Archive Sleuth

The Celebrity Divorce Trial of the (19th) Century

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 03:00:21 GMT

December, 1851: New York City. In the midst of winter, America’s press and public are gripped by the celebrity scandal of the century. Edwin Forrest, the most famous actor in the country, is pitted in a courtroom battle against his estranged wife, as they accuse each other of adultery. One of them must prevail for a divorce to be granted. As the jury and public rake over every titillating and salacious detail of the failed marriage, the conduct and reporting on the trial provide a striking foreshadowing of another celebrity couple court case that would play out over 270 years later.

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Resources:

Report on the Forrest Divorce Case, digitized by Harvard University Library.

Various contemporary newspapers, including the New York Daily Tribune; the New York Herald Tribune; and The Sunday Dispatch, are accessible on the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America resource.

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

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Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

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Alan Turing writes to Winston Churchill

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 03:00:06 GMT

October 1941. In the darkest days of the Second World War, Alan Turing and a group of code breakers at Bletchley Park write a letter to Winston Churchill – in desperation. They have achieved the supposedly impossible feat of cracking the German Enigma encryptions. But this breakthrough is in danger of being squandered.

70 years later, I came across Turing’s letter – and Churchill’s handwritten response – in the archives.

This is the story of Enigma, the codebreakers, and the letter that helped ensure the success of the most important top-secret breakthrough of World War II.

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Resources:

The Bletchley Park codebreakers’ letter, along with the notes from Winston Churchill and Hastings Ismay, are held in file HW 1/155 at the National Archives, UK. It is digitized in Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War available from Coherent Digital.

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Depth Of Focus by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Jane Austen, Horatio Nelson and the sailor brother who links them

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:00:37 GMT

May 13th, 1799. The captain of a Royal Navy sloop writes an urgent letter to his admiral. But this isn’t any captain. This captain is the sailor brother of writer Jane Austen. And the admiral is Horatio Nelson, currently residing in Sicily with the love of his life, Emma Hamilton. This single letter from the archives opens a window onto a moment in time for four remarkable people from the Age of Revolution and Napoleon. The names of three of these people are immortal. The fourth person, Francis Austen, is the thread that links their fascinating stories.

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Resources:

Francis Austen’s 13th May 1799 letter to Admiral Horatio Nelson is from item AUS/7, Francis Austen’s Letter Book. Held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/archive/rmgc-object-492597

Any infringement of copyright is unintended.

Jane Austen’s letters quoted in this episode were written to Cassandra Austen on the 28th December 1798 (https://pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablet2.html#letter15) and the 17th May 1799 (https://pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablet3.html#letter18).

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

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Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Mutiny and Murder on the Dove Brigantine Part 3

Thu, 19 May 2022 03:00:17 GMT

September 7th, 1736: night time. After weeks of plotting, the crew of a British merchant ship anchored in an Italian harbour have murdered their captain and seized his ship for themselves. But the mutineers failed to kill the captain’s cabin boy, who jumped overboard and swam to a nearby ship to raise the alarm. Will the Dove mutineers make it out to the open sea and fulfil their ambitions of becoming pirates? Or have their mistakes insured their downfall? This is the third and final episode of the grisly true story of mutiny and murder aboard the Dove Brigantine.

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Resources:

A transcript of the proceedings of the Old Bailey, 24th February 1737, is available to read on the Old Bailey Online. Trial reference: t17370224-2.

Articles on the Dove mutiny from 1736 and 1737 from the Newcastle Courant, Caledonian Mercury, Stamford Mercury and Derby Mercury accessed on the British Newspaper Archive.

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Mutiny and Murder on the Dove Brigantine Part 2

Thu, 12 May 2022 03:00:48 GMT

September, 1736. After six weeks sitting idle in the harbour of Livorno, the British merchant ship the Dove Brigantine is finally loaded with her cargo of tobacco and sugar. The crew, led by the ambitious first mate Nicholas Williams, spent those long weeks mutinously plotting how to overthrow the captain and steal the ship and its valuable cargo for themselves. With the ship now ready to set sail, the mutineers put their bloodthirsty plans into action. This is episode two of the grisly true story of mutiny and murder aboard the Dove Brigantine.

