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Brought to you by Mandylion®, 1-800-1800 is your guide to 19th-century history, art, literature, culture, and scandal. Each episode, we dial into a random year of the 1800s to gab about the chaos that shaped the modern world. Hosted by Madeline Porsella and Mabel Taylor, two Victorian Nightgown Girls and historians of art and design, 1-800-1800 delivers rigorous research with a healthy dose of gossip. So pick up the phone, the nineteenth century’s calling! More Mandylion®: mandylionpress.com mandylion.substack.com instagram.com/mandylionpress Music by Jeronimo Ezquerro Aguilar-Alvarez. mandylion.substack.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchBrought to you by Mandylion®, 1-800-1800 is your guide to 19th-century history, art, literature, culture, and scandal. Each episode, we dial into a random year of the 1800s to gab about the chaos that shaped the modern world.
1-800-1800 is hosted by Mandylion Press. The show has published 43 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "1-800-1871 (feat. Sara Hinkley)" (19 May 2026, 74 minutes), "1-800-1841: London's Charivari" (5 May 2026, 79 minutes), and "1-800-The Princess Cassamissima" (30 April 2026, 2 minutes).
1-800-1800 publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 48 minutes across 43 episodes.
Booking probability for 1-800-1800 is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. 1-800-1800 requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. 1-800-1800's contact route on record: verified email.
Mandylion Press hosts 1-800-1800, an arts podcast with 43 episodes published.
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<p>This week we are very excited to welcome the brilliant Sara Hinkley onto 1-800-1800 to discuss her forthcoming novel The Red Sacrament. Sara’s brilliant debut tells the story of a theater troupe of vampires, set...
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<p>Madeline and Mabel discuss the founding of Punch Magazine, the most popular satirical magazine of the 19th century, and muse on its enduring influence. The girls also touch on a sensational murder/botched abortion...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>Book Club Alert !! This week the girls recap Henry James's The Princess Cassamissima, the story of a young man of...
<p>On this week’s episode, Madeline takes us back to her material culture roots to tell the story of the British abolition movement through one object, the Wedgwood “Slave Medallion.” Join us to learn about the object...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>Mandylion now has a book club at McNally Jackson called the Minor Works book club. Each month we read a forgotten novel...
<p>What Hath God Wrought, indeed! </p><p>This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel tells Madeline what a telegraph is. She starts in 1792 with the one and only Claude Chappe, a man so passionate about the optical semaphore...
<p>This week, Madeline and Mabel discuss the origins of Mormonism and how its founder, Joseph Smith, continues to influence the modern day iteration of the religion. Hypocrisy, hucksterism, hats, bad bets, and talking...
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<p>In this special episode of 1-800-1800, Madeline and Mabel discuss Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as well as Emerald Fennell’s film adaptation starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. The girls cover impossible...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>Good morning starshine! President James Garfield says hello!</p><p>This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel and Madeline discuss the...
<p>This week on 1-800-1800, Julia Carpenter, who writes the brilliant Substack “A Woman to Know,” joins us to discuss the Bavarian princess who was convinced that she had swallowed a glass piano. Our conversation covers...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>Last week, Mabel and Madeline braved a blizzard to go see The Testament of Ann Lee in theaters. In this episode, hear...
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<p>On the first episode of the new year, Mabel and Madeline consider the tortoise and discuss the sweatshirtification of Hokusai’s The Great Wave. We go deep on Prussian Blue, Japanese wood-block printing and its...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>This week Madeline and Mabel read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and discuss Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation for Netflix. We...
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<p>This week on 1-800-1800, Madeline guides us through the horrifying world of early 19th century meat batteries and an experiment to raise a malefactor hanged at newgate prison from the dead. Listen for all the facts...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>This week on 1-800-1800, Mabel and Madeline discuss their new book Elsie Venner with a VERY special guest: Mabel’s dad...
<p>Today a man told me that pugs are “inherently naked” and now I can’t think about anything else for long enough to write an episode description. I hope you listen to the podcast anyway, it’s a doozy
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>In this special episode of 1-800-1800, the Mandylion girls discuss, debate, and fawn over their new book, The Hill of...
<p>This week’s episode goes out to our book designer Emily and her HUSBAND Jerónimo. They inspired this deep dive into the most important wedding of the 19th century: Victoria & Albert’s!!! We talk about the music...
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit mandylion.substack.com<br/><br/><p>Hey beautiful people! 1-800-1800 is back with this month’s bonus episode featuring THE MORGESONS!! Herein we discuss the...
<p>1-800-1800 is back baby. This month Mabel and Madeline talk about everything in 1865 except for the death of Abraham Lincoln. That means we’re talking refrigerated fish. We’re talking the audacity of ice cream. We’re...
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