Travel back to the early-19th century (and your childhood) with Mary Poppins! Join us for a discussion of constables, bank runs, Dick van Dyke's accent, screevers and buskers, and more! Sources: Film Background: "Mary Poppins," IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv Robin Raven, "What the Mary Poppins Author Really Thought of the Original Movie," Readers Digest, available at https://www.rd.com/article/mary-poppins-p-l-travers/ Maane Khatchatourian, "Tom Hanks: PL Travers Would Hate 'Saving Mr Banks'" Variety, available at https://variety.com/2013/scene/news/tom-hanks-p-l-travers-would-hate-saving-mr-banks-1200940630/ Cockney Accent: New York Times, "Michael Caine: An Accent that Broke Through Class Barriers," available at https://youtu.be/XBjp1oEZcwU "Cockney Accent," British Library. Available at https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/cockney-accent-freddie-ridley-road-market "Cockney," Encyclopedia Britannica, available at https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cockney Derek B. Scott, "The Music-Hall Cockney: Flesh, Blood, or Replicant?" Music and Letters 83, 2 (2002) Dialects Archive: England. Available at https://www.dialectsarchive.com/england Melissa Hogenboom, "What Does Your Accent Say About You?" BBC. Available at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180307-what-does-your-accent-say-about-you Bank Runs: William Dalrymple, "The East India Company: The Original Corporate Raiders," The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/east-india-company-original-corporate-raiders Richard B. Sheridan, "The British Credit Crisis of 1772 and the American Colonies," Journal of Economic History 20, 2 (1960) Henry Hamilton, "The Failure of Ayre Bank," Economic History Review 8, 3 (1956) Christopher Klein, "10 Things You Might Not Know About the Boston Tea Party," History.com, available at https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-boston-tea-party Constables: Philip Rawlings, Policing: a short history (Willan, 2002). Joanne Klein, Invisible Men: The Secret Lives of Police Constables in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham, 1900-1939 (Liverpool University Press, 2010). Clive Emsley, Hard men: the English and violence since 1750 (Hambledon and London, 2005). Buskers and Screevers: Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance" Gresham College https://youtu.be/Ja9wnrusGdQ Dr. Paul Simpson, "The History of Street Performance: 'Music by handle' and the Silencing of Street Musicians in the Metropolis," Gresham College https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/the-history-of-street-performance Dale Chapman, "The 'one-man band' and entrepreneurial selfhood in neoliberal culture," Popular Music