taylor of Norwich] The Monthly Review: or Literary Journal, 74 (1814).© Flooded Cellar Productions Ltd Art Entertainment & Performing Arts World
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  • Charles Avison the music maker, with Roz Southey

    Charles Avison the music maker, with Roz Southey
    Apr 30 2026
    In this episode Roz Southey talks about Newcastle upon Tyne's Charles Avison the most prolific English concerto composer of the eighteenth century and an outstanding figure in the town's musical history.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • Sarah Hodgson, a radical type, with Helen Williams

    Sarah Hodgson, a radical type, with Helen Williams
    Mar 16 2025
    In this episode I am joined by Helen Williams, a specialist in eighteenth-century book history to find out about the Newcastle-born printer, newspaper editor and radical Sarah Hodgson. Dr Helen Williams is Associate Professor of English Literature at Northumbria University. In collaboration with the Worshipful Company of Stationers, she holds a British Academy Innovation Fellowship entitled 'Communicating Women's Work in the Historical Archive' (2022-2023), exploring the history of eighteenth-century women in the book trades.
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    34 mins
  • The Cumberland Bard, with Sue Allan

    The Cumberland Bard, with Sue Allan
    Dec 1 2024
    This episode features Dr Sue Allan, an expert on Cumbria’s folk tradition, talking about one of the most significant dialect poets of Georgian Northern England, Robert Anderson from Carlisle. A calico printer by trade, the 'Cumberland Bard' Robert Anderson has long been considered the standard bearer of Cumberland's contribution to bardic verse. Anderson was a close friend of the local stroller Charlotte Lowes. Other influential figures of the 'Cumbrian Enlightenment' in this episode include the 'Muse of Cumberland' Susanna Blamire and the 'Cumberland Minstrel' John Stagg, best known today for publishing "The Vampyre" in 1810, the first entire poem in the British tradition on the subject. Dr Sue Allan was awarded her PhD from Lancaster University in 2017 for her study of Cumbrian folk song and she published a biography of Robert Anderson in 2020.
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    49 mins
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