Hi there, we've got a little bit of an update for you on the Working Class History podcast and its future.

So last year on a trial basis, we began producing and releasing much more frequent podcast episodes,

and so we released new episodes either publicly or on our Patreon every week.

Patreon is how listeners like you make our work possible and enables us to cover the

cost of making the podcast and doing all of the rest of our historical research and outreach.

Some podcast series that we work on take several years, hundreds of hours of work and cost thousands

of dollars, not to mention the costs of our web services,

research materials, and more. We're only able to devote the time and resources it takes to make

this podcast because of support from you, our listeners. So last year, we also started releasing

at least one exclusive bonus episode on Patreon every month. at patreon.com slash working class history.

Link in the show notes. We also started two new discussion podcast series,

fireside chats and radical reads, just for our Patreon supporters. Our hope was that by releasing more

episodes on Patreon, that would enable us to get more

supporters and raise funds to enable us to make more regular episodes which were free for everyone,

as well as produce more of our written content, which is also available free for all.

And we're very grateful to you because we have been able to grow our number of supporters on Patreon

and produce much more regular podcast episodes, which are available free to everyone,

in addition to our more regular bonus episodes.

Now as I said initially we were doing this on a trial basis,

but we've actually managed to keep up with weekly releases for a year and a half at this point,

which is a lot longer than we thought we'd be able to go on.

However, we've not been able to grow our support enough to do more than this,

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