Living in Paris during the Revolution and Reign of Terror might not seem like the right place at the right time, but if your job is to make wax sculptures of heads, it’s kind of perfect. In this episode we meet Marie Tussaud, and follow along as she creates a London institution. Follow along as we: Meet little Marie, living with a doctor who makes wax anatomical models,Rub elbows with royals and rabble-rousers in Paris before and during the Revolution and Reign of TerrorHit the road with Mada...
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Living in Paris during the Revolution and Reign of Terror might not seem like the right place at the right time, but if your job is to make wax sculptures of heads, it’s kind of perfect. In this episode we meet Marie Tussaud, and follow along as she creates a London institution. Follow along as we: Meet little Marie, living with a doctor who makes wax anatomical models,Rub elbows with royals and rabble-rousers in Paris before and during the Revolution and Reign of TerrorHit the road with Mada...
Please Look After These Bears: Pooh, Paddington, and More Bears of London
Yesterday's London Times
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Please Look After These Bears: Pooh, Paddington, and More Bears of London
Bears. Cute. Cuddly. But when we looked at them through the long lens of London history, it got complicated pretty quickly.Join us as we take the ursine plunge, and think about….the bears that roamed Britain 7000 years ago the Tower menagerie,blood sports such a bearbaiting, especially popular during the Elizabethan period,the invention of the stuffed bear and its significance in the Great War, Pooh and Paddington, two special bears with London ties, and share unexpected common...
Yesterday's London Times
Living in Paris during the Revolution and Reign of Terror might not seem like the right place at the right time, but if your job is to make wax sculptures of heads, it’s kind of perfect. In this episode we meet Marie Tussaud, and follow along as she creates a London institution. Follow along as we: Meet little Marie, living with a doctor who makes wax anatomical models,Rub elbows with royals and rabble-rousers in Paris before and during the Revolution and Reign of TerrorHit the road with Mada...