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Resources:

A transcript of the proceedings of the Old Bailey, 24th February 1737, is available to read on the Old Bailey Online. Trial reference: t17370224-2.

Articles on the Dove mutiny from 1736 and 1737 from the Newcastle Courant, Caledonian Mercury, Stamford Mercury and Derby Mercury accessed on the British Newspaper Archive.

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Mutiny and Murder on the Dove Brigantine

Thu, 05 May 2022 03:00:53 GMT

September, 1736. The crew of an Italian ship anchored one dark quiet night in Livorno Harbour are startled awake by the frantic cries for help from a man swimming towards them in the water. The man, a cabin boy from a nearby British merchant ship, is being pursued through the darkness by his own, bloodthirsty shipmates. The pursuing men have already killed the cabin boy’s captain, and now they are hell-bent on killing him. This is the grisly true story of mutiny and murder aboard the Dove Brigantine.

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Resources:

A transcript of the proceedings of the Old Bailey, 24th February 1737, is available to read on the Old Bailey Online. Trial reference: t17370224-2.

Articles on the Dove mutiny from 1736 and 1737 from the Newcastle Courant, Caledonian Mercury, Stamford Mercury and Derby Mercury availble on the British Newspaper Archive.

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Passage Of Arms by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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A Midwife's Tale

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 03:00:43 GMT

This is the story of an early maternity hospital, and the ground-breaking woman who founded it. By the dawn of the 20th century, fatality rates in childbirth in Britain were as high as they had been for hundreds of years. Many women, particularly poorer women, were giving birth without the support of a doctor or trained midwife. Alice Gregory was a midwife who was determined to do something about this. So in 1905, she founded a small but ambitious hospital in a working class area of London, to provide local midwife services and, crucially, to train new midwives for the future. Alice’s and the hospital’s story is preserved in a diary Alice kept during that hospital’s busy first year.

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Resources:

Alice Gregory’s personal diary, giving account of opening and early days of Home for Mothers and Babies, 11 May 1905 - 22 June 1906, is held at the London Metropolitan Archives. Reference: H14/BMB/A/06/001

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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An international volunteer in the Spanish Civil War

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 03:00:01 GMT

Tens of thousands of men and women from around the world volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), motivated by the chance to finally fight back against the rising tide of fascism. In this episode, we dive into the life and letters of one of those volunteers: John Cornford, the very first British volunteer, who wrote home from Spain to his girlfriend.

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Resources:

John Cornford’s letters to Margot Heinemann, reference HEIN/1/1/1, are held in the Margot Heinemann Papers at the Special Collections and Archives, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ralph Fox’s MI5 files (KV2/1376-1377) can be accessed on The National Archives, UK, Discovery catalogue.

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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A Royal Scandal Part 2

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 04:00:11 GMT

In part two of this investigation of a royal scandal from 1810, we dive deep into the witness testimonies to try and work out what really happened on the night King George III’s unpopular son, Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, is found wounded, and his page is found dead. Had the page attacked the duke? Or…. had the duke killed his page? The numerous possible scenarios and motives for the violence kept the press and public busy speculating for decades. Can we finally solve the mystery?

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Resources:

The Cheltenham Chronicle, the Caledonian Mercury, the Hull Packet, the Lancaster Gazette, Pilot, The Cambridge Chronicle and Journal, The News (London), accessed on The British Newspaper Archive.

Thomas Howell Jones print from the British Museum online collections.

A Minute Detail of the Attempt to Assassinate His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, on the Internet Archive.

