The History of Fandom, 1700-1900 (Live)
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What's a Murch?
In the nineteenth century, one of the biggest sort of celebrity murch crazers was there was a whole thing called cartamania. Hundreds of millions of these were sold in the 18 sixties and they were like the penine football cards of their day. And i suppose if you've got like, a tea shirt of something, or a little card that you can have put on your on your lapel then it's a means of identifying yourself to other fands,. isn't it? It's like standing out. Ser so, mcartomania brings us to the mania section. We'll talk more, ora littlbt, about something in your new once window
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