0:00—Irish migrants. 03:14—Navvies. 08:13—The Irish State Trials. 10:49—Thomas Frances Meagher. 13:11—Patrick O’Donoghue. 16:19—Irish struggle. 19:48—The famine. 22:06—Reporting on the famine. 26:04—Anglo-Saxons vs. Celts. 33:43—Interlude.

34:15—Marked with anxiety. 36:01—Class question. 39:39—Crime. 41:49—And punishment. 42:15—True crime. 47:15—Murder rate. 48:14—Bewildered outrage. 50:28—Transportation. 54:46—Globalism. 57:32—Interlude.

58:15—Colonial Affairs, India. 1:11:04—Duleep Singh. 1:13:44—The Singh sisters. 1:16:26—Distant and disparate lives. 1:19:34—The fruits of empire. 1:22:11—Threatening texts. 1:25:01—General cultivation. 1:27:41—Blaming the poor. 1:30:32—Anthropicide. 1:32:14—Closing.

Interludes: “A Little Bit of Heaven,” Lyrics: J. Keirn Brennan, Music: Ernest R. Ball, 1914; performed by John McCormack, 1915, John McCormack—Recordings 1911-1940 (Internet Archive); and Shanta Prasad, “Tabla,” Percussion Instruments of India, 2007 (Internet Archive).

Image: Robert Braithwate Mariineau, Kit’s Writing Lesson, 1852, detail (Wikipedia).

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0:00—Gaskell’s libel. 6:12—Edinburgh Review. 7:43—Too many books. 11:36—Classicism vs. capitalism. 19:45—Interlude.

20:24—A dangerous book. 22:16—Improvident workers. 28:15—Suffering masters. 29:30—Gentry vs. bourgeoisie. 33:58—Labor representatives. 35:57—Gregorian complaints. 39:10—Masters & operatives. 41:25—Gregorian fallacies. 43:23—Victorian mean girls. 48:21—Worker testimony. 50:27—Interlude.

51:06—Living conditions. 54:37—Soup quackery. 57:49—Concerned employers. 59:17—Meat on Sundays. 1:01:29—Environment & disease. 1:05:23—The dirty truth. 1:09L41—Physical uncleanliness & moral pollution. 1:11:04—Getting away with murder.1:12:29—Closing.

Interludes: Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No 1 in D Minor, Op. 49, 1839, performed by the Claremont Trio (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum).

Image: Robert Braithwaite Martineau, Kit’s Writing Lesson, 1852, detail (Wikipedia).

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0:00—Vivid truthfulness. 7:19—Victorian verisimilitude. 11:09—Couples coupling. 12:34—The long day closes. 14:44—The minor characters. 16:17—Mary, quite contrary. 18:30—The old stock fiction. 20:12—Interlude.

21:18—1848 in brief. 23:50—Russia in Circassia. 26:49—Britain in Persia. 27:53—Murder by a fanatic. 31:50—Arson & abortion. 34:21—Haitian prince & Cuban cigars. 35:48—Capsized captains. 38:10—Railway mania. 40:18—Mortality in the metropolis. 44:34—Helpful remedies. 47:47—Bad training. 49:15—Equine equivalents. 51:24—An unfit subject. 54:08—Interlude.

55:13—Much right feeling & much hurt. 57:33—The Railway King. 1:00:51—Shot & stabbed & robbed. 1:02:40—Mendacity & mendicity. 1:06:25—Dr. Bramwell, bigamist. 1:09:24—Mary Sullivan, murderess. 1:11:28—The (Dublin) World. 1:13:00—A Yankee & an Irishman in Harlem. 1:17:29—Nativist violence. 1:19:10—Frederick Douglass in Ireland. 1:28:55—Closing.

Interludes: “The Long Day Closes,” Lyrics: Henry Fothergill Chorley, Music: Arthur Sullivan, 1868, performed by St. .Neots Choral Society, 24 Jun. 2017 (public demo, St. Neots Choral Society).

Image: Robert Braithwaite Martineau, Kit’s Writing Lesson, 1852, detail (Wikipedia).

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