Biographicon

The Ephemeral Tate Wilkinson, with Gillian Russell

In All Saints Pavement Church in York City Centre, there is a marble plaque high on the wall, dedicated to one of the most famous provincial theatre...

Mind your grammar! Barbara Crosbie on Anne Fisher

In this episode, Barbara Crosbie and I talk about why modern English's first female grammarian, Anne Fisher, was such a trailblazer, and the work Barbara...

Joseph Ritson's Revolution, with Jon Mee

Professor Jon Mee from the University of York joins me in this episode to talk about the cantankerous northern antiquarian Joseph Ritson, the man who...

Psychogeography & Thomas Spence, with Alastair Bonnett

Be warned – you may risk arrest if you listen to this podcast!

In this first episode of Biographicon, Professor Alastair Bonnett and I explore...

What is Biographicon?

"By separating into one biographicon this peculiar class of lives, a philanthropic emulation would be excited, a debt of social gratitude would...