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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A Royal Scandal

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 04:00:14 GMT

St James’s Palace, London, 1810. In the middle of the night, King George III’s scandal-ridden son Ernest Augustus is viciously attacked in his bed. The prince’s valet is found dead. Were they victims of a mystery assassin? Did the servant attack his master? Or will an investigation of this crime reveal that the prince himself has blood on his hands? This is the story of a violent night that would shroud the royal family in mystery and suspicion for years to come.

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Resources:

Articles in The Cheltenham Chronicle, the Caledonian Mercury, the Hull Packet, the Lancaster Gazette, accessed on The British Newspaper Archive.

Isaac Cruikshank print from the British Museum online collections.

A Minute Detail of the Attempt to Assassinate His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, on the Internet Archive.

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Vivaldi: Winter Mvt 1 Allegro non molto by John Harrison with the Wichita State University Chamber Players https://freemusicarchive.org/music/John_Harrison_with_the_Wichita_State_University_Chamber_Players/The_Four_Seasons_Vivaldi/10_-_Vivaldi_Winter_mvt_1_Allegro_non_molto_-_John_Harrison_violin

Signs To Nowhere by Shane Ivers https://www.silvermansound.com

Mysterious String Quintet by Shane Ivers https://www.silvermansound.com

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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A Nun in the French Revolution

Thu, 24 Feb 2022 04:00:53 GMT

In this episode, my hunt through British Library manuscripts unearthed the letters of an English nun who lived in Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Her letters provide vivid descriptions of the fall of the Bastille and other momentous moments in history, and an insight into the private life, thoughts and friendship of an 18th century nun.

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Resources:

British Library, Add MS 30002: CORRESPONDENCE relating to France, including many letters from English nuns at Paris and elsewhere, and particulars concerning the French Revolution. 1779-1799. Folios 27-35; 38-39; 42-47; 50-51.

Who were the nuns?, a database resource from Queen Mary University London.

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

La Marseillaise (French National Anthem) by Angelsh

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Anonymous_Choir/Hector_Berliozs_La_Marseillaise/La_Marseillaise_French_National_Anthem

O bone Jesu (CG Reissiger) by Les Petits Chanteurs de Montigny

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Les_Petits_Chanteurs_de_Montigny/Compilation_classique/13_-_O_bone_Jesu_CG_Reissiger

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Scandal in High Society Part 2

Thu, 10 Feb 2022 04:00:47 GMT

1910. A woman waits in Rome for her divorce to go through the courts, and for her lover to return to her from his diplomatic posting in Tehran. The man’s Foreign Office superiors have gone to extraordinary and so far futile lengths to split the couple up. But now rumours abound that the man has changed his mind, and no longer wishes to marry. Could this really be true?

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Resources:

FO 1093/113: Sir Coleridge Kennard, Diplomat: Involvement in Divorce Case. The National Archives, UK. Available online in Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War from Coherent Digital.

Additional background research on the British Newspaper Archive. Yoi Maraini’s article on Mussolini:

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19240405/370/0015

Any infringement of copyright is unintended.

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Scandal in High Society

Thu, 03 Feb 2022 04:00:29 GMT

In Edwardian London, a married mother falls for a fashionable young diplomat. As he begs her to run away across Europe with him, the Foreign Office take a very keen interest in their affair.

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Resources:

FO 1093/113: Sir Coleridge Kennard, Diplomat: Involvement in Divorce Case. The National Archives, UK. Available online in Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War from Coherent Digital.

Additional research on the British Newspaper Archive.

Any infringement of copyright is unintended.

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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The letters of Mrs Middleton

Thu, 27 Jan 2022 04:00:51 GMT

In this episode, discover the letters of a woman who could have stepped out of the pages of a Jane Austen novel. It is 1805. At the height of the Napoleonic Wars, Susannah Middleton travels overseas for the first time. She attends balls, dines with officers, and gossips about her acquaintances. But her letters also reveal the darker truths of this much romanticised society.

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Resources:

Susannah Middleton’s letters are held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Items referenced in this episode are MDT/1 to MDT/12.

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/archive/rmgc-object-490301

Any infringement of copyright is unintended.

