190. Jubilees
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190. Jubilees mentions The White Man's Burden by Rudyard Kipling, Recessional by Rudyard Kipling, Pax Britannica by Jan Morris, and Andrew Roberts with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
the message of the white man's burden is utterly different from that of, and that's the fascinating thing about Kipling.
the famous verse in it far called our navies melt away on dune and headland sinks, the fire low, all our pomp of yesterday is one with Nineveh and ti…
That was Jan Morris writing the middle volume of Pax Britannica describing the Jubilee procession.
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- A second recurring theme is George III's mental health.
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“The poem that he originally started writing, the white man's burden is the poem he started writing in the Jubilee year.”
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“The poem that he writes isn't at all what people have been expecting because it's called recessional.”
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“Jan Morris takes as the centerpiece of the entire book, Pax Britannica, the Jubilee.”
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“I was reading Andrew Roberts, his biography that came out last year. And he's basically spent the last 10 years of his life weeping uncontrollably and endlessly tying up handkerchiefs.”
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“It's the year of H. Ryder Haggard's book. She, you know, Lord Salisbury gave what the cabinet gave.”
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“So 1887 is the year of a study in Scarlet. It's the year of H. Ryder Haggard's book.”
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The host discusses Rudyard Kipling's complex relationship with empire, highlighting both his celebration of it and his awareness of its flaws. This…
The host discusses Rudyard Kipling's poem 'Recessional' as a significant literary response to the British Empire's Jubilee. They highlight how the…
The host mentions 'Pax Britannica' to highlight the grandeur and significance of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee as a representation of British im…
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Jubilee
“Derek Jarman made a film called Jubilee the following year, where Elizabeth I is transported into the present and encounters a punk-filled Britain.”