It’s 1665. You’re walking up a hill. It’s quiet, no one about. On your right is what will, in two hundred years’ time, become High Barnet tube station. You keep walking. It’s awfully quiet. Deserted. The buildings are boarded up. A crow caws in the distance. But otherwise it’s quiet, silent.

Three stories involving pirates, prisons, and plots to kill the king.

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Roundness is a cross-disciplinary podcast produced by the Queen's Library at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. https://www.qebarnet.co.uk

Sources:

• John Marincowitz, Developments in English education over 450 years, with particular reference to Queen Elizabeth’s School, Barnet from 1573 to 2023 (forthcoming 2023).
• Edward Impey and Geoffrey Parnell, The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History (2000).
• Kirstin Evenden, "The ‘Popish Midwife: Printed Representations of Elizabeth Cellier and Midwifery Practice in Late Seventeenth-Century London", RACAR Canadian Art Review 20:1/2 (1993), pp. 43-59.
• Sheila Williams, “The Pope-Burning Processions of 1679, 1680 and 1681”, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 21:1/2 (1958), pp. 104-118.

Episode illustration: Geography - monsoons at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Additional music: Agora, Mirah, Lee Rosevere, and Doctor Turtle.

"Doctor Talos Answers The Door" and “Clusticus The Mistaken” by Doctor Turtle licensed under CC BY 4.0.

"All I Have Left Are These Photographs", "The Past", "I Don't Want To Be Like Him" by Lee Rosevere licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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