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Shortlisted for both the Independent Podcast Awards 2023, and the International Women's Podcast Awards 2023 + 2022. "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 ...
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Season 5, bonus episode. Ingrid answers listeners' questions, talks about the future of My Love Letter Time Machine, and introduces her Grandfather Owen's memoirs, (who was a nurse in the Royal Navy during WW2). Ingrid will come back with Janie’s story in the Spring in a new season of the podcast, and then lead into story of her family getting thro…
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Season 5, episode 12. 1893 to 1894. I’m so sorry to break your hearts, but mine is broken too. In 1894, after a protracted chest infection, Fred started coughing up blood + with horror, he + Janie would have realised that they were staring tuberculosis in the face. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 5, episode 11. 1890 to 1893. Janie and Fred move to the seaside in Redcar, North Yorkshire, we get to have rather a lovely snapshot of their life together with financial security, social mobility and even some balls and banquets. However back in Sheffield, Tuberculosis rears its ugly head. Support the show…
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Season 5, episode 10. September 1883 to August 1889. We follow Janie and Fred's growing family, catch up with their family and friends back in Sheffield, and the goings on at the North Eastern Steel Company in Middlesbrough, as well as take a look at the impact of the first globally reported disaster. Support the show…
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Season 5, episode 9. October 1882 - November 1883. We follow Janie and Fred's first year of as newlyweds as they settle into married life in Middlesbrough, but back in Handsworth, Sheffield, all is not well. 1883 proves a year of highs and lows, of birth, marriage and death. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 5, episode 8. 7th - 12th October 1882. It's Fred and Janie's wedding! We have the last of the letters, and Ingrid tries her best to recreate the wedding of her Great Great Grandparents. Grab your tissues. [Wedding March Pipe Organ royalty free music standard license purchased from audio jungle/ Envato] Support the show…
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Season 5, episode 7. 2nd - 6th October 1882. The last full week of letters before Janie and Fred's wedding! Janie is rushing around organising everything for the wedding attendents, Fred is get the finishing touches made to what will be their new home, and, we have a little look at the tradition of bride-to-be's bottom drawer. Support the show…
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Season 5, episode 6. 28th September - 1st October 1882. An industrial accident involving a crane takes place at Fred's works in Middlesbrough, and we take look at the history of the adoption of the telephone in Victorian Britain. Fred and Janie also reflect that their time of writing to each other is coming to an end. Support the show…
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Season 5, episode 5. September 24th - 28th 1882. Janie is industriously sending household items up to Middlesbrough on the luggage train, and Fred is rather irritated - because his laundry keeps going missing, and someone has been taking Janie's letters out of his coat pocket and reading them. Support the show…
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Season 5, episode 4. September 20th-23rd 1882. Fred gets into a fine old mood over the course of these next letters, as the caliber of wedding guests being invited, by Janie’s Mother, not Janie I hasten to add, is making him fret. We also take a little look at the Derbyshire spa town of Buxton and the history of 'taking the waters'. Support the sho…
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Season 5, episode 3. 17th - 19th September 1882. Content warning for Victorian alcohol abuse. Confusion arises over a mystery groomsman, Fred is arranging for their banns of marriage to be published, and Janie has to deal with a family quarrel when Emma’s drinking takes a turn for the worse. Support the show…
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Season 5, episode 2. September 12th-16th 1882. Today we have a row about bridesmaids - Fred continues to try and rein in Janie’s wedding plans to absolutely no avail. 1882 was a Royal Wedding year, and while Janie would have been fascinated, she may have been more influenced by accounts of society weddings taking place in Yorkshire. Bridesmaids in …
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Season 5, episode 1. September 9th-11th 1882. We are now properly into the run up to Janie and Fred's wedding in four weeks time, and Fred offers what some might consider unwise opinions into what his bride should or shouldn't be wearing. Fortunately his letter arrives after Janie has already ordered her wedding dress. Support the show…
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Season 4. Bonus mini episode. How a tiny newspaper clipping from 1843 took me on a little adventure on the history of cricket, featuring a brief look at a stadium disaster from 200 years ago, and the possible origins of how Janie's parents got together. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 4, episode 13. Q&A Bonus episode. In which Ingrid answers questions from listeners and talks about the importance of the letters. We also look forward to the Season 5 featuring the last of Fred and Janie's letters (out in September 2023), and consider the future of the podcast. Support the show…
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Season 4, episode 12. 5th-8th September 1882. The wedding planning is picking up steam, Janie is gifted a wedding present from the elusive Fred Johnson. Our Fred finaly finds their new house, and we take a look at the Cutlers Company of Hallamshire and some unexpected family history therein. Support the show…
