Tattoos

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🗓️ 14 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

There are many common misconceptions and misunderstandings about Tattoos. They can act as a window into the social economic and cultural issues of a period of time. Britain was in fact the 'land of the painted people' with tattooing going further back into our history than many people would think. Dr Matt Lodder, the world's leading expert on the history of tattooing, and senior lecturer in Art History and Theory at the University of Essex talks to Dan about all things ink and body art. What do tattoos mean for us as individuals and what can they tell us about societies of the past?

This episode was produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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0:00.0	Hi, well, welcome to Dan Snow's history. We're talking tattoos, drawing ink, body art,
0:06.2	and I've got one of my favourite guests on Dr Matt Lodday's, a senior lecturer in art
0:11.2	history and theory at the University of Essex. He teaches art history, but he also is the
0:18.3	world's leading expert on the history of tattooing. He had a great traveling exhibition, it was
0:24.2	the Lashamara time museum in Phalmer, and it toured nationwide. You may have had him come
0:28.5	on the pod years ago now talking about that exhibition. Well now he's got the book out, painted
0:33.4	people, and he chooses people that have been tattooed from our past, from history. Tell
0:38.6	us more about tattoos, what they mean, what they mean for us individuals, and what they
0:43.6	seem to mean more broadly, what they mean within a society and between different societies.
0:48.2	It's interesting stuff there, so you can love it. And so I enjoy this podcast with someone
0:53.2	who you won't be able to see is heavily tattooed. He's Matt Lodday.
1:00.2	He might have been here. The Tommy Stomp, Trapped On, Hero Sheep,
1:03.2	Guard, Gave the King. No Black Point Unit until there is First
1:07.4	and Black Unit. Never to go to war with one another in a game.
1:11.4	And look off, and the subtle has cleared the tower.
1:17.9	Matt, great to have you back on the pod buddy. Hello, how you doing?
1:21.7	Very good indeed. Very good indeed. And you know, since we last talked a couple of years
1:26.0	ago now, in King's is becoming more and more popular, right? I mean, is it right, say
1:29.8	more and more mainstream? Is that? There was a youth of survey over the summer,
1:34.7	which basically made the claim that there are about 26% of Britons have tattoos. But
1:40.5	like the most interesting thing on that for me was younger people are less tolerant of
1:44.9	tattoos in the workplace and tattooing in general than people who are between sort
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