Working It Out

Explicit content warning

11/23/21 • 45 min

1 Listener

As we approach Black Friday, join Jess and Philippa as we dive into one of the many ways in which labour has been exploited in the name of profit. It's time at last to work out what they really did in the Victorian workhouse.
38g0j45W0kVVNjrSbudl

Support the show

Support the show

Previous Episode

Baby Farms

1 Recommendations

CW: Violence against children, child death
Good childcare is notoriously difficult to find - and expensive when you do come across it. And if children are really the future, the Victorians were having none of it. Join Jess and Philippa as they look into the grim options available to many a late-Victorian mother and the money-hungry killers that preyed on their children.

Support the show

Next Episode

Aleister Crowley: The Mountain and the Abyss

Join Jess and Philippa as they accompany Crowley up to the heights of his greatest accomplishments as well as down to the depths of failure and despair.
Sources:
Churton, T. (2011) Aleister Crowley: The Biography. London: Watkins.
Crowley, A. (1909) The Book of the Law
Originally published as part of ΘΕΛΗΜΑ in London by the A∴A∴
Lachman, G. (2014) Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World. New York: Tarcher

Support the show