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Season 4, episode 11. 28th August - 4th September 1882. Janie bless her heart, is swamped, almost literally, working for the Cross Keys supporting the Handsworth Feast and Flower Show in miserable weather. Fred seems to have difficulty understanding why Janie just doesn't have the time to write to him. Support the show…
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Season 4, episode 10. August 23rd-27th 1882. Our Fred decides goes on an adventure and climbs Roseberry Topping just south of Middlesbrough, in which he narrowly avoids killing his silly self. Fred and Janie try and firm up who will be their bridesmaids and best man for their wedding, and it’s all hands on deck at the Cross Keys as Janie gets ready…
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Season 4, episode 9. August 19th - 23rd 1882. Content Warning: Victorian alcohol abuse and its effects in the family environment. We discover that Janie had been ice skating, and a really upsetting row blows up at the Cross Keys. We take a look at the history of Victorian indoor ice rinks or 'Glaceriums' as they were known. Support the show…
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Season 4, episode 8. 14th-18th August 1882. Janie’s fabulous account of a family day at the seaside at Cleethorpes, and, we take a look at the Married Women's Property Act of 1882 that was passed into English law that very week. A law that came a little too late for some of the women in the family. Support the show…
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Season 4, episode 7. August 11th - 14th 1882. After the drama of cousin Maria's collapse last week, the 'Wellingtons' and the Warburtons rally around her. Also Fred & Janie get back on track with preparing and planning for their future married life. The joy however is tempered with Emma's continuing issues. Support the show…
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Season 4, episode 6. 3rd-10th August 1882. Fred returns to Sheffield for a visit and seems to be being ghosted by his best friend, and Janie gets a bit of a fright when her cousin Maria Staniforth suddenly falls ill. We also take a look at some matrimonial superstitions of the day. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 4, episode 5. 30th July - 2nd August 1882. Fred and Janie discuss who is going to be Fred’s best man at their upcoming wedding, Fred goes to see a practice of the North Yorkshire Artillery Volunteers, and we look at the Victorian tradition of the Language of Flowers - a craze where people gave secret meanings to different types of flowers. S…
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Season 4, episode 4. 24th - 28th July 1882. Fred gets some very encouraging news from his boss Mr Cooper and we look at the average working wage in Victorian Britain. Emma gets hold of some liquor and lays into Polly again, but this time, Polly stands up to her and gives her what for! Support the show…
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Season 4, episode 3. 20th - 22nd July 1882. We find out more about Fred’s neck of the woods in Middlesbrough by taking a look at the Victorian Parks movement as a response to industrialisation, and Ingrid ends up sharing her own personal 'hymn' to Sheffield Cathedral. Fred also seems to be rather sad that he's not yet going to be a father. Which is…
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Season 4, episode 2. 15th - 19th July 1882. Janie's mood continues to be a little low, and Fred starts talking about how a possible baby on the way might impact the date for their wedding. Janie also paints us a tantalising picture of a Victorian working class picnic in Bowden Howstead Woods, near Handsworth, Sheffield, a beautiful ancient woodland…
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Season 4, Episode 1. July 10th - 14th 1882. Janie returns from visiting Fred in Middlesbrough, she struggles to adjust, and we meet a Victorian sporting superstar, George Littlewood, World champion walker and runner, aka The Sheffield Flyer. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Janie and Fred met on a woodland walk in 1878, they left behind 200 love letters. 140 years later their great great grandaughter, Ingrid Birchell Hughes, brings their letters and the world of Victorian Yorkshire to life. Escape to another time and get caught up in the real life dramas of two ordinary but delightful people through their back and for…
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Season 3, episode 14. 25th June - 1st July 1882. Janie prepares to travel to be reunited with Fred and to take her first look at Middlesbrough, Janie dishes the dirt on Jinnie's new boyfriend, we track down 'Advice to a Wife' - a Victorian tome about maternal health, and Ingrid experiences an unexpected bombshell from her great great grandparents. …
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Season 3, episode 13. 19th - 24th June 1882. A chance comes up for Janie to go to Middlesbrough and see Fred for a few days, so the letters are full of planning wrangling, and in light of a brass band starting up in Handsworth, Sheffield, we take a little look at the brass band movement. Support the show…
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Season 3, episode 12. Janie’s brother Fred Warburton married Mary Roe on Thursday the 15th of June 1882 and we get to have a fabulous look at a Victorian wedding from the point of view of the chief bridesmaid or Maid of honour as Janie would probably have been known then. It was not plain sailing by any means! Support the show…
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Season 3, episode 11: 9th-13th June 1882. After Janie’s understandable outrage at Fred’s painting her in a such a bad light over her walk on Sunday night, Fred does his best to smooth things over after last weeks bust up. We also catch up w Fred's cricketing, and get in on the build up to a forthcoming boat race that caught the imagination of the w…
