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Medieval-themed graphic with knights shooting arrows, with one offering another a red rose, below two doves perched in a tree, and a banner reading 'BBC You're Dead To Me' 'Valentine's Special'

You’re Dead to Me Valentine’s Special exploring Georgian love and courtship with the comedian Cariad Lloyd

Promotional image for Dr. Sally Holloway and Jonathan Van Ness' podcast interview for "Getting Curious", showing the two smiling side by side, with pink hearts and pink text

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, ‘What was it like to get loved up in Georgian England?’

A promotional graphic for the Foundling Museum's podcast series, featuring the text "Take this Token podcast" on the left and a selection of tokens bequeathed to foundlings on the right, through a blue filter

Take This Token podcast interview with the Foundling Museum on the bending, breaking and engraving of coins in the formation of relationships

A graphic from the Foundling Museum's "Take this Token" digital exhibition, showing a small heart-shaped ring bequeathed to a child, and the text "Love Tokens" in the right corner

Virtual room on love tokens for the Foundling Museum’s digital exhibition
Take This Token

Poster for the RSC's School for Scandal depicting a woman in 18th-century dress with elaborate pink curly hair decorated with flowers, pearls, a snake, and a bird, blowing a pink bubble gum

Essay on ‘Town Talk’ and the history of gossip in programme for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s The School for Scandal (2024/5)

A pink-tinted photo of Edward Ferrars, as played by the actor Dan Stevens, with the text "Perhaps wearing my fiancee's ring to my potential girlfriend's house was a bad idea?"
The actors Solly McLeod and Sophie Wilde holding hands and running towards the camera against a blue background, from the PBS Masterpieces adaptation of Tom Jones

The Thing About Austen podcast interview on the history of hair and hair-work tokens as romantic gifts

‘The Real Rules of Courtship’, published to coincide with the release of Tom Jones on PBS Masterpieces (2023)

Promotional graphic for the podcast 'Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness' featuring Jonathan Van Ness with a thoughtful expression, surrounded by doodles of various objects on a black chalkboard background, with the podcast title in large blue and purple text
Dr Lucy Worsley and Dr Sally Holloway sitting in the archive at the Library of Birmingham, discussing a bundle of 18th-century letters for the series A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness, Valentine’s Special, ‘What’s the steamy history of Valentine’s Day?’

Historical consultant and interviewee for A Very British Romance with Lucy Worsley,
Episode 1: The Georgians, BBC FOUR

A watercolor painting of a young woman and a young man, both in 19th-century attire, facing each other and engaged in conversation

Interviewed for ‘Beyond words: The 200-year-old hidden languages of dating’, BBC Future (2025)

Colour engraving of a man presenting a seated woman with a love letter in Georgian England, with a piano and sheet music in the background

‘Five Dating Tips from the Georgian Era’, The Conversation (2022)

A Victorian engraving depicting a man kneeling and gazing at a woman in admiration as she undresses, put through a pink filter

BBC History Magazine History Extra podcast interview on eighteenth-century courtship and marriage