The Frost Fair

Tales of History and Imagination

Happy Holidays all! This week we travel back to the Thames river, scene of The Revenge of the Tallysticks, to discuss the Great Frost Fair of 1683-4.

Tales of History and Imagination will be back with some new episodes on January 25th 2023. In the meantime I’m hoping to re-upload several older episodes. Keep an eye on the social media accounts for details as I’ll be dropping them back into the feed whenever they’re done…

Sources this week include: This was part of a much longer episode which, on first pass ran to two hours - and contained a dozen shorter tales - so I consulted articles rather than books this week.

This History Today blog post, this Historic UK dot com article, this Museum of London article, this Art UK article

And a couple of jstor articles (which will be paywalled to most people) were consulted.

I should also mention, Dr Sean Munger’s Second Decade podcast episode on the Last Frost Fair got me tuned into this topic. Though at time of writing Sean hasn’t posted a new episode to Second Decade for 18 months, I strongly recommend his show.

The blog post of the episode is here.

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Music, writing, narration, mixing normally all yours truly. This week I threw together covers of

Sleigh Ride (Leroy Anderson).
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Traditional, thought to have been written in response to a spate of newer-sounding hymns in the 1500s)
And Winter Wonderland (Felix Bernard & Richard Bernhard Smith)

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