2026-02-18
38 分钟This is The Guardian.
After civil war, Regicide and Cromwell's Republic, the monarchy returned.
But Britain would never be the same.
I'm Professor Cezanne Lipscomb and this month, on not just the Tudors,
we're transported back to the age of restoration royalty.
from Charles II to Queen Anne and the birth of the Empire.
Join me on Not Just The Tudors from History Hit, wherever you get your podcasts.
Hello, my name's Dan Hancox and I'm the author of the 2022 Guardian Long Read,
Who Remembers Proper Bin Men, The Nostalgia Memes That Help Explain Britain Today.
This is an article about the weirdly popular world of nostalgic baby boomer Facebook memes,
which kind of summon up a half-remembered post-war idyll in Britain in which the bin men were Real men,
not like the apparently emasculated, useless jobs with health and safety obsessed bin men of today.
And these memes get across the idea that life was tougher,
Britain was authentic and proper like the bin men, and everyone was happier as a result.
I really wanted to understand why these memes were so numerous and so popular,
and why they were so obviously a distortion of history, and what that says about Britain today.
And I ended up with the idea of what we decided to call bin-menism,
which is not quite like normal nostalgia.
Normal nostalgia says things were better in my day.
But I think bin-menism represents something stranger, which I've summed up as the following.