Charlotte and Emma discuss a new generation of mothers in literature, why you can’t hack your way out of parenthood, and how to shove the pram out of the hallway. Visit www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com for full footnotes - including links and further reading!

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#25: Mothers, Part II

It’s diplomacy versus invasion as Charlotte and Emma discuss empire, negotiations, violence and ‘meddling’ supranational structures. Will a feminist foreign policy ever be enough, and why should Britain be taken seriously? Visit www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com for full footnotes - including links and further reading.

#24: Foreign Policy, Part I

Episode footnotes – Rebecca Traister’s article on fathers in the presidential election, and seven things not to do in the workplace - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund and buying our merch: a BLOODY-MINDED t-shirt and FEMINIST sweatshirt!

#23: Mothers, Part I - Working Mums

When the health of the nation is more important than the individual: Emma and Charlotte discuss the 19th-century pseudo-scientific invention that continues to feed racist thought, ideology and action. Episode footnotes - including raw eggs in pregnancy recommendations, all about the Fabians and eugenics and how the British working class became white - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund and buying our merch: a BLOODY-MINDED t-shirt and FEMINIST sweatshirt!

#22: Eugenics - racism, classism, and free milk

Emma and Charlotte get festive by watching The Crown before discussing the problematic humanisation of the royal family, racism and modernisation, dramatic licence and what honour and obedience is really about. Plus: our favourite Reese Witherspoon films. Episode footnotes - including what Clarie Foy thinks of corsets, all you need to know about the Profumo Affair, Prince Philip's racism, the plans already in place for the Queen's funeral and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund (if you do so, we'll send you TNK merch as a thank-you) - read more here.

#21: The (Second) Christmas Special

Consent, power relationships and career-ending moments: Charlotte and Emma discuss the #MeToo movement, testifying as punishment, and how to keep the anger alive. Episode footnotes - including Tarana Burke's founding of the 'me too' movement, the original Harvey Weinstein investigations by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Ronan Farrow, the idea of perfect victimhood and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund (if you do so, we'll send you TNK merch as a thank-you) - read more here.

#20: #MeToo - consent, power and career-ending moments

Emma and Charlotte discuss populism and polarisation, how economic precarity and racism aren’t mutually exclusive, and what is happening in Sweden right now. Plus: Charlotte’s guide to the ‘no-go zone’ of Tower Hamlets… Episode footnotes - including updates on the Swedish election, Charlotte's review of Douglas Carswell's book, links to the works of Lynsey Hanley and Dominic Hinde and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund (if you do so, we'll send you TNK merch as a thank-you) - read more here.

#19: Elections – Part II

Charlotte and Emma discuss glass cliffs, ticking the wrong box and how proportional representation is a lot like a bag of pick and mix. Plus: why losing an election could be a good thing. Episode footnotes - including all you might want to know about the Great Offices of State, the most gender-equal government in the world, what Tony Blair might smell like, and Paddy Pantsdown - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund (if you do so, we'll send you TNK merch as a thank-you) - read more here.

#18: Elections – Part I

It’s Germany-Sweden all over again as Charlotte and Emma discuss women’s place in football, the question of expertise and why Neymar could pay the salaries of 1,693 female players in the top leagues. Plus: What we owe Nettie Honeyball... Episode footnotes - including everything you could possibly want to know about the history of women's football in the UK, Sweden's miraculous bronze in 1994, Charlotte’s article for History Workshop Online and the story behind Bastian Schweinsteiger's bloodied face in 2014 - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund - read more here.

#17 The [Men’s] World Cup Special

Charlotte and Emma discuss national identity, belonging and how the inhumane ‘hostile environment’ created by the British Home Office over the past decade fits into a much longer history of British immigration policy. Plus: British aspirations versus historical realities, and how to lose people on purpose. Episode footnotes - including things links to the Life in the UK test, the Coming Home to Jamaica booklet, Jimmy Thoronka's story and Imtiaz Dharker’s ‘Minority’ - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund - read more here.

#16: Windrush, Citizenship, Empire & Migration

Charlotte and Emma discuss fiction as a source for political history, comfort reads, classics bound up in class and the problem with Elena Ferrante’s book covers. Plus: join the TNK book club. Episode footnotes - including things about the Mitfords, Charlotte's least favourite book, Swedish proletariat literature and links to every single work of fiction that we mention - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund - read more here.

#15: How to Read

“Say something clever here.” How to condense 40 years of history into three paragraphs, coping with first lines and deadlines, the tyranny of the blank page and playing procrastination chicken. Plus: Charlotte’s most embarrassing writing story and our best books. Episode footnotes - including all you need to know about Pomodoro, links to things we have written, Nick Laird's take on thinking time and a long quote from Hilary Mantel - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund - read more here.

#14: How To Write

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin discuss Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s anger, the politics of household budgets, militant motherhood and much more. Episode footnotes - including June Jordan's poem, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela obituaries, research on militant motherhood, sugar boycotts and much, much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we'd love to hear your thoughts on our episodes, and are very keen to answer any questions you might have. We're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund - read more here.

#13: Activism, Part II

Demonstrations, placards and secret deals: what so significant about women’s activism? Charlotte and Emma discuss second-wave feminists, Greenham Common and Mary Whitehouse. Episode footnotes - including links to Audre Lorde's poem, Valerie Amos' article, research on Greenham Common and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter! You can also support us by donating to our hosting fund - read more here.

#12: Activism, Part I

What happens to Labour and labour history when we focus on the women? Charlotte Lydia Riley and Emma Lundin discuss women's place in workplace politics, why the precariat needs to be unionised, and how we are all labourers. Episode footnotes - including Marge Piercy's poem, our favourite books by Cynthia Enloe and much more - are available at www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com Get in touch: we're on Twitter as @TNKpod (also @lottelydia and @emmaelinor) and Facebook (@TNKpod). Send us an email at tomorrowneverknowspod@gmail.com or subscribe to our newsletter!

#11: Women, Organise!

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.

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