Tomorrow Never Knows

Emma Elinor Lundin and Charlotte Lydia Riley

Tomorrow Never Knows is a podcast by historians Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin in which we share our thoughts based on what we know, what we've heard, what we've seen and what we've listened to.

  1. 05/10/2023

    #27: Foreign Policy (Part II)

    FOOTNOTES Foreign Policy Part I is episode #24 - listen to that here; Sarah Crook & Charlie Jeffries' book, in which Charlotte has a chapter, is called Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s. It was published by SUNY Press in 2022. Charlotte's chapter is called "Spiritualists, ideologues, pragmatists, feminists, and women of all descriptions": The British Women's Liberation Movement, the UN Decade for Women, and Feminist Transnationalism in Spare Rib. Read more about Sarah here and Charlie here, and the book here; Joceyln Olcott’s book is International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History and it was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. Read more about Jocelyn’s work here; Charlotte’s book - Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain - was published a few weeks ago, and a must-have (according to Emma who keeps buying every copy she sees - let’s hope Waterstones on Argyle Street in Glasgow have managed a re-up since my visit…). Buy your copy here! Charlotte’s chapter in Rethinking Labour's Past - an edited by Nathan Yeowell and published by I.B. Tauris in 2022 - is called ‘This Party is a Moral Crusade or it is Nothing’: Labour and Ethical Identity at Home and Abroad; ‘Swedish parliament elects new PM backed by far right', a BBC news story from 17 October 2022; Many thanks to the editors of this Wikipedia page on Sweden’s relation with NATO and Erdoğan who seemingly don’t tire easily; This is the UN’s take on Feminist Foreign Policy - Emma hopes to publish something on the topic in 2024; Kate Law is a historian at the University of Nottingham; the research network she runs with Emma is called Global Solidarity Activism: Connecting Local and Global Histories; Swedish research ethics law is complicated; Theresa May’s feminist t-shirt and Frida Kahlo bracelet featured in TNK episode #2, back in 2017. Listen to that here; The full quote from Veep is “You have achieved nothing, apart from one thing: the fact that you are a woman means we will have no more women presidents. Because we tried one, and she f—ing sucked.” Read a recap of Season 4 Episode 5 (Convention) here; We talk about the gendering of women in politics in episode #2, episode #11, and episode #13; Emma was on Progressive Britain talking about women in politics in the autumn of 2022 - listen here; There are plenty of videos of Liz Truss’ gaffs on the internet; This is how the BBC reported on the criticism in Foreign Affairs Select Committee report on the evacuation of Afghanistan; Here’s Nigel Farage’s last speech in the European Parliament; Emma recently took 25 students and colleagues to the Scottish Parliament for First Minister’s Questions - which is by far her favourite parliamentary debate forum as of now; Amineh Kakabaveh was born in Kurdistan, trained as a guerilla fighter, arrived in Sweden at the age 19 and was an MP in the Swedish parliament 2008-2022; Emma first spotted Swedish foreign minister Tobias Billström’s phone cases in this Sydsvenskan article (they also feature in our episode header photo); Here are Tony Benn and Hilary Benn’s speeches on Iraq and Syria respectively, as featured by BBC News; Here is Robin Cook’s resignation speech, as recorded by Hansard, on 17 March 2003; Emma runs an online module on anti-apartheid activism - in South Africa and in a global perspective - in the autumn of 2024; ‘Sweden's new right-wing govt slashes development aid’, The Local, 8 November 2022; Barbara Castle features in plenty of TNK episodes, like this one; DfID was the Department for International Development, founded on the election of the Labour government in 1997 and dissolved by Boris Johnson in 2020; Here’s the House of Commons’ Library’s research briefing on the 0.7% development aid target; Sarah Champion is a Labour MP since 2012; Clare Short was a Labour MP 1983-2006 and an independent MP 2006-2010; Emily Baughan is a historian at the University of Sheffield, while Tehila Sasson is a historian at Emory. Read more about Emily here, and Tehila here; Mary Agnes Hamilton features in TNK Episode #2 - listen here; AJP Taylor’s distinction between pacifism and pacifists is: “Pacificists are those who favour peaceful foreign policies and who seek to develop international institutions for the promotion of peace. Pacifism in its pure form is a total rejection of war as an instrument of policy.” London Review of Books, 2 October 1980; Cynthia Enloe is one of our favourites. We spoke about her in episode #11, which you can listen to here. The poem is Richard Siken’s Landscape with a Blur of Conquerors: Land a man in a landscape and he’ll try to conquer it. Make him handsome and you’re a fascist, make him ugly and you’re saying nothing new. The conqueror suits up and takes the field, his horse already painted in beneath him. What do you do with a man like that? Read the whole poem here. Charlotte also quotes a line from Richard’s poem Little Beast - read that here. OUR RECOMMENDATIONS Emma is recommending Literary Friction by Carrie Plitt and Octavia Bright, which you’ll find on Apple Podcasts here, Patreon here, and NTS Radio here. It is the perfect soundtrack to walks, runs, flights and lots more. One of Emma’s favourite books of 2023 is Amy Liptrot’s The Instant - listen to the episode of Literary Friction that made her run to the (online) shop to buy it here; Charlotte is recommending If Books Could Kill by Michael Hobbes and Peter Shamshiri - you’ll find it on Apple Podcasts here and Spotify here. THE NEXT EPISODE… …is not yet recorded, but future episodes will be on borders, the Second World War, publishing and poverty. We’re also planning a new Christmas special (here’s the first one, which was about Mad Men, and here’s the second, on The Crown).

