Blindboy (Host)

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7,390 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 1 Sep

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The Blindboy Podcast · A cultural history of Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman Jokes · 1 Sep 2026 podcast

Working men's clubs started to pop up. voice-verified

Mid to late Industrial Revolution, 1860s onwards. voice-verified

Now when I said they weren't pubs, they emerged as a response to pubs. voice-verified

So you have this large industrial working class, England, Scotland and Wales, north of Ireland too. voice-verified

I'd be surprised if there wasn't one or two in maybe Limerick or Dublin, but I'm gonna stick with England. voice-verified

So with the Industrial Revolution you've got. voice-verified

Steel workers, miners, all of these separate industries, a margin, and a new industrial working class, urban industrial working class, whose grandparents might have been peasants in a field, and w when the men were finished working in the steel mill or working in the coal mine. voice-verified

They'd all just they'd go to the pub 'cause they'd have money in their pockets, and they'd go to the pub and get shit faced. voice-verified

Spend all their money in the pub to a private pub landlord. voice-verified

You gotta realize that voice-verified

The Industrial Revolution and the modern industrial city, I'm talking 1750s onwards, introduced things like widespread alcoholism, the widespread trauma of addiction that comes with industrially produced gin. voice-verified

Look up the paintings and drawings of William Hogarth from the 1700s, a drawing of his voice-verified

Like Jin Lane used to draw. voice-verified

I suppose you'd call him satirical cartoons maybe, but it was more of a like a social realism and he would portray working class people living in in industrial slums, suffering from the poverty of gin addiction. voice-verified

So the temperance movement started to emerge during the Victorian era to move the urban industrial working classes away from destructive voice-verified

Alcohol consumption. voice-verified

So from that comes the working men's clubs from the 1850s. voice-verified

Where can all the miners and their families gather to let off steam after work in a space which isn't exclusively focused on getting a shit faced? voice-verified

So that the working men's club, it was a cooperative, they were cooperatives. voice-verified

So they weren't necessarily run for profit. voice-verified

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