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Music courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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Sources:

Opening quotes:
“Essay on Modern Love”, in The Drogheda Journal, 7th April 1832, pg 4
France, Miranda, “I, Fay”, in Scotland on Sunday, 18th January 1998, pg 6
“Modern Men Too Soft”, in The Evening Telegraph, 17th March 1924, pg 2
“Silver Weddings”, in The Magnet, 19th March 1888, pg 2
“Too Soft”, in the Lancashire Daily Post, 8th July 1909, pg 4

Anon, “Modern Refinement: A Satire”, 1777, pg 18-19, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
Brown, “An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times”, (Henry and Robert Joy, 1758), pg 20, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
Grosley, M., “A Tour To London”, 1772, pg 94, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
Knowyourmeme.com, “Hard Times Create Strong Men”, https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hard-t…
Lyttleton, Thomas, “The Vauxhall Affray; or, Macaronies Defeated”, 1773, pg 59, https://archive.org/details/bim_eight…
McNeil, Peter, “Pretty Gentlemen: Macaroni Men and the Eighteenth-Century Fashion World” (Yale University Press, 2018)
Miller, M. L. 2009. “Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.”

00:00 Introduction
02:27 What Is A Macaroni?
09:45 Why Macaronis Are Heralds of the End Times
12:43 Is It A Gay Thing?
23:39 Outro

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