368. The History Behind Hogwarts: Ancient Schools and Revolting Students

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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“To be a boy at one of these schools was to be alternately tyrant and slave.” More gruesome even than the Battle of Hogwarts, 18th century British Public schools were hotbeds for violence and uproar, despite their deeply Christian origins. From raucous rebellions featuring students fighting militias and building barricades, hostage-taking and pistol-firing, to animal assassinations, abysmal teaching and gruesome hazing rituals, their organised brutality was mis-sold as “character-building”. Join Tom and Dominic in the second part of our series, as they explore the schools which inspired Hogwarts, their pupils, stories and legacies. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Research: William Finlator Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	In times of old when I was new and Hogwarts barely started, the founders of our noble
0:16.4	school thought never to be parted.
0:19.3	United by a common goal, they had the self-same yearning to make the world's best magic
0:25.3	school and pass along their learning together we will build and teach the four good friends
0:31.9	decided and never did they dream that they might someday be divided.
0:39.4	So that Dominic was Leslie Phillips, aka the sorting hat in Harry Potter and the Order of
0:45.8	the Phoenix written by JK Rowling of course, came out in 2003 and we continue with our
0:52.7	look at the origins of Harry Potter but today we're looking kind of more specifically
0:57.1	aren't we at the origins of Hogwarts itself, the great school for Wizards and witches
1:03.2	up in the Scottish Highlands and we ended the last episode with you being very, very
1:07.5	sneery and finicky.
1:08.5	I don't think sneery, I think you were definitely being sneery.
1:11.8	I think Riley Skepticaltum, sneery pointing out that there were no castles in Scotland
1:16.7	before 1200.
1:17.7	Yeah.
1:18.7	So therefore Hogwarts couldn't have been built there.
1:20.2	Why do they need a castle, Tom?
1:21.7	I don't know.
1:22.7	If you're going to build a school, a castle wouldn't be the obvious, maybe like the medievalists
1:26.7	of the Victorian period they wanted to.
1:29.1	Or like the Earl of Cornwall in Henry III's brother who built Tentatural Castle in Cornwall
1:34.1	as a kind of Erzatz version of what he thought King Arthur would look like, King Arthur's
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