"Letters Home" podcast

Letters Home is a short series podcast enlivening and exploring the letters of the English sisters Elizabeth Gwillim and Mary Symonds in 1801-1807 while they were in Madras, India. The letters are read aloud and followed by conversations with the researchers in ornithology, history of science, botany, art history, among others. Interviews explore researcher’s experience with the materials through their chosen field and background, highlighting their case study or chapter from the recently published book Women, Environment, Networks of Empire. Available on all platforms, the episodes are released every other Sunday. You can listen to the first two episodes here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/letters-home/id176695425

Ciel Haviland hosted and produced this podcast while finishing her MA at McGill University and completed post-production while in her first year of her PhD program at Stanford.