Work And Play 5: The Decline Of Work Time

Making of a Historian

We're been on a bit of a hiatus in this series. Who knew it'd be hard to juggle teaching, raising a kid, and writing a dissertation? But given the shelter in place of COVID-19, I thought it would be a good time to resume the podcast and try to get through the rest of the episodes in this series. Warning: I'm joined in this podcast by a special guest, my three month old daughter Bina! She has a lot of opinions in the early minutes of this episode, and kinda gets her dad off of his game a little bit. This episode we talk about how in general people in Britain over the second half of the 19th century worked LESS, and how we can use this to understand some of the different ways that historians understand what moves history forward.