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Tiger Tamer | 5. crazy about wheelbarrows
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Mar 21, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The great wheelbarrow craze of 1886-7 was a short-lived media sensation, witnessing a flood of people charging from Scotland to London with barrows. One man had kicked off this bizarre trend – Bob Carlisle. In the fifth episode of our series on this larger-than-life character of the Victorian age, David Musgrove talks to Bob Nicholson to explore the genesis of 19th-century Britain’s strangest crazes, and reveal what happened to Bob Carlisle while the wheelbarrow craze was in full swing.
The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine.
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Released:
Mar 21, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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