If you ask for a pizza, you get a whole pizza that's only one-fifth baked. If you ask for a fifth of Scotch, you just get the mash. If you ask for five minutes to think, you get five minutes of sitting through loud, off-key humming.

Continued from Friday’s episode.

Video: Historian Answers Victorian England Questions

Dr. Bob Nicholson is a wonderful historian of Victoriana — with a special focus on the printed material of the era. I’ve enjoyed following his work for some time!

In this video for Wired, he does a lovely job answering reader questions about Victorian England.


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