Podcast: How To Be Posh

If you’re going to be posh, you need to know that this is no state in which to leave a tea table. Image: Still Life: Tea Set, ca. 1781–83, painting by Jean-Étienne Liotard. Public Domain

Podcast: 52 Minutes. Listen Now, or Download to Your Favorite App for Later, by clicking on “Listen in Podcast App” above right.

What does it mean to be posh? And how did you become posh if you lived in a backwater like Virginia in the 18th century? That was the question facing tobacco planters, including a certain George Washington. We’re still wondering how we can be equal and yet also posh. Here’s some (posh) food for thought, carefully sourced and curated (naturally). Because if you want to be posh, you should know that even how you think will be judged.

How to be Posh is the podcast version of Annette’s original post at Non-Boring History, based on The Complete Colonial Gentleman by Professor Michal Rozbicki. Read it here:

How to Be Posh

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