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  2. 11/08/2023

    #26: TNK returns!

    The end of the four-year hiatus: Charlotte and Emma discuss covid, childcare and careers, plus how to handle great historical moments, and possibly record them too. Visit www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com for a full list of episodes and our epic footnotes. EPISODE #26 FOOTNOTES Our last pre-hiatius episode was this one, #25: Mothers, Part II – presence and representation; Emma went on parental leave between Episode #20: #MeToo and Episode #22: Eugenics. That looks cheery, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, we squeezed in Episode #21: The (Second) Christmas Special (on The Crown) in the middle of it all; Charlotte’s book is Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain, and it’s published by Penguin on 24 August 2023. Pre-order your copy from your local bookshop or order it on Hive.co.uk! The exhibition at the Southbank Centre that we went to was In The Black Fantastic, which was at the Hayward Gallery between June and September 2022. Read more about it and see photos and videos here; We were going to link to lots of stuff on British and Swedish childcare systems, but we’ll save that for a stand-alone episode instead. In the meantime, sign up to Emily Baughan’s Substack newsletter Playgroup: children, community, and the family in contemporary Britain here; When Emma talks about the bleak, dark days of the pandemic, they were sometimes very dark – literally. Here’s a chart of average monthly hours of sunshine in Malmö in southern Sweden; The Mass Observation Archive records everyday life in Britain since 1937. Read more about online at www.massobs.org.uk It also has a podcast! Tony Kushner’s We Europeans? Mass-Observation, Race and British Identity in the Twentieth Century was published as a paperback by Routledge in 2016. Read more about Tony’s work here; James Hinton has published several anthologies and books on Mass Observation – you’ll find one here, and more about James here; Charlotte also recommends Claire Langhamer’s work on Mass Observation – you’ll find an article of hers here, and more about Claire here; Read more about Eve Colpus is Charlotte’s colleague at Southampton – read more about Eve here; ‘What the Hell Is a ‘Geriatric Millennial’ and How To Find Out if You're One’, Vice, 19 May 2021; Helen McCarthy’s article about age as a historian is called ‘Time and the Middle-Aged Historian’ and was published by History Workshop on 23 March 2023. Read more about Helen here; Eric Hobsbawm said “Every historian has his or her lifetime, a private perch from which to survey the world,” in his 1993 Creighton Lecture. Hobsbawm, who was born in 1917, died in 2012. Sociologists Beverley Skeggs & Helen Wood’s Reacting to Reality Television Performance, Audience and Value was published in 2012 by Routledge. Read more about Beverley Skeggs here and more about Helen Wood here; Listen to Episode #24: Foreign policy part I here - Part II is coming soon! The poem is Kate Baer’s Reasons to Log Off. It starts like this: The girl who said she could never eat a second slice of pizza my senior year of college is doing really well. My cousin posts a photo of a loaded gun. Have I ever heard of the Second Amendment? Have I ever heard of this new recipe? Read the whole poem – or hear Kate read it herself – at the New Yorker here. OUR RECOMMENDATIONS Charlotte is recommending Alison by Lizzy Stewart, which was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2022. Buy it in your local bookshop or on Hive.co.uk here. Here’s an interview – with plenty of photos from the book – on It’s Nice That. Lizzy Stewart’s picture book is called There’s a Tiger in the Garden, and it’s one of Emma’s favourites. Emma is recommending The Instant by Amy Liptrot, which was published by Canongate in 2022. Buy it in your local bookshop or on Hive.co.uk here. THE NEXT EPISODE… …is the long-awaited second part in our two-part series on foreign policy. Listen to the first one here.

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Tomorrow Never Knows is a podcast by historians Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin in which we share our thoughts based on what we know, what we've heard, what we've seen and what we've listened to.