Music includes:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Ominous by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4162-ominous

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Scully’s Reel. Mrs Mcleod’s. Cooley’s Reel. by Slainte.

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Slinte/Cup_of_Tea/slainte_-_07_-_scullys_reel_mrs_mcleods_cooleys_reel

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning part 3

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 04:00:43 GMT

In the final episode of Mary Blandy's story, Mary stands trial for murdering her father. She pleads not-guilty, and devotes herself to convincing the public that she was a naïve woman, cruelly deceived by her fiancé into believing a fatal poison was a love potion. Was she believed?

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Resources:

https://archive.org/details/b30452843/page/n5/mode/2up.

https://archive.org/details/missmaryblandys00conggoog/page/n5/mode/2up

https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0595400900&pageId=ecco-0595400900-20

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1750-01-01/1799-12-31?basicsearch=mary%20blandy&somesearch=mary%20blandy&retrievecountrycounts=false#

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Our Story Begins by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4181-our-story-begins

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Ominous by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4162-ominous

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Relent by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4274-relent

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning part 2

Thu, 13 Jan 2022 04:00:26 GMT

Henley, 1750: Mary Blandy is determined to marry her dashing fiance Captain Cranstoun, whatever the price. Even if the price of love is committing murder. This is episode two of the story of Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning.

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Resources used:

The tryal of Mary Blandy, spinster; for the murder of her father, Francis Blandy, Gent. At the assizes held at Oxford for the county of Oxford, on Saturday the 29th of February, 1752. https://archive.org/details/b30452843/page/n5/mode/2up.

Miss Mary Blandy's own account of the affair between her and Mr. Cranstoun : from the commencement of their acquaintance in the year 1746 to the death of her father in August 1751, with all the circumstances leading to that unhappy event : to which is added an appendix containing copies of some original letters now in possession of the editor, together with an exact relation of her behaviour whilst under sentence, and a copy of the declaration signed by herself in the presence of two clergymen two days before her execution: https://archive.org/details/missmaryblandys00conggoog/page/n5/mode/2up

Capt. Cranstoun’s account of the poisoning the Late Mr Francis Blandy, of Henley upon Thames, Oxfordshire: https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0595400900&pageId=ecco-0595400900-20

Articles on the British Newspaper Archive via a search for ‘Mary Blandy’ between 1750 and 1799: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1750-01-01/1799-12-31?basicsearch=mary%20blandy&somesearch=mary%20blandy&retrievecountrycounts=false#

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Relent by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4274-relent

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Mary Blandy and the patricidal poisoning

Thu, 06 Jan 2022 04:00:38 GMT

Oxford Castle, 1751: Mary Blandy awaits trial on the charge of murdering her own father. She protests her innocence, saying she was duped by her charming yet deceitful fiancé into unintentionally killing her father. Was she telling the truth? Had Mary been duped? Or was this the last throw of the die by a calculating murderer? In episode one, Mary falls in love with a dashing army officer, but soon finds obstacles stand in the way of a happy ever after.

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Resources used:

https://archive.org/details/b30452843/page/n5/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/missmaryblandys00conggoog/page/n5/mode/2up

https://data.historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/view?pubId=ecco-0595400900&pageId=ecco-0595400900-20

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results/1750-01-01/1799-12-31?basicsearch=mary%20blandy&somesearch=mary%20blandy&retrievecountrycounts=false#

Music:

Waltz of Treachery by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4606-waltz-of-treachery

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Our Story Begins by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4181-our-story-begins

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sneaky Snitch by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4384-sneaky-snitch

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Ominous by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4162-ominous

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Sonatina in C Minor by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4393-sonatina-in-c-minor

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Introducing Archive Sleuth

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 15:02:57 GMT

Welcome to Archive Sleuth! In this mini-episode, learn about the brand new history podcast that will uncover half-forgotten stories from history and reveal the extraordinary in ordinary past lives.

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