
It’s Black History month, and we all watched Bridgerton (and a certain Duke) over Christmas, right? We invite Madeleine Robins back and start pondering how to make our writing accurately reflect the cultural mélange that existed in London and beyond. From racism to classism, our writers look at our inherent biases, how “common knowledge” of history isn’t, and how it takes something evocative with a new spin to challenge our ideas of history.
- Madeleine on Twitter @MadERobins
- Madeleine on FaceBook
- Madeleine’s Sarah Tolerance books
- Madeleine’s other Regency novels
- Madeleine’s Episode 43 WDC visit
Mentions from Episode 90:
- Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series
- Black People in the Regency
- Georgette Heyer
- Jane Aiken Hodge
- Dashiell Hammett
- What is SAFD?
- Black fencing masters in history
- The legal case in London that early in the anti-slavery movement
- Black London – read it for free online!
- Black Saints and Heraldry
- From Tolerance to Intolerance – in Elizabeth’s England
- Queen Charlotte
- Alexander Dumas’ father – The Black Count – Biography of the real Count of Monte Cristo
- 1942 Japanese Internment Camps
- The Gangs of New York by Herbert Asbury
- Louisa May Alcott
- Last Act by Jane Aiken Hodge
- Baroness Orczy
- American Bookbinders Museum