Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

Gaslighting to Woke: Origins of Modern Buzzwords

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Episode notes

What does it mean to be 'woke'? What did the bluesman Leadbelly mean when he coined the phrase? And what does a story set in Victorian London have to do with the term gaslighting?

Joining Kate today is Robbie Morgan, Lecturer and Consultant in Applied Ethics at Leeds University, to chat about the buzzwords we use and how their meanings have changed for better and worse since they were first coined.

This episode was edited and produced by Stuart Beckwith. The senior producer was Charlotte Long.

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