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Season 3, episode 10. 4th - 8th June 1882. Janie seems to be back in Fred’s bad books - the pair of them have a proper bust up over the company that Janie has been keeping. We also catch up on Handsworth (Sheffield) village gossip and Janie's brother’s wedding preparations. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 3, episode 9. 31st May - 4th June 1882. Janie and Fred have to cope with renewed separation along with a new pregnancy scare, Fred can't balance the account books at work, Emma steals from Janie, and we take a little look at Whitsun traditions, as well as Victorian perfumes. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelet…
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Season 3, episode 8. 22nd - 26th May 1882. In back and forth in the run up to Fred’s return to Sheffield, Fred has been prodding Janie about her memory and for good reason - Janie is suddenly faced with the realisation that her memory isn’t her strong point. We we also have a little look at the ubiquity of the horse in the Victorian era. Instagram:…
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Season 3, episode 7. Fred moves to his new lodgings near Albert Park in Middlesbrough and is struggling to pack around the demands of his, Janie’s friend Carry has to send sad news to her sister Annie in Australia, we also take a little look at a wash day in the 1880s. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachin…
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Season 3, episode 6. Back in Middlesbrough, Fred’s fears about his accommodation problems are realised, in Sheffield, Janie is suddenly flavour of the month again with Polly Roe, and we also have a look at the Phoenix Park Murders that took place in Dublin, Ireland. We also get to hear Fred sharing his love for the sea front at Saltburn. Instagram:…
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Season 3, episode 5. May 4th - 9th 1882. The insecurity regarding Fred’s lodgings grows, as his landlady, Mrs Gordon, tells him to start looking for somewhere else to live, and Janie’s soon to be sister in-law, turns out to be a bit of a bitch. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Producer: Ing…
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Season 3, episode 4. 27th April to 2nd of May 1882. In Middlesbrough, Fred takes a trip on the Stockton paddle steamer along the River Tees, and back in Sheffield, Janie is rushed off her feet as The Cross Keys hosts a dinner for 75 people. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Producer: Ingrid …
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Season 3, episode 3: We reflect on the roles of women following Janie bitterly expressing her frustration with Emma and Fred taking her to task for it, and we have a little look at the fashions in Victorian interiors. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Producer: Ingrid Birchell Hughes Support…
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Season 3, Episode 2. April 18th-22nd 1882. In which our Fred tries to nail down a date for their wedding, and Janie’s father, James, is suddenly taken ill, and we take a look a Victorian chemists and the over the counter sales of dubious concoctions. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Produce…
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Season 3, episode 1. April 12th - 17th 1882. After an Easter in Sheffield, Fred has to return to Middlesbrough to lodgings that are starting to prove unsuitable. Back in Handsworth, Janie is witness to a coal miners' street brawl. Instagram: @mylovelettertimemachine Twitter: @1ngi Email: mylovelettertimemachine@gmail.com Producer: Ingrid Birchell H…
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Season 2, episode 24. Q&A Bonus episode. In which Ingrid answers questions from listeners, we find out about Canadian world champion rower Ned Hanlan coming to Middlesbrough to defend his title, and we get to look at someone else's love letter by way of comparison. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 2, episode 23. April 1st - 7th 1882. The letters come thick and fast in the run up to Janie & Fred’s reunion in Easter 1882 and Fred gets booed by football supporters, when playing for Redcar against Middlesbrough in the Cleveland challenge cup final rematch. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 2, episode 22. March 27th - 31st 1882. CW sexual discussion continues between Janie and Fred (using mild Victorian euphemisms). This time the racy village gossip and the even racier pillow talk continues, as well as starting to plan for Fred's Easter visit. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 2, episode 21. March 24th - 26th 1882. Contains discussions of a sexual nature using mild Victorian terminology. Janie has her confirmation ceremony, we find out what she thinks of Fred’s Paris job offer, and Fred's ex girlfriend is spotted in a rather suggestive postion. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 2, episode 20. CW description of a suicide inquest, Emma and Mr Walker continue to be a source of speculation, and Fred gets head hunted for a job in Paris, and we find out how he got on at a bachelor party. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 2, episode 19: CW description of a suicide. Alarming news regarding a poisoning in Handsworth, a tragic suicide in Darnall, Sheffield, and we find out how Fred faired in the Cleveland Challenge Cup Final. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 2, episode 18. Janie comforts Fred regarding the temptation of kickbacks, and Emma behaves atrociously towards her sister-in-law, and then discovers that Mr Walker has been two timing her. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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Season 2, episode 17. Fred tries to hold out against bribery at work, we find out about Victorian health subscriptions, or ‘sick club’ as Fred called it, and Janie and Fred gossip about other couple's family planning. Support the showद्वारा Ingrid Birchell Hughes
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