Making Of A Historian

In this EXTRA SLEEPY EPISODE we talk 19th century childhood: Christmas, child labor, and the cult of the family.

In this episode, we figure out how Mount Everest got its name, and why it was very hard to do a census of India.

In this episode I talk a little bit about the rise of the counted world in Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. We touch on the census, on the General Records Office, and the feud over whether Paris or London had more suicides. More information at historian.live.

Welcome to Making of a Historian, a podcast chronicling one graduate student's quest to study for his comprehensive exams. In this episode, I explain what the comprehensive exams are, and why they freak graduate students out.