Hi there, We've got a little bit of an update for you on the Working Class History podcast and its future. So last year, on a trial basis, we began producing and releasing much more frequent podcast episodes, and so we release new episodes either publicly or on our Patreon every week. Patreon is how listeners like you make our work possible and enables us to cover the cost of making the podcast and doing order the rest of our historical research
and outreach. Some podcast series that we work on take several years, hundreds of hours of work and cost thousands of dollars, not to mention the costs of our web services, research materials, and more. We're only able to devote the time and resources it takes to make this podcast because
of support from you, our listeners. So last year we also started releasing at least one exclusive bonus episode on Patreon every month at patreon dot com slash working Class History link in the show notes, started two new discussion podcast series, Fireside Chats and Radical Reads, just for our
Patreon supporters. Our hope was that by releasing more episodes on Patreon, that would enable us to get more supporters and raise funds to enable us to make more regular episodes which were free for everyone, as well as produce more of our written content which is also available free
for all. And we're very grateful to you because we have been able to grow our number of supporters on Patreon and produce much more regular podcast episodes which are available free to everyone, in addition to our more regular bonus episodes. Now, as I said, initially, we were doing this on a trial basis, but we've actually managed to keep up with weekly releases for a year and a half at this point, which is a lot longer than
we thought we'd be able to go on. However, we've not been able to grow our support enough to do more than this, especially given inflation and increases in our costs over the years, so we've finally got to the end of the episodes we've managed to fund and prepare in this time. So now we're going to be taking a little end of season break from the regular weekly episodes. We'll be returning with a new season of free episodes
in the new year. In the meantime, we will be continuing with our release of bonus episodes for our Patroon supporters every month. So with inflation and our costs access to our exclusive content on Patreon has been the same price for over five years now. Meanwhile, inflation and prices in general have gone up by twenty five percent, and
our costs have gone up by even more than that. Therefore, we won't be able to keep making these episodes at the same rate without increasing the cost for new supporters. But we will be keeping the cost of accessing all of our exclusive content on Patreon to five dollars per month with a discount if you subscribe annually until the
end of twenty twenty five. For everyone who joins us before then, your price will be permanently locked in at the five dollar level, But from the beginning of twenty twenty six U six, we're going to have to increase it for new members to six dollars a month, although
still with the discount if you subscribe annually. So if you want to lock in the low price from pre covid days back in twenty twenty when prices were much lower, please do join us today, support our work and access loads of great content and benefits, including early access to all episodes with our ads, access to our back catalog, and access to our exclusive bonus episodes. Every month. Learn more and sign up at patreon dot com slash working
class History link in the show notes. We have loved being able to release new episodes for you every week, and we would love to be able to get back to doing that in the new year. So if you want to be able to get more frequent episodes, please do join us today on Patreon again. That's patreon dot com slash working class History link in the show notes. In the meantime, we wishoot all the best for the
end of the year. Over the break, we're going to continue working on a whole bunch of exciting new episodes and miniseries to release for you next year, so we hope you compare with us during this time. If you haven't listened to all of our old episodes yet, why not take this time to go back and give our earlier ones a listen. There is a lot of good stuff in there. To all of our listeners. Thank you so much for listening to our podcast over the last few years. We hope to be back in your ears
really soon with new content. All the best and catch you next time.