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The Victorian Gaslamp Podcast

The Victorian Gaslamp Podcast

By: Heath Aston
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 A history podcast on the Victorian era World
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  • 065 – Go as fast as you like

    065 – Go as fast as you like
    Mar 9 2026

    Dr Mary Murdoch came from a comfortable life and developed a passion of medicine that would see her have a lasting influence on the society she lived in. Advocating women having careers in medicine, a suffragette and car owner she was well known for racing at speed to aid the sick and injured.
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    24 mins
  • 064 – Hit me with your best shot

    064 – Hit me with your best shot
    Feb 23 2026

    Dr Edward Jenner isn’t a name known to most of us yet he can be credited with the title of having saved more people in history than any other person.

    The hideous disease that is smallpox makes an unwelcome visitor to the podcast this episode and we learn of the man that created a new discipline in medicine.
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    19 mins
  • 063 – A bad influence

    063 – A bad influence
    Feb 9 2026

    In the era before social media we didn’t have the concerns of violent or vacuous influences upon out children.

    Well actually we did – and their viral influence continues through to this day. Welcome to the incredible phenomena that were the Penny Dreadfuls.
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    30 mins
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