Ep.23 – Hit me with your whiffle stick

We're back! This week we're speaking with self-proclaimed 'sweary Prof', Dr Tracey Hill. Tracey is currently professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at Bath Spa University. In this episode we find out why the emblem of Envy always had her tits out while eating a human heart, why Early Modern pageants were a major fire hazard, and what on earth a whiffler is. We also learn about the role of rhinos in civic pageantry, what hippos have to do with anything (they don't), and why the Lord Mayor's show is considered to be an 'acoustic assault'.

You can find out about Tracey's big AHRC project here: https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/projects/civic-london/ and follow her on Twitter @TraceLarkhall