My Love Letter Time Machine - Victorian History
A podcast by Ingrid Birchell Hughes
79 Episoade
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Partying - Victorian style
Publicat: 16.04.2022 -
Lemonkolly
Publicat: 09.04.2022 -
Several young men in want of wives
Publicat: 02.04.2022 -
Fred dashes back to Sheffield
Publicat: 27.03.2022 -
Fred gains respect, and Emma loses a suitor
Publicat: 20.03.2022 -
From City of Steel to Ironopolis (Sheffield to Middlesbrough)
Publicat: 13.03.2022 -
Q&A Bonus Episode (Season 1)
Publicat: 06.03.2022 -
Season 1 finale: Fred Leaves
Publicat: 27.02.2022 -
Trouble at the steel mill, and divorce at Westminster
Publicat: 20.02.2022 -
'Artificial Sunshine' at the Seaside, and Sunday Best
Publicat: 13.02.2022 -
Meeting Samuel Plimsoll, and did Janie propose?
Publicat: 06.02.2022 -
Autumn 1879 Secrets, and when Fred beat Aston Villa
Publicat: 30.01.2022 -
City of Steel, and Victorian Selfies
Publicat: 23.01.2022 -
A Seaside Rendezvous, and a Family Scandal
Publicat: 16.01.2022 -
Dramatic Entertainments, and Fred takes us on Holiday
Publicat: 09.01.2022 -
Two sisters, and The Vinegar Valentine
Publicat: 02.01.2022 -
Christmas 1878, and Fred rings in 1879 with some scarily optimistic resolutions
Publicat: 27.12.2021 -
1878 A bereavement, and the World's first electrically lit football match
Publicat: 27.12.2021 -
Summer 1878, in which we meet Fred, and Jane gets into trouble
Publicat: 27.12.2021
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.
