My Love Letter Time Machine - Victorian History
A podcast by Ingrid Birchell Hughes
79 Episoade
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Janie’s father is suddenly taken ill
Publicat: 03.09.2022 -
A street brawl and the assault of a police constable
Publicat: 27.08.2022 -
Q&A Bonus Episode (Season 2)
Publicat: 20.08.2022 -
Easter 1882, Fred gets booed at football
Publicat: 13.08.2022 -
Village gossip, and more pillow talk
Publicat: 06.08.2022 -
Janie's confirmation, and Fred's ex caught in the act
Publicat: 30.07.2022 -
An inquest, and Fred has no head for whisky
Publicat: 23.07.2022 -
The Cleveland Cup, a poisoning, and a suicide
Publicat: 16.07.2022 -
"Emma has been as nasty as possible!"
Publicat: 09.07.2022 -
A sackable offence
Publicat: 02.07.2022 -
Pillow talk - Victorian style
Publicat: 25.06.2022 -
A Victorian intervention? Our William talks to Emma.
Publicat: 18.06.2022 -
All I want is a dining room somewhere
Publicat: 11.06.2022 -
Good health is in short supply
Publicat: 04.06.2022 -
"She is killing him by inches"
Publicat: 28.05.2022 -
Your good angel
Publicat: 21.05.2022 -
The possible health benefits of a conjugal visit
Publicat: 14.05.2022 -
'Human Magnetism', and Emma's steals Janie's keys!
Publicat: 07.05.2022 -
Catching up with all the news
Publicat: 30.04.2022 -
Making up is hard to do
Publicat: 23.04.2022
Shortlisted for the International Women's Podcast Awards 2024, 2023 + 2022, and the Independent Podcast Awards 2023. "Ingrid Birchell Hughes presents a charming take on family history via the love letters of her great-great-grandparents Fred and Jane, who exchanged 200 of them between their meeting and their marriage in Victorian Yorkshire. It’s a terrific insight into the lives of two witty working-class people and the times they lived in." — The Times. This is a true story, a love story, a family drama, all contained within Victorian social history. Ingrid has both sides (extremely rare) of a correspondence spanning 1878 to 1882 that her great great grandparents sent one another. They were ordinary folk, trying to make their way in the world, first in the city of Sheffield and later in the town of Middlesbrough. There is a whole 'cast' of characters too from Fred's industrial innovator of a boss who advanced the steel making process - and took Fred with him, to Jane's sister Emma, who had her life splashed across the newspapers through no fault of her own. Against the background of the dramas going around them, Fred and Jane overcame family objection to their match and through their own will and determination, made a